The U18 AAA Lloydminster Steelers made the most of their lone game last weekend in the Alberta Female Hockey League.
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On Friday night at the Cenovus Energy Hub in Lloydminster, the Steelers blanked the Sherwood Park Reign 5-0. It was the fourth consecutive league victory for Lloyd (4-2), and ninth straight win overall.
Sawyer Mackay, a 17-year-old forward from Irma, scored her first three regular-season goals since joining Lloyd this year from the Northern Alberta Xtreme U18 prep program. Mackay completed her hat trick with two third-period goals, giving her five points after six league games.
ROOKIE GOALIE ZIDAR POSTS FIRST SHUTOUT
Kenzie Zidar, a 15-year-old rookie from Lloydminster, stopped 25 shots to record her first shutout — and second victory — in regular-season play with the Steelers.
Karsyn Woytiuk, a 15-year-old forward from Lloydminster, scored a goal and assisted on two others. Mya MacDonald, an Edmonton blueliner, netted her first goal in six league games with Lloyd. Hometown forward Peyton Oborowsky, with two assists, also recorded her initial points with the U18 AAA Steelers.
Lloyd registered 25 shots against Sherwood Park goaltender Ashlyn Cottreau.
With a 1-4 record, the Reign are last in the eight-team provincial league.
This weekend, third-place Lloydminster plays two home games at the Hub, both against the No. 5 Red Deer Chiefs (3-3). The teams face off at 1:15 p.m. Saturday and again at 11:15 a.m. Sunday.
After losing twice on the opening weekend of the regular season, Lloyd hasn’t lost in nine games. That streak includes a 5-0 performance in winning the Canadian Crown tournament last month at Devon.
FOSTER REPRESENTS ALBERTA AT NATIONALS
In their latest win Friday, the Steelers played without one of their brightest talents, second-year rearguard and assistant captain Alivia Foster. The Lloydminster native, who turns 16 next week, was skating with Team Alberta in the Canadian under-18 women’s championship, which ran Nov. 2-8 at Mount Pearl and Conception Bay South, N.L.
The five-foot-10 Foster had an assist in Alberta’s second game, a 4-3 victory over Atlantic, the eventual silver-medallist.
Quebec defeated Atlantic 3-1 in the final.
In the seventh-place game, Alberta topped Saskatchewan 3-2 on an overtime goal from Evie Hanson, whose heroics in the Esso Cup helped the Edmonton Junior Oilers win that national U18 girls’ club championship last April
in Lloydminster.
At last week’s nationals, Alberta finished with a 2-3 record, including a 4-3 loss to Ontario Red in the quarter-finals.
In the bronze-medal game, Ontario Blue nipped Ontario Red 3-2 in overtime. Manitoba also worked overtime in defeating British Columbia 2-1 in the fifth-place game.
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