For the 7th year in a row the SOSS Hornets have captured the covented shoe from their foes Pen Hi. The history of the shoe dates back to 1961 when the first game was played, and then the shoe was bronzed in 1963 and both teams have for it ever since, minus a few years. Pen Hi holds the overall record as they dominated the game in the 1980-90’s. The ayHornets have won 8 of the last 9 meetings. Tonights game at Pen Hi was a low scoring, kind of scrappy team with neither team generating much in the way of offense. Pen Hi led by 4 at the half 23-19. The Hornets were able to finally take an 8 point lead late in the fourth only to proceed to allow the Lakers to score 7 unanswered points in the last minute of play to close within 1 with 15 seconds to play. Gurk Dhaliwal who had an extremely off night hit 2 freethrows to seal the victory 59-56. Leading scorer for the Hornets was Malcolm Heinrichs who has been fighting injuries for the past month. He has shown great form as he hit 4 out of 6 three enroute to a 17 point performance. Jashan Khela added 13, and Amit Chahal contributed 8 in the win. The Hornets will now prepare for their 6th straight Provincials as they came second in the valley on the weekend. They will open play on Wednesday versus Lambrick Park of Victoria.

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