by Janet Schultz, NYHOL
Well it looks like snow was the winner this week with several games postponed.
The HEWS vs MonMar game has been moved to February 4 at 3:30 at the North Town Center; KGIPort will play LIDA at Holiday on February 3 at 3:30 p.m. MonMar will travel to Williamsville on January 27 at 4:30 p.m. and FOP will host HEWS at the Nike Arena on January 29 at 4:30 p.m.
CASH remains in first place with a 10-2 record in 12 games and 30 points. Behind them are LIDA and St. Mary’s with 24 points each followed by KGIPort, FOP, HEWC, Williamsville, MonMar and NICO.
Leah Dowling of LIDA still heads the leader board in scoring with 17 goals and 14 assists for 31 points. Closely behind her and all sitting in second place are Peyton Forcucci (LIDA) with 13 goals/13 assists, Sabrina Basamania (LIDA) 9 goals/17 assists and Teagan Willates (KGIP) with 12 goals and 14 assists.
In goal CASH’s Ella Celej heads the netminders with 278 saves on 297 shots with a .936 save percentage and 539.42 minutes in net. Betsy Accurso has had three shutouts for St. Mary’s and Lila Jones has spent the most time between the pipes for NICO with 549.95 minutes.
With no games on Monday and Tuesday we headed right to Wednesday with St., Mary’s beating Monsignor Martin 2-1. This was a game originally scheduled for January 15. Lily Sampson had the only goal for MonMar, unassisted and Grace Elliott served in goal stopping 46 or 48 shots. For St. Mary’s it was Meghan Donnelly with assists from Tessa Kwiatowski and Shea Hall and the game winner came off the stick of Lauren Gilano, assisted by Olivia Salamone and Brooklyn Vitez. Betsy Accurso stopped 13 of 14 shots for the shut-out win.
FOP took Williamsville 10-0 with Keira Keatan stopping 8 shots for the “W.” Hannah Favata has returned to FOP and scored an unassisted goal. Others scorers included Peyton Forcucci with two plus assisted her sister on a goal; Kayli Tefft has two goals, Chloe Gearhart had two goals and an assist, Sabrina Basamania dropped in a power-play goal plus two assists, and Brooklyn Forcucci had two goals and to assists. Assists also went to Lila Bell, Jocelyn Smaczniak, Elizabeth Hollander, and Kamryn Filighera. In other words, the whole team worked together for this win. Williamsville’s Anna Bacon faced 32 shots.
The weather didn’t stop CASH and LIDA from facing off at Riverworks with CASH skating away with a 5-3 victory. CASH’s Captain Jenny Wild had an outstanding evening with four goals–the game winner, two unassisted and an empty netter. Cece Watson had the fifth goal of the game. Assists went to Kiley Breeze, Emma Elnicky (2) and Ventura. For LIDA it was Dowling, assisted by Caitlin Sinclair and Brynn Cafferty; Lucia Lawrence assisted by Sinclair and Dowling and Cafferty, assisted by Dowling and Hailey Muff. Celej was in net for CASH and Iris Schimenti for LIDA. Celej stopped 37 of 40 and Schimenti, 14 of 15.
KenGiPort beat NICO 9-1 at Cornerstone Arena with Ella MacKey getting the goal for NICO and Goalie Jones facing 46 shots. KenGiPort’s scorers included Madelyn Princess (2), Erin Krawczyk (2)(the game winner), Sheridan Jagow, Kiley Burke, Maddie Jagow, Willats, and MacKenzie Kumrow. Assists came from Allyson Wager, Savannah Shaft, M. Jagow, Willats, Kumrow and Demery Colwell. Hadley Dahlgren stopped 11/12 for the “W.”
Thursday night was supposed to see all nine teams on the ice with Webster coming in to make the tenth team, a historical first. But Mother Nature had a hand in that and the HEWS/FOP and Webster/St. Mary’s games had to be postponed due to weather. Webster traveled to Paddock to play KenGiPort so St. Mary’s could play NICO, a game rescheduled from December 16 and January 15.
Webster beat KenGiPort in a non-league matchup, 3-0. Smith had two goals for Webster, including the game-winner and Nappi had the third. Wambach made a 11 goal save for the SO victory. In goal for KenGiPort Johnston stopped 20 of 23.
MonMar lost 5-2 to CASH at Northtown with Avery McDonald and Lilly Sampson scoring, Sampson’s was a short-handed, unassisted goal and McDonald’s was unassisted. Kate Kelley stopped 21 of 26. Celej stopped 12/14 for the win with Addie Bizub scoring first, assisted by her sister Penny. Then it was Wild unassisted; a second goal, the game-winner, unassisted, Polina Streiakova, assisted by both Bizubs and Elnick, assisted by Mila Dominik and Gabby Lindell.
St. Mary’s beat NICO. No stats have been provided.
The final game of the week was LIDA playing Williamsville in a rescheduled game from January 15. LIDA beat Williamsville 9-4. Scoring for LIDA were Lawrence, Dowling Hauser and Sinclair. Dowling had four goals, Hauser had a hattrick. Assists went to Emily Lysiak, Claire Whiteford, Alivia Sparfeld, Caitlin Sinclair, Emily Rodriguez and Lucia Lawrence, as well as Dowling. Schimenti stopped 11/15 for the win. For Williamsville it was Madailein Schmidt, assisted by Scarlet Canna and Jaylee Kochan getting on the board first; then Kochan, assisted by Canna for the second goal; Alison Besancon had a power-play goal, assisted by Alena Lombardo and Lombardo had Williamsville’s final goal, assisted by Megan Loretz and Genevieve Illios. Bacon faced 44 shots on goal.
Snow is in the forecast for the coming week as well. All Monday, January 26 games have been postponed due to travel conditions and snow, as of this writing.
These games have been added to the end of the schedule as make-up dates:
Mon. Feb. 2, 3:30 p.m. KenGiPort at LIDA at Holiday
Wed. Feb. 4, 3:30 p.m. MonMar at HEWS at Northtowns
Thur. Feb. 5, 3:30 p.m. HEWS at NICO at Paddock
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