{"id":37451,"date":"2026-01-08T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=37451"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:43:22","slug":"big-goal-van-berkel-notches-30th-of-the-season-in-junior-panthers-4-1-win-over-waterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/big-goal-van-berkel-notches-30th-of-the-season-in-junior-panthers-4-1-win-over-waterloo\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBig Goal\u201d Van Berkel notches 30th of the season in Junior Panthers\u2019 4-1 win over Waterloo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Annabella Van Berkel scored two goals and Catelyn Clark and Ellie Lewington added one each in the Junior Panthers\u2019 tidy 4-1 win over the Ravens in Waterloo on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central York opened the 2026 portion of its schedule with a spirited comeback win on the road featuring four unanswered goals. The victory in Waterloo improved the fifth-place club\u2019s record to 22-6-1-2 in the OWHA\u2019s 25-team Elite Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five minutes into the first period, the home side opened the scoring when Emma McCoubrey beat Panthers\u2019 netminder Jamie Sanford to stake Waterloo to an early 1-0 lead. However, the steady Sanford shut the door the rest of the way\u2014turning aside 19 of the 20 shots she faced– to enable her team\u2019s comeback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Berkel cued the comeback with her first goal of the game four minutes into the second period. The Panthers\u2019 leading scorer was set up by Abby Pak and Lily Paisley.  Pak\u2019s 14th assist of the season helped pull Central York even at 1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 2:05 remaining in the middle frame, the Junior Panthers took the lead when \u201cBig Goal\u201d Van Berkel\u2019s unassisted marker beat Ravens\u2019 goaltender Danica Averill.  The speedy centre\u2019s game-winning-goal was her 30th of the season.  Van Berkel\u2019s milestone marker moved her into second in the U22 Elite Division\u2019s goal-scoring race. She trails frontrunner Madeline McCullough of the Etobicoke Dolphins by only three. Van Berkel also holds down tenth place in the OWHA scoring race with 39 points in 28 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Van Berkel\u2019s scoring heroics in the second period, a pair of timely goals in the final frame sealed the road victory for Central York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catelyn Clark\u2019s power play goal seven minutes into the third period\u2014set up by Paisley\u2019s second assist of the game–staked the visitors to a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellie Lewington\u2019s unassisted empty netter with 2:16 left in the game provided the three-goal margin of victory in Waterloo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a game featuring playoff-seeding implications, the fifth-place Panthers will host the third-place Mississauga Hurricanes on Wednesday, January 7.  Puck drop at SARC is 7 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Annabella Van Berkel scored two goals and Catelyn Clark and Ellie Lewington added one each in the Junior Panthers\u2019 tidy 4-1 win over the Ravens in Waterloo on Sunday afternoon. Central York opened the 2026 portion of its schedule with a spirited comeback win on the road featuring four unanswered goals. The victory in Waterloo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-9K3","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 04:17:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37452,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37451\/revisions\/37452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}