Field hockey: three Magdalen Islanders will participate in the 56th finals of the Quebec Games

Three hockey players from the Islands will represent the Eastern Quebec region at the 56th Quebec Games finals held from March 3 to 11 in Rivière-du-Loup.

Vincent Aucoin, Jasmin Lapierre and Louis-Charles Bourque are among the 18 players selected at the end of the selection camp held a few days before Christmas and which included 35 participants.

The event, first scheduled for 2021, postponed to March 2022 because of the pandemic and postponed a second time to March 2023, brings together the best field hockey players under 15 years old from each region of Quebec.

The games will be played from March 8 to 11 at the Premier Tech Center in Rivière-du-Loup and at the Bombardier Center in La Pocatière.

The three teammates were part of the U-13 squad of the Escouade des Iles that won the top honors at the 2020 Dodge Cup, played in 2022.

Having won the Desjardins Cup a few weeks earlier, the team also took part in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament.