Sami Shoebottom led Scarborough in remaining undefeated, as the Red Storm cruised to a 7-1 W over visiting Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic on Saturday evening, Jan. 9. Shoebottom scored four consecutive rapid-fire goals to open the game, and later added a pair assists.

Scarborough advanced to 13-0-1 on the season; Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic dropped to 0-12.

Scarborough head coach Caitlin D’Amour was pleased with the result, but suspected in advance the game might go her girls’ way.

“A win’s a win, and Gorham, they all play really hard,” D’Amour said. “But as an opponent, they’re not quite on the level of some others, yet.”

Shoebottom scored her first just 2:16 into the opening period, weaving patiently through the Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic defense to earn a high shot on keeper Ally Johnson. Shoebottom added her second roughly two and a half minutes later on a feed from Grace Murphy.

Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic’s aggressive, physical play can be a weapon in their arsenal, but it can also hinder them, as it did shortly thereafter. CC Cochran pulled two minutes for checking, giving Red Stormer Lucy Bogdanovich an easy opportunity to set up Shoebottom for her third of the evening.

“She’s our top threat,” D’Amour said of Shoebottom. “[Sometimes], I rein her in…have her focus on passing. Sometimes I put her on a line with girls who aren’t as experienced, so they can know what it feels like to score. She’s a pretty selfless player.”

Just three minutes later, Shoebottom scored yet again, and yet again the assist went to Bogdanovich. After that, Shoebottom seemed dead set on dishing the puck at every turn. She fed Bogdanovich once at the end of the first, and again at the start the second, resulting in Bogdanovich’s first two goals. Ellie Smith assisted on both plays as well.

Fourteen seconds later, Mary Adams posted the lone Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic point, wending with the puck from left to right in the Scarborough zone, eluding the Storm defense before firing back across and beating netminder Lucca Sterrer on the near side.

D’Amour described the lapse in her girls’ protection. “It was right off the faceoff,” she said of the goal. “The defensemen on [Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic] shot it, and it actually rolled right up our goalie’s stick, and boom.”

“It was one of those things where we should’ve focused,” D’Amour said. “That faceoff should’ve been won, our goalie’s stick should’ve been on the ice and our wingers should’ve been up at the point already.”

Bogdanovich-from-Meghan Taylor capped the scoring for Scarborough, later in the second period. With the action firmly in hand, D’Amour could deploy some of her younger personnel onto the ice.

“We’re able to get in some girls who aren’t as experienced,” D’Amour said. “They can play, and the play isn’t completely by them, and at times, they get into the zone.”

The Red Storm next play host to Lewiston/Monmouth/Oak Hill. That matchup is slated for Saturday, Jan. 16. They welcome Falmouth on Monday the 18th. The rivals wrestled to a 3-3 draw in both teams’ season-opener.

Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic traveled to Falmouth on Wednesday the 13th; they host York on Saturday.

Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic’s CC Cochran (Bonny Eagle) tracks Scarborough’s Logan Bruns along the boards on Saturday.Megan Polchies (Gorham) ducks into a corner in search of the puck; Scarborough’s Vanly Doiron pursues.Mary Adams (Gorham) cuts cross-ice on the way to scoring her team’s lone goal against Scarborough on Saturday.Scarborough’s Grace Murphy dumps a puck on net versus Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic on Saturday.Red Stormer Sami Shoebottom piled on four goals and a pair of assists against Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic on Saturday.Stormer Lucy Bogdanovich scored three and assisted on two in Scarborogh’s 7-1 win over Gorham/Bonny Eagle/Massabesic on Saturday.