Northville Mustangs

The Mustangs beat the Walled Lake Wild Wednesday night, 8-2. The game got off to a slow start, but the Mustangs finally got on the scoreboard at 5:23 when Andrea Soloko took the puck down the ice and backhanded it into the net past the Walled Lake goalie. Assists are credited to Meredith Ponder and Amy Cauzillo. At 2:14 Laura Zima received a penalty for crosschecking and with 10 seconds to go in the penalty, Sam Pope received a pass from Andrea Soloko and Bridget Hughes to score the first short-handed goal of the night. Andrea Soloko added another goal to the scoreboard at 9:10 in the second. At 4:47 Andrea Soloko took the puck down unassisted and shorthanded. She took a shot from the blue line that raced past the Wild goalie to make the score 4-0. But Soloko hadnt quite finished yet, just 45 seconds later she got another goal in the same penatly making that her fourth goal for the night and the team's 3rd shorthanded goal. Two minutes later Heather Cox got her first goal of the season in a scramble in front of the net. At intermission teh score was 6-0. Walled Lake started out the third period strong scoring two goals before Northville's Amy Cauzillo finished the game off with two goals of her own. Assists on her goals were given to Anjali Saran, Megan Beger and Sam Pope. The Mustangs played very well outshooting the Wild 55-10. Congratulations Girls! We play Grosse Pointe North next Saturday at Viking Arena. Be sure to attend as these two rivals face off for teh final league game of the season. Northville beat GPN 6-4 in the Liggett Tournement and GPN beat Northville 2-1 during league play. This will be the tie-breaker game of the season.