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Thursday, April 5, 2007
Team USA Earns 9-1 Victory Over China
in WWC
U.S. Womens National Team Advances to
Top Playoff Round
SELKIRK, Man. Behind goals from seven
different players, the U.S. Womens National Team skated to a 9-1 victory
over China in its second and final preliminary-round game of the 2007
International Ice Hockey Federation Womens World Championship at the
Selkirk Recreation Complex tonight. With the win, Team USA clinched the
top spot in Group 1 and advanced to the top playoff round, where the
Americans will face Canada on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. CDT at the MTS Centre
in Winnipeg.
I like the way we started again
tonight, said Mark Johnson, head coach of Team USA. We established the pace and
converted on a few of our opportunities. The team competed and played hard
and we look forward to Saturdays game against Canada.
Natalie Darwitz (Eagan, Minn.) accounted for four U.S. points on two goals
and two assists, while five other players had multi-point nights,
including Krissy Wendell (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), who notched a goal and a pair of
helpers.
Team USA jumped out to an early lead,
lighting the lamp just 27 seconds into the game, then adding another pair
of goals in the following 3:35.
Kristin King (Piqua, Ohio) was first to score for the Americans,
slipping a backhander past Chinese goaltender Yao Shi at the :27 mark.
U.S. captain Wendell knocked in her second goal of the tournament at 1:26
after taking a pass across the goalmouth from Darwitz.
The United States converted on its
third straight power-play attempt (dating back to Tuesdays game against
Kazakhstan) at 4:02 when Caitlin
Cahow (Branford, Conn.) took a slap shot
from the right point to put Team USA up 3-0.
The teams traded goals before the
period was over for a 4-1 score at the end of the first frame. Rui Sun put
China on the board with a shorthanded breakaway tally at 12: 10.
Erika Lawler (Fitchburg, Mass.) then tipped in a Darwitz rebound at
16:51.
After a slower start to the second
stanza, Team USA scored three times in the second half of the period,
including twice on the power play, for a 7-1 advantage.
Sarah Parsons
(Dover, Mass.) potted her third goal of the world championship at 10:18,
putting a one-timer just inside the near post from the left faceoff circle
during a U.S. power play. Again with the man advantage at 11:31,
Molly Engstrom (Siren, Wis.) slapped in a one-timer from the top of the
slot as Team USA went up 6-1.
Darwitz closed out the second-period
scoring at 15:54 when she tipped in Angela
Ruggieros (Harper Woods, Mich.) rebound in front
of the net.
The final frame saw another pair of
U.S. goals, first a shorthander from Darwitz at 14:49, then a tally from
Jinelle Zaugg (Eagle River, Wis.) at 16:11.
Team USA was 3-for-5 with the man
advantage, while China was 0-for-5 on the power play.
NOTES: Cahow
was named the U.S. Player of the Game ... For the second straight game, 12
of the 18 U.S. skaters factored in the scoring ... The United States
outshot China 65-14, including a 27-5 margin in the first period ... Team
USA is now 5-for-7 (.714) overall on the power play and is a perfect
7-for-7 on the penalty kill ... Team USA has won one gold medal and eight
silvers in the nine previous IIHF Womens World Championships
Hilary Witt, head
womens ice hockey coach at Yale University, and Erin Whitten Hamlen, associate head
womens ice hockey coach at the University of New Hampshire, are serving
as assistant coaches for Team USA.
GAME SUMMARY
Scoring By Period
USA 4-3-2 -- 9
CHN 1-0-0 -- 0
First Period Scoring: 1, USA, King
(Parsons), :27; 2, USA, Wendell (Darwitz), 1:26; 3, USA, Cahow (Chu), 4:02
(pp); 4, CHN, Sun (unassisted), 12:10 (sh); 5, USA, Lawler (Darwitz),
16:51. Penalties: CHN, Qi (hooking), 3:01; USA, Marvin (hooking), 7:29;
CHN, Tan (interference), 12:00; USA, Parsons (tripping), 18:01.
Second Period Scoring: 6, USA,
Parsons (Chu, Cahow), 10:18 (pp); 7, USA, Engstrom (Wendell), 11:31 (pp);
8, USA, Darwitz (Ruggiero, Lawler), 15:54. Penalties: CHN, Jin (slashing),
3:37; CHN, Wang (tripping), 9: 26; CHN, Tan (cross checking), 10:55; USA,
Wendell (hooking), 19:19.
Third Period Scoring: 9, USA,
Darwitz (Wendell), 14:49 (sh); 10, USA, Zaugg (Resor, Marvin), 16:11.
Penalties: USA, Team (too many players on the ice), 1: 52; USA, Weiland
(roughing), 14:02.
Shots By Period 1
2 3 Total
USA
27 20 18 65
CHN
5 3 6
14
Goaltending (SH-SV)
1 2 3
Total
USA, Gunn 60:00
5-4 3-3 6-6
14-13
CHN, Shi, 60:00
27-23 20-17 18-16 65-56
Power Play: USA 3-5; CHN 0-5
Penalties: USA 5-10; CHN 5-10
Officials: Referee-Arina Ustinova;
Linesmen-Heather Richardson, Ilse Robben
Team USA 2007 IIHF Womens World
Championship Schedule
April 3-10 Winnipeg & Selkirk,
Man.
Date
Opponent
Location
Time (CDT)/Result
March 30 Sweden (ex.)
Grand Forks, N.D. W, 7-1
April 1 Sweden (ex.)
Warroad, Minn.
W, 5-0
April 3 Kazakhstan
Selkirk
W, 9-0
April 5 China
Selkirk
W, 9-1
April 7 Playoff Round
Winnipeg
TBA
April 8 Playoff Round
Winnipeg
TBA
April 10 Bronze-Medal Game
Winnipeg 3:30 p.m.
Gold-Medal Game Winnipeg
7:30 p.m.
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