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his lungs when the puck hit the back of the net, breaking the ice for the fourth time and shifting the momentum for his team.

As the game progressed just under halfway into a five-minute overtime period, one of the team’s six first-year students, Adam Kaplan, buried the gamewinning goal on the team’s 46th shot to reach second round of the playoffs against Desert Vista.

With the team riding high, Miscio told his team to bottle up their adrenaline following the big win and take a big slurp of it the following night when Notre Dame had its date with Desert Vista.

The game proved to be another challenge with another hot goaltender but senior goaltender Ethan Hatzung was equally as hot, stopping all 40 shots he faced.

Forward Reed Gramlich pulled the puck between his legs and lifted it over the goaltender, scoring his third goal of the playoffs and second big goal of the playoffs.

Fresh off of two tight playoff wins, Miscio’s priorities shifted to a rematch of last year’s state championship against top-seeded Pinnacle High School. (The game was scheduled for yesterday, Feb. 12. For an update see Scottsdale.org.)

“We got them last year and they were the top seed last year,” he said. “We broke down film among the four coaches and while Pinnacle is a dynamic team, the matchup is going to be 100% heart and the weapon that I think we have is that I am blessed with an incredible group of partners as a coaching staff and we will have a few systems that we are going to try to implement throughout the game.”

Miscio underscores the pride he has with his team.

“I started to cry after our game against Desert Vista and I told them ‘thank you for making an old man happy,’” he said “With what we’ve done with a younger crew and my impetus of coaching is what’s next in life and what can I do with this young man after his senior year even if he never plays hockey again after his senior year. “One of the biggest lessons we learned this year was that you have to learn how to lose to be a winner and as long as they walk off that ice with their heads held high, that’s what matters to me.”

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Women take center stage in this film fest

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

The Worldwide Women’s Film Festival is returning next weekend with more than 120 films. Beginning Friday, Feb. 18 at Harkins Theatres Shea 14 in Scottsdale, the twoand-a-half-day festival will feature films across a wide variety of categories, including shorts, documentaries, features and music videos. Also on tap are interactive workshops, an after party and the famous filmmaker’s breakfast.

“We are back,” festival President Kim Heunecke exclaimed. “We took 2021 off because of the pandemic but we are ready to show amazing films by filmmakers that tell a woman’s point of view,”

Now that the world is seemingly safer for in-person events, Heunecke is anxious to pick up where the festival left off in 2020.

“Women are making strides in the enter-

Ashley Maria and Lea-Ann Woodward Brest were on the red carpet for the Worldwide Women’s Film Festival in 2020. (Special to the Progress) tainment industry, but we still have a way to go,” she said. “There’s women behind the scenes that really don’t get recognized that much and it’s validation to recognize women for doing amazing work.” Heunecke also believes the festival serves is the perfect venue for displaying women filmmakers’ unique ways of telling stories cinematically.

“Women tell stories differently than men because it seems like women are more willing to go after tough or difficult subjects,”she said. However, there are films in the festival that are directed by men as the requirements for a film to make it in the festival are that woman play a principal role behind the camera – such as director, cinematographer, producer, screenwriter, sound, music or wardrobe – or the film must have a woman-centered story.

“We think those are easy and attainable

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Velvet-voiced Tierney Sutton presenting Valley concert

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Talk about the golden touch. Jazz singer Tierney Sutton and her band have received a Grammy nomination for each of their past eight albums and a ninth nomination for an arrangement on one of them. “I don’t know if it will ever happen again, but it’s a lovely thing, for sure,” Sutton said. “For me, it’s having a credit that my father would understand, because he was always worrying, ‘Is she any good at this?’” And, legendary movie actor-director Clint Eastwood, who calls Sutton “my favorite singer,” commissioned her and the band in 2016 to create the original score and perform the soundtrack for his box-office smash hit, “Sully,” starring Tom Hanks,

The Tierney Sutton Band, nominated for nine Grammys and commissioned by Clint Eastwood to score his hit film “Sully,” come to North Scottsdale at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 19 to perform a Lakeshore Music concert at Ravenscroft Hall. Band members (from left) are Kevin Axt on bass, Christian Jacob on piano, Tierney Sutton on vocals, Trey Henry on bass and Ray Brinker on drums. (Scott Mitchell/Special to GetOut) of the true jazz fans in the film world,” she said. Soon, Valley audiences also can experience her smooth voice and jazz stylings when Lakeshore Music presents the blockbuster Tierney Sutton Band at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19, at Ravenscroft Hall, Arizona’s stunning new state-of-the-art concert venue. Tickets, priced at $60, are moving fast and a sellout is expected at Ravenscroft, 8445 E. Hartford Drive, Scottsdale. Tickets are at akeshoremusic.org.

The New York Times describes Sutton as “a serious jazz artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level.” Another big fan is Woody Wilson, founder, president and executive director of seeLAKESHORE page 40