MONTREAL - Cathy Chartrand of Lac Nominingue,
Que., scored twice to spark a three-goal outburst in the second
period and that was enough as the No.1-ranked McGill women's hockey
team skated to a 3-0 victory over Carleton at McConnell Arena on
Friday, to sweep their best-of-three semifinal series. McGill won
the opener 2-0 last Wednesday.
The series victory marked McGill's 82nd consecutive conquest and
automatically qualified the Martlets for a trip to the CIS national
championship tournament in Antigonish, N.S., March 11-13 - their
eighth consecutive appearance and 10th in 11 years.
The Martlets will now await the winner of the other QSSF
semifinal series which is knotted at 1-1 after Ottawa's 7-3 upset
over the Montreal Carabins, also on Friday. Both Quebec finalists
qualify for the Nationals as a result of McGill capturing the
national title last year.
Rebecca Martindale of Kingston, Ont., scored
what proved to be the game-winner at 6:05 of the middle period. It
was the first of three power-play markers tallied by the Martlets,
all in the second stanza.
Chartrand made it 2-0 four minutes later and added her second of
the night at 18:40 as the Martlets ended up going 3-for-5 with the
man-advantage.
"She's on a mission to get the job done this year," said
Martlets head coach Amey Doyle of the 5-foot-10
rearguard who has lived in Catherine Ward's shadow
for the past two seasons. Chartrand has emerged into the light this
year, though, and was voted earlier in the week as the league's
player of the year. She now has 20 goals and 53 points in 37 games
overall. Both totals are single-season school records for a
blueliner, breaking the previous marks held by Ward, who just
helped Canada win a gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics.
"We've struggled a little over the past month when we only had
one game to play on a weekend," said Chartrand, an education
junior. "But now that we've had a few extra games over the last
week or two, we've picked it up a notch and are back in gear. We
accomplished our first goal to win the regular season and our
second objective to qualify for Nationals. But we want to merit our
berth at Nationals by winning the Quebec championship."
McGill, which improved their lifetime record against Carleton to
51-0-1, outshot the Ravens 39-14, including a 16-4 advantage in the
second period.
Goaltender Taylor Salisbury, a science freshman
from Surrey, B.C., needed only 14 saves to register her second
shutout of the playoffs and fifth in 15 starts overall, all of them
victories. Valerie Charbonneau, a senior from
Sudbury, Ont., who beat out Salisbury for all-star honours despite
posting a 5-8 record, made 36 saves in a losing cause.
The Quebec league championship series, a best-of-three affair
for the Dr. Ed Enos Trophy, is slated to open at McConnell Arena on
Wednesday (March 3) at 7 p.m. McGill, which has won the conference
championship banner in each of the last four seasons, will be
gunning for their seventh Quebec title overall, dating back to
their first in 1985.
SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Communications Officer
McGill University Athletics & Recreation
514-398-7012 (tel.)
SCORING SUMMARY
QSSF SEMIFINAL (Game 2)
Carleton 0 at McGill 3
(Feb 26, 2010 - McConnell Arena (@ McGill)
1st Period-
(No Scoring).
Penalties-
Marson Car (holding), 7:36;
Bergeron Car (tripping), 13:06;
Chartrand Mcg (hooking), 13:53.
2nd Period-
1, McGill, Rebecca Martindale 1 (Peroff,
Soberano), 6:05 (pp).
2, McGill, Cathy Chartrand 1 (Davidson, Hill),
10:17 (pp).
3, McGill, Cathy Chartrand 2 (Cecere, Hill),
18:40 (pp).
Penalties-
Marson Car (bodychecking (a39)), 5:41;
Plourde Car (hooking), 8:34;
Ton-That Mcg (hooking), 10:43;
O'Reilly Car (hooking), 18:05.
3rd Period-
(No Scoring).
Penalties-
Wells Mcg (hooking), 10:11.
GOALS BY PERIOD:
Carleton 0-0-0 -- 0
McGill 0-3-0 -- 3
Shots on Goal-
Carleton 3-4-7 -- 14.
McGill 14-16-9 -- 39.
Power Play Opportunities-
Carleton 0 of 3;
McGill 3 of 5.
Penalties (No./Mins.):
Carleton 5/10;
McGill 3/6.
Goalies-
Carleton, Valerie Charbonneau (L, 0-2-0, 39
shots-36 saves; 60:00).
McGill, Taylor Salisbury (W, 2-0-0 , 14
shots-14 saves; 60:00).
Attendance: 112
Start: 7:01 PM
End: 8:51 PM
Length: 1:50
Referee-Gabrielle Ariane-Lortie.
THREE STARS
1. MCG - 8 Cathy Chartrand
2. MCG - 6 Caroline Hill
3. MCG - 21 Amy Soberano
