Re: USA Hockey Womens U18 Select 66 Camp Invites
Girls U-18 Select PDC - Day 2 Recap
06/28/2016, 12:15pm EDT
By Moira Sweeney - Special to USAHockey.com
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BIDDEFORD, Maine – Team Red claimed its first victory of the USA Hockey Girls U-18 Select Player Development Camp yesterday, topping Team Gold in an overtime win, 3-2. Team White remained undefeated, beating Team Blue, 3-2, at the Harold Alfond Forum on the campus of University of New England.
Emma Seitz (New York, N.Y.) collected the puck at the point and wristed it over the goaltender’s shoulder to give Team Gold an early 1-0 lead.
Later, Team Red’s Grace Lee (Superior, Colo.) stole the puck on the offensive blue line and deked around the goaltender to stuff the puck in along the far post, knotting the game at 1-1.
Catherine Skaja (New Prague, Minn.) regained the lead for Team Gold after she picked up a loose puck at the hash marks and stickhandled her way to the front of the net, lifting the puck past the goaltender’s glove.
Team Red rallied once again and tied the score at 2-2 with a five-on-three power-play goal. Nicole LaMantia (Wayne, Ill.) moved the puck to Cyrstalyn Hengler (Eden Prairie, Minn.) at the point, who shot into a crowd in front of the net where Clair DeGeorge (Anchorage, Alaska) flipped it over the goalie and into the net.
Regulation time ended in a tie, forcing the game into a four-on-four, five-minute overtime. DeGeorge scored the overtime game-winning goal for Team Red. She caused a turnover in the offensive zone and eventually turned it into a backhanded goal for the win.
In between the two games, a quartet of United States Women’s National Team members took a break from their PDC coaching duties and signed autographs in the lobby of the rink. The group included Kacey Bellamy (Westfield, Mass.), Brianna Decker (Dousman, Wis.), Meghan Duggan (Danvers, Mass.) and Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson (Grand Forks, N.D.).
Team White took the early lead in the second game when Sharon Frankel (West Hartford, Conn.) tapped in a rebound that was shot by Margaret Flaherty (Lakeville, Minn.) from the point.
Sadie Peart (Grand Rapids, Minn.) extended Team White’s lead to 2-0 after skating the puck in from the half wall and wristed it in top-shelf.
Team Blue cut Team White’s lead in half when Taylor Heise (Lake City, Minn.) knocked in the puck from a scrum in front of the Team White goaltender.
Team White extended its lead to 3-1 with a goal from Abigail Boreen (Somerset, Wis.). Christina Kampa (Maple Grove, Minn.) took a shot from the point that bounced off a Team Blue defender’s skate and Boreen quickly slapped it home.
Grace Zumwinkle (Excelsior, Minn.) scored a Team Blue power-play goal with less than two minutes remaining to make it 3-2. Giana Savastano (Mapleville, R.I.) passed the puck from the corner to Zumwinkle along the top of the circle, who skated to the hash marks before firing a shot that pulled Blue within a single goal.
Team Blue pulled their goaltender for an extra-skater advantage, but was unable to force the game into overtime.
Standings through June 27 games:
Team White 2 points
Team Blue 1 point
Team Red 1 point
Team Gold 0 points
