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Women-in-Hockey Digest Wednesday, November 18 1998 Volume 01 : Number 315
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Team Michigan
MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:59:39 EST
From: email@hidden
Subject: Team Michigan
Greetings lovies... jsut an update. As you, or some of you know, i've been
elected manager of my high school varsity hockey team. Mostly because i can't
skate to save my life, but did work my ass off through tryouts, earning
manager.
Today talking to my friend, she got a tryout for Team Michigan in Fraser...
I'd have tryed out already but Mum doesn't want to drive me all the way up
there. I'd love to go up there with her, try out and earn my place on that
team, but right now my heart isn't into it... I hate this feeling. It makes me
feel so ICKY!
Any way, untill the spring league starts up at Farmington, or i can get a
ride/tryout for Michigan i am but a manager... wanting to skate with them
every second.
- -J
WLC Viking Manager
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:48:14 -0600
From: "Craig Roberts"
Subject: MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
THIS WEEK--Minnesota returns home for a single game this week as they play host
to Minnesota State, Mankato, Friday at 7 p.m. at Mariucci Arena.
MINNESOTA RECENTLY--The Gophers posted a pair of 10-0 wins over the weekend,
defeating first-year program Bemidji State and club program Minnesota-Duluth.
Minnesota made the trip north to Bemidji Saturday and outshot the Beavers 68-1,
getting goals from eight players and points from 13 players.
The offense was led by Amber Hegland (Farmington, Minn./Farmington), who had
her second two-goal game of the season, and Jenny Schmidgall (Edina,
Minn./Edina) with three points each.
Crystal Nicholas (Tulsa, Okla./Union) recorded the shutout, in her first
collegiate start.
Sunday saw Nicholas and the Gophers post another shutout as Schmidgall scored
four goals and Brittny Ralph (Brooklyn Center, Minn./Brooklyn Center) added a
career-high four assists. Tracy Engstrom (Willmar, Minn./Willmar), who scored
her first career goal Saturday, also added a pair of goals.
MINNESOTA STATE, MANKATO RECENTLY--The Mavericks picked up their first two wins
by sweeping a home-and-home series with Gustavus Adolphus over the weekend.
Friday, Minnesota State was faced with a 2-0 deficit late in the third period
at Gustavus before Tina Serafin scored with 6:30 to play and Michelle Sikich
added the tying goal with 45 seconds to play while goalie Jenny Padget, who
stopped 26 shots, was pulled for an extra attacker. The Mavericks then got their
first-ever win when Alexis Schmidt-Pederson scored 1:08 into overtime.
Saturday saw Minnesota State break open an early 1-1 tie to coast to a 6-1 win,
getting goals from six different players and 18 saves from Melissa Jackson, who
made her first career appearance in goal.
SHOOTING GALLERY--Minnesota fired 119 shots in two games over the weekend,
including a school-record 68 at Bemidji State on Saturday.
Jenny Schmidgall cranked out 19 of those shots, recording 10 of the Gophers' 68
shots Saturday and nine more Sunday. On the weekend, she tallied five goals and
eights points.
Schmidgall leads the team with six goals on the season and is tied for the team
lead with nine points.
NATIONAL AWARD--Minnesota goalie Erica Killewald (Troy, Mich./Troy) was named
the inaugural U.S. College Hockey Online defensive player of the week last week
for her play in the All-American East-West Challenge.
In two games, a 3-1 loss to Harvard and a 1-1 overtime tie with New Hampshire,
Killewald stopped 65 of 68 shots, including 30 of 31 versus the defending
national champion Wildcats.
MS. ZERO--Rookie goalie Crystal Nicholas posted shutouts in her first two career
appearances, stopping 14 shots in two games over the weekend.
Combined with Erica Killewald, Minnesota's goaltending tandem has not allowed a
goal in 160:08, dating back to the Gophers' 1-1 overtime tie with New Hampshire,
Nov. 7.
REPRESENTING THEIR COUNTRY--In December, Jenny Schmidgall and Winny Brodt
(Roseville, Minn./Roseville Area) will play for Team USA at the Three Nations
Cup in Finland.
The pair was chosen from the USA Hockey Women's Festival for the national team
and will be joined by Gopher head coach Laura Halldorson, who will serve as the
team's assistant coach, as part of the USA contingent.
THE COACHES--Now in her second season behind the Minnesota bench and ninth
season as a college head coach, Laura Halldorson has established herself as one
of the nationÍs premier coaches in womenÍs hockey, sporting an 83-83-13 overall
record and a 24-8-4 mark at Minnesota.
She began her coaching career at Colby College, where she led the White Mules,
one of only two non-Division I schools at the time in the 12-team Eastern
Collegiate Athletic Conference, to a 12-9-1 overall record in 1995-96, earning
ECAC Co-Coach of the Year honors as well as being named the New England Hockey
Writers' Coach of the Year. While at Colby, she also recruited and coached ECAC
Player of the Year Meaghan Sittler.
At the national level, she was the assistant coach for the gold medal-winning
team at the 1998 U.S. Olympic Festival. In December, she will serve as an
assistant for the U.S. National team that competes in the Three Nations Cup in
Finland.
A native of Plymouth, Minn., and a 1981 graduate of Wayzata High School,
Halldorson played four years at Princeton, where she was a co-captain and
all-conference performer while leading the Tigers to three Ivy League titles.
She graduated from Princeton in 1985 with a degree in psychology.
A member of the 1987 U.S. National Women's Team and three national club
championship teams with the Minnesota Checkers, Halldorson returned to her alma
mater in 1987 to begin her collegiate coaching career as an assistant.
