Commerce, CA - May 25 - The USA Women opened up their three game exhibition series against Hungary with a 14-9 victory in front of a national TV audience on Tuesday night at Brenda Villa Aquatic Center. Jordan Raney, Stephania Haralabidis and Makenzie Fischer powered Team USA on offense with three goals each while Ashleigh Johnson stood tall in net with 14 saves.
The two teams will
meet again at Woollett Aquatic Center in Irvine, CA tomorrow May 26 at 8:00 PM
ET/5:00 PM PT. All three games in the series will also be shown live on ESPNU
and the ESPN app. Live stats will also be provided by thefosh.net.
Team USA came
storming out of the gates to start this one as Makenzie Fischer and Maddie
Musselman struck to put the women up 2-0. Hungary would respond with a goal but
Team USA kept rolling as Raney scored three goals in a row to put Team USA up
5-1 at the end of the first. Team USA continued to shut down Hungary in the
second while also increasing their lead as Maggie Steffens fired in a goal
followed by two more as the USA Women built their lead up to 8-1. From there
the teams exchanged goals as Team USA led 10-3 at halftime.
Hungary quickly
responded after halftime with two power play goals to cut the deficit to 10-5.
Makenzie Fischer stopped the Hungarian run with a goal on the power play but
Hungary didn't give up as they outscored Team USA for the first time to cut the
USA lead to 12-6. Hungary continued their momentum in the final quarter as they
reeled off three straight goals including one from Krisztina Garda to trim Team
USA's lead to three at 12-9. Team USA regrouped though and stopped any thoughts
of a Hungarian comeback as Haralabidis and Makenzie Fischer scored again to
give the USA Women a 14-9 victory.
Team USA went 4/9 on
power plays and 1/1 on penalties while Hungary went 5/8 on power plays and 2/2
on penalties.
Scoring
USA 14 (5, 5, 2, 2)
HUN 9 (1, 2, 3, 3)
USA: J. Raney 3, S.
Haralabidis 3, M. Fischer 3, M. Musselman 1, R. Fattal 1, M. Steffens 1, A.
Fischer 1, K. Gilchrist 1
HUN: R. Keszthelyi 2,
D. Leimeter 2, K. Garda 2, V. Valyi 1, A. Illes 1, N. Rybanska 1
Saves - USA - A.
Johnson - 14 - HUN - A. Magyari - 5
6-on-5 - USA - 4/9 -
HUN- 5/8
Penalties - USA 1/1 -
HUN - 2/2
Referees - Danielle
Dabbaghian, Amber Drury
Greg Mescall
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