Women's hockey stuns York in playoffs
By Tanya Quaglia
Lance Writer
February 24, 2010
As Canada celebrated Jon Montgomery’s gold medal in skeleton, the Windsor Lancers Women’s Hockey team gave Windsor its own reason to celebrate by shockingly defeating the number nine nationally ranked York Lions this past weekend. The Lancers upset the Lions in double-overtime.
The win over York wasn’t the Lancers first upset win this week. On Monday February 15th, the Lancers handed the Laurier Golden Hawks their first loss of the season to clinch a playoff spot.
The Lancers headed into Saturday’s playoff game the underdogs, but with one of the best records in the league over the last ten games. York got on the board first halfway through the first period, but the red-hot Lancers did not quit.
Lindsay Hoogstraten put the Lancers on the board less than two minutes into the second period with a power play goal. Assists were credited to Kelly Calhoun and Stephanie Hebert.
Hebert would give the Lancers a 2-1 lead eight minutes later. Windsor held on to the 2-1 lead until halfway through the third period.
In the third, the Lancers could only muster 2 shots on net. Unfortunately, the Lions controlled most of the play and challenged Tessier with 18 shots, finally managing to get one past her halfway through the period. The Lancers did not let the tying goal shake them and held on to force overtime.
Neither team could score in the first overtime. Manon Davis, the Lancers leading scorer in the regular season, played the hero in double overtime. The Lancers broke through with a two-on-none breakaway and Davis netted the game winner off a pass from Jodilyn Brown.
All year Davis continually scored big important goals, and this past weekend was no exception. Tessier, another star player for the Lancers, again came up big when it counted the most. She stopped 51 of 53 shots to send the Lancers to the semi-finals.
The Lancers now face the number two nationally ranked Laurier Golden Hawks in a best of three series. The Lancers were the only team to find a way to beat the mighty Golden Hawks in the regular season.
The first game is scheduled for Thursday in Waterloo. |
