Campbell earns shut out with Mustangs' win over Warriors

Box Score After an exciting and historic win yesterday over the Laurier Golden Hawks 7-2, The Mustangs came out looking to prove themselves as a team once again versus the Waterloo Warriors. With another outstanding performance by 2^nd year veteran Kelly Campbell, the Mustangs were able to shut out the Warriors to win the game 3-0 and extend their season record to 2-0.

Campbell wasn’t the only star of the game, as rookie Cassidy Gosling opened the scoring for Western with only 15 seconds remaining in the first period, assisted by Stacey Scott and Kendra Deller. Now it isn’t unfamiliar to have these three forwards appear on the same game sheet, as they used to play on the same line with their former team, the London Junior Devilettes.

“Cassidy Gosling is unbelievable, as soon as I had Kendra Deller and Stacey Scott on the team last year I was going after Gosling,” said head coach Chris Higgins, who has previously coached the players on the London Jr. Devilettes team. With 2 goals against Laurier and another against Waterloo, Gosling places herself as not only one of the leading scorers on the team, but in the OUA league.

Fellow line mate Stacey Scott scored halfway into the second period, splitting the defence and picking up her own rebound, putting the Mustangs up by 2. With penalty difficulty on each end, both teams had to rely on their power play units to keep them in the game. The Mustangs held the lead at 2-0 going into the third.

With another well-fought period, Western’s Captain Carly Rolph showed her experience as a veteran and scored the Mustangs' third and final goal of the game. Goaltender Kelly Campbell took her shut out with 30 saves in the game; only 5 less then the Western shooters would take. Western was able to come out with 2 wins this weekend, but they are still looking to improve as the season continues.

“All we have to solve is our penalty problem, if we can solve that we can be that team to beat,” coach Higgins commented.

The Mustangs now prepare for next weekend’s home games against Brock Badgers and Guelph Gryphons. Both matchups start at 4:00pm at Thompson Arena on Saturady, October 13 and Sunday, October 14.

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