The women's quarter-final play-off rounds are set to take place over the next two days with some of the best women's soccer players in the province vying for a place in the final four.

With one game already in the books, the first game on the early play-off docket was a barnburner as the Humber Hawks needed two extra periods of play to narrowly defeat the Algonquin Thunder 1-0. Keyla Moreno allowed the Hawks to breath a sigh of relief as she scored on a penalty kick with seven minutes to go in second overtime period.

Despite the loss, the Thunder did control the tempo of the game but were out-chanced.

In the second match of the day, the Fanshawe Falcons will host the Seneca Sting. The Falcons were the top team to come out of the West Division sporting an 8-1-2 record and coming into their playoff game off a handy 5-0 romp over the Conestoga Condors this past week.

The Seneca Sting have been playing playoff soccer for a few games now, as the tightly contested Central East Division came down to a head to head match-up against the Durham Lords which the Sting dropped 3-1 thus falling to second. But not willing to head into the championship rounds with a loss, the Sting bounced back to defeat the Cambrian Golden Shield 4-1 in preparation for the opening round of the playoffs.

Tuesday's games will punch two more tickets to the OCAA Championship final four as the powerful Durham Lords, who broke two records in their 5-0 regular season finale win over Cambrian College in Sudbury last week, will take on the Conestoga Condors in Oshawa.

The Lords narrowly edged out the Seneca Sting for top spot in the Central East Division, while the Condors finished second in the West division with a 4-4-3 record. The Condors will need to tame the high powered offense of the Lords if they hope to upset, but with the weather potentially a factor in Oshawa, anything can happen.

It was also a record breaking week for Katie Watts who netted a hat trick in the season finale, bringing her total to 38 career goals, passing former teammate Brittany Micucci for the Durham College all-time scoring record. Watts moves into second position in the OCAA all-time leading scoring race, led by OCAA Hall of Famer Joanna Vitale of Humber College, who scored 56 goals in four years with the Hawks. Watts scored 18 goals this season, winning the league scoring championship averaging 1.64 goals per game. This is the second straight year Watts has won the scoring title.

The Lords also broke the all-time single season scoring record with 59 goals scored this season. The Lords surpassed the 2003 Durham College women's soccer team, who netted a record breaking 54 goals enroute to an OCAA gold medal run.

Last and certainly not least, they are simply known as the new kids on the block. The Fleming Knights won the East Division, ousting the traditional power house Algonquin Thunder and in the process have earned the right to host their first women's soccer championship game Tuesday in Peterborough. They will take on the Sheridan Bruins, a team that finished second behind the Humber Hawks with a 5-4-3 record. Sheridan comes into the game after their final week saw the ladies defeat the Mohawk Mountaineers 2-0 and then drop a close game to Humber 1-0.
Fleming needed their final game to clinch their Divisional title, but also had a fine week, rebounding well after losing to Algonquin 2-0 to down the La Cite Coyotes 4-1.

Each of the winners will advance to the belairdirect OCAA Men's and Women's Soccer Championships hosted by the OCAA at the Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan from October 22-24, 2009. League All-stars, Player's of the Year and All-Canadians will be announced at the Championship Banquet hosted at the Holiday Inn Express Toronto Airport East on Thursday.