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Arlington U14, Lexington/Bedford U14, Medford U14, Waltham U14, Concord/Carlisle U14

Arlington, Mass. - On a cold, stormy weekend in Charlestown the Arlington under-10 girls displayed awesome teamwork and perseverance to win the annual McGoff Christmas Classic tournament.

All weekend, tournament Most Valuable Player Katherine Crane was outstanding in net allowing only six goals in four games. Crane's timely saves, coupled with an unbelievably strong defensive effort from Courtney Kelly, Maggie Kelly, Lyndsey Smith, Avery Eisenheim and Julie Foran, helped lead the team to the championship game on a blustery, wintry Sunday morning.

In the round robin games, Ryan Moran scored two goals against Winchester with assists credited to Allison Britt and Jessica Cammarano. Smith completed the scoring with a fabulous individual effort that involved skating past four Winchester defenders. Katherine Crane preserved the 3-0 shutout with many great saves in the third period.

Despite a 2-1 loss to Charlestown, Arlington played great team defense and had many opportunities to tie the game. Smith scored the lone goal on one of her signature coast-to-coast rushes. The offensive trio of Mackenzie Stueve, Jillian Danton, and Lexie Kindle played a strong game for the Spy Ponders. In Arlington's third game, Reading defeated Arlington 3-1 in an exciting match-up. Arlington's solo goal of this game was credited to Anastasia Siegel with the assists attributed to Bridget Crane and Julie Enos.

In a thrilling climax to the weekend Arlington qualified for the championship game based on a goal differential tie-breaker between Winchester and Charlestown. The girls were delighted to land in the championship game and were eager to avenge their earlier loss to undefeated Reading.

Forty-five seconds into the game Kayla Dibiase opened the scoring for Arlington with assists credited to Molly Stanton and Ysa Campbell-Breen. Once again the defense lead by Courtney Kelly, Maggie Kelly, Avery Eisenheim, Ryan Moran and Lyndsey Smith were simply amazing in thwarting Reading's strong offense. Reading scored late in the second period on a deflected shot from the point. Reading rode this momentum into the third period, however Katherine Crane was up to the challenge frustrating Reading by casting aside many scoring opportunities.

With overtime looming, Arlington's Catherine Malatesta scored what proved to be the game and championship winning goal with four minutes remaining with the assist credited to Allison Britt.

Lexington/Bedford U-12 girls defended their Championship at the West Roxbury Blizzard Tournament!

2007-2008 Melrose Girl's U14 Hockey- (front), Goalie-Anna Kleis,- (first row L to R), Alex McPherson, Melissa Giordano, Lydia Mays, Samantha "Sam" Giordano, Haley Gorman, Anna Morgan-(back row L to R), Coach Gorman, Makayla Lucey, Erin Carney, Justine Johnson, Sarah McGowan, Allison Foley, Ali Duplin, Meredith MacLeod, Coach Kleis, Coach Giordano Missing from picture-Sarah Rose & Coach "Mo"

After tying their opening game against Reading 4-4 on Saturday during Columbus Day weekend, the girl's stormed back to win all 3 games on Sunday, against Nashua (5-1), Chelmsford (3-1) and Walpole (3-1). On championship Monday, the girl's once again faced the Panthers of Nashua in what became one of the most exciting games in Melrose girl's hockey history. The game was tied 1-1 going into the 3rd period when the Panthers struck and tallied their second goal with only 2:47 left to go. Undaunted, Coach Scott Giordano and the team gathered themselves together. With a calculated risk, Coach Giordano pulled the goal- tender with only about a minute remaining. The risk paid off as Melrose scored their second goal to tie with only 23 seconds left in the period. The time ticked down and the buzzer sounded sending the game into over-time. Four exhausting over-time periods and many opportunities later, Melrose's Makayla Lucey streaked across the middle of the ice and buried the puck into the back of the Panther's net, sending the Melrose fan's, teammate's and coach's into a well deserved 3-2 win celebration!