Mo-Beard Girls Hockey

Ask a Morris County Hockey fan to name the undefeated teams still left in Morris and they’ll probably get two out of three correct. Actually, they may not even know about the third. Sure, Kinnelon and Roxbury have unblemished records as of January 6th, but look no further and I’ll let you in on a little secret.

Morristown-Beard’s girl hockey program currently stands at 7-0-1 about one-third through the way through the season. More impressively, the Crimson have recorded four shutouts through December and have knocked down two consecutive shutout victories. The ladder, a 3-0 win at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

• Morristown-Beard 3, Hill School 0 (7-0-1)
• Morristown-Beard 5, Holton Arms 0 (6-0-1)
• Morristown-Beard 2, Shady Side 2 (5-0-1)
• Morristown-Beard 7, Pingry 0 (5-0)
• Morristown-Beard 5, Princeton 3 (4-0)
• Morristown-Beard 5, Summit 1 (3-0) *non-league
• Morristown-Beard 3, Princeton 0 (2-0)
• Morristown-Beard 4, Portledge 3 (1-0)
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The Crimson, lead by head coach Bruce Driver, have built up an early lead in the WIHLMA League. Morristown-Beard, 6-0-1, has a three point lead over Portledge, who they defeated 4-3 in the season opener. Portledge has only played four conference games and Shady Side, who is currently in fourth place with 1 point, has only played one, yes one, conference game thus far.

League play-offs to be held at Shady Side Academy on February 16-17, 2008 will include teams finishing 1-4 playing in the championship round and teams finishing 5-8 playing in the consolation round.

Standout keeper Allie Maffei has started six games in met and is 5-0-1 on the season only allowing five goals, while establishing an impressive 94.7% save percentage.

Seventeen Crimson players have already recorded a point or more on the season. Through seven games, two underclassman have emerged as the goal scoring leaders. Freshman Sarah Bayersdorfer and sophomore Katie Paine, both forwards, have found the net 13 and 5 times, respectively. Bayersdorfer adds 3 assists to her give her 14 points on the season while Paine has 5 assists for a total of 10 points.

Sophomore Samantha Vicari (3G, 6A) is third on the team in points with nine. Gina Maffei has a knack for setting up goals with 8 points. Junior defenseman, Lavinia Kronberg, freshman Alyssa Bufis and senior Brittany Deventer all have seven points.

You can see the Crimson Monday, January 7 against Summit. They also face Pingry on January 10^th and Canterbery on the 16^th. These home games are held at Twin Oaks at 5:15.

(Photos compliments of a Summit parent who passed them along to Coach Driver.)