B/K provides dynamite ending

By Alex Di Pietro
 

BKRA 3 | NDG 2

A late goal by B/K’s Caroline Moralejo gave the Dynamite a 3-2 win over the NDG Benjamin C ringette team Sunday evening at the Kirkland Arena.

“We’re very pleased. The girls have been working hard and their game seems to be coming together,” said B/K coach Ewan Abbott. “What’s really nice to see is the passing and how unselfish they are.” 

The meeting was the second one between these two teams this season, with B/K shading over NDG 1-0 on Nov. 14.

“Our defensive triangle worked out really well,” said NDG co-coach Joseph Guadagno. “Unfortunately it was the penalties that led to the loss; otherwise we could have had this game.”

NDG’s Jenna Schwartz opened the scoring just 13 seconds into the first period, as she beat goaltender Diana Sanchez with a left-handed shot from the right.

“She doesn’t give up on the ring,” said NDG co-coach Mike Silver. “If there’s somebody out there that has the desire to pass or score, it’s Jenna [Schwartz]. She’s an all around player.”

The Dynamite’s Lianne Abbott tied things up with 5:40 left. Teammate Maya Belliveau gathered up the ring in her own zone and fed a breakaway pass to Abbott who had found an opening between two NDG defenders down the ice.

Abbott’s first shot was stopped by netminder Jessica Guadagno, but her rebound attempt was good enough to make it 1-1.

More chances were exchanged, but NDG’s Vanessa Boyd generated the most shots by a single player in the last 32 seconds. Her first and second opportunities were too weak to trouble Sanchez, but Boyd kept hacking away and dove to flip the ring into the bottom right corner with 17.3 seconds left. NDG carried the 2-1 lead into half-time.

“I think what we have to work on is our defensive play and how we come out of our own end. But besides that, I’d like to see more of the same,” said coach Abbott.

The away side ran into penalty trouble roughly four minutes into the second period, as Schwartz was called for an infraction.

With 30 seconds left on the ensuing power play, Abbott received a Belliveau pass from the right and slid the ring between the legs of Sanchez tying the score at 2-2.

But B/K was not done there. The team patrolled the offensive zone for the last minute of the game and Moralejo skated to the front of the net and buried the ring in the right corner.

“I definitely think the defense could practice a bit more,” Schwartz said on the team’s preparation for Saturday’s rematch with NDG.
“But everyone’s going to get a chance to play defense and forward so it all depends on the practice that the others get.”