Mother Nature stepped in again to postpone all the Monday, January 29 games. However, Tuesday morning looked better and our players headed to the rink.
Four games were held Tuesday including St. Mary’s at HEWS, played at Northtown Arena, a make-up game from January 26; FOP headed to Niagara County, Monsignor Martin played Williamsville, another make-up game; and LIDA headed to Paddock to play KenGiPort.
NYHOL headed to Northtown for the St. Mary’s of Lancaster/HEWS game. HEWS beat the Lancers 6-3 with Ella Buczynski stopped 26 of 29 for the Win. Scoring for HEWS were Morgan Cooper, Sophia Phillips, Brynn Holland, Meghan Waskielewicz, Allie Schmirl, and Clare Sokolowski. Assists were credited to Holland, Kelsey Barrett, Phillips, Sokolowski, Mackenzie Benker, Brooke Vetter and Waskielewicz. For St. Mary’s Avery Szczesek had two goals, both unassisted and one was short-handed while Meghan Donnelly got on the board first, assisted by Sophia Quinn and Brooklyn Vitez. Betsy Accurso was in net stopping 14 of 20.
Then we dropped into the Monsignor Martin at Williamsville game. A close game that ended with MonMar taking a 3-2 victory. Both Williamsville’s goal came in the first period, one by Alena Lombardo and the second by Alison Besancon. St. Mary’s answered both of those by adding two goals before the end of the first. One by Kate Embler and the second, unassisted, by Lilly Sampson. Sampson got an assisted on the Embler goal.
MonMar added one goal in the second, by Avery McDonald, assisted by Claire Kloetzer. The third period recorded only penalties and no goals giving MonMar the 3-2 victory. In goal Kate Kelley stopped 17 or 19 for the W. Anna Bacon kept St. Mary’s out of the net 40 times on 43 shots.
A short trip over to Paddock for the LIDA at KenGiPort game and a celebration of KenGiPort’s seniors. LIDA got on the boards first with 42 seconds left in the first period when Mia Hauser was assisted by Emily Lysiak and Claire Whiteford. The first ends with LIDA leading 1-0. Second period was KenGiPort’s Madelyn Jagow scoring, unassisted and LIDA’s Cafferty, also unassisted and that period ends in favor of LIDA. However in the third Sheridan Jagow, unassisted, ties the game and it ends 2-2. No scoring in overtime and the game ends in a tie. Ella Johnston, in goal for KenGiPort, stopped 30 of 32 and Iris Schimenti for LIDA stopped 31 of 33.
FOP headed to Dwyer and beat NICO 6-2. NICO’s Sam Latini had both goals for NICO, the second assisted by Ashley Mainstone. Lila Jones stopped 29 of 35 shots. For FOP it was Kamryn Filighera with an unassisted in the first period; Peyton Forcucci and Hannah Favata, both goals unassisted in the second and Peyton Forcucci had two more goal in the third for a hattrick, one was unassisted and the other assisted by Jocelyn Smaczniak and Sabrina Basamania. Evelyn Costanzo had a goal, assisted by Marinn Amplement and Kayli Tefft. Rachael Fix stopped 15 of 17 for the W.
LIDA took a 4-0 victory from Monsignor Martin on Wednesday with Dowling, Lysiak, Hauser (2) having goals, Schimenti stopped 9 shots for the shutout win. Kate Kelly stopped 38 of 42 for MonMar.
On Wednesday there were three games, two rescheduled from postponements.
FOP and CASH ended their game in a 2-2 tie. Scoring for FOP was Gearhart, assisted by Basamania; Brooklyn Forcucci on the powerplay and assisted by sister Peyton and Smaczniak. Fix was in goal stopping 19 of 21. For CASH it was Lyla Kinney, assisted by Cece Watson and Mila Dominik and Addie Bizub from Watson and Cece Bizub. Ella Celej stopped 20 of 22.
HEWS beat Williamsville 5-2 with Ellie Grabowski with an unassisted goal; Schmirl, assisted by Brooke Veter and Mea Foster,Amelia Anderson the game-winner, assisted by Kelsey Barrett, Phillips assisted by Madelyn Wojcik and Morgan Cooper on the powerplay, assisted by Phillips. Netminder Katelyn Larson stopped 10 of 12 shots. For Williamsville it was Genevieve Illos, assisted by Besancon and Alena Lombardo, assisted by Scarlet Cana and Jaylee Kochan. Anna Bacon stopped 41 of 46 sog.
Eight teams of the nine were on the ice on Thursday night.
It was CASH’s senior night and they celebrated with a 3-0 victory over HEWS and taking the Federation Championship. CASH scored the first goal in the first period by Kiley Breeze, assisted by Cece Bizub and Lindell. Then it was the second period when they scored two more. The first by Rafi Ventura, assisted by Lindell and C. Bizub and then the final goal of the night in the second period off the stock of Polina Stremiakova, assisted by Maya Adimey. Celej was in goal stopping 22 sog for the shutout. In goal Buczynski stopped 24 of 27 for HEWS.
It was Senior Night at MonMar as they took on Williamsville and left with a 3-2 victory. Sampson scoring with help from Embler, and Hurley; Sampson a second goal, assisted by McDonald and then Kosich with the game-winner, assisted by Addison Cherry. Kelley stopped 29 of 31. For Williamsville it was Besancon with a goal and Stadimer with a goal. Assists came from Loretz, Illos and Laudico. Bacon was in goal stopping 23 of 26.
KenGiPort played FOP on FOP’s Senior Night and the home team was victorious with Gearhart, P. Forcucci, and Smaczniak with the game-winner. For KenGiPort it was Willats from Bowden and Kumrow from Dettbarn. In goal Dahlgren stopped 22 of 25.
LIDA played St. Mary’s. Szczesek had a hattrick to help St. Mary’s to a 5-1 victory over LIDA. In addition to Szczesek, Donnelly scored an unassisted goal and a power play goal to round out the score to 5 goals. Assists came from Donnelly, Dee and Lowell. Accurso was in net for St. Mary’s and topped 39 of 40 for the W.
In an unusual game day, Sunday, HEWS played FOP at the Cattaraugus Arena. Unusual also that NYHOL was told they played on unresurfaced ice, as no one was there to flood the ice before they went on and games had been played their the night before. So let the game begin.
HEWS Phillips had the game winner in a 3-0 victory. Adding goals were Kylie Wegrzynowski and Ellie Grabowski. Those two goals were empty netters and Sokoloski got an assisted on the Wegrzynowski goal. Buczynski faced 23 shots for the shutout win. Fix stopped 15/18.
The week ended with Dowling in first place on the leader board in points, followed by P. Forcucci and Basamania.
Celej stays on top in goaltending with a .935 GAA. Buczynski and Accurso both have 3 shutouts and Bacon has faced 332 shots this season.
Detailed stats will be forthcoming as we close out the regular season this week.