USA Women Top Italy 13-10 At Canada Cup
12/5/2009 12:00:00 AM
Montreal, Canada - December 5 - The USA Women's Senior National Team made it back to back victories with a 13-10 win over Italy last night on day three of the Canada Cup. It was another balanced scoring attack for the United States that saw four players score two goals each. The win sets up a rematch with Italy today in the semi-finals of the event at 3:00pm est/12pm pst.
It was a high scoring first period as Italy got out to a 5-4 lead after one despite American goals from Juliet Moss, Melissa Seidemann, Forel Davies, and Courtney Mathewson. In the second period Team USA rebounded to take an 8-6 advantage going to halftime after getting another four goals, this time from Lauren Wenger, Jillian Kraus, Kiley Neushul, and Maggie Steffens.
In the third period the United States opened up a 10-6 lead with 6:10 to go in the period only to have Italy work their way back to within a score when they closed to 10-9 with just :18 remaining in the period. That was the score moving to the fourth period, and it was early in the fourth that Italy would come all the way back tying the game at 10-10 with 4:58 remaining in the game.
That would be as close as Italy would come on this night as the United States proceeded to pull away with three straight goals from Moss, Seidemann, and Michelle Stein to take the 13-10 victory.
USA 13 (4, 4, 2, 3) M. Seidemann 2, J. Moss 2, L. Wenger 2, J. Kraus 2, F. Davies 1, K. Neushul 1, M. Steffens 1, M. Stein 1, C. Mathewson 1
ITA 10 (5, 1, 3, 1) R. Blanconi 2, G. Emmolo 2, A. Garlbotti 2, T. Frassinetti 1, A. Bosello 1, E. Casanova 1, S. Abbate 1
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