The Paris Independent
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February 10, 2024
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Female Panthers edge out Eagles 4-3 in high school hockey action Paris Panthers Hockey Report with George Le Gresley
passed the puck to Sidney Kipp who took a shot from the blue line that soared into the top left corner of the net and a 3-2 lead. A minute later St John’s tied the game and the period ended in a three all tie.
The pressure for the Eagle offence to take a lead in the Paris end was high with Paris goalie Coates also dealing with the pressure of keeping the opponents off the score board. With 1:15 left in the third period, Girls Hockey Faith Smith scores to take a 4-3 lead, with assists to Meghan Dobson and Sydney Kipp. St. John’s pulled their goalie for a player advantage, On Wednesday, the Panther Girls but time ran out and the Panthers side won the game. Next up is BCI on Hockey team (5W-4L) met the St Feb 12 at 3 PM and McKinnon Park on Feb. 14 at 2:30 pm, both games John’s Eagles (4w-3l) at the Gretzky at the Brant Sports Complex. Centre. Boys Hockey The Eagles came out the gate storming in the Paris offensive zone The 2- 5 Paris Panthers definitely had a big challenge this past for the first five minutes, challenging Thursday, when they faced St. John’s, who play a fast and aggressive goalie Kenzie Coates to make some style of hockey are undefeated this season. big saves. St John’s opens the scoring The first period started out to be all St. John’s who was flooding the and Paris’ Scout Hergott-Leader took Panther end of the rink and forcing Panther goalie Brendan Seibert to a pass from Rowan Worral to tie the make quite a few difficult saves. Seven minutes in the period, the score at 1. St. John’s took the lead Eagles score to take a 1-0 lead. Max Koekork and Jacob Woloshin had with 4:35 left in the 1st period to take scoring opportunities, but failed to get it past the Eagles goalie a 2-1 lead. Overall, the Eagle’s offence spent a good part of the The second period was dominated by St. John’s, with goalie Seibert period in the Paris end. keeping the puck in front of the goal line. At the end of the second period the Panthers trailed 1-0. The second period St John’s offence was swarming the Paris end of the The third period began with the Panthers trailing 1-0 and St John’s rink, until Melia Montoya-Martin continued their offensive barrage to scored two unanswered goals to and Rowan Worral swarmed the make the scores 3-0. The Panthers scored a goal with less than a minute Eagle goalie and Scout Hergott- in period off the stick of Austin Hall for a final score of 3-1. Leader took the puck that rebounded off the goalie pad to tie the score at 2. With 2:39 left in the second period, the Eagles take a penalty and 17 seconds later Emma Ahlberg
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