Macy parade

Staff

Published Friday, November 30, 2001

OWATONNA - The Albert Lea High School girls' hockey team had a plan on how to stop Lindsay Macy, Owatonna's talented, high-scoring junior.

Friday, November 30, 2001

OWATONNA - The Albert Lea High School girls' hockey team had a plan on how to stop Lindsay Macy, Owatonna's talented, high-scoring junior.

It just didn't work.

Macy netted five goals as the Tigers lost 6-1 in a key Big Nine game at Owatonna Thursday night.

"We had a strategy to contain Macy, but we didn't execute it very well until it was too late," said Tigers coach Mike Miller. "She alone was the difference in the game."

Four of Macy's goals were coast-to-coast rushes, according to Miller, and the other was a wrap-around score on a power play.

Despite Macy's scoring clinic, Miller felt the game was closer than the score indicates and that the Tigers aren't that far away from competing with the defending section champion Huskies.

The Tigers' Tessa Christensen tied it six minutes into the game, with Laura Hillman assisting, and it was 1-1 until four minutes left in the first period. But the Huskies led 4-1 entering the second.

"It wasn't as bad as it looks," said Miller. "We just started out poorly. It was just the little things we needed to do to shut (Macy) down, and we didn't."

Danika Porter was again in the net for the Tigers, who had 25 shots on goal to 28 for the Huskies. Albert Lea had six power plays to Owatonna's three.

"The girls learned throughout the game," said Miller. "We just didn't do the job in the first period as well as we could have. When we get that experience, we will be very competitive with that team. We can skate with them, no doubt about it. They just have one very good player who made the difference tonight."

The Tigers, 3-2 overall and 2-2 in the Big Nine, meet Luverne in a nonconference game at the City Arena Tuesday.

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