Box Score The good news for the Waterloo Warriors was that, despite missing their reigning scoring leader and coming off a shutout, they scrapped out two goals against the stingy Toronto Varsity Blues defense.
The bad news was that the Blues scored three.
Alessandra Bianchi scored two goals and the Blues limited the Warriors to just 13 shots in a 3-2 Toronto victory on Sunday afternoon in Waterloo.
Maryn Caragata (Etobicoke) and
Kaitlyn McDonell (Kincardine) scored for the Warriors, who dropped their seventh game in a row and fell to 1-5-3 overall. The Blues, who have allowed only 15 goals all season, improved to 5-2 with the victory.
For the second time in 24 hours,
Rebecca Bouwhuis (Orillia) was a tough-luck loser in the Waterloo net. She turned aside 20 shots, but she's still searching for her first victory of the season. The game won't do much for the save percentage of Toronto goalie Nicole Kesteris, who made 11 stops on 13 shots. But she did earn the most important statistic – her fifth win of the year.
Bianchi scored the lone goal of a defensive opening period, as each team registered only 4 shots apiece. Caragata equalized just over two minutes into the second period with her first career CIS goal, setting up an eventful final stanza.
Bianchi counted her second of the game at 13:51, and Sonja Weidenfelder looked to salt things away for the Blues just over two minutes later. However, with Bouwhuis on the bench for an extra attacker, McDonell drew the Warriors back to within one. The Warriors stayed on the 6-on-5 attack in the game's closing minutes, but they were unable to find the tying goal.
The Warriors will now head back on the road in a short week when they travel down highway 7 to take on the Guelph Gryphons on Thursday night. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:30 pm.
