Brenley Jorgensen of the University of Toronto Varsity Blues women’s hockey team scored the game-winner as the OUA all-stars defeated Canada’s national women’s under-18 team, 4-2, on Tuesday, March 23 at Mastercard Centre.

Jorgensen (Kingston, Ont.), along with U of T teammates Lindsay Hill (Ajax, Ont.) and Kelly Setter (Keswick, Ont.), suited up for the OUA all-star squad as part of the pre-competition camp for the U18 national team as they prepare for the upcoming world championship in Chicago (March 27-April 4).

A third-year forward, Jorgensen’s goal at 17:59 of the second period would turn out to be the eventual game-winner in the fast-paced contest.

Christine Bestland (Brunkild, Man.) and Jillian Saulnier (Halifax, N.S.) scored the goals for the Canadians, who got into penalty trouble in the second period and saw a 1-0 lead turn into a 3-1 deficit.

Canada came out firing in the first period, and was rewarded just 4:20 in when Bestland followed her shot to the net and tucked a rebound around OUA goaltender Liz Knox. But that was all the Canadians could muster in the opening 20 minutes against Knox, a former member of the national women's under-22 team.

The OUA pulled even on the power play just 1:46 into the second period, when Manon Davis buried a rebound past Canadian netminder Erica Howe (Orleans, Ont.), and took its first lead at 15:25 when Alison Bagg's point shot beat a screened Carmen MacDonald (Pictou, N.S.), who had replaced Howe just minutes earlier.

The lead became two just over two minutes later when a shot from Ellie Seedhouse banked off Jorgensen’s skate and past MacDonald to make it 3-1 on another OUA man advantage, but Saulnier reduced the deficit to one with a solo effort in the dying seconds of the middle frame.

Candice Styles, a member of last year's national women's under-18 team, wrapped up the scoring just shy of the seven-minute mark of the third period, depositing an Andrea Ironside rebound past MacDonald.

The Canadians wrap up pre-tournament play on Wednesday night at the Mastercard Centre, taking on a team of Ontario Women's Hockey Association all-stars at 6:30 p.m., before departing for Chicago and the 2010 IIHF World Women's Under-18 Championship on Thursday.

-Files from Hockey Canada-