A shutout, against the best team in the league. Goaltender Megan Spooner couldn't have dreamed up a better scenario for the final home game of her career.
Sunday at Kin 1, the 17-year-old Spooner backstopped the Bursey Buryn Cougars to a 4-0 win against the Thompson-Okanagan Rockets. The result may go down as the biggest upset of the B.C. Hockey Female Midget AAA League season because the Rockets -- formed mostly by Kelowna and Kamloops players -- entered the game with a 20-3-1 record and the last-place Cats came in at 3-21-3.
The contest was the last of the regular season for the 15- to 17-year-old Cougars.
"In six years of playing hockey, we've never beaten Kelowna before, and to shut them out was just amazing -- especially in my last league game of minor hockey," Spooner said. "It's a pretty amazing feeling."
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