NSA Women’s Hockey
By: Celeste! Brown
Boston, MA- The weekend of October 8th through the 10th the National Sports Academy’s Women’s Hockey Team had their first Junior Women’s Hockey League weekend. Despite the one and four weekend NSA learned a lot about their team and competition they would have this up coming season.
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| NSA Boston, MA |
NSA started off their weekend playing Bal Moral Hall, a school out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. At the drop of the puck the game began not as strong as NSA Head Coach Bill Ward would of liked, “We pulled it off though,” said Ward.
The game finished 4-3 in NSA ‘s favor, with Alyssa Parke and Beth Hanrahan scoring one goal each, and Celeste Brown notching two goals for the win with an assist from Hanrahan.
Although NSA started off the weekend with a strong, promising win, this unfortunately was not foreshadowing of what would come throughout their next four games. NSA faced off against league rival Warner School from Alberta, Canada in game two. In past years NSA and Warner have gone back and forth in outcomes but this time Warner showed up strong, confident and ready to go. Warner defeated NSA 10-1.
On Saturday, NSA faced Pacific Steelers early in the afternoon. After a good majority of their team coming from the SAT they couldn't muster a late game win, falling by a margin of 3-2.
That same night NSA played the Minnesota Thoroughbreds, who had former mountaineer, Liv Halverson as their star defender. The game was similar to the previous one. NSA lost 4-2, the final Thoroughbred goal scored on an empty net.
“We are having problems finishing,” Coach Kelli Vossler said. “We just can’t seem to find the back of the net.”
This issue continued to Sundays game, facing the best team of the weekend, Edge School. NSA lost 6-0 to the very strong Edge team. Although the weekend didn’t go as great as wanted, NSA learned a lot about their team and what competition was to be like in the future! The goaltending of Sarah Quigley prevented the outcomes of the games not to be any worse.
But in the end “Life’s like baseball…” Coach Ward said. “It’s the number of times you make it home safe that counts.”
Lake Placid, NY- The weekend of October 16th through the 17th the National Sports Academy had two home games.
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| NSA vs. Lady Senators |
The games were against the Ottawa Lady Senators, a young Under 16 team that was rumored to be the best in Canada.
NSA swept the weekend with 2 wins. Game one 3-2 and game two 5-3.
In the second game, senior standout Beth Hanrahan netted an astounding four goals.
Though the Mountaineers didn’t play up to their potential but found a way to come out with two wins.
In the second game, senior standout Beth Hanrahan netted an astounding four goals.
Though the Mountaineers didn’t play up to their potential but found a way to come out with two wins.
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