CIS women's hockey Saturday roundup: Wickenheiser four points leads No. 3 Calgary over Huskies

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – The Brock University women's hockey team (5-6-1 OUA) dropped a 6-0 decision to the No. 2 ranked Laurier Golden Hawks (11-0-1 OUA) Saturday afternoon at the Seymour-Hannah Centre.
 
Laurier opened the scoring just 46 seconds into the first period, when Candice Styles (Orangeville, Ont.) setup Tammy Freiburger (Wingham, Ont.), who beat Brock freshman goaltender Chantal Bicket (Oshawa, Ont.) for her seventh goal of the season.
 
At the midway mark of the first, the Golden Hawks Abby Rainsberry (Petrolia, Ont.) would add a power play marker. Danelle Im (Toronto, Ont.) and Heather Fortuna (Kitchener, Ont.) added the assists.
 
Less than a minute into the second period, Laurier took a 3-0 lead on a power play goal from Katherine Shirriff (Carrying Place, Ont.).
 
At 7:48 of the second, Shirriff would setup Freiburger for her second of the game and team leading eighth goal of the campaign.
 
Paula Lagamba (Toronto, Ont.) would add to Laurier's lead burying a shot behind Bicket to make it 5-0 with 1:25 remaining in the second period.
 
The Golden Hawks would close out the scoring 5:55 into the third as Caitlin Muirhead (Waterloo, Ont.) registered her fifth goal of the season.
 
In goal, Laurier's Erika Thunder (Buffalo Point, Man.) recorded 16 saves for the shutout and her sixth victory of the season. Bicket registered 31 saves in the loss.
 
The Badgers are in action again on Saturday, November 26th at 3:15 pm when they host the York University Lions at the Seymour-Hannah Centre.

Source: Brock Sports Info

OTTAWA - The Carleton University Ravens women’s hockey team fell 3-2 in overtime to the uOttawa Gee-Gees on Saturday, Nov. 19 at the Ice House in a wide open, back-and-forth affair.
 
Fannie Desforges (Fournier, Ont.) scored her second of the game 15 seconds into overtime, while Stephanie Mercier (Smooth Rock Falls, Ont.) outshone her counterpart Tamber Tisdale (Red Deer, Alta.) with an impressive 34-save performance.
 
The win marked the Gee-Gees’ third straight over their cross-town rivals, moving uOttawa into a fifth-place tie with Concordia in the RSEQ standings.
 
Desforges opened the scoring on the power play at the 8:46 mark of the first period, giving the Gee-Gees an early lead.
 The Ravens struck back halfway through the first period when Jessica O’Grady (Ottawa) buried a loose puck with Mercier out of position for her second goal of the season, tying the game at one apiece.
 
After stopping 11 shots in the first period, Tisdale was tested with heavy pressure to start the second but she stood tall, giving her team a chance to take the lead.
 
Claudia Bergeron (Drummondville, Que.) responded with a beautiful highlight-reel goal. She took the puck out of the corner, weaved through the defence pairing and rifled a backhander top shelf over Mercier, giving the Ravens their first lead of the night.
 
With the lead, Tisdale stopped all 13 shots she faced in the second period, giving her team a narrow one-goal edge heading into the third period.
 
From then on Carleton carried the play as the Gee-Gees struggled to contain the Ravens’ offence, but halfway through the period uOttawa tied the game when Dominique Lefebvre (Cantley, Que.) jammed a loose puck past Tisdale, who couldn’t find the puck in the crease.
 
The Ravens responded furiously, firing shot after shot toward Mercier, but the first-year goaltender turned aside all 17 shots she faced in the third period to send the game to overtime.
 
With the extra point on the line, it didn’t take Desforges long to convert for the Gee-Gees.  She broke in early in overtime with a partial breakaway on Tisdale and finished upstairs with her third goal of the season to give uOttawa the win.
 
