Ballhawks Battle To Bronze

At the Challenge Cup tournament held Sunday at Chatham-Kent Secondary School, the 15U girls Chatham Ballhawks team walked away with bronze medals in the Championship Division. The Ballhawks defeated Forest City Blue 25-16, 25-23 for the bronze hardware.

The Chatham girls started slow dropping the first match of the day to the Oakville Blue Thunder 8-25, 25-22, 8-15, but rebounded against the Stratford Stingers taking them down by scores of 22-25, 25-14, 15-13. The division ended up in a three way tie after the round robin and the Ballhawks ended up in 3rd position due to point differential.

The Ballhawks entered the playoffs and faced the Kitchener Waterloo Predators in the Quarter final match and defeated them in 3 hard fought games. The girls then took on Defensa from Burlington in the semi finals and dropped a 3 set heartbreaker before dispatching London Forest City for the bronze.