A power-play goal from Haley Irwin with
5:48 to go was the game-winner as Red topped White 3-2 on Sunday afternoon to close
out Canada’s National Women’s Team Fall Festival.
As Red worked the puck around on the
man advantage, Samantha Sutherland found Irwin in front with a no-look,
behind-the-back pass, and the two-time Olympic gold medallist redirected it
past White goaltender Jaimie Leonoff
Sarah Potomak and Brigette Lacquette
also scored for Red.
White got goals from Rebecca
Johnston and Sarah Nurse After clawing back from three one-goal deficits in its
5-3 round-robin loss to White on Thursday, Red gave up a pair of leads Sunday
before Irwin’s goal clinched the victory.
Potomak opened the scoring just 6:12
in, taking a pass from Emily Clark in front and roofing a shot over the
shoulder of Leonoff from in close for the lone goal of the first period.
Johnston tied the game less than
three minutes into the second, one-timing a Sarah Davis) feed through the legs
of Red net minder Geneviève Lacasse, but Lacquette hammered in a point shot
with the teams playing four-on-four midway through the middle frame to restore
the Red lead through 40 minutes.
Nurse tied it again for White just
past the seven-minute mark of the third period, ripping a wrist shot over
Lacasse’s glove, but Irwin’s goal was the difference as Red earned first place
in the camp tournament.
Lacasse earned the win for Red,
making 18 saves, while Leonoff finished with 24 stops in a losing cause.
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