X-Women and Aigles Bleues to face off in AUS final

The #2 seeded X-Women hockey team are off to the AUS championship game after a 3-1 semi-final win over #3 St. Thomas Tommies Saturday evening in Charlottetown.

The X-Women will meet the #1 ranked Universite de Moncton Aigles Bleues as they vie for their fourth AUS title in the past five years.

The X-Women had a late first period power play goal from veteran forward Christina Davis to give them a 1-0 lead over the Tommies after one period of play. Jessica Shanahan and Laura grant assisted on the play.

The second period started with two quick goals from the blue and white to quickly establish a 3-0 advantage. AUS all-time leading scorer Brayden Ferguson popped a goal just 30 seconds into the period, Shanahan and Suzanne Fenerty notched assists. This was quickly followed by Carolyn Campbell goal at the 1:02 mark. Rookie Erin Brophy earned the assist on the Campbell goal. 

Catherine Boudreau put the Tommies on the board later in the second period, scoring at the 15:19 mark but this is the only goal StFX netminder Melissa Murphy would allow as the 3-1 lead held through the third period.

Murphy earned 11 saves in nets as the X-Women out shot the Tommies by a 28-12 margin. Julia Sharun took the loss in nets for St. Thomas.

The AUS defending champion X-Women will now meet Moncton in the championship game taking place at 2:00 pm Sunday in PEI. Moncton has one AUS title to their credit, in 2006-07. They earned their ticket to the championship game with a 4-1 semi-final win over Dalhousie.

Both teams have already secured a spot in the CIS championship taking place March 19-22 at StFX University, but Sunday’s game is all about the pride of taking an AUS championship title with them. They are 2-2 in head-to-head regular season games this season, with all games being decided by a single goal, including one overtime and two shootout games.