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Women-in-Hockey Digest Tuesday, February 9 1999 Volume 01 : Number 367
In this issue:
1999 Ontario Senior AAA Provincial Results (COWHL)
Bowdoin camp not in N.H.
MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
FW: Women's Hockey Coverage
Results from Ont. Provincials??
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:58:47 -0500
From: Andria Hunter
Subject: 1999 Ontario Senior AAA Provincial Results (COWHL)
The North York Aeros defeated the Mississauga Chiefs by a score of 4-2
in the final game of the 1999 Senior AAA Ontario Provincial
Championship, hosted by Mississauga from February 3-7 1999. As a
result, the Aeros will represent Ontario at the 1999 Esso Canadian
National Championship hosted by Mississauga, Ontario from March 25-28,
1999.
The 2nd and 3rd placed team from this championship will represent
Ontario at the 1999 Central Canadian Championship. This is a
Championship that features two teams from Ontario and two from Quebec.
Final Placings:
1. North York Aeros
2. Mississauga Chiefs
3. Brampton Thunder
4. NCCP Raiders
5. Scarborough Sting
Here are the results of all games. The format of the competiton was a
round robin series between five teams, with the top four teams
advancing to the semi-finals.
Wednesday Feb 3:
6pm : Mississauga 3 vs Brampton 4
7pm : North York 6 vs Scarborough 0
Thursday Feb 4:
7pm : Mississauga 1 vs North York 1
9pm : NCCP 2 vs Brampton 3
Friday Feb 5:
9am : Brampton 5 vs Scarborough 0
11am : North York 4 vs NCCP 0
3pm : Scarborough 0 vs Mississauga 4
7pm : Brampton 0 vs North York 5
9pm : NCCP 0 vs Mississauga 0
Saturday Feb 6:
11am : Scarborough 0 vs NCCP 1
(Semi-finals)
7pm : (4th) NCCP Ottawa 1 vs (1st) Aeros 3
9pm : (3rd) Mississauga 3 vs (2nd) Brampton 2
Sunday Feb 7:
(Bronze Medal Final)
1pm : Brampton 1 vs NCCP 0
(Gold Medal Final)
3pm : Mississauga 2 vs North York 4
I have put this information on my Ontario Provincial Championship
web page at:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andria/prov/on/provincials/
For more information about the COWHL, please see:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andria/cowhl/
The COWHL has just changed the name of the league. I forget what it
is exactly, but I think it's something like the National Women's Hockey
League (NWHL). I'll post again to the list once I know the name for
sure.
Andria Hunter
P.S. I played for the Mississauga Chiefs. We have been the number three
team all season, so we were really excited to make it to the
gold medal championship game!
Too bad the CHA isn't allowing a host team at the Nationals this
year ... since Mississauga is hosting the Esso Nationals and thus
we would qualify. Does anyone know more about this? Can someone
from the CHA answer this? The CHA has always allowed a host team
at the Nationals, but for some reason they have decided not to this
year. Needless to say, this is very disappointing for us. :-(
It is very difficult to attend the Nationals if you are from
Ontario because the Aeros are a very strong team that almost
always wins the provincial championship and thus represents
Ontario (I've played in the COWHL since 1990, and there was only
one year that the Aeros didn't win the Provincials). So if a host
team was allowed this year, it would finally give another team in
Ontario a chance to compete at the Canadian Nationals...
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:34:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Diana M Dexter
Subject: Bowdoin camp not in N.H.
Someone recently posted an announcement for a hockey camp a Bowdoin
College in New Hampshire. Bowdoin is NOT in New Hampshire. It's in
Brunswick Maine.
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:59:10 -0600
From: "Craig Roberts"
Subject: MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
THIS WEEK--Minnesota is on the road for the final time this season as they
travel to Augsburg and Minnesota State, Mankato for a pair of games.
The Gophers cross the Mississippi to play intracity rival Augsbug at 7:05 p.m.
Saturday and then head south for their fourth meeting with the Mavericks,
beginning at 4:05 p.m. Sunday.
