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Team Members:
Jordan Brickner, Katie Cachey, Wizzie Carrier, Megan Gallagher, Erika
Greenen, Laura Hart, Aleca Hughes, Katie Iraci, Diana Karouzos, Brittany
Lemke, Jackie Otto, Carla Pentimone, Gina Reuter, Alex Riewer, Kelly Wallace, Brianna Wolf,
Cianna Wyshnytzky
Head Coach: Zeke Kochniarczyk
Assistant Coach: Nick Kochniarczyk
Assistant Coach: Scott Wolf
Manager: Jerry Greenen
The TI 14U #1 team returned to Detroit on Valentines weekend for the final leg of
their eastern tour and the MWEHL playoffs. The pairings were set and by finishing
first in the regular season TI earned the right to play the 4th seed team Little
Caesars in the semi final game. With the game scheduled for 1:00 pm on Saturday
afternoon some of the team fought the traffic on Friday night and others got up in
the wee hours of the morning on Saturday to make the now familiar trek east on
I-94. It did not matter when they left everyone was at the rink by 11:30 am to
watch the other semi final match up between 2nd seed Honeybaked and 3rd seed
Montgomery Blue Devils. The TI team fully expected that Honeybaked and
themselves would walk through the semis and meet each other yet again in the
finals. Well, as they say, on any given day anything can happen in a hockey game
when you run into a hot goalie. And that was the case in this first semi final game
when the Montgomery goalie turned away 46 shots and launched the Blue Devils
into the championship game with a 1 to 0 victory.
TI and Little Caesars took the ice next with the winner going on to the
championship against the Blue Devils and the loser playing for 3rd place against
Honeybaked. This game proved to be just as exciting and tension filled as the first
semi final. Little Caesars took a first period lead on a penalty shot with 25 seconds
left in the first period. Caesars maintained their lead until 1:29 left in the second
when TI tied it up. Regulation play ended in a tie with TI out shooting Caesars 41
to 22. In the extra period the TI team came out determined to win, out shooting
Caesars 6 to 0 and netting the game winner with 1:29 left in the period.
Setting up the pairings for the championship game on Sunday, TI won the coin toss
and would take the ice as the home team. After watching the Montgomery and
Honeybaked game the TI team was taking nothing for granted. At their team
meeting on Saturday night they discussed what they need to work on during the
game and what and who they needed to watch out for. On Sunday morning the TI
girls came out ready to play. TI took a 2 to 0 lead in the first period. After scoring
a goal in the second and third TI had a 4 to 0 lead early in the third period. The
Blue Devils never gave up and with 1:45 left in the game they broke the ice cutting
the lead to 3. Playing short handed for the last 1:45 of the game the Blue Devils
took advantage and scored their second goal just 40 seconds into the power play.
With 1:08 left in the game TI went to work and shut down Montgomery to win the
game 4 to 2. Congratulations to the 14U #1 MWEHL champions with a record of
22-1-0. Good luck at state.
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