Portage Thunder U12 Ringette Team brought home a gold medal this past weekend at the Steinbach Panthers Ringette Association Annual Tournament. We met the home team in the final -- both teams went undefeated in the round robin - and Portage took home the gold medal with a 9-4 victory.

It was a successful weekend for us from a skill development and team building perspective, and timely, as we recently were moved up into A1 category in the Winnipeg Ringette League for the 2nd half of the WRL season.

Stringing 4 games in a row over a weekend has helped us prepare to be more 'battle ready' for the challenging games against A1 teams, who have deeper benches and who log more practice hours.

With a longer Christmas break, we probably lost some conditioning and skill building then headed in A1 unprepared. We went undefeated in A2 for the first half of the season. We are 0-3 since being advanced into the A1 division.