Bishop Guertin's Jasmine Shattuck tries unsuccessfuly to poke the puck past sparwling Pinkerton goalie Madison Beyor during Sunday's game at Skate 3 in Tyngsborough, Mass. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. – How tough of a Presidents Day Weekend was it for the Bishop Guertin High School girls hockey team?

Well, they traveled up to Hanover on Saturday night only to lose 6-0, and then had a quick turnaround for a Sunday matinee vs. fellow contender Pinkerton at Skate 3 Arena in which they put an incredible 85 shots on net – and lost 5-4 in overtime.

Oh, and likely lost one of their best players, Jasmine Shattuck, possibly for the forseeable future.

“It was a tough weekend,” Cardinals coach Phil DeVita said, whose team had a 4-3 lead with five minutes to go only to see the Astros tie it up on a power play and then win it at 2:06 of sudden death overtime on a long range flip to the net by the Astros Riley Dunn.

Triple Ouch.

“I’m proud of the girls,” DeVita said, his team stymied by Astros freshman goalie Madison Beyor. “We worked really hard today, we gave it everything we had. There’s nothing for them to be ashamed of. The effort there, total team effort, they really skated hard.”

And probably felt they should have come come away with a win. They trailed 1-0 and 2-1, grabbed a 3-2 lead in the second period on a Gracie Menicci goal only to see the Astros knot it at 3 on Dunn’s first goal at 9:54. But Aine Kelly poked the puck past Beyor with 1:56 left in the second to give the Cards a 4-3 lead heading into the third.

But that was their last goal. They survivived one Astros power play five minutes into the third, but Menicci was called for a trip with 4:02 left and it took just six seconds with the puck sitting right in front of BG goalie Scar Casey for Emily Gosselin to pop it home to tie the game at 4.

And they also emotionally had to overcome the loss of Shattuck, who provides a great pace on offense.Four games ago she dislocated her shoulder, returned for the Hanover game, but appeared to re-injure it near the end of the first period and did not return. There’s no official word on her status the rest of the way as the tourney begins in just under two weeks.

“You saw it out here today, they dug down deep and gave it everything they had,” DeVita said. “They knew Jas wasn’t coming back but they dug down. They played together as a team effort. I’m proud of the effort, the shots on net, just wasn’t our day today.”

Piper Knowlton gave the Astros a 1-0 lead two minutes in but Shattuck, assisted by Menicci, scored down low to tie it at 1. Then Knowlton put the puck softly on net at 12:01 that somehow slid by Guertin’s starting goalie, Ciara Fallon, for a 2-1 Astros lead after one.

Carly Green tied it 3:30 into the second, assisted by Riley Goldthwaite. And the see-saw began, but the Cards (12-4) had to figure they should have had more on the board were it not for Beyor.

“She’s been like that all season for us,” Astros coach Scott Dunn said. “When we play the better teams, she’s the one that keeps us in the game, and clearly it showed today. … The girls didn’t quit no matter how much the goalie was getting peppered.”

She was peppered for a spell in the OT when the Astros then headed up ice, and Dunn simply flipped the puck in the air toward the net and Casey couldn’t snare it.

“I don’t even think Riley knew she scored the goal,” Dunn said. “She took a second to look over there and ‘Oh, it went in.'”

Fitting in some ways for Beyor.

“We call her Mad Dog,” Dunn said. “She’ll take 80 shots and come off with a smile on her face because we got the win.”

When a team puts 80-plus shots on net, the law of averages for a win should be with them.

“Not today,” DeVita said.

No, not this weekend.

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