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CROOKSTON GIRL’S HOCKEY SLOW START COSTLY IN LOSS TO ROSEAU

The Crookston Pirate Girl’s Hockey team hadn’t played a game for about two and a half weeks and it showed as the Roseau Rams came out buzzing and dominated the offensive zone and took away time and space from the Pirates for a 3-0 lead after a period and then Roseau went on to a 6-2 win over Crookston at the Ram Center in Roseau.

The Pirates had about three weeks of practice facing each other for that time. They also change up their lines a bit and that didn’t matter as Roseau came out and didn’t let Crookston breeze. Was it the rust that Crookston accumulated during the time off or was it just Roseau? “Roseau really came out strong to start the game and had us on our heels for most of it. We just didn’t have much room or time to get things set up if we did get into their zone,” said Crookston head coach Emily Meyer. ” It had been a while since we last played, but I think you give credit to Roseau as they had speed, had hands, and could shoot the puck.”
The Rams scored three times in a span of just over four minutes started by Celine Stroot who smashed a rebound past Crookston goalie Kailee Magsam just over nine minutes into the game. A minute and a half later, the Rams leading scorer, Memphis Mertens took a bad pass from the Crookston defense and sniped a shot for her 17th goal of the season for the senior who will be going to Franklin Pierce University in Vermont, who play in the New England Women’s Hockey which is Division I women’s hockey! Roseau scored the third goal with three and a half minutes left in the period when eighth-grader Karina Christianson pounced on a rebound to score and send Roseau into the first-period break with a 3-0 lead. “We talked about just chipping away at their lead,” said Meyer, “play better defense in our zone and take the body. They were able to get around us by just taking our hands away.”

If the second period showed anything, it was Roseau was taking the rest of any rust the Pirates might have had and outshot them 18-3 in the period and scored a goal but could have had many more, but Magsam stopped 17 of the 18 shots she faced. “Kailee said that Roseau’s shots were so hard that many times she never even seen them,” said Meyer.
Lily Erickson, a freshman for the Rams would slam in a rebound off Hovda’s shot to make it a 4-0 game. Crookston would finally get on the scoreboard with just under seven minutes left in the period when freshman Addie Fee received a little chip pass at center ice along the boards from Aleah Bienek. Fee then not only freed herself from Hovda, but it created space and Fee made another move and then had a step on the Rams defense and just as she stepped in the circle to the right of Jada Pelowski, the Rams goalie, Fee let a nice wrist shot go that beat Pelowski to her far side and it was 4-1. “That is about the biggest thing Addie does,” said Meyer, “when she has two or three opposing players on her, she’ll come out with the puck on her stick. It was a nice shot and good to see as it’s been a while since she has put one in the back of the net. “We said that we wanted the third period to be our best one of the day,” said coach Meyer.

Jasmine Hovda had different ideas as the eighth-grader came into the Crookston zone and appeared she was looking for someone to pass to, but seeing no one she stickhandled her way through a maze of Pirates and ripped a shot past Magsam and it was 5-1. Hovda is a carbon copy of Mertens, both are small, but so quick, strong and quite the shots. With just under seven minutes left in the game, Erickson scored her second of the game on a terrific tic-tac-toe that saw Hovda spotting Payton Remick from one circle to the other and Remick was losing her balance but she got a pass right on the stick of Erickson and the goal and it was 6-1!! “We let their number five (Hovda) pretty do whatever she wanted on that first goal in the period and they really had a nice play on the second goal. They are pretty unselfish as well,” said Meyer.  About six minutes into the period, Roseau would take two holding penalties and gave Crookston a 5 on 3 power play for 1:27. “We didn’t score on the two-man advantage,” said Meyer, “but we were able to move the puck nicely in the end and controlled play during that time and others, which was good to see.” After killing of the penalties, the Pirates escaped a Payton Remick breakaway with Magsam stopping it. Remick had an earlier one in the second period catching the Pirates in a bad change of lines, but Remick couldn’t finish.
Crookston would get another goal with two minutes to go in the game when another Pirate freshman, Parker Strand, from Mayville kept the puck in the zone after picking off a Roseau pass and then was able to walk right in and was alone on Pelowski and beat her far side for her third of the season and made it 6-2. Not even a minute later Strand would snap a shot that hit the top crossbar, but skipped away and Roseau ends up with the 6-2 win. “Parker did something that we really didn’t do today was test their goalie, but Parker put two up top and got a goal and a pipe,” said Meyer, “what we did by moving Morgan Nelson to a wing and moving Cassie Solheim on defense worked well. I thought Cassie did a great job stepping up, taking a body, and holding her own. Morgan with a little more practice and coaching of where she should be and just getting more comfortable in that position and she’ll do well.”

Crookston has lost two games in a row and hasn’t won in their last three which included a 1-1 overtime tie with Bemidji. Now, Crookston will have three games next week, two on ‘neutral’ sites and one at home. On Monday, Crookston will play Thief River Falls at Red Lake Falls Cardin-Hunt Arena as the Prowlers coop with Red Lake Falls in girl’s hockey. “The Thief River Falls game is a big one for us and I think this game was good for us to get in before we played them,” said Meyer, moving those players around should continue to improve and we hope it will make us successful and able to get the win to start the week.”
Crookston will play Jamestown, N.D. in a makeup at Mayville on Friday and then Saturday the Pirates will host Northern Lakes, a team Crookston beat 4-1 in Pequot Lakes on November 23. “We should be able to get into a rhythm and hopefully it will be a great week for us.”

Crookston is now 6-5-1 on the season while Roseau improves to 10-5-1. Roseau also has another big week coming up when they host rival Warroad, the number one team in Class A on Tuesday, Alexandria on Friday and Moorhead on Saturday, all at home!!!

1st 2nd 3rd Total
CROOKSTON 0 1 1 2
Roseau 3 1 2 6


1st Period
9:24 –  Roseau –  Celine Stroot  (Ginevra Johnson, Kayla Moser)

11:03 – Roseau –  Memphis Mertens  unassisted
13:32 – Roseau –  Karina Christianson (Samantha Peterson)

2nd Period
6:32 –  Roseau –  Lily Erickson  (Jasmine Hovda, Kylie Bjerk)

10:06 – Crookston –  Addie Fee (6)  (Aleah Bienek)

3rd Period
2:16 –  Roseau –  Jasmine Hovda unassisted
10:07 – Roseau – Lily Erickson  (Payton Remick, Jasmine Hovda)
13:59 – Crookston –  Parker Strand (3)  unassisted

Saves 1st 2nd 3rd Final
Kailee Magsam – Crox 7 17 14 38
Jada Pelowski – Roseau 1 2 6 9

 

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