CIS women's hockey Sunday roundup: Mounties drop a close one to No. 2 X-Women

The Mount Allison Women's Hockey Mounties hosted the CIS #2-ranked St FX X-Women on Sunday afternoon and lost a close one by a score of 2-0.

While the shots were 43-17 in favour of the X-Women, the Mounties matched up fairly well and were able to muster several good scoring chances, particularly in the second period. Nicole Hansom opened the scoring for the X-Women ten minutes in, while Alex Normore scored four minutes into the third.

Janelle Parent had a game-high eight shots for St FX, while Jenna Downey fired seven shots on goal. Courtney King led the Mounties with four shots. Meghan Corley-Byrne stopped 41 shots for the home squad, including several highlight-reel saves that kept the Mounties (0-2-1) in the game. Kristy Garrow stopped all 17 shots she faced in the win for the X-Women (2-0-0).

The Mounties play next on Friday, October 28th in Moncton at 7pm, and return home on the 29th to take on the Saint Thomas Tommies. Puck drop for that game is at 5pm.

Source: Mount Allison Sports Info

OTTAWA - The Carleton University Ravens women’s hockey team held off a late surge by the Concordia University Stingers to take a 4-2 win on Sunday.
 
Victoria Powers (Ajax, Ont.) took home the game’s first star after stopping 31 shots in her first start of the season, while Claudia Bergeron (Drummondville, Que.) dazzled an enthusiastic Ice House gathering with two early goals.
 
Alexandra Yallouz (North Vancouver, B.C.) scored the eventual game-winner on the power play at 9:31 of the second period, but after taking a 3-0 lead, Carleton let the Stingers storm back to make it close.
 
With the game barely underway, Bergeron put the Ravens ahead 1-0, burying the first shot of the game up high on Marie-Pier Rémillard (Laval, Que.) for her first goal of the season.
 
Minutes later Bergeron struck again, splitting the two defencemen and scoring five-hole for a highlight-reel goal.
 
“You can see just by the energy that [Bergeron] brings every single shift and every battle she engages in that she’s a real leader on this team and somebody that makes a significant impact in terms of where we want to go this season,” said head coach Shelley Coolidge.
 
In the second period the Ravens struggled defensively, surrendering early scoring chances, but Powers kept the door shut to preserve the Ravens’ lead.
 
The Stingers got into penalty trouble and the Ravens would capitalize when Yallouz scored on a rebound in front to give Carleton a 3-0 lead.
 
After failing to score on their first 17 shots on goal, the Stingers finally got to Powers late in the second period. Alyssa Sherrard (Bathurst, N.B.) buried a rebound in front to cut into the deficit and suddenly Concordia had life.
 
Less than a minute later, Catherine Rancourt (Quebec City) beat Powers with a hard wrist shot from the slot, making it a one-goal game heading into the third period.
 
Early in the third, the Ravens penalty kill would be tested, forcing Powers to make the save of the game, sliding across the crease to deny Sherrard with the left pad.
 
Powers continued to shut the door the rest of the way with 12 saves in the third period. With under a minute left, Kristen MacDonald (Osgoode, Ont.) scored an empty-netter to put it away.
 
“[Powers] was just really calm in the net,” said Coolidge. “She got across and made some huge saves and gave us a chance to continue and compete because it could have easily been 4-3 for Concordia.”
 
With the win, the Ravens remain undefeated in regulation this season. Next weekend Carleton pays a visit to their cross-town rivals, the uOttawa Gee-Gees, on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. before returning to the Ice House for its first look at the McGill University Martlets on Oct. 30 at 2 p.m.

Source: Carleton Sports Info

OTTAWA - With their second game in as many days, the Gee-Gees were unable to pull out another win, falling 6-0 to the visiting Carabins.
 
“Sometimes we started scrambling, but on the bench we were really positive, just talking to each other, feeding off each other on what we can do better and what not to do,” said assistant captain third-year defense Carley Porcellato (Guelph, Ont.) on how the team worked through the offensively strong Carabins.
 
An early penalty for the Gee-Gees proved costly, and it took only two minutes into the game for Montreal to first find the back on the Gee-Gees net. The Carabins would add two more goals within just over a minute to close the first frame up by three.
 
When a bodycheck sent fifth-year captain Érika Pouliot (St. Joseph de Beauce, Qué.) out of the game with an upper body injury midway through the second, the Gee-Gees had an excellent chance to get on the scoreboard with a five minute powerplay, two minutes of it also with a two-men advantage. But it would be the Carabins with the next two goals after a successful penalty kill to go up by five.
 
Penalties continued to pile up in the third for a frustrated Gee-Gees team, as Montreal would add one more powerplay goal to finish the game. The Gee-Gees finished with 10 penalties to Montreal’s five.
 
Second-year goaltender Tia Marley (Kingston, N.S.) had several brilliant saves in the midst of the Carabin onslaught, trying to keep the Gee-Gees in the game. An ill-timed shift change left Marley to face a barrage of blue Montreal jerseys at the end of the first, saving three clear shots before defenders arrived and the play was frozen.
 
“We played a really talented team, so every mistake [they make you pay]; and when you do too many mistakes it [adds] up pretty bad,” said head coach Yanick Evola. “We have 16 rookies on the team, so we have to be patient as a coaching staff; we are going to do mistakes, I’m going [to make] mistakes. We just have to learn from them and not do them next game.”
 
“We have to start in practice; it all comes out of practice,” said Porcellato on the team’s focus looking ahead, “We practice hard, we play like we practice, we play hard. This week’s practices are going to be huge for us; we have to give it our all. We have to put these games behind us and look forward from here and get the wins.”
 
The Gee-Gees will host Carleton (2-0-2 RSEQ) on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

Source: Ottawa Sports Info