Park girls’ hockey wins first three, then falls

Posted 11/23/22

Host Mounds View/Irondale snapped Park’s season- opening winning streak at three with a 2-0 victory at the National Sports Center Saturday. Mounds View scored twice in the second period for the …

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Park girls’ hockey wins first three, then falls

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Host Mounds View/Irondale snapped Park’s season- opening winning streak at three with a 2-0 victory at the National Sports Center Saturday.

Mounds View scored twice in the second period for the game’s only goals.

Tori Stepka took the loss in goal but stopped 25 of 27 shots by Mounds View skaters. Mounds View outshot Park by a single attempt, 2726.

Park slipped to 3- on the season and 1-1 in the Suburban East Conference. Mounds View/Irondale won its first game, going to 1-1-1 and 1-1 in the conference.

Park 3, White Bear Lake 2 Park scored twice in the final period to edge visiting White Bear Lake 3-2 in a Suburban East Conference game Tuesday, Nov. 15. Cassidy Moen got the Wolfpack started with a first-period goal off assists from Alyssa Hill and Morgan Kelsey.

Park and White Bear Lake (0-2) were tied at 1-all after one period and neither team scored in the second.

Park took a 2-1 lead in the third of a goal from Molly Villas. Taylar Nadler and Maggie Jensen got the assists. White Bear Lake came back a minute and a half later to tie the game at 2-all.

Natalie Post then drove home the game winning on an even strength goal, with Josie Leonard gaining the assist.

Tori Stepka got the win in the net, stopping 26 of 28 shots for a .929 save ratio. Park 9, Rochester Century 0 Sophomore Kyra Stofer and senior Molly Villas each got a hat trick as Park routed visiting Rochester Century (2-2) Friday in a non-conference contest.

Villas got the offense started with a short handed goal to open the game, just 2:25 into the first period. Maggie Jensen, Stofer and Sam Miller then scored lifting Park to a 4-0 advantage after one period.

Stofer and Villas both scored twice in the second period and Cassidy Moen added the ninth goal of the game. Park outshot the visitors 40-12 in the contest.

Sophomore Aubree Laska and junior Tori Stepka split time in the net for the Wolfpack, with Laska recording seven saves in 34 minutes and Stepka stopping five shots in 17 minutes.

The Wolfpack host rival Woodbury Tuesday, Nov. 29, in their next SEC contest.


Park’s Alyssa Hill attacks the Rochester Centry goal in Park’s 9-0 win Friday. Photo by Steve Rooker