MINNESOTA RECENTLY--The fourth-ranked Gophers got back on the winning track with
a trio of victories at home over the weekend, taking a two-game series from
Cornell, 5-1 and 6-0, Friday and Saturday before downing MSU, Mankato 4-0
Sunday.
Friday night, Minnesota scored four times in the second period, including three
power-play goals, to snap a scoreless tie and go on to a 6-1 win.
Ending an 0-for-20 streak on the power play, the Gophers got on the board when
Emily Buchholz (Waupun, Wis./Waupun) scored on a shot from the top of the left
circle.
Minnesota got a 5-on-3 opportunity later in the period and capitalized when
Jenny Schmidgall (Edina, Minn./Edina) scored her 27th goal of the season at
13:22 and Ambria Thomas (Fairbanks, Alaska/West Valley) added her eighth a
minute later.
Courtney Kennedy (Woburn, Mass./Buckingham, Browne & Nichols) scored an
even-strength goal with 2:50 left to give the Gophers a 4-0 lead after a second
period in which they outshot the Big Red 19-3.
Laura Slominski (Burnsville, Minn./Burnsville) made it 5-0 at 12:05 of the final
period and, after CornellÍs Jenel Bode scored to avert the shutout at 16:01,
Kris Scholz (Hugo, Minn./Stillwater Area) closed out the scoring with 2:02 to
play.
Minnesota held a 40-15 advantage in shots on goal with Erica Killewald (Troy,
Mich./Troy) stopping 14 shots for her 12th win of the season.
The Gophers got off to a slow start again Saturday but got on the board when
Shannon Kennedy (Woburn, Mass./Buckingham, Browne & Nichols) put home a rebound
for her sixth goal of the season at 17:50 of the opening period.
Minnesota had a 24-7 advantage in shots on goal in the second period but managed
just two goals as Buchholz scored from the top of the left circle at 5:56 and
Winny Brodt (Roseville, Minn./Roseville Area) finished off a 2-on-1, scoring
with 4.5 seconds left in the period.
Cornell turned the tables on the Gophers in the final period, outshooting their
hosts 18-7, including nine power-play shots, but Killewald withstood the
onslaught and Schmidgall and Brittny Ralph (Brooklyn Center, Minn./Brooklyn
Center) tallied power-play goals for the Gophers to complete the teamÍs 20th
victory of the season.
Killewald posted her fifth shutout of the season by stopping 33 shots for
Minnesota, which outshot the Big Red 42-33.
Sunday afternoon the Gophers struggled through a lackluster opening 20 minutes
once again but Thomas scored with 42 seconds left in the first period.
Minnesota's remaining three goals came in a burst of 2:30 during the second
period. Shannon Kennedy tallied at 7:07, Schmidgall scored at 8:36 and Amber
Hegland (Farmington, Minn./Farmington) rounded out the three-goal spree at 9:37.
Crystal Nicholas (Tulsa, Okla./Union) recorded her fifth shutout of the season,
and the teamÍs 10th, by stopping 14 shots.
AUGSBURG RECENTLY--The Auggies clinched a share of the Minnesota Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference title with a 4-2 win over St. Benedict Friday but dropped a
4-0 decision at St. Mary's Saturday.
Augsburg jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead Friday as Angie Rieger and Erica Johnson
scored 16 seconds apart in the game's first three minutes. Rieger, Stephanie
Johnson and Erica Johnson each had a goal and an assist in the victory while Meg
Schmidt stopped 28 of 30 shots for her ninth win of the season.
Saturday, the Auggies lost their bid to clinch the MIAC title outright and go
unbeaten in league play as they were shutout despite holding a 30-25 edge in
shots on goal.
Augsburg head coach Jill Pohtilla is in her fourth season guiding the Auggies. A
1987 graduate of Minnesota, she boasts a record of 61-30-4.
MSU, MANKATO RECENTLY„The Mavericks had a season-best four-game winning streak
snapped in Sunday's 4-0 loss to the Gophers. MSU, Mankato goalie Jenny Padget
kept her team in the game by stopping 41 shots.
