Sault Female Hockey Association report

NEWS RELEASE

SAULT FEMALE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION

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Action was light locally the weekend of Jan. 11 - 13 for Sault Female Hockey Association Houseleague play, with eight of the twelve teams participating in out of town tournaments. The following is a wrap-up for how the Sault teams fared in their tournaments.

Pee Wee Division teams Headlines Hair & Day Spa, Meyers Munchies and Stitch King, took the trek to Midland Michigan to play, with Headlines coming away with the best showing, making it all the way to the finals.

Headlines

The final for Headlines was their best game of the season to date, turning in an amazing effort against the strong team from Farmington Hills. Headlines held a 1 - 0 lead through-out the first and second period, and part-way into the third, before Farmington Hills exploded for three late goals to earn a 3 - 1 victory. Scoring for Headlines was Darcee McCaig with Taylor Maitland assisting.

Meyers Munchies

Meyers won game one over Stitch King, shutting them out 3 - 0. Emilie Hodgson was in goal and posted the shut-out. Brooke Roach-Neville had two goals while Larissa Carlucci picked up the single, Roach-Neville was game MVP.

Game two, as noted above, was a 1 - 1 tie with Headlines. Alyssa Jones scored the Meyers goal with Alexandra Boudreau earning game MVP honours.

Game three Meyers was up against the tough Suburban Ice squad from Farmington Hills. Meyers gave them a good run for their money, but ended up on the wrong end of a 3 - 2 count. Larissa Carlucci scored both Meyers goals and was named game MVP.

Stitch King Stitch King ended up making the trip with a little bit of depleted line-up. Missing was one of their top scorers and some girls were feeling the effects of illness, which resulted in Stitch King loosing all three of their games and not scoring a goal the entire weekend. However, according to Stitch King Head Coach John Fabbro, the weekend was a success for the team!!! The girls played well, pizza was good, pool was warm, hotel was great and the girls had a blast.

Bantam Division teams Riuniti Banquet Halls, Station Mall and Christie's Camper Sales also made the trip to Midland Michigan, while Soo Sports Excellence ventured a little further south to Windsor to play in the Windsor Wild Tournament.

Riuniti Banquet Halls

Sunday morning Riuniti would face off against Station Mall in semi-final action, with Riuniti easily taking the game by a 7 - 2 score. Shelby Sayers-Jones lead the way again picking up two goals and three assists, single goals were scored by Kelsey Ochman, Stephanie D'Ettorre, Lindsay Aceti, Kala Studens and Morgan Salewski. Single assist markers went to Salewski, D'Ettorre, Ochman, Kyra DiMicoli and Shannon Sayers-Jones. Game MVP award went to Lindsay Aceti.

Riuniti played a hard fought final against the Cheboygan Wheeler Motor girls. The game was a very close, exciting affair with only one goal being scored, unfortunately that goal was scored by Cheboygan to take the game 1 - 0. Avery Lundhild was Riuniti game MVP.

Station Mall

Station Mall lost their first game of the tournament to Cheboygan Wheel Motors, dropping a 4 - 2 decision. Next up for Station Mall was the Mid-Michigan Spirit team, with Station Mall coming out on top by shutting them out 2 - 0. Taylor Tangie and Alicia Royce handled the goal scoring, with Jessica Fabbro picking up one assist. Brittney Peterson earned the shut-out.

Station Mall turned in a strong performance in game three of the weekend, to earn a trip to the semi-finals, in defeating Suburban Ice U14 girls by a 6 - 1 count. Natalie Roberts lead the attack with two goals and two assists, while Alicia Royce picked up two goals and one assist. Jessica Fabbro and Taylor Tangie each chipped in with one goal and one assist, single assists were also earned by Frances Mallinger, Desiree Rouse, Kayla Visnevsky, Evelyn Steele and Samm Biocchi.

In the semi against Riuniti, Station Mall did not have their best game and dropped the 7 - 2 decision. Samm Biocchi had a goal and assist in the loss with Natalie Roberts scoring the other. Emily Maccarone and Frances Mallinger each had one assist.

Christie Camper Sales

Christie's tournament results saw them end up with a record of 1 win and 2 losses and missing out on making the semi-finals by 1/2 point in the tie breaking system used. Game one Christies lost to Cheboygan Wheeler Motors 4 - 1, game two they lost to Farmington Hills Icebreakers 6 - 4 and game three they came up with a 4 - 1 victory over Mid-Michigan Spirit. Game scorers were unavailable.

Soo Sports Excellence

The Soo Sports Excellence girls had a very good weekend of games at the Windsor Wild Tournament, going undefeated in round robin play, all by shut-out, before dropping their semi-final game in double overtime.

In the semi-final the Sault girls lost their scoring touch as they were only able to get one goal past the goaltender from Mount Brydges. Mount Brydges ended up scoring in the second overtime period as the teams were playing three players aside to take the contest 2 - 1. Jennifer Elliott scored the Soo Sports goal and also was game MVP.

Best Western was the lone Intermediate team to travel out of town, as they too travelled Windsor. It was worth the trip for the Sault girls as they went undefeated for the weekend and took home the Intermediate title in the Windsor Wild Tournament.

Best Western

Best Western intermediate girls headed south and won 5 games to capture gold recently at the Windsor Wild tournament . With 8 teams challenging for 4 spots to move on to the semi finals it was a total team effort to beat some tough competition.

The semi-finals had BW against Chatham, Erica Aceti would open the scoring but Chatham would tie it up on a power play goal. BW had a goal disallowed in the second and still tied at 1-1 heading into the 3rd. Jessica Masters would score her 2nd of the weekend and Tiana Chandler add her 4th of the tournament to go up 3-1 .Chatham would make it interesting scoring another power play goal with. 30 seconds remaining but Tasha McClelland would hold them off . Brianna Myers, Katie Litalien and Shannon Decker would each add a assist to take the 3-2 win and earn a trip to the finals.

The gold medal game would not disappoint, BW would face London team 2 who was also undefeated. With play going end to end and great chances at both ends the game could go either way. Jessica Masters would have the opportunity to give BW the lead on a penalty shot, she would beat the goalie on a nice deke but would ring it off the post. Still tied 0-0 and heading for OT Katie Litalien would score the winner , picking the top corner with .40 seconds remaining in the game. Tiana Chandler and Amanda Trudeau would each add a assist to finish the weekend off with 5 points each and Tasha McClelland would record the shutout. A complete team effort both on and off the ice would pay off and BW would head back home with the gold medal.

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