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Turer leads USM past Brookfield Glacier

By Tom Geilfuss, USM Assistant Coach, 01/20/18, 7:00PM CST

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Junior forward scores twice in 7-1 win

This was the one that mattered. The University School co-op and the Brookfield Glacier played each other for the third time this season in a girls’ hockey game on Friday, January 19th at the Ponds of Brookfield.  But this one was an Eastern Shores Conference contest.  In it, the Wildcats soundly defeated their hosts 7-1 and took a commanding lead in the conference as a result.

“We played a great game,” said Dan Carey, USM’s head coach.  “It was a team win all the way.  Everyone contributed tonight.”

It was a team win.  Six different Wildcats scored in the victory.  Gaby Turer led the Wildcats with two goals, while Hannah Gold, Lexie Epperson, Megan McPike, Karly Lamoreaux, and Jenna Klenz each contributed one to the Wildcats’ total.  Zoe Sternberg scored the Glacier’s lone goal.

Juliana Strother made 22 saves for the Wildcats while Kristin Woodcock turned aside 32 of the 39 shots that the Wildcats aimed at her.

The Wildcats scored two goals in the first period.  Gold scored the game’s first goal.  A Glacier forward could not handle a clearing pass and tipped the puck onto Gold’s stick in center ice.  Gold stickhandled to the right.  As she crossed into Glacier territory she swung into the center.  From the slot, she shot the puck past Woodcock at 10:15.

A few minutes later the Wildcats made it 2-0.  Defenseman Michaela Fritz gained the puck near the right boards in the Wildcats’ zone.  She lined a pass to Lamoreaux in the center ice faceoff circle.  In turn, Lamoreaux made a short backhand pass to Turer.  Turer wheeled to the outside and sped down the right side into the Glacier zone.  From the edge of the right circle she bulleted a shot into the far upper corner of the net at 14:50.

Two second period goals increased the Wildcats’ lead.  Turer made it 3-0 early in that period.  Taking a faceoff in the left circle in the Glacier end, Zoe Neudorfer knocked the puck into the near corner.  Turer and Epperson buzzed after it like bees for sweet nectar.  Turer knocked it away from a defender to Epperson, who swung out front to take a short shot.  As a defender raised Epperson’s stick away from the rebounding puck, Turer swung out front unperturbed to backhand the loose puck under Woodcock at 2:45.

WiPH Game Summaries

The Wildcats scored again late in the period.  Libby Hennelly stopped a Glacier clearing attempt by taking a puck away from an opponent just outside the Brookfield blue line.  Hennelly wheeled to the right and skated along the boards.  Epperson jumped into the play and streaked down the slot.  Hennelly heard Epperson call for the puck and zinged a pass toward her.  Like she was fighting a sword duel, Epperson thrust her stick forward, thereby directing the puck into the net at 11:15.

The Glacier opened the third period with a goal.  Along the left boards just inside the Brookfield blue line, defenseman Kayleigh Schmor knocked the puck away from a Wildcat forward.  Schmor tapped it ahead to Sternberg. Sternberg took it off along the boards then skated toward the middle of the ice.  As she crossed into the high slot of the Wildcats’ zone, she used a defender as a screen and launched a shot into the net at 16:08.

The Wildcats soon shook off the shock of the goal against.  Thanks to good backchecking and angling by Natalie Pogorelc, a Glacier forward lost the puck along the right boards.  Klenz collected it in center ice and whipped a pass to Hannah Neudorfer.  Neudorfer sped down the left boards with McPike trailing her.  Neudorfer wisely made a drop pass to McPike.  McPike turned into the near circle and snapped a shot past Woodcock at 9:51.

The Wildcats increased their lead a couple of minutes later.  Coming onto the ice during a change, Lamoreaux was greeted with a loose puck inside the Wildcats’ blue line. She expressed her gratitude by roaring through center ice, cutting to the left, circling past a defender, then wheeling back toward the net.  From an acute angle, she blazed a shot into past Woodcock at 12:46.

Klenz’s efforts gained the Wildcats their final goal.  Backchecking, she caught a Glacier forward, lifted her stick, and slyly took the puck away like a pickpocket in Piccadilly Square.  Klenz turned toward the Glacier end.  She raced thru center ice, deftly avoiding a stick check as she closed in on the net.  From the slot, she shot the puck into an exposed side of the net at 14:56.

Brookfield is now 6-11 overall and 1-8 in the Eastern Shores conference.  The Glacier play the Warbirds/Beaver Dam co-op in a conference game at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, January 22nd at the Fond du Lac Blue Line Family Ice Center.

The victory improved USM’s record to 13-5 and 4-0 in the conference.  The Wildcats play the Lakeshore Lightning in an Eastern Shores Conference game at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 23rd at the Ozaukee Ice Arena in Cedarburg.