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Cardinals Girls Ice Hockey Team Defeated at home by FCIAC Foe Trumbull/St. Joseph

By David Fierro

Photo by David Fierro: Greenwich High School’s varsity girls ice hockey team hosted Trumbull/St. Joseph in an FCIAC game held at Dorothy Hamill Skating Rink in Greenwich. The Cardinals were defeated, 4-1. Lexi Lisjak moves the puck up the ice for Greenwich during this play against Trumbull/St. Joseph.

Greenwich High School’s girls ice hockey team’s 4-1 loss to Trumbull/St. Joseph on Jan. 3 certainly wasn’t the result of a lack of shots on goal from the Cardinals.

The Cardinals registered 40 shots on goal, while spending plenty of time applying pressure in Trumbull/St. Joseph’s zone during this FCIAC matchup. Unfortunately for the Cardinals, only one shot twisted the twine.

Visiting Trumbull/St. Joseph scored two first-period goals, then added two empty netters in the game’s final minute in a 4-1 victory over Greenwich at Dorothy Hamill Skating Rink. Trumbull/St. Joseph has a record of 2-2-1 overall and 1-1-1 in the FCIAC.

Photo by David Fierro: Greenwich High’s Mady Jones, right, gets ready to take a faceoff against Trumbull/St. Joseph.

Greenwich’s record stands at 2-5 overall 2-2 in FCIAC play. For Trumbull/St. Joseph, sophomore forward Emma Weiss recorded a hat trick and Sydney Micalizzi, also a sophomore forward, tallied one goal. The Cardinals’ goal came from sophomore forward Eleanor Fine. Her goal was assisted by senior forward/captain Aubrey Roth.

“The puck didn’t bounce our way,” Greenwich coach Doug Jebb said. “But the girls were showing a tremendous amount of improvement. We must have had 75, 80 percent of the play in their zone. Their goalie played really well. We just have to find a way to get the puck in the net.”

Lucy Kimberly, a junior, made 39 saves in goal for Trumbull/St. Joseph, which led 2-0 after the first and second periods.

Photo by David Fierro: Members of the Greenwich High School varsity hockey team gather prior to playing Trumbull/St. Joseph in an FCIAC matchup held at Dorothy Hamill Skating Rink. The Cardinals dropped a 4-1 decision.

“We ran into another really good goalie,” Jebb said. “She made some great saves and we had a couple of opportunities in which we shot it right into her glove. The goalies are good in the FCIAC.”

Greenwich held a 40-16 shots-on-goal advantage on the combined Trumbull/St. Joseph squad. Cardinals freshman goalie Eleanor Woolven also produced a stellar performance. Woolven made 14 saves and allowed only two goals, as two of the victors’ goals came on empty-netters.

The Cardinals outshot Trumbull/St. Joseph, 13-5, in the first period and also 13-5 in the second period. In the final period, as GHS scrambled in an attempt to tie the score, the hosts held a 14-1 shots-on-goal edge on the visitors.

Photo by David Fierro: Greenwich High’s varsity girls hockey team during a faceoff against Trumbull/St. Joseph.

“The skaters are responding to everything we are teaching them,” Jebb noted. “They’re on the puck, they’re aggressive.”

Trumbull/St. Joseph took a 1-0 lead on Greenwich with 9:02 remaining in the first period. Controlling the puck on a breakaway, Micalizzi snapped a shot from the left faceoff circle and the puck found its way inside the right post, giving Trumbull/St. Joseph a 1-0 advantage. Senior captain/defender Mara Ashby assisted on the game’s opening tally, as she moved the puck up the ice to Weiss.

Sophomore defender Sasha Yeterian, freshman Hailey Dreher, also a defender, Roth and freshman forward Miren Woolven each registered shots on goal in the opening period for the Cards.

Members of the Greenwich High School varsity girls hockey team gather prior to playing Trumbull/St. Joseph on Jan. 3, 2025.

Trumbull/St. Joseph began the second period on a power play, but fine defensive work by GHS kept it a 1-0 game. Roth, Miren Woolven and freshman forward Charlotte Dengl-Kelly each helped the home team keep the pressure on Trumbull/St. Joseph in the second period, getting the puck to the net. Senior defender Lexi Carino, Dreher and freshman forward Lily Bittman also threatened to score during the second period, yet it was tough to get the puck past Kimberly.

With just .03 seconds left in the second period, Trumbull/St. Joseph extended its advantage, beating the clock with a goal. Weiss got her stick on a loose puck right in front of net and tapped it home, making it 2-0 in favor of the visitors.

Photo by David Fierro: Cardinals freshman goalie Eleanor Woolven in action during a home game against Trumbull/St. Joseph on Jan. 3, 2025, at Dorothy Hamill Skating Rink in Greenwich.

Capitalizing on a power play, the Cards cut the Eagles’ lead in half. Fine knocked in a rebound, bringing GHS to within 2-1 with 1:47 remaining in the third period. Roth had the assist on the power play goal. At the 1:25 mark of the third period, Greenwich pulled Eleanor Woolven from goal, giving it a 6-on-5 advantage.

Greenwich produced a flurry of shots on goal, but couldn’t score the equalizer in the waning minutes of action. Meanwhile, Weiss got her hat trick by converting two empty net goals, making the final score 4-1.

Jebb was pleased with the Cardinals’ effort on both ends of the ice.

Greenwich goalie Eleanor Woolven and Carlyn Duffy (No. 21) in action versus Trumbull/St. Joseph.

“Defensively we played really well, we were aggressive on our offensive blue line crashing line, we were holding our own defensive,” Jebb noted. “This was our best game of breaking out the puck.”

Captained by Roth and Carino, Greenwich played Woodstock Academy today (Jan. 4) up at Pomfret School, then travels to Guilford on Jan. 7, before hosting FCIAC foe Stamford/Westhill/Staples on Jan. 9 at 8 p.m. at Dorothy Hamill Skating Rink.

The Cardinals varsity ice hockey team hosted Trumbull/St. Joseph in an FCIAC matchup held at Dorothy Hamill Skating Rink.

“We’ve lost five games and in four of the losses we’ve scored one or zero,” Jebb said. “But it will come, we’ve got a young team with 14 freshmen and sophomores. We are getting better every single day. It’s hard for the girls to understand when we are not posting the results, but the process is that we are getting better.”

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