WNYGVIH Recap December 30, 2024-January 6, 2025
By Janet Schultz
Wishing you All a Joyful, Wholesome, Hockey New York !!
An early-in-the-season snow storm despatched a number of Western New York Women Varsity Ice Hockey (WNYGVIH) video games into the “to be rescheduled” class. Three of these video games had been made up through the vacation recess.
First up it was Lancaster/Iroquois/Depew/Alden taking up Frontier/Franklinville/Lancaster/Orchard Park on Monday, December 30 at Leisure Rinks, a brand new venue for all. This was the primary of the “Christmas Ties” as Invoice Pavone has labeled them.
For LIDA it was Mia Hauser, Caitlin Sinclair and Leah Dowling scoring with assists coming from Emily Rodriguez, Claire Whiteford, Dowing and Brynn Cafferty. Iris Schimenti was in objective stopping 26 of 29 SOG. For FFLOP it was Hannah Favata, Peyton Forcucci and Sophia Quinn scoring, assisted by Maya Griffin on the second and third objective. Forcucci’s was unassisted. In objective Rachael Repair stopped 26 of 29 and the sport ended a 3-3 tie after a 5 minute additional time.
On Thursday is was one other “Christmas Tie,” however this one ended 0-0 after a 5 minute additional time. It Was Hamburg/Eden/West Seneca taking up Monsignor Martin in a sport with no objectives and no penalties till the additional time interval. Then MonMar had two penalties, leaving HHEWS with a two-player benefit and nonetheless couldn’t get the puck previous MonMar goalie Kate Kelley. MonMar’s Kelley stopped 47 pictures and HEWS’s Buczynski stopped 14.
Friday evening Clarence/Amherst/SweetHome took on St. Mary’s of Lancaster at Northtown Middle and the house workforce walked away with a 2-0 shutout. Georgia Mango dropped within the first objective within the first interval, assisted by Alexandria Reed and Polina Stremiakova. No scoring within the second and within the third it was Celia Watson’s empty netter that secured the 2-0 victory. CASH’s Ella Celej stopped 26/28 and St. Mary’s Betsy Accurso stopped 28.
Webster came around FFLOP in a Part V vs Part VI non-league sport on Monday evening at Hamburg. It was a 6-1 victory for FFLOP with objectives from Kayli Tefft, Olivia Waterman (the sport winner), Jocelyn Smaczniak, Gabby Sojda (2 together with an unassisted) and Hannah Favata, unassisted. Including to the factors with assists had been Campbell Rutz, Favata, Adeline Weber, Sojda, Susanna Hollander and Waterman. In objective for FFLOP Rachael Repair stopped 12 of 13.
Maddie Meyer scored the lone objective, unassisted, for Webster and Goalie Mia Wambach stopped 17 of 23.
Mark you calendars as we now have a busy first full week of 2025 ice hockey:
Monday, January 6:
Niagara County at St. Mary’s of Lancaster, 4 p.m.
LIDA at HEWS, 9 p.m.
Tuesday, January 7
St. Mary’s at Williamsville, 4:30 p.m.
FFLOP at Niagara County, 4:45 p.m.
MonMar at HEWS, 7:30 p.m.
LIDA at KenGIPort, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 9
CASH at FFLOP, 4:40 p.m.
KenGiPort at MonMar, 4:40 p.m.
Niagara County at Williamsville, 4:30 p.m.
No admission for WNYGVIH video games at any venue.
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