The Béatrice-Desloges Bulldogs varsity girls flag football team survived a day-long playoff tournament on Wednesday to finish the season with a perfect 10-0 record and capture the National Capital secondary school championship.

The Bulldogs started the day with a 41-12 win over Samuel-Genest. They they went on to beat Earl of March Secondary School 41-15 in the quarterfinals and advance to the semi-finals where the beat Merivale High School 24-12 and earned themselves a berth in the championship game against St. Joseph Jaguars.

The Jaguars earned their spot in the final with thanks to a 41-13 win over Woodrooffe High School.

On paper the game looked like it would be a highly competitive affair between two undefeated teams who sailed through their earlier games. Unfortunately for the Jaguars, games aren't played on paper.

The Bulldogs excerted their dominance over their opponents from the opening play which was a pinpoint pass from quarterback Emma Levesque to Mia Morcos. Three plays later Levesque would find Morcos in the end zone for the first touchdown of the game.

The Bulldogs would score on each of their next three possessions to take a 27-0 lead into the second half. The normally high-scoring Jaguars, meanwhile, had trouble moving the ball against Béatrice-Desloges' aggressive and speedy defence. When Bulldogs' rusher Mila Gurover wasn't forcing the Jaguars quarterback to get rid of the ball, defensive back Sydney Bell was batting it out of the air and breaking up passes.

Bell, who will be heading to the University of Buffalo next year on a volleyball scholarship, knocked down five passes in the first half alone. She also knocked down a couple of her teammates by accident while going for the ball and she scored a touchdown late in the first half while on offence.

The game was marred by three inadvertent whistles that were blown by the referees thinking that a flag had been pulled. One of them went in the Jaguars favour, while the third one proved inconsequential as the Bulldogs waived it, given the Jaguars their one and only touchdown of the game. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs only added to their lead, scoring two more touchdowns in the second half to win going away 40-6.

It was another dominating performance by a team that averaged 41 points a game during the regular season and 36 points a game during the tournament.

Levesque finished the game with five touchdown passes – two to Morcos, two to Mia Cléroux and one to Bell. The Bulldogs other touchdown was scored by Olivia Savage on a long pass from Morcos on a reverse option play.

The win was sweet redemption for the Bulldogs who lost 21-0 to the Jaguars in last year's final. It was also a wonderful swan song for the team's six seniors who will all be graduating this year.

After the game Bulldogs head coach Phil Ouellette acknowledged the outstanding athletic talent his players brought to the field and he praised his seniors for sticking to the program despite suffering disappointing losses in the final in each of the last three years.

"A lot of these girls have been working for this moment. We lost in Grade 9, Grade 10 and Grade 11, but this was their moment," said Ouellette.