Montreal, Canada - December 12 - The Women's Senior National Team continued their winning streak as they took down China 8-6 on the second day of the Canada Cup. Rachel Fattal (Seal Beach, CA/UCLA/SOCAL) led the way on offense for Team USA with three goals. Amanda Longan (Moorpark, CA/USC/SB 805) and Gabby Stone (La Jolla, CA/Stanford/NYAC) split time in goal with Longan notching five saves and Stone recording two. Canada Cup action continues tomorrow with Team USA taking on host Canada at 4:00 PM PT. Click here to watch or click here to follow with live stats.

Team USA jumped out of the gate as they scored three straight goals led by Fattal with two to take a 3-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. To start the second quarter Aria Fischer and Maddie Musselman scored back-to-back goals to increase the lead to 5-0. China would fight back scoring two late goals as Team USA took a 5-2 advantage at halftime. 

Sensing the momentum China scored several minutes into the third quarter to narrow Team USA's advantage to 5-3, but Fattal quickly answered on the power play to increase the lead back to 6-3 which is where it stood at the end of the third quarter. One minute into the fourth quarter Stephania Haralabidis would put Team USA up by four goals at 7-3, but China responded with three straight goals to get right back in the game with two minutes left. Jordan Raney put to bed any idea of a Chinese comeback as she scored a power play goal with :48 seconds left as Team USA won 8-6 extending their winning streak to 61 games.

Team USA went 2/9 on power plays and 0/1 on penalty shots while Russia went 2/7 on power plays and 1/1 on penalty shots.
 
Scoring
USA 8 (3, 2, 1, 2) R. Fattal 3, M. Musselman 1, M. Steffens 1, S. Haralabidis 1, A. Fischer 1, J. Raney 1
CHN 6 (0, 2, 1, 3)  Z. Jing 2, M. XiaoHan 1,  L. Yiwen 1, W. Huan 1, Z. Danyi 1
6x5 - USA - 2/9 - CHN - 2/7
Saves - USA - A. Longan - 5 - G. Stone - 2 - CHN - S. Yineng 11
Penalties - USA - 0/1 - CHN - 1/1