2008 Woodie Awards
Women remain No. 2 after two wins in Maine
Seth Miran
Issue date: 1/10/07 Section: Sports
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What do Tiger Woods and the women's hockey team have in common? Both have recently taken advantage of the best that Sweden has to offer. For Tiger, that means a smokin' hot wife. For the women's hockey team, that meant taking on three Swedish club teams.
Returning home to the U.S. from a post-Christmas, seven-day transatlantic trip to Finland and the aforementioned Sweden, the women's hockey team appeared unaffected by a three- week layover during break. After the dreaded bus ride to Maine, the women notched a 5-2 victory over the Colby Mules followed by a 4-1 win over the Bowdoin Polar Bears the next afternoon.
Perhaps a little bit lethargic from the long bus ride earlier in the day, the Panthers struggled during the first period of Friday night's game versus Colby.
The Mules jumped out to a 1-0 lead just two minutes into the game and expanded their lead with another goal at the 17 minute mark of the first period. Yet, with just twenty seconds left in the first, the Panthers got on the board with an unassisted goal from Ashley Bairos '10.
Karen Levin '08 tied the game with a goal halfway through the second period. The Panthers finally pulled away halfway through the third period, with Lacey Farrell '08 notching the eventual game winner off an assist from Ellen Sargent '07.
Levin continued her solid play in the third as she notched her second goal of the game with two minutes remaining. Abby Kurtz-Phelan '07 closed out the scoring with an empty net goal at the 19:10 mark of the third period to cap the hard-fought 5-2 victory over Colby.
Discussing possible reasons for Middlebury's lethargic start against lesser ranked Colby, captain Shannon Sylvester '07 said, "Maybe we were looking ahead to Saturday's big match-up against Bowdoin a bit too much and consequently failed to start the Colby game with enough intensity. Colby has gotten better every time that we have played them and this game was a reminder that we cannot overlook any team."
Returning home to the U.S. from a post-Christmas, seven-day transatlantic trip to Finland and the aforementioned Sweden, the women's hockey team appeared unaffected by a three- week layover during break. After the dreaded bus ride to Maine, the women notched a 5-2 victory over the Colby Mules followed by a 4-1 win over the Bowdoin Polar Bears the next afternoon.
Perhaps a little bit lethargic from the long bus ride earlier in the day, the Panthers struggled during the first period of Friday night's game versus Colby.
The Mules jumped out to a 1-0 lead just two minutes into the game and expanded their lead with another goal at the 17 minute mark of the first period. Yet, with just twenty seconds left in the first, the Panthers got on the board with an unassisted goal from Ashley Bairos '10.
Karen Levin '08 tied the game with a goal halfway through the second period. The Panthers finally pulled away halfway through the third period, with Lacey Farrell '08 notching the eventual game winner off an assist from Ellen Sargent '07.
Levin continued her solid play in the third as she notched her second goal of the game with two minutes remaining. Abby Kurtz-Phelan '07 closed out the scoring with an empty net goal at the 19:10 mark of the third period to cap the hard-fought 5-2 victory over Colby.
Discussing possible reasons for Middlebury's lethargic start against lesser ranked Colby, captain Shannon Sylvester '07 said, "Maybe we were looking ahead to Saturday's big match-up against Bowdoin a bit too much and consequently failed to start the Colby game with enough intensity. Colby has gotten better every time that we have played them and this game was a reminder that we cannot overlook any team."
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