BIDDEFORD, Maine – In today's first game of the USA Hockey Girls Under-18 Select Player Development Camp, Team White defeated Team Red, 5-0, at the Harold Alfond Forum at the University of New England. Team Gold and Team Blue faced off in the second game of the evening, with Blue defeating Gold, 4-2.

Team White began the scoring early in the opening game, when Delaney Drake (Michigan) moved the puck up the half wall to Grace Vojta (Minnesota) on the point. Vojta took a quick wrist shot that Drake tipped in for a 1-0 lead. Team White struck again shortly after. Sadie Peart (Minnesota) forced a turnover in the offensive zone and lifted the puck over the goaltenders’ shoulder. Taylor Wente (Minnesota) then gave Team White a three-goal lead after she received a pass through the slot from Abigail Boreen (Central), on a two-on-one.

Team White added a fourth goal in the second period, when Margaret Flaherty (Minnesota) collected the puck off Emily Oden’s (Minnesota) rebound, and took a slapshot from the point that went in just under the crossbar.

Team White scored its fifth goal in the third period when Wente’s rebound popped out for Oden to bang home.

In the nightcap, Team Gold took the first lead of the game over Blue when Catherine Skaja (Minnesota) forced a turnover on the offensive blue line and scored to make it 1-0.

Team Blue evened the score during the second period, when Britta Curl (Northern Plains) fired a puck at the goaltender that trickled over the goal line. Blue then scored the go-ahead-goal after Veronika Pettey (Southeastern) passed the puck to Anneke Lisner (Minnesota) on a fast break into the offensive zone and Linser wristed the puck over the goaltenders pad.

Team Gold’s Maureen Murphy (New York) tied the game, 2-2, when she slid the puck through the goaltender’s five hole on a three-on-one in front of the net.

Linser and Pettey combined for another goal after Linser took a shot that bounced out to Pettey who beat the Team Gold defender to knock it into an empty net, putting Team Blue ahead, 3-2.

With less than two minutes remaining in regulation, Team Gold pulled their goalie for an extra-player advantage. Curl raced a Team Gold defender to a loose puck in front of the open net, and backhanded the puck past the goal line.

Each goaltender played two periods in the games. Lindsay Reed made 13 saves on 13 shots, Emma Polusny made 13 saves on 15 shots, Alex Gulstene turned aside 10 of 14 shots, Lindsay Browning was a perfect 10 for 10, Hayley Klizcko made eight saves on nine shots, and Breanna Blesi made seven saves on 10 shots.