Head coach Todd Carroll is in his first season as a head coach after spending
nine years as a menÍs assistant. A 1986 graduate of St. Olaf, he spent two years
as a graduate assistant at St. Cloud State before returning to his alma mater,
where he spent seven seasons before accepting his current position last year.
Carroll currently sports a 10-12-0 record.
HITTING 100--Minnesota head coach Laura Halldorson earned her 100th career
victory with Saturday's 5-0 win over Cornell.
The victory gives Halldorson 100-84-14 career mark, a winning percentage of .540
during her nine-year career. In her second season at Minnesota, she now sports a
41-9-5 record for an impressive .791 winning percentage.
HANGING THE COLLAR--In just over a month, goalie Erica Killewald has put
together the best stretch of her career, posting a 7-1-1 record, including five
shutouts, along with a 1.18 goals against average and a .952 save percentage.
Included in that was a shutout streak of 201:24, including shutout wins over
1998 Canadian national champion Concordia and defending American WomenÍs College
Hockey Alliance champion New Hamsphire on back-to-back nights.
This past weekend, she was 4:59 away from shutting out Cornell Friday before the
Big Red got on the board and she then stopped 33 shots Saturday to collect her
fifth shutout in 23 days.
MORE IN THE MIDDLE--The most valuable player at last year's AWCHA National
Championship, Winny Brodt established herself as one of the nationÍs top players
on defense.
However, when the Gophers needed another center after the quarter break in
December, the smooth-skating Brodt was moved up and has flourished at her new
position.
In 12 games since making the transition, she is second on the team with 20
points, including a team-best 17 assists during that time. She has also posted a
plus/minus rating of +18 in those 12 games and now leads the team for the season
with a +43.
TAKING A BREAK--When the U.S. Women's National Team heads to Finland, for the
World Championships, March 8-14, Jenny Schmidgall will be accompanying them.
Schmidgall will miss the Midwest Showdown, March 7th and 12th, but will be
available should the Gophers be invited to the American Women's College Hockey
Alliance championship, March 26-27.
This will be Schmidgall's second tour of duty with the national squad. Last
year, she was a member of the team that claimed the gold medal at the Winter
Olympics. She scored two goals and five points at the Olympic games and tallied
nine goals and 21 points in 30 games for the season.
REPRESENTING THEIR COUNTRY--First-year center Jenny Schmidgall and sophomore
center Winny Brodt played for the U.S. Women's Select Team at the Three Nations
Cup in Finland, Dec. 10-15.
Canada grabbed a 2-1 win over the United States, Dec. 10, in the tourney opener,
but the U.S. rebounded the next day with a 3-2 win over Finland as Schmidgall
assisted on the game-tying goal and then scored the game-winner 56 seconds into
the third period.
After a two-day respite, the U.S. again fell to Canada, Dec. 14, 4-3 in a
shootout before closing out play with a 4-3 win over Finland.
Schmidgall, who played in the 1998 Olympics, and Brodt, a member of the 1996
U.S. Women's Select Team, were chosen from the USA Hockey Women's Festival for
the national team and were joined by Gopher head coach Laura Halldorson, who
served as the team's assistant coach.
NATURAL BORN KILLERS--Minnesota has raised its penalty-killing efficiency to
92.0 percent on the season.
The Gophers extended their streak of not allowing a power-play goal to nine
games over the weekend and have now killed 33 consecutive power plays.
NATIONAL STATISTICS--Minnesota was ranked highly in a number of team
statistical categories last week, as were several Gopher players.
Total points„1. Jenny Schmidgall, 54; 5. Nadine Muzerall, 37; t12. Kris Scholz,
32. Points per game„3. Schmidgall, 2.70; 6. Muzerall, 1.85; 15. Scholz, 1.45.
Totals goals„1. Schmidgall, 26; 3. Muzerall, 21; t16. Amber Hegland, 13. Goals
per game„2. Schmidgall, 1.30; t3. Muzerall, 1.05. Total assists„2. Schmidgall,
28; t4. Scholz, 20; t13. Winny Brodt, 17; t16. Slominski, Muzerall, 16. Assists
per game„3. Schmidgall, 1.40; 10. Scholz, 0.91; 13. Brodt, 0.85; t18. Slominski,
Muzerall, 0.80. Power-play goals„t2. Schmidgall, Muzerall, 7; t20. Scholz,
Courtney Kennedy 3. Short-handed goals„t2. Muzerall, 2. Game-winning goals„t1.
