Pate and Violette went against a legacy - leading Team Pittsburgh was Stephanie Lemieux, the daughter of NHL Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux. After the younger Lemieux tied the game with 51 seconds left in regulation, Violette's goal in the eighth overtime gave Assabet Valley a 2-1 win.
Like father, like daughter. Witness the younger Lemieux, albeit a bit grainy, falling down on the ice to score a goal earlier this season - via YouTube and TSN (Canada's answer to ESPN).
Rachel is in her fourth year as a sports reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A Maryland native and a former college soccer and softball player, she
covered high school and college sports at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado before joining the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram staff in June of 2004.
She grew up watching the NHL, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Georgetown basketball and the Baltimore Orioles and is a confessed sports nut. Her interests include reading and movies, going to
the gym, Motown and '70s R&B music and following the New York City tabloids.
Married in July, she and her husband Tommy are avid Steelers and Kansas Jayhawks fans. Their toughest decision as newlyweds has been "NESN or ESPN?"