The 24-team Ray McKerlie Classic hockey tournament begins this week.The annual pre-holiday event always captures some of the best high school hockey talent in southern Ontario and across the Toronto area.
This year teams from as far west as London and as far east as Pickering will be in Waterloo beginning Thursday.
Host Grand River will be joined by fellow Waterloo County schools Bluevale, Elmira, Forest Heights, Huron Heights, Sir John A. Macdonald and Waterloo.
Essentially this is the Heinbuch Classic of hockey. The similarities are striking considering the namesake of both tournaments is for a late, great high school coach from the area.
In this case Ray McKerlie was a legendary teacher-coach at Grand River who passed away nine years ago. His memory at the school lives on with this tournament.
The 24 squads are divided into six divisions for a round robin. Intra-WCSSAA match-ups include the GR against Elmira in Division B and Bluevale meeting SJAM in Division D.
Playoff rounds for the top two teams in each division begin Friday afternoon and continue with semi-finals Saturday morning. The championship final, won last year by Pickering St. Mary's 7-2 over Grand River, is 3:00 p.m. at RIM Park.
Full tournament schedule can be found here (of course Google doc).
The Record: McKerlie Classic kicks off Thursday.
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1 comments:
This tournament is open to anybody in WCSSAA so those teams were not invited specifically. A bit different than the Heinbuch.
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