BRIDGEPORT, CT – The Masuk High-led co-op girls’ hockey team earned its first win of the season with a 4-3 edging of Fairfield, at Wonderland Of Ice, on Saturday.
The Panthers seized a 4-2 lead and then hung on despite being on the penalty kill for the last two-plus minutes of action.
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“They kept the intensity up and that’s all we could ask for,” Masuk Coach Ally D’Aurio said.
Fairfield opened the scoring before the Masuk co-op answered with the next three tallies. Alexis D’Angelo tied things with an unassisted tally and it was a 1-1 game after one period of play.
The Panthers kept the pressure on during the middle stanza. Maya Komorowski scored unassisted for a 2-1 lead and Caroline Raymond, assisted by Rinei Hawke and D’Angelo, made it a 3-1 game.
Fairfield scored just over a minute into the third to cut the lead to 3-2 but the Panthers responded only 2:10 later when Caroline Saussy was assisted by Maria Davison.
After Fairfield again pulled to within a goal, Masuk co-op goalie Eva Smith and the Panther defense shut the door.
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“I think they needed to know what it feels like to win,” said D’Aurio, who is hopeful her Panthers will build off the first W.
The Masuk co-op got back on the ice the next night and fell 5-1 on the road to the East Catholic co-op. The Panthers dropped their first four games, including a pair of 4-3 nail-biters, one of which was in overtime.