ATTLEBORO — Bishop Feehan was upset by Bishop Stang within the Elite Eight final season, en path to the Stang’s Cinderella run to the Division 1 ladies hockey championship sport, the place it misplaced to Hingham final March.
For sure, Bishop Feehan was in search of payback when it confronted Bishop Stang on Wednesday night time, and the Shamrocks obtained it with a 2-0 ladies hockey victory.
“The women have been actually up for it, we didn’t must say something,” Shamrocks head coach Michael Cripps mentioned, “We’ve circled it on the schedule at first of the season, as we’re additionally their rivals, so it’s at all times an enormous sport once we play.”
Stang and Feehan have been in search of their first victories of the season, as Feehan was shut out by HPNA 2-0 in its season opener on Saturday, and Stang tied with Notre Dame Academy (Hingham) 1-1, one other opponent it upset on their championship run final season.
The Shamrocks didn’t take too lengthy to get their first aim of the season when Annie Lough scored from the left facet of the online and obtained it previous Stang’s Vivienne Melo. Feehan crew captain Georgia Murray had the help on the aim.
“I’m very excited that I scored that, as a result of it actually excited the entire crew,” Lough mentioned, “I believe all of us performed higher, as a result of we needed to win extra, and I believe it introduced up the vitality and the chemistry that we needed to work for.”
Eleven minutes into the primary interval, Shamrock captain Mia Zammiello scored the second and ultimate aim of the sport off a go from Megan Tarnul, because it rolled off the again of Melo and into the online to make it 2-0.
There have been no different objectives the
remainder of the matchup, with sturdy performances by Melo and Feehan’s Aviva Olitsky between the pipes, with Melo making a few large glove saves within the second and third intervals. Feehan additionally had a powerful forecheck, which included staving off two power-play alternatives from Stang within the ultimate seven minutes of the sport.
Olitsky had 25 saves for Feehan, whereas Melo had 19 saves on 21 photographs on aim for Stang.
“It’s undoubtedly a whole lot of the psychological a part of the sport,” Olitsky mentioned, “as they get sq. on their shot, I’ve to remain sq. mentally and simply keep targeted one shot at a time and never get overwhelmed.”
Bishop Feehan may have one other check in its subsequent sport Saturday in opposition to Archbishop Williams, which is coming off a 5-0 victory over Arlington final Saturday.
“We’re going proper into Archbishop Williams, which is one other convention sport, so that they know now we have extra work to do, so proper again at it tomorrow at follow,” Cripps mentioned.
Bishop Stang will go into Peabody on Saturday to have one other crack at its first victory of the season when it faces off in opposition to Bishop Fenwick at 6:40 p.m.