Minnesota State, Mankato head coach Todd Carroll took his current post Sept.
17, 1997, and is guiding the Mavericks in their first season of varsity
competition this season.
A 1986 graduate of St. Olaf, Carroll spent two seasons as a graduate assistant
with the St. Cloud State men's program before returning to his alma mater, where
he spent seven seasons as an assistant coach.
In his first collegiate head coaching position, Carroll sports a 2-3-0 record.
IT'S HOME--The home of Gopher Women's Hockey is Mariucci Arena (9,700). One of
the finest college hockey facilities in the country, Mariucci Arena will be
Minnesota's home until the new women's hockey facility, scheduled to open in the
fall of 2000, is completed.
Known as one of the toughest arenas in the nation on visiting teams, the
Gophers are 12-3-4 in the five-year old building.
ON THE AIR--A pair of Gopher games will be aired live by Midwest Sports Channel
this season.
The first telecast was Minnesota's clash with Harvard, a 3-1 Crimson win, Nov.
5, in the opening game of the All-American East-West Challenge.
The second will be part of a doubleheader with the Minnesota men's team on Feb.
20. The women's game gets underway at 2:30 p.m. as the Gophers take on
Providence, to be followed by the men's clash with St. Cloud State at 7:05 p.m.
Veteran broadcaster Frank Mazzocco will handle play-by-play duties while former
Minnesota North Star Tom Reid does the color commentary.
ON THE AIR, PART II--Eight Gopher games will be carried by KKMS-980 AM radio
this season, beginning Nov. 27 with the Princeton Thanksgiving Invitational.
KKMS will broadcast the Friday and Saturday games from Princeton's Hobey Baker
Rink and will also carry Minnesota's Jan. 29-30 games from the Towse Center at
the University of New Hampshire Invitational.
Additionally, KKMS will carry four home games: Feb. 5 versus Cornell; Feb. 7
versus Minnesota State, Mankato; Feb. 21 versus Providence; and Feb. 26 versus
Brown. Pete Wagner will call the play-by-play from Princeton while Tom Witchen
will handle the remaining six games.
TOUGH SCHEDULE--Of the nine other teams ranked in the U.S. College Hockey Online
preseason poll, the Gophers will face eight of them for a total of 12 games
during the 1998-99 season.
In addition to those 12 games, Minnesota will face defending Canadian
Interuniversity Athletic Union champion Concordia twice, and 1998 CIAU runner-up
Toronto once.
GONE POLLING--Minnesota maintained its fifth place position in this week's U.S.
College Hockey Online poll. New Hampshire held on to the to spot with Harvard
and Brown switching positions two and three.
Team (1st Place Votes) Record Pts LW
1. New Hampshire (7) 3-0-1 95 1
2. Brown (2) 1-0-1 87 3
3. Harvard (1) 3-1-0 85 2
4. Northeastern 0-0-2 68 4
5. Minnesota 2-1-1 65 5
6. Princeton 4-0-0 44 NR
7. Providence 0-1-1 31 7
8. Cornell 3-1-1 26 6
Also receiving votes: Dartmouth 19.
UP NEXT--Minnesota takes to the road Thanksgiving weekend as it looks to defend
its title at the Princeton Thanksgiving Invitational, Nov. 27-29, in Princeton,
N.J.
The Gophers open play in the round-robin event facing Northeastern at 4 p.m.
CST, Nov. 27. Minnesota takes on host Princeton at 4 p.m., Nov. 28, and
concludes the tournament with a 10:30 a.m. match-up, Nov. 29, with Queens.
THE POWER PLAY--As a team, Minnesota is 5-for-24 (20.8%) after a 2-for-5 weekend
on the power play. The Gophers 24 power plays have resulted in 38:54 of
power-play time and they average a goal every 7:47 while on the power play. Here
are the individual power-play numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Nadine Muzerall 5 2 1 3 7 .286
Brittny Ralph 5 1 2 3 7 .167
Kris Scholz 5 0 2 2 2 .000
Matty Brekken 5 0 2 2 2 .000
Amber Hegland 5 1 0 1 2 .500
Laura Slominski 4 1 0 1 1 1.000
Jenny Schmidgall 4 0 1 1 5 .000
Shannon Kennedy 5 0 1 1 3 .000
Courtney Kennedy 4 0 0 0 3 .000
Winny Brodt 4 0 0 0 3 .000
Ambria Thomas 3 0 0 0 1 .000
Angela Borek 5 0 0 0 2 .000
Kelly Olson 2 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 5 5 9 14 39 .120
Opponents 5 2 4 6 20 .100
THE PENALTY-KILL--As a team, Minnesota is 13-for-15 (86.7%) killing penalties
with their opponents having spent 26:53 on the power play, averaging a goal
every 13:27. Here are the individual penalty-kill numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Nadine Muzerall 5 2 0 2 3 .667
Matty Brekken 5 0 0 0 1 .000
Shannon Kennedy 5 0 0 0 1 .000
Winny Brodt 4 0 0 0 1 .000
Kelly Olson 2 0 0 0 1 .000
Brittny Ralph 5 0 0 0 1 .000
Emily Buchholz 5 0 0 0 1 .000
Laura Slominski 4 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 5 2 0 2 10 .200
Opponents 5 0 0 0 0 .000
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Craig Roberts, University of Minnesota
Assistant Sports Information Director
Check out the Gophers on the Web at http://www.gophersports.com
Or call the Diet Coke Gopher Sports Hotline at (612) 626-STAT
GO GOPHERS!
Women's National Collegiate Ice Hockey Stats are at:
www.gophersports.com/sportsNews/press_release.asp?news_id=273
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