Four Newfoundland and Labrador teams will be involved in the playoff rounds of Canadian ball hockey championships, being held in Goulds and Mount Pearl.
In the men’s A division, NL Black Horse goes into today’s quarter-final round as the top seed after fashioning a 3-0-1 record in the round robin. Black Horse’s tie came Thursday at the Mount Pearl Glacier in Mount Pearl, where the team played the New Tecumseth, Ont., Xtreme to a 1-1 tie.
Connor Donaghey had the Black Horse goal.
New Tecumseth also finished 3-0-1, but Black Horse earned the top seeding by virtue of a better differential in goals for and against.
That means Black Horse will face eighth-seeded Edmonton Top Whale in a noon quarter-final at the Glacier. The Top Whale lost all four of their games. However, one of the losses came in overtime, giving the Edmonton team a single point that put it ahead of the NL Host side, which lost all four of its games in regulation. That means the Hosts finished ninth and out of the playoffs.
In women’s A play, it was also a case of one of two Newfoundland teams advancing to the playoffs.
That team is NL United, which takes a 2-1-1 record into a semifinal against the British Columbia Selects, who also were 2-1-1 in the round-robin. That games goes 3 p.m. at Goulds Arena.
The other Newfoundland entry in the five-team women’s division — the Host side — finished winless in four games and out of the playoffs.
In men’s masters play, one of today’s quarter-finals will feature two Newfoundland teams, as the Colonial Selects take on the Cabot Masters at 10:30 a.m. at the Goulds Arena.
The Selects had a regulation win, an overtime win and a loss in the preliminary round, while the Cabot Masters take a 1-2-0 record into the playoffs.
Semifinals in all divisions will be played later today, with bronze- and gold-medal contests on Saturday, with most of those championship games at the Glacier.
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