Muzerall, 5; t17. Schmidgall, S. Kennedy, 2, Emily Buchholz 2.
Goals against average„1. Crystal Nicholas, 1.18; 5. Erica Killewald, 1.37. Save
percentage„t1. Killewald, .942. Winning percentage„1. Nicholas, 1.000; 4.
Killewald, .800. Shutouts„t2. Nicholas, Killewald, 4.
Scoring offense„2nd, 6.05. Scoring defense„3rd, 1.36. Scoring margin„2nd, +4.68.
Power play„2nd, 31.0%. Penalty kill„3rd, 90.8%.
THE SERIES--The Gophers are 3-0-0 against both of this weekend's opponents,
having taken three games from Augsburg last season while winning all three games
against MSU, Mankato this season.
Minnesota is 2-0-0 at home against the Auggies and won the only meeting between
the two schools at Augsburg Arena, Feb. 6, 1998, by a 9-2 count.
Likewise, the Gophers will play the Mavericks on the road for the second time.
In their first meeting in Mankato, Minnesota opened this season up with an 11-1
win, Oct. 30.
WHEN LAST WE MET--Minnesota's last meeting with Augsburg was March 8, 1998, in
the Midwest Showdown at Mariucci Arean, a game which the Gophers won 10-2 behind
a career-best four-assist, five-point effort by Ambria Thomas.
The Gophers defeated MSU, Mankato 4-0 this past Sunday in the teams' most recent
meeting. Minnesota had a 45-14 advantage in shots on goal and were led by Thomas
with a goal and an assist.
THE COACH--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 a 101-84-14 overall record
and a 42-9-5 mark at Minnesota.
She began her head 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 and also served as an assistant for the
U.S. Women's Select team that competed 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.
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 womenÍs 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 20-3-4 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, 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.
KKMS broadcast the Nov. 27-28 games from Princeton's Hobey Baker Rink at the
Princeton Thanksgiving Invitational and also carried the Concordia and New
Hampshire games, Jan. 29-30, during the Citizens Bank Border Battle at the
Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H.
The KKMS schedule also includes four home games, including this past weekend's
games againsts Cornell (Friday) and MSU, Mankato. The remaining schedule
includes: Providence, Feb. 21; and Brown, Feb. 26.
Tom Witschen will call all of the play-by-play action with former Gopher
volleyball standout Sarah Pearman handling the color commentary.
BONUS COVERAGE--Saturday's game with Augsburg will also be carried live as part
of the Auggies' radio package with KKMS. Rick Benson will call the play-by-play
for that game.
GONE POLLING--Minnesota maintained its position in both the U.S. College Hockey
Online and American Hockey Magazine/USA Today polls last week. Harvard remained
in the top spot in both polls.
U.S. College Hockey Online Poll (Feb. 1, 1999)
Team (1st Place Votes) Record Pts LW
1. Harvard (10) 16-1-0 100 1
2. New Hampshire 14-3-5 88 2
3. Minnesota 8-1-2 81 3
4. Brown 12-2-3 71 4
5. Providence 12-4-2 60 6
6. Northeastern 12-4-2 45 7
7. Dartmouth 10-6-4 35 8
8. Princeton 11-6-1 32 5
Others receiving votes: Cornell 8.
USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll (Feb. 2, 1999)
Team (1st Place Votes) Record Pts LW
1. Harvard (5) 16-1-0 25 1
2. New Hampshire 14-2-5 20 2
3. Brown 12-2-3 13 3
4. Minnesota 18-2-2 12 4
5. Providence 14-5-2 4 NR
Others receiving votes: Princeton 1.
UP NEXT--The Gophers return home to begin a key four-game homestand next
Saturday and Sunday when they will host Providence.
