Final Friday, Syracuse and Lock Haven performed a area hockey recreation at J.S. Coyne Area, one which opened the season for either side.
And it took precisely 20 seconds for Bo van Kempen to stamp her mark on the sport — if not the season. She scored six targets for Syracuse in a 15-0 shutout of Lock Haven. It was Syracuse’s most lopsided win since a 16-0 win over Georgetown in 2008.
If the Orangewomen and head coach Lynn Farquhar wished to ship a message to the pollsters who voted Syracuse because the No. 11 staff within the nation within the preseason, I feel that message was despatched on this contest.
Syracuse, since profitable its first and solely area hockey nationwide title within the snows of Ann Arbor again in 2015, has undergone a training change, gotten itself to the quarterfinal spherical on 4 events, however has but to make one other Closing 4.
Is that this a staff that might make it into elite standing? It’s potential. Together with the staff’s 14 abroad gamers are three incoming first-year gamers from the perfect scholastic program within the nation, Pottstown Hill Faculty (Pa.).
The expertise on this roster is why this website included the Orange in our preseason Fearless 6ix. However, as everyone knows, a nationwide title can’t be gained in August. There will likely be plenty of street journeys, discussions about video referrals, and cranium periods between now and the beginning of the convention event season.
And plenty of room for enchancment.
