WATERTOWN — After falling to Shrewsbury within the Div. 1 women hockey ultimate final season, St. Mary’s coach Frank Pagliuca had practically a completely new roster to work with this season.
Fortunately for the Spartans, they’ve Bella Freitas and Gianna Tringale on their facet.
Freitas scored each St. Mary’s (21-3-1) objectives on Thursday, together with the sport winner on an influence play with 3:24 left in regulation, whereas Tringale stopped 25 of 26 Colonials pictures to offer the Spartans a 2-1 win and a spot in Sunday’s state semifinals.
“This basically was a brand new group this season and I’m extremely proud of how they’ve fought all season,” Pagliuca stated.
Tringale was on her recreation all evening because the Colonials (13-5-5) simply might have had a two- or three-goal lead by way of two durations. Her outstanding save on Natalie MacCausland’s shot at a yawning web early within the second interval was adopted moments later by Freitas changing off a Shrewsbury turnover in its personal finish.
The defending champions weren’t fairly able to give up their crown as MacCausland sniped a wrist shot contained in the left publish simply 101 seconds into the third to tie the sport.
It was nonetheless tied at one with slightly below 5 minutes left when Shrewsbury took a penalty. The Spartans confirmed nice endurance and puck motion as they labored the puck lastly all the way down to Freitas, who was in a position to elevate a backhander over Risa Montoya’s glove for the game-winner.
“Gianna played tremendous. She let that first one in and didn’t let it bother her,” Pagliuca stated. “And Bella was just tremendous. They were physical with her all game and she stayed with it.”
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