Victory against Slovakia after extra time / Soccio with two goals
The U18 women's national team won the last game of the U18 Women's Ice Hockey World Championship Division I in Hungary 2:3 after extra time (0:1; 1:1; 1:0; 1:0) against Slovakia and thus secured second place Place.
Both teams gave each other nothing from the first second. Despite a slight superiority of the opponents, U18 women's national coach Tommy Kettner saw some good chances for his team. With a goal in the 8th minute of the game, the Slovakian team was able to take the lead before the first break.
But the DEB-Selection was undeterred and equalized through Kelsey Soccio just five minutes after the start of the second half of the game. They were able to put more and more pressure on the Slovaks as the game progressed, but once again it was their opponents who restored the old distance with a deflected shot.
In the final period, the German U18s gained more and more of the game and were finally able to reward their work with Vena Kanters' equalizer in the 53rd minute. With the score at 2:2 at the end of regular time, it was Kelsey Soccio again who sealed the final score of 3:2 from a German perspective with her second goal of the afternoon and thus secured the silver medal for her team!
Tommy Kettner, U18 women's national coach: “We dominated the game from the second third onwards and in the end we really deserved second place. Of course it's annoying when you consider that we missed the climb by a whisker. It's pleasing that you can see a lot of development within the team. The field of participants gets stronger every year and gets closer together. We have to keep pushing hard to get back into the top division.”
Germany: May (denier) – Brendl, Botthof; Nix, Haider, Soccio – Sabus, Schmitz; Feldmeier, Eicher, Kaiser – Herzmann; Amort, Swikull, Kanters – Heller, Schwammborn, Clauberg
Goals: 0:1 (07:44) V.Maskalova (R.Kosecka, T.Korenkova); 1:1 (25:09) K.Soccio (E.Nix, C.Haider); 1:2 (34:31) T.Korenkova (R.Kosecka, T.Istocyova); 2:2 (52:34 / PP1) V.Kanters (L.Kaiser); 3:2 (61:54) K.Soccio (E.Nix)
Penalty minutes: Germany 4 – Slovakia 6