Girls Hockey: No.2 Red Wing tops Tigers 6-1

Halea Wright (No. 10) scored her first varsity goal (photo by Jim Lindquist)

The Tigers had their chances against No. 2 (Class A) Red Wing but in the end the Wingers lived up to their ranking with a 6-1 Missota Conference win Tuesday night at Schmitz-Maki Arena.

Red Wing won for the 12th time in 13 games and moved to 3-0 in conference play while Farmington fell to 1-8-1 and 0-3.

The Wingers led 2-1 after the first period, and although Farmington came back to outshoot  their guests 14-9 in the second, they added two more for a commanding four-goal lead with 17 minutes to play.

"The difference in every period was their shooting ability versus ours." Tiger coach Jon Holmes said. 

"We did hit our fair share of posts and cross bars that really could have changed the game early, but they have a couple snipers on their team that when they shoot, they shoot hard and accurate. That was the single biggest difference."

Halea Wright (from Rachael Peroutky) tallied the lone Farmington goal in the third period but the Wingers' all-Missota Conference forward Nicole Schammel responded with two of her own to account for the final score.

Wright's goal was the first of her varsity career.

Schammel had an outstanding night for Red Wing, finishing with a hat trick and a pair of assists.

Red Wing outshot Farmington 32-28 but the Tigers managed to get just one shot by the Wingers Ashley Corcoran who ironically served as Farmington's back-up goaltender during the 2011-12 season.

The Tigers continued their scoring drought. They have averaged 1.25 goals in eight games since beating Rochester Mayo 7-0 on Nov. 15.

Eighth-grader Molly Singewald drew her second start in goal for the Tigers, stopping 26 of 32 shots.

"I was very pleased with our ability to control the puck and the pace of the game," Holmes said, " but we must get over the small breakdowns in our defensive zone that led to a couple of their goals....Hopefully we can get back on the winning track Thursday and take that into our holiday tournament.

The Tigers close out the pre-holiday portion of their schedule with a road game Thursday night at New Prague. They host their annual holiday tournament Dec. 27-29 at Schmitz-Maki Arena.

Molly Singewald makes one of her 26 saves (photo by Jim Lindquist)