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Girls U14 All-Star Review

By Matthew Preston, 07/14/14, 1:30PM EDT

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Sabercats, Black All-Stars take first ever Girls U14 All-Star victories.

RAYNHAM – It has been a season of firsts and this weekend was no different as the first class of Girls U14 All-Stars took part in their inaugural All-Star Saturday at the Raynham IcePlex. When the dust had settled, it was the South Shore Sabercats winning the Skills Challenge and the Black All-Stars prevailing over White, 4-1.

The first season of Girls U14 hockey has been one of parody, nearly all of the division’s six teams shuffling in the standings each week, so it came as little surprise that the Skills Challenge was not so easily decided on Saturday, each event with a different winner.

The Sabercats took the top spot in the Team Relay event, blowing away the competition in the final heat, with nearly a four second lead over the second place North Shore Stingrays and five second lead over the third place Marlboro Thunder, finishing in a time of 1:12.88.

The same three teams found themselves in the finals of the Agility Race, coming out in near inverse order as the Thunder took the top spot, winning with a time of 1:19.10, followed in second by the Sabercats and the Stingrays in third. A new contender threw their name on the leader board in the Target Shooting event, won by the Boston Brahmas, but it was mostly similar names as the Stingrays and Thunder finished second and third, respectively.

While the Stingrays did not win any events, two second place finishes and a third garnered enough points to set up a three-team Team Relay bout to decide the Skills Challenge’s overall winner. As they did the first time the event was run, the Sabercats prevailed once again, medals in the competition going to Melissa Macri, Celia Del Rosso, Megan Elwood and Meghan Webb.

The girls from the South Shore came to play in the All-Star Game as well, many of the six Sabercat participants playing an integral role in the Black All-Stars’ victory.

It was not until the second half of the contest they did so, however, as the first half was an even battle, dominated by team defense. Both sides limited the offensive chances of their opposition, while Caroline McDonough of the Natick Chill and Marlboro’s Shelby Guinard, starting in net for White and Black, respectively, thwarted the few opportunities either side was able to generate. The only goal of the half came courtesy of Zoe Tow of the Brahmas, who buried a rebound off a Jordan Lettiere shot to give White a 1-0 lead at 16:43.

Even after a goaltender change for both sides at the half – South Shore’s Bryanne Porter coming on for Black, Asia Porter of the Southeastern Grizzlies for White – the story remained the same as the players between the pipes continued to steal the show in the early goings. As the second half crept towards the 10:00 mark, however, Sabercats forward Hayley Parrish blew the game open, striking for both the equalizer and go-ahead goals for Black just 1:22 apart, to give her All-Star teammates a lead they would not relinquish.

White kept the score close until late, but Black seized control of contest after Parrish’s pair. The scored stayed 2-1 until the game’s final minute when Marlboro’s Cassidhe Wozniak scored on the empty net at 24:17 and then Macri capped the scoring at 4-1 with a goal at 24:29.

The offensive explosion to take the game over earned Parrish the First Star of the Game, while Bryanne Porter was dubbed Second Star of the Game for shutting out White in the second half. Tow was the game’s Third Star as her side’s lone goal scorer.