09-10 Midget Girls - Two-Point Game for Michel
The Saugeen Shores Queen’s Bar & Grill/Giant Tiger Midget Girls Team took down Wingham on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at the Plex in Port Elgin by a score of 3-1.
Saugeen Shores goalie, Mackenzie Bertrand, shut out the Wingham team until the dying minutes of the third.
The Wingham team was the first to get on
the score sheet, taking a tripping penalty just 31 seconds into the first
period. The Queen’s Bar &
Grill/Giant Tiger girls poured it on, but did not get their first goal until
half way into the period, when Sarah Thornburn lifted in Katie Little’s
rebound. The other assist on the
goal went to affiliated player Bryanna Cobean.
Saugeen Shores took a 2-0 lead just over 6
minutes into the second period when Natasha Kippers took the puck from in a
Wingham player’s skates between the hash marks in the Wingham end. Kippers skated around the Wingham
defence and put the puck in on the ice on the stick side. Assists on the second goal were
recorded by Gillian Michel and RaeAnn McArthur. Saugeen Shores’ third and final goal came late in the
second, when Michel passed the puck to affiliated player Mackenzie Brown. Brown released a high shot form the top
of the circle, which slipped past the Wingham goalie’s blocker for the
insurance goal.
Wingham’s only goal came with one minute 46
seconds remaining in the game. The
Saugeen Shores defence fell and the Wingham player was alone in the Storm
end. Bertrand made the initial
save, but the Wingham player was able to pick up her rebound, skate behind the
net, and tuck in the wrap-around goal despite Bertrand’s supreme effort to
slide across the crease and close the gap.
Write-up by Jacqueline Kippers
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