College of St. Scholastica’s Stegora and Thomeczek
Sweep NCHA Women’s Hockey Weekly Honors
College of St. Scholastica junior Emily Stegora (F - Red Wing, Minn.) is the NCHA Women’s Offensive Player of the Week and freshman teammate Lexi Thomeczek (G - St. Louis, Mo.) is the NCHA Women’s Defensive Player of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday.
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Stegora is the NCHA Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season after the role she played in her team securing a key weekend sweep in league play. After being held without a goal since November 22nd, Stegora recorded three goals against St. Norbert College. Stegora scored the lone goal of Friday night’s 1-0 win, intercepting a Green Knight pass and beating the goaltender 1-on-1. She then added two goals in Saturday’s 5-0 victory.
Thomeczek gives her team a third different NCHA Defensive Player of the Week honoree this season after the flawless effort she put in during the Saints sweep of St. Norbert. Just a freshman, Thomeczek registered a pair of shutouts, stopping a total of 48 shots for the weekend. Thomeczek held the Green Knights to an 0-for-9 showing on the power play and now has shutouts in the last three games she has started, moving to a perfect 4-0-0 on the year.
In other league action, Adrian College was very impressive, outscoring its opponents by a combined tally of 32-2 in a 3-0 week. With the victories, the Bulldogs moved up a spot in each national poll and have climbed to No. 3 in both. Lake Forest College again kept pace, getting by Concordia University Wisconsin in a pair of much closer games, with scorelines of 3-0 and 2-1. The Foresters now sit ranked No. 6 by USCHO.com and No. 7 by D3Hockey.com. With the offensive outburst, Adrian now holds the top three spots in the nation in points per game: Kaylyn Schroka (17-25-42), Sarah Shureb (18-20-38) and Kristin Lewicki (14-22-36).
2016-17 NCHA WEEKLY TOP PERFORMERS
Jacque Rogers, Lake Forest
Rogers was nearly perfect in goal as Lake Forest swept a series at Concordia Wisconsin over the weekend. After making a career-high 32 saves in a 3-0 shutout on Friday, she stopped 21 of 22 shots on goal in Saturday’s 2-1 come-from-behind triumph.
Kaylyn Schroka, Adrian
The points continued to add up for Schroka, who recorded an 11-point week in leading Adrian to three runaway victories against Finlandia University (2 games) and Northland College. She finished with six goals, five assists and 27 shots taken.
Sydney Smith, Adrian
Part of a defense that allowed just two goals in three games while also playing a heavy role on the offensive side of the puck, scoring three goals and recording five assists in a 3-0 week.