Vernon U12B Lightning traveled to Kelowna on Saturday to play the Kelowna U12A team.
The final score of 7-4 for Kelowna did not show how close the game really was.
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Vernon’s Lucia Manton opened the scoring from defense with an assist to Avery Smith and then Avery Smith popped one in to end the first period at a 4-2 score. In the second period Smith had her second goal assisted by Abby Mahortoff and Manton added another goal with assists to Rory Lang and Theryn Petty.
The score was 6-4 at this time but Kelowna scored one final goal with 30 seconds left in the game.
Kassidy Peterson played a great game in net making a number of strong saves.
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