FAST START HELPS BLUE TO WIN, UNDEFEATED CAMP

TORONTO, Ont. – A four-goal first period was more than enough for Blue as it knocked off Yellow 5-2 on Saturday at the MasterCard Centre to finish as the only undefeated team at the National Women’s Program selection camps.

Blue earned a pair of wins over Yellow, its under-22 rivals, and beat both Red and White, the two under-18 teams in camp.

Jennifer Wakefield (Pickering, Ont.) got the offensive onslaught going just 4:10 in, snapping a shot from the slot past Yellow netminder Geneviève Lacasse (Scarborough Ont.), and after Jessica Wong (Baddeck, N.S.) momentarily pulled Yellow even, Hayleigh Cudmore (Oakville, Ont.) struck on a Blue power play after slick passing from Vicki Bendus (Wasaga Beach, Ont.) and Jillian Saulnier (Halifax, N.S.) to restore the one-goal lead.
Blue didn’t quit there, as Vanessa Emond (Lévis, Que.) made it 3-1 and Jessica Campbell (Melville, Sask.) converted another man advantage, rifling a wrist shot past Lacasse for a 4-1 lead after 20 minutes. The goals from Cudmore, Emond and Campbell came in a span of 4:43, and put Yellow in a hole it could not recover from.

After a scoreless second period Yellow did eventually put another puck past Blue goaltender Roxanne Douville (Beloeil, Que.) thanks to Brianne Jenner (St. Catharines, Ont.), but an empty net goal from Isabel Menard (Ottawa, Ont.) with 40 seconds to go was the final nail in the Yellow coffin and the final exclamation point on an undefeated camp for Blue.

With the intersquad games complete, Canada’s National Women’s Under-22 Team will be named on Sunday morning and will face Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team on Monday before welcoming the United States to the MasterCard Centre for a three-game series, August 18-21. 

Goals/Buts : 
04:10 BLU Jennifer Wakefield (Vicki Bendus, Jilllian Saulnier)
08:06 YEL Jessica Wong 
11:01 BLU Hayleigh Cudmore (Vicki Bendus, Jenelle Kohanchuk) PP/AN 
14:00 BLU Vanessa Emond (Brigette Lacquette)
15:44 BLU Jessica Campbell (Chelsea Karpenko) PP/AN

Penalties/Pénalités : 
04:58 YEL Mallory Deluce (Slashing/Coup de bâton)
10:19 YEL Laura Fortino (Body-checking/Mise en échec corporelle)
11:29 YEL Brianne Jenner (Body-checking/ Mise en échec corporelle)
16:57 YEL Jessica Wong (Body-checking/ Mise en échec corporelle)

Goals/Buts : 
None/Aucun

Penalties/Pénalités : 
02:00 BLU Vicki Bendus (Tripping/Faire trébucher)
08:23 YEL Marie-Philip Poulin (Hooking/Accrocher)
13:00 BLU Jennifer Wakefield (Hooking/Accrocher) 
18:52 BLU Chelsea Karpenko (Holding/Retenir)

Goals/Buts : 
13:05 YEL Brianne Jenner
19:20 BLU Isabel Menard EN/FD

Penalties/Pénalités : 
12:30 BLU Stefanie McKeough (Hooking/Accrocher)
19:59 YEL Mallory Deluce (Roughing/Rudesse)
19:59 BLU Jennifer Wakefield (Roughing/Rudesse)