Tisdale stopped 30 shots in a losing effort, getting her first action since Oct. 30, a 3-0 loss on home ice to the McGill Martlets.
 
They Ravens will get a chance to end a four-game winning streak with a visit to UdeM on Nov. 25 before returning to the Ice House for a date with Concordia on Nov. 26.  The puck drops at 7 p.m. for both games.

Source: Carleton Sports Info

TORONTO - The Ryerson Rams women's hockey team played arguably its best game of the season on Saturday, falling 6-2 to the CIS No. 7-nationally ranked Queen's Gaels.
The game was closer than the score would suggest as the Rams trailed by one at 3-2 with just six minutes to go in the contest.

The night did not start well for the home team when Taryn Pilon gave the Gaels a 1-0 lead just 41 seconds after the opening face-off. The Rams would quickly regroup, eventually outshooting the defending OUA champions 7-6 in the period. Captain Kyla Thurston tied the score on the power play just before the end of the period when she put her team leading sixth goal of the season past Queen's goalie Karissa Savage.

The middle frame started much like the first as Queen's opened the period with another quick goal. Gaels captain Kristin Smith's beat goalkeeper Emma Crawley with her fifth of the season to put the visitors up 2-1 a minute into the second.  The Rams once again bounced back and had their own opportunities to score. A pair of power plays for Ryerson generated a number of scoring chances, but the Rams could not find the back of the net. Queen's went up 3-1 midway through the second on a goal by Alex Cieslowski.

The Rams continued to press in the third period and were finally rewarded at the midway point when Melissa Wronzberg, with a great individual effort, scored a highlight reel goal to pull Ryerson within one. The Rams then went on the power play two minutes later but were unable to get the equalizer. Sixteen seconds after the power play ended, Morgan McHaffie would show some patience with the puck before firing a wrist shot past Crawley to put Queen's up 4-2. The Gaels would add two more goals in the final three minutes.

Ryerson was 1-for-4 on the power play, while the Gaels were 0-for-4 with the man advantage.

The Rams, who have had back-to-back solid efforts in their last two games, will visit the UOIT Ridgebacks Sunday afternoon.

Source: Ryerson Sports Info

WINNIPEG - In one of the most impressive and dominating wins in Bisons women’s hockey history, unranked Manitoba took down unranked UBC 8-1 on Saturday night to sweep a back-to-back series with the Thunderbirds and move to 5-3-2. UBC falls to 1-7-2.

It was a night where most of the Bisons were able to make an impact in some way, but second-year forward Maggie Litchfield-Medd stood above the rest, scoring three goals for a hat trick to go with two assists for five points on the night.

“We did a lot of small things well tonight,” said Manitoba head coach Jon Rempel. “We got to them right off the hop, and I think that was the difference.”

“We probably broke their will a little bit.”

In what might be an enormous understatement, Manitoba was off to a quick start on Saturday night. Just 22 seconds into the game, Litchfield-Medd had her first goal and Manitoba was off to a running start. They would put five goals past goalie Carly Butcher in the first period and first five minutes of the second period before Butcher was pulled in favour of Samantha Langford, a Manitoba native.

The game was slow-moving, with lots of penalties on both sides. UBC would record a back-breaking nine penalties, two of which gave Manitoba a 5-on-3 opportunity in the second period, which was capitalized on by Litchfield-Medd’s second goal.

Goalie Tara Lacquette of Manitoba wasn’t challenged a lot on Saturday night, and one night after recording 22 saves for a shutout win, she gave up one goal and made ten saves. Samantha Langford performed well, giving up three goals and making 25 saves in a relief appearance after coming into the game when it was 5-0.

The Bisons women’s hockey team will now travel to Calgary to take on the third-ranked team in the nation in a back-to-back on Nov. 25 and 26. Game times are both 8 p.m. CST. The UBC Thunderbirds women’s hockey team will go home to play two against Saskatchewan on Nov. 25 and 26, both at 10 p.m. CST.

Source: Manitoba Sports Info