NEWTON — Her junior season hasn’t even began but for Phillips Academy, however Ava Murphy retains creating tidal waves within the nation’s newbie subject hockey group.
Just a month since already committing to final yr’s Division I title runner-up Liberty University, Murphy led a power-packed exhibiting from a few of the nation’s finest highschool athletes Tuesday evening within the Under Armour Select Game’s premier matchup at Boston College. Her two objectives stood above the remainder of the 30 rising upperclassmen invited from New England, the Mid-Atlantic or Mid-West, incomes her MVP honors as a part of Team Netherlands’ 5-3 win over Team USA.
It was simply one other spectacular accolade for the previous Rivers star, headlining a robust exhibiting from a bevy of Massachusetts student-athletes competing throughout the invitational’s two video games.
“It’s the coolest experience, I look forward to it every year,” Murphy stated after enjoying within the choose recreation for a 3rd time. “It’s definitely my biggest thing I look forward to in the year.”
Murphy was one in all eleven native gamers chosen to compete within the second recreation, because the state was well-represented regardless of the invitational sorting by way of over 300 gamers to construct rosters for the 2 matchups. That course of contains selecting the perfect gamers from the three showcases masking every area. Watertown phenom Molly Driscoll, Hopkinton’s Camille Perlov and Tabor Academy’s Ava Lomberto scored the three objectives for Team USA, whereas Bishop Feehan’s Ava Meehan additionally performed properly within the loss.
With a lot of the occasion’s coordination (College Connections) having ties to Boston College and UMass Amherst, it’s a hot-ticket invitational to many inside New England. Elise Sohn (Concord-Carlisle), Riley Thurston (Governor’s Academy), Caelie Patrick (Manchester-Essex), Emily Huehn (BB&N), Megan Fuqua (Noble & Greenough) and Ayla Hallock (Ashland) have been the opposite locals collaborating within the evening recreation, rounding out what former BC coach and College Connections subject hockey vp Ainslee Lamb prompt to be a typical exhibiting from Massachusetts.
This isn’t simply any yr, although, because the occasion continues to develop extra curiosity in every of the area’s showcases in its fifth yr. It’s additionally the yr Under Armour has made its greatest efforts towards selling it by turning into an official associate.
With over 140 schools viewing the showcases and the choose video games, Lamb is extremely excited over how this yr’s episode has turned out and what it means towards the expansion of selling girls in subject hockey.
“It’s so exciting to see young women treated like being elite … the event is so great,” she stated. “The showcases even in themselves provide incredible opportunity, and then to have the privilege to be invited to the Under Armour Select Game is just another opportunity. … This has been five years in the running and I would say every year it has gotten better and better and better.”
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