WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 185

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Forwarded article: Brown Women 7 - Colby 2
	by "Andria L. Hunter" 
  2) Did anyone hear...
	by email@hidden

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Date: 	Mon, 4 Mar 1996 00:13:24 -0500
From: "Andria L. Hunter" 
To: email@hidden
Subject: Forwarded article: Brown Women 7 - Colby 2
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 * Date:    Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:07:21 -0500
 * From:    Richard Hungerford 

It was a great day for hockey.  Falling snow coated the landscape as winter's
return frightened New Englanders.  Unfortunately Saturday afternoon's ECAC
League quarterfinal game found the Brown Bears playing an ineffectual game
while beating the Colby White Mules 7-2.  Colby seemed tense much of the match
and rarely established their flow.

The game started tight and slow.  Both teams were letting the occasion
overcome them.  Brown was the first to break out of it when Katie King (Becky
Kellar) took a long pass, broke in all alone on goal and deked her way past
the Colby netminder.  Danielle Solari continued the individual efforts of the
Bears when she followed her own shot in on net, dug the puck and tucked the
rebound in.

In the second period, Solari shot high into the netting to make it 3-0 Brown.
The play developed after the White Mules had given the puck away three times
consecutively in their own end.  Colby had finished the first period with a
flourish and had their skate and pass game essentially online.  Barb Gordon
(Meaghan Sittler) opened the scoring for Colby when she provided the final
touch at the side of the net.  The one-two play featured an end to end break.
On a Mule power play, half way through the second, Stacy Joslin (Gordon) shot
home after some excellent puck movement.  Colby was looking better, but with
too few players on the ice they were also looking tired.  Carly Regnier scored
a shorthanded goal for Brown to make it 4-2 Bears.  Regnier's length of the
ice rush beat the weary Mule defenders and was a fine solo effort.

During the entire game I thought the referees were calling a homer.  A number
of Brown players were getting away with some pretty disgusting behavior, while
their Colby counterparts were being sent off regularly.  In the final
interval, Brown's King (Marcie Deering) put the puck in after a spell of Bear
pressure.  Karen Emma (Nan Gorton) circled the net and scored during a power
play.  Emma (Kellar) tipped in a point shot during another power play to close
out the scoring.  It was a pity that Brown wasted this game with little team
play.  A stronger opponent would have blown the Bears off the ice.

Colby did not play well Saturday.  I think being in the play-offs for the
first time had an impact.  The White Mules have a lovely attacking style that
we only got flashes of.  If Colby can get more players on the ice they could
be a contender in the ECAC.  Most other teams appear clueless when they start
their sweeping style.  The woman of the match for Colby was Gordon.  Her
sublime passing to the atypical area was wonderful.  Gordon's movement is one
of the key elements in the Mule's arsenal.  Sittler had a quiet day for her.
The powerful forward displayed some elegant moves.  Sarah Gelman was the other
Colby forward that stood out.  She provided a quick skating game that did a
ton for the team.  Blue liner Joslin was on her game.  Her tough defensive
style featured many superior breakup plays.  She was joined by Ann Mortenson
and Heather McVicar and together they provided a strong defensive unit.
Overall the experience should make Colby a more demanding rival in the future.

The trivializing of sport with loud pop music at every stoppage of play was
unfortunately in vogue at Brown.  It was not a pleasant experience.

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 good shooting
 hungerf
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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 11:49:45 -0600
From: email@hidden.MN.US
To: email@hidden
Subject: Did anyone hear...
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Someone said the local (Minneapolis) paper there was a story about
the first female to be possibly recruited by the NHL - and not a
goalie - anyone know anything???  I could find nothing in the paper
on Sunday and I thought they said that was when it was in.  Dorene  


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