The Colorado Junior Eagles Girls U19AA team participated in the Adele Dombroski tournament in Steamboat Springs this past weekend and played in one of the most memorable championship games in a long time.

The Eagles Girls started off the tournament with two straight shut-outs over Arvada and Co Springs. That setup a "make or break" game with another undefeated team: The Lady Grizzlies from Utah. Both the Eagles and the Grizzlies played their hearts out and the game ended in a 2-2 tie. The Jr. Eagles eliminated Utah's chances to make the championship game based on a better goal differential. The Eagles were now the number one seed moving into the championship against one of the strongest AA teams in the region, the host team of Steamboat Springs (who were also 2-0-1 in pool play).

Sunday's championship game was by all accounts one of the most well played, competitive games anyone had seen in a long time. Steamboat got on the board with an early goal but the Eagles fought back and tied it up in the second period. In the third period the Eagles took the lead but the Steamboat team quickly matched that goal and the teams were tied 2-2 at the end of regulation play. Neither team could crack the other teams goalie in overtime so the game went into a shoot-out. The standard 5 player shoot-out was still not enough to settle this game and it wasn't until the 9th player deep that Steamboat was able to take the championship. Both teams were completely drained by the end of this epic battle and congratulations and compliments were well deserved as both teams played clean and put on a great show for the fans.

Tickets are now available for the Qwest Tour game at DU's Magness Arena on December 12th featuring the USA Women’s National Team vs. Canada!

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With the instructions below and our team specific password, you can buy your tickets in advance of the general public. All seats are $15.00 with a $6.50 Ticketmaster fee. Our Jr. Eagles team code is "Black" which will be needed in order to get credit for the sale. Each ticket sold under the team code "Black" will return $3.00 back to our team about 30 day after ticket sales end.

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Make plans for Girls team tryouts on September 13th at 11:00AM at Foothills Ice Arena. The Jr. Eagles will be fielding at least one AA competitive girls U19 team that will play in the upper division in the Mountain States Girls Hockey League . With the core of last years state championship team returning the Eagles should have a very strong team in 2009-2010. There are spots available so make sure to show up if you would like to play competitive level hockey in the MSGHL.

There will be a $25 tryout fee that you can bring to the rink with you at tryouts. If you would like more information please feel free to send us an This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Also, if you would like to tryout out for this AA team please fill out the registration form .

We are really excited to announce that John Svisco has agreed to help coach the girls U19 team this season.

As a player, John played college hockey for Clarkson University, a Division I, ECAC team.  His past coaching experience includes assistant coach for the women’s hockey team at Clarkson University, head coach of a boys’ high school hockey team in Buffalo, New York, assistant coach for a girls’ U10 hockey team in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.  More recently and locally, John has been either a head or assistant coach of girls’ U10, U12 and U14 hockey teams at the AAA and AA levels, taking one of those AAA teams to the National Championships.  John has also achieved a Level 4 coaching certification with USA Hockey.

John will join the returning coaching staff from last season's State Championship team.