Female Chiefs drop four straight

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Published on Thursday, November 3, 2016

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Early season injuries have hampered the Yellowhead AAA Midget Female Chiefs. The team has yet to ice a full line up for league play and the learning curve for the young players has included some adversity. On Wednesday, Oct. 19, the Chiefs hosted the Westman Wildcats.

The western Manitoba rivals played to a 2-2 tie after two periods with the Chiefs taking the lead in the first period on a goal by Sydnee DeCorby. However, the Wildcats would tie the game on a 5-on-3 power-play late in the period.  Westman would take the lead on the power-play again late in the second period.  Cass Lyttle added a goal to tie the game with two minutes to go in the second. The Chiefs were unable to keep pace in the third and surrendered to late third period goals and lost 4 -2.

Yellowhead would have a week and a half between games, as they didn’t play again until Sunday Oct. 30 when they hosted the Pembina Valley Hawks.  Looking for a good start to the game to find their legs, the Chiefs unfortunately found themselves down 3-0 after one period of play.  In the second, they came out strong and scored one of their own on a nice individual effort from Karli Frederick in the slot as she dangled past two defencemen and roofed a shot on the goaltender’s blocker side.  A fluke goal from behind the net that bounced over everyone and landed on a Pembina Valley stick, put the Chiefs down 4-1 as the second period ended.  In the third, the team again could not get the wind back in their sails and allowed one more goal, to fall 5 -1.

These two losses dropped the Chiefs record to 4-4-0 on the season. Yellowhead hits the road to Portage la PRairie this weekend for a pair of games against the Central Plains Capitals