The Venice Garden Checkers trounced the Chang Jiang Garden Freezers 8-3 in a brawl filled match to win the Wuxi China Expat Women's Autumn Ice Hockey Tournament.
The final match of the six team tournament, featuring all of the Expatdom's female hockey league teams, was played at the Wuxi, China Landlord's Ice Palace before a crowd of 25,000.
Center Doris Mahavolich lead the Checkers with four goals and two assists. She was named the final and tournament MVP. She had already won the tournament's golden stick award for having scored the most goals in the tournament.
Mahavolich opened the game with a natural hat trick in the first four minutes. The Checkers never looked back after that and lead 7-1 at the end of the first period.
The final two periods were very chippy, resulting in over 500 minutes in penalties and nine game misconducts as a result of two bench-clearing brawls.
At the end of the game, the First Lady of the Wuxi China Expatdom, Wonder Woman, presented the Santiago Cafe Cup to Checkers' captain Mahavolich.
After doing a victory lap around the arena, Mahavolich and her Checker teammates boarded a bus and were taken to a rally attended by over 65 million Checker fans at the Harry Moore Memorial Square Platinum.
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