Saturday's game, which will be carried live on Midwest Sports Channel, is slated
for a 2:35 p.m. faceoff with Saturday's game, broadcast on KKMS-980 AM, set to
get underway at 1:05 p.m.
THE POWER PLAY--As a team, Minnesota is 31-for-93 (33.3%) on the power play,
including its 5-for-9 performance over the weekend. The Gophers' 93 power plays
have resulted in 137:49 of power-play time and they average a goal every 4:27
while on the power play. Here are the individual power-play numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Jenny Schmidgall 23 9 10 19 32 .281
Kris Scholz 25 3 12 15 10 .300
Nadine Muzerall 22 7 4 11 25 .280
Emily Buchholz 24 3 5 8 11 .273
Courtney Kennedy 23 3 4 7 18 .167
Winny Brodt 23 1 6 7 9 .111
Brittny Ralph 24 2 4 6 22 .091
Ambria Thomas 22 1 2 3 7 .143
Laura Slominski 24 1 2 3 6 .167
Shannon Kennedy 23 0 3 3 4 .000
Amber Hegland 25 1 1 2 4 .250
Matty Brekken 9 0 2 2 2 .000
Tai Thorsheim 24 0 1 1 0 .000
Tracy Engstrom 22 0 0 0 9 .000
Angela Borek 24 0 0 0 2 .000
Kelly Olson 20 0 0 0 1 .000
Megan Milbert 15 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 25 31 56 87 163 .190
Opponents 25 7 12 19 101 .069
THE PENALTY KILL--As a team, Minnesota is 80-for-87 (92.0%) killing penalties,
after going 11-for-11 on the weekend, with their opponents having spent 140:59
on the power play, averaging a goal every 20:08. Here are the individual
penalty-kill numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Nadine Muzerall 22 2 0 2 5 .400
Jenny Schmidgall 23 1 0 1 6 .167
Brittny Ralph 24 1 0 1 2 .000
Courtney Kennedy 23 0 1 1 1 .000
Tracy Engstrom 22 0 1 1 0 .000
Shannon Kennedy 23 0 0 0 3 .000
Laura Slominski 24 0 0 0 3 .000
Ambria Thomas 22 0 0 0 3 .000
Kris Scholz 25 0 0 0 1 .000
Emily Buchholz 24 0 0 0 1 .000
Tai Thorsheim 24 0 0 0 1 .000
Winny Brodt 23 0 0 0 1 .000
Matty Brekken 9 0 0 0 1 .000
Kelly Olson 20 0 0 0 1 .000
Megan Milbert 15 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 25 4 2 6 30 .133
Opponents 25 1 1 2 7 .143
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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!
For women's college hockey statistics go to:
http://www.gophersports.com/sportsNews/press_release.asp?news_id=273
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:29:29 -0800
From: "Phil & Debbie Cottrell"
Subject: FW: Women's Hockey Coverage
This is in response to an e-mail I sent thanking TSN for the upcoming
Canada/USA game on March 1:
Dear Phil & Debbie:
Thanks for your e-mail.
TSN is proud to bring women's hockey to Canadians from coast to coast.
You may also be interested in more of our extensive women's hockey coverage:
CIAU Women's Hockey Final from Toronto, ON - Feb. 28, 8 p.m. Eastern time
TSN Challenge - Canada vs. USA, March 1, 6:55 p.m. Eastern time
1999 Women's World Hockey Championships Semi-Final - March 13, 7 a.m.
Eastern time
1999 Women's World Hockey Championships Final - March 14, 11 a.m. Eastern
time
Women's National Hockey Championship - March 28, 7:30 p.m. Eastern time
Please note all time are Eastern and subject to change.
Thank you very much for the supportive and encouraging words.
Thanks for taking the time to write to TSN and take care. And keep
watching!
Chris
See it. Live it. TSN
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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:26:05 -0500
From: "Emily Dawn Elliott"
Subject: Results from Ont. Provincials??
Does anyone have any information regarging who won senior provincials this
weekend?
I know St. Catharines Jets won the Sr. A division...
Anyone?
Dawn
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