St. Thomas More High School
2022 Breakfast of Champions
HAMILTON - SportHamilton, in partnership with the City of Hamilton, is happy to recognize and congratulate St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School's Senior Female Soccer athletes and coaches that have won OFSSA AAA Provincial Soccer Championship. They are the best team in Ontario.
High school coach coming out to game
ST CATHARINES - Coach Giovanni from Jenna's local high school comes out to visit 4 of his players that he has coached.
STM win OFSSA AAA Soccer
St. Thomas More makes school history
Samantha DeStephanis scored the winner in overtime and Chiara Filice recorded the clean sheet as St. Thomas More won the OFSAA AAA soccer championship 1-0 over previously undefeated Ottawa St. Peter in London on the weekend. St. Thomas More had won 27 straight games before losing in pool play at OFSAA, then ran off another six wins to take the gold, the school’s first-ever medal at the provincial high school championship.
More is coached by Mario Raso and Giovanni Carboni and the roster also includes Lorena Morcone, Francesca Pugliese, Sabrina Cunha, Ayla Bates, Alexa Burgio, Olivia Caruso, Erjona Citaku, Maya Dejeto, Ashley Melo, Emilie Nicolas, Mia Paiement, Jenna Parris Ava Pugliese, Irelan Scanlon, Mackenzie Scanlon, Janelle Sylvestre, Makenna Williamson and Grace Young.
Knights strike gold
It marked the most significant achievement in the history of girls’ soccer at St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School.
The Knights captured the 2022 OFSAA gold medal in London Saturday with a 1-0 AAA overtime victory over Ottawa’s St. Peter Knights.
More had never before brought home a medal from an Ontario high school girls’ championship soccer tournament.
OFSAA Gold Journey
STM's journey to it's first ever OFSSA Gold. Not mentioned in the stats below, Jenna scored one third of all goals scored by STM throughout the season. She netted 37 goals of 113.
Knights advance to OFSAA girls’ soccer semi-finals
LONDON - ..........The Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic champions also topped Toronto’s Bishop Allen Academy Cardinals, 2-0, in a quarter-final. So they’ll face Mississauga’s St. Martin Mustangs in semifinal action Saturday morning.
Sabrina Cunha paced the Knights attack with five goals on Friday, including two in the quarter-final. Other St. Thomas More goal-scorers were Francesca Pugliese, Janelle Sylvestre, Jenna Parris and Erjona Citaku.
“We had a difficult first game (Thursday) that forced us to look at a number of things we needed to change/improve on,” said More coach Giovanni Carboni said................
Knights continue winning streak
ST CATHARINES - .......More opened the scoring against the Halton public league champions from Oakville in the 12th minute. Sabrina Cunha’s long ball sent Janelle Sylvestre down the wing for a sharp-angle shot which found the mark.
That was the only goal of opening 40 minutes.
“We missed plenty of chances in the first half,” the More coach said. “The second half was great. I tell them, ‘let the game come to you. Just wait. Don’t force anything. It will come.’”
It did. Cunha’s through ball set up Jenna Parris for her first of two goals and Lorena Morcone made it 3-0 by heading in a corner kick by Irelan Scanlon.
Mia Paiement capped the scoring by deflecting in a cross from Parris............
Knights capture girls' indoor soccer championship
1st Championship for this Powerhouse team. Jenna has done her part scoring several goals in the tournament.
FULL ARTICLE HERE or 2ND ARTICLE HERE
High School Highlights
Follow link below to see over 25 goals and assists from the 2022 highschool season.