HEINOLA, Finland - The U.S Women’s National Under-18 team rolled to a 10-0 victory over the Czech Republic today in the squad’s second game of the 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation U18 Women’s World Championship. Eight players put forth multiple-point efforts for Team USA and goaltender Alexis Shaw (Troy, Mich.) made 10 saves in the team’s second shutout of the tournament.
“Our team played a good game overall,” said U.S. Head Coach Jeff Kampersal (Pennington, N.J.). “We focus each game on establishing our attack right away and our kids took care of business. (They were great) in terms of their preparation and being ready to go right from the opening draw, and we were excited about that.”
The U.S. jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first period, fueled by two goals from Amy Menke (Shakopee, Minn.) and three goals that came in the span of 1:38 near the midway point of the period. Three players,Maddie Rolfes (West Des Moines, Iowa), Gracen Hirschy (Fort Wayne, Ind.), and Menke, all recorded two points in the first 11 minutes of the game.
Team USA added two more goals to its total in the second stanza. Megan Wolfe (Eagan, Minn.) capitalized on her chance with 11 seconds left on a power play at 6:33 and Taylar Cianfarano (Oswego, N.Y.) netted the first of her two tallies in the game at 15:16.
Cianfarano notched her second goal early in the third period andBaylee Wellhausen (Williams Bay, Wis.) scored her first goal of the tournament on the power play at 13:51. Kelly Pannek (Plymouth, Minn.) capped off scoring for the U.S. with just 19 seconds left in the game, becoming the third member of Team USA to score two goals in the contest.
The U.S. will get a day off from competition tomorrow before finishing up preliminary round action against Sweden on Tuesday (Jan. 1) at 2 p.m. local time (7 a.m. EST).
NOTES: Maddie Rolfes was named Team USA’s player of the game … Taylar Cianfarano, who had three points (2-1—3) in today’s game, currently leads the team in points through two games with five (2-3—5) … The U.S. is the only team in the tournament that has yet to concede a goal … Final stats from today’s game can be viewed below.
Game Summary
Scoring by Period 1 2 3 F
USA 5 2 3 10
CZE 0 0 0 0
First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Menke (Hirschy, Rolfes), 2:01 (pp); 2, USA, Zarzecki (Rolfes), 4:19; 3, USA, Menke (Hirschy, Schipper), 10:48; 4, USA, McKenna (Laing), 11:29; 5, USA, Pannek (Piazza), 12:26. Penalties: CZE, Vanisova (body checking), 0:24; USA, Piazza (high-sticking), 7:19; CZE, Walicova (body checking), 17:39.
Second Period – Scoring: 6, USA, Wolfe (Ryan, Schipper), 6:33 (pp); 7, USA, Cianfarano (Willard), 15:16. Penalties: CZE, Brotankova (interference), 4:44; CZE, Laskova (tripping), 8:07, CZE, Pribylova (tripping), 11:18; CZE, Pelikanova (roughing), 15:40.
Third Period – Scoring: 8, USA, Cianfarano (Wellhausen), 4:35; 9, USA, Wellhausen (Dunne, Willard), 13:51 (pp); 10, USA, Pannek (Piazza, Cameranesi), 19:41. Penalties: CZE, Pribylova (body checking), 5:50; CZE, bench (too many players), 12:30.
Shots on Goal 1 2 3 Total
USA 22 20 11 53
CZE 2 1 7 10
Goaltenders (SV-SH) 1 2 3 Total
USA, Shaw, 60:00 2-2 1-1 7-7 10-10
CZE, Peslarova, 30:30 17-22 11-12 - 28-34
CZE, Dvorakova, 29:30 - 7-8 8-11 15-19
Power play: USA, 3-8; CZE, 0-1
Penalties: USA, 1-2; CZE, 8-16
Tag(s): 2013
