Nice win for GAC tonight as they take down Augsburg 2-0. St. Mary’s continues to be a head-scratcher, getting knocked off 2-1 in OT by Concordia.
I sadly didn't get to watch as I had an event yesterday evening.
In other action:
Plattsburgh had their best offensive game of the season in a 5-1 win over Morrisville. Cards jumped to an early 2-0 lead on goals from defender Su An Cho taking the puck from the point of the Mustang's O-Zone all the way to the low slot around the Mustang D and firing it home. A few minutes later Wall passed from the end boards behind the net to a waiting Ruegge outside the paint who put it home. The Mustangs then got one back when Plattsburgh High grad Avery Holland scored the first of her collegiate career. Plattsburgh got that one back in the period when Riggi took a beauty of an entry pass from Orr and beat the D through the left circle and put it home.
2nd started with Cards freshman Morris on some rough forechecking getting the puck in the O-Zone corner causing a mini scrum but was able to feed it to the point. Morris impressively was able to make it from the halfboards to the crease by the time Su An Cho took a hard shot from center point and Morris buried the rebound on the play she created to make it 4-1. After that I had to leave and could only listen and It sounded like the game got very chippy. Lewis was taken out for the second straight game after she was hit from behind playing a loose puck at the red line. Mustangs got a major for that hit and the Cards a minor for Fessette who tried to avenge Lewis immediately after. Lewis was down a while, so Stetson came on but it seems like she only made two saves in 27 minutes? The 2nd seemed like a parade to the box. Only goal was a Norton PPG to make it the final 5-1 score. Not much of note happened in the third.
My takeaways: I feel like if this was the between championships era when I was a student and Houle was more experimental with the skaters that Su An Cho would have been moved to wing by now in her career. She skates and shoots like a forward when she has the ice time and opportunity to play the puck forward, and she's the most vulnerable D when the Cards have to defend. She actually got beat along the boards in the first today and it left her D partner Balfour and Lewis in goal defending a 3 on 1. Conversely a forward like Ella Fessette with her great speed and defensive stick would make an outstanding defender. Scoring 5 was much needed but the power play was kind of anemic, though by the time they were getting all those PPs they were probably not as focused because of the anger at the chippiness and the game was already out of reach for the Mustangs.
Elmira and USM skated to a 4-4 tie. Leonie Kuehberger allowed 4 goals on 13 shots from USM vs Haley McKim allowing 4 on 51 shots. Elmira held every statistical advantage outside shooting percentage and still had to settle for a tiebreaker point on the shootout win.
SNC defeats Trine 1-0 on a goal from Lexi Bonfe. Trine goalie Annie Kindseth made 60 saves, joining Potsdam goalie Parent and Castleton goalie Bakopanos as the third goalie with 60+ saves this week.
Speaking of 60+ saves, Tia Card of Hilbert made 68 in a 10-1 loss to Chatham. Neither team won a game coming into the game. So that makes 4.
Potsdam took a 1-0 lead midway through the first but similar to Lakers' tie against the Cardinals, Oswego would make a comeback. Pethrick tied it for the Lakers early in the 2nd and then Oz broke it open with 5 mins left in the third with goals from Bednarik, Pinti and an ENG from McGrath. 4-1 final.
Hamline shut out CSS 2-0.
A rare non-conference loss for the NESCAC as Nazareth beat Trinity 2-1 despite Naz being outshot 31-16. Guider put the Bantams up midway through the first but Cedrone tied it on a power play in the second followed by Pittis on a shorthanded goal a few minutes later to make it 2-1.
Endicott over JWU 3-1. Fantasia factored into all 3 goals with a goal and 2 assists.
Todays most interesting games imo are UWRF vs Adrian, the GAC/Augsburg rematch and Williams vs Norwich. I also am interested in the SNC vs Trine rematch because given their records SNC should have had a stronger showing yesterday. I'm also interested in Hamilton vs Canton as Hamilton has a 1-3 record and Canton has upset some good teams this season.
