CONGRATS...TO THE MAINE WOMENS HOCKEY TEAM....GREAT JOB!!!
 
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> From:         Deron Treadwell[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Monday, December 07, 1998 8:55 AM
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> Subject:      MC: Bears Win First League Game
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> From today's Maine Campus....
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> Black Bears win first league game
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> by Dave Bailey
> Maine Campus Staff
>
> To some, it might be just another puck. But to Maine women's hockey
> coach Rick Filighera, it
> was the perfect birthday gift.
>   Filighera celebrated his 31st birthday in style Saturday as Maine
> downed St. Lawrence 3-2 at
> Alfond Arena for its first conference win of the season.
>   "I can be real happy about this one," said Filighera, holding the
> puck the way a child grasps a
> piece of candy. "We are loving life right now."
>   Raffi Wolf tallied two goals for Maine, while Kira Misikowetz had
> one, which proved to be the
> difference-maker.
>   Penalty killing was the key to victory for the Black Bears, as Maine
> shot down five St.
> Lawrence power plays, including two when the Saints had two-skater
> advantages.
>   Maine (5-5-0. 1-5-0 ECAC) also had to cope with some line shuffles.
> With Alison Lorenz out
> with a twisted ankle and Colleen Baude under the weather, Amy Van Vuren
> was inserted into
> the left wing position alongside scoring powerhouses Wolf and
> Misikowetz.
>   And it didn't take long for the move to pay big dividends.
>   Just 37 seconds into the game, Van Vuren, who was to the right of
> Saints goaltender Emily
> Stein (19 saves), flipped the puck to a waiting Wolf in front of the
> net. Wolf then banged it high
> to Stein's left to put the Bears on the board.
>   "It was the most important goal, [being] right at the beginning,"
> said Wolf, who now has 13
> goals on the season to lead Maine. "We have to play with everyone. The
> whole team has to get
> along."
>   Five minutes later, Maine was put to the test when two quick
> penalties put the Bears at a
> two-skater disadvantage.
>   But with the crowd of 187 shouting "Dee-fense!" and Wolf clearing the
> puck out of the Maine
> zone, the Bears were able to kill the penalty.
>   "When [Wolf] gets a hang of the puck, it's gone," Filighera said.
> "That's why she's out there."
>   With her defensive credentials well-established, Wolf exhibited her
> offensive skills again in the
> second, rebounding her own shot and stinging the puck to Stein's right
> for a power-play goal.
>   But St. Lawrence wasn't about to lie down just yet. Midway through
> the second, Nicole Kirnan
> and Caroline Trudeau scored two goals for the Saints in the span of
> 2:35 to knot the score.
>   After surving another two-woman disadvantage, Maine took the lead for
> good, when
> Misikowetz took a loose puck and stuck it in the net for an unassisted
> goal at 3:38.
>   "It wasn't a spectacular goal," Misikowetz said. "It was just a
> "cross the net, jam it in' goal.
> Amy Van Vuren was behind the net and she worked hard to get it out
> there, and I just smashed
> it in."
>   Kathleen Hedges made 41 saves in the net for Maine, upping her record
> to 3-3-0. Among the
> sweet stops was a sweeping glove save off Meghan Maguire's dead-on shot
> with 10:26 left in
> the second, not to mention a plethora of saves in the third when Maine
> was unable to get the
> puck out of its zone (The Bears had only one shot in the second half of
> the third).
>   St. Lawrence outshot Maine 43-22 overall.
>   "We just kept on saying we thought we were better than them,"
> Misikowetz said. "We thought
> if we kept giving it to them that we would come out on top. No matter
> what they did, we just
> kept on saying, "C'mon guys, let's go.'"
>   Friday - Polar Opposite
>   Saturday's triumph helped wash out the bad taste of Friday's debacle,
> as a sluggish Maine team
> was corralled 3-0 by an equally sluggish St. Lawrence squad at the
> Alfond the third time this
> season the Black Bears have been shut out.
>   Filighera was in a less-than-jovial mood following a game in which
> the Bears failed to take
> advantage of the subpar Saints.
>   "We played with no enthusiasm," Filighera said. "We weren't going to
> the net. "
>   Filighera also said that such inconsistencies can be expected from a
> young team like Maine.
>   Maine defenseman Jessica Stachiw noted Maine's sluggishness on the
> ice.
>   "Our energy was kind of low," Stachiw said. "We were trying to pick
> it up, but I think we know
> what we have to do."
>   St. Lawrence coach Ron Waske suggested that Maine's lack of depth was
> a factor in the
> Saints' victory.
>   "Unfortunately, the depth isn't going to be there," he said.
> "[Maine's] first line is as competitive
> as many of the first lines in the [ECAC], but the depth after that is a
> little weak."
>   St. Lawrence got on the board 3:14 into the game when Suzanne Fiacco
> one-timed a Nicole
> Kirnan pass past Hedges.
>   The score was 1-0 until the third, when St. Lawrence scored two more
> to blow the game open.
>   "The third period, we just sleptwalked through it," Filighera said.
>   Stacy Boudrais gave the Saints the two-goal lead, sticking the puck
> to Hedges' left.
>   Christa Talbot capped the scoring for St. Lawrence with a powerful
> slap-shot goal from just in
> front of the blue line.
>   Hedges made 21 saves for Maine, while Caryn Ungewitter made 18 for
> St. Lawrence to run
> her record to 3-5-0.
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