Warwick co-op blanked, 4-0

By RYAN D. MURRAY
Posted 12/26/19

By RYAN D. MURRAY The Warwick Girls Ice Hockey Co-op were blanked 4-0 on Friday night at Thayer Arena by East Bay co-op. With the loss, Warwick falls to 0-3-0 on the season. Nonetheless, Pilgrim freshman goaltender Mary Centracchio, showed that Warwick

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Warwick co-op blanked, 4-0

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The Warwick Girls Ice Hockey Co-op were blanked 4-0 on Friday night at Thayer Arena by East Bay co-op.

With the loss, Warwick falls to 0-3-0 on the season.

Nonetheless, Pilgrim freshman goaltender Mary Centracchio, showed that Warwick will have a superstar in net for years to come as she had another fantastic performance, stonewalling a whopping 53 shots throughout the contest.

On the other side, East Bay goaltender Ellee Kopecky made 11 saves while Katherine Barker, a junior forward, scored two goals and added an assist.

The teams battled through a scoreless first period before East Bay lit the lamp in the second frame. That goal came at 5:28 of the period when Taylor DeFreitas fired in a shot from in front after assists from Sarah Yee and Peyton Whittet which put East Bay up 1-0. 

"It was close," Centracchio said. "There were just a lot of shots on net, but we did a good job trying to clear the puck out of the zone. So, I think we did well.”

Then, in the third period, East Bay tacked on three more tallies.

Two minutes and two seconds in, Barker found the back of the net following an assist from Marissa Levreault, and that increased the East Bay buffer to 2-0.

Next, Barker earned her second tally, five-and-half minutes later, after a dish from Samantha Yee, and it upped the East Bay margin to 3-0.

Lastly, with just 1:09 left, Barker passed to Levreault during a breakaway and the junior recorded an empty-net goal and it gave East Bay a 4-0 cushion.

Despite the score, Warwick battled all night, but they just couldn’t put the puck past Kopecky.

Toll Gate’s Jillian Walsh, a junior, had a chance in the first frame, but was denied, and then in the second period, the forward dangled towards the net before she was deterred by the East Bay defense.

Then, in the final three minutes of the third frame, Toll Gate junior defenseman Meaghan McCamish had three shots turned away, while Walsh saw another attempt denied, and Rose Flaherty, a senior defenseman, was also blocked out of a face off in the East Bay zone.

“I think we stuck with them for a lot of the time and we had our chances, but we just couldn’t finish it,” McCamish said. “She (Centracchio) saved us a lot of the time. I think we have a lot of potential. You can definitely tell that we hang in there for a lot longer as the games go on.”

Next, Warwick will travel to the RI Sports Center on Sunday, December 29th at 4:15 pm to face off against undefeated La Salle Academy (3-0). Warwick hopes to take another step forward once it arrives there.

“I think we kept the puck in their zone a decent amount of the time, but we just really need to capitalize on our opportunities when we get the puck on net and really bury the puck,” Walsh said. “But Mary definitely keeps us in the games.”

“We can only get better from here,” Walsh continued. “Every game that goes by, we just keep playing better as a team and we keep building our chemistry. We never give up, that’s one of our best qualities.”

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