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As is the case with nearly every team that reaches nationals, the Los Angeles Selects 16 & Under girls head to West Chester, Pa., confident that they have what it takes to bring home a USA Hockey National Championship.

When the Team Illinois Girls U-16 arrives in Hackensack, N.J., for the USA Hockey National Tournament, five players will know what it’s like to get to the last game on Sunday and tote the trophy around the frozen pond.

When the Troy-Albany Ice Cats were preparing for the 2007-08 season, coach Steve Campbell knew that if his team was going to make it to nationals in the 16 & Under girls’ division, they’d have to have a lot of things go their way. Mission accomplished.

Coach Bob Holdcroft’s 16 & Under Team Pittsburgh squad could be excused for fearing its first two opponents in the USA Hockey girls’ National Tournament, which runs April 2-6 in West Chester, Pa. After all, they will be sharing the ice against LA Select the first day and Honeybaked on the second.

Two-time defending national champion Assabet Valley lived up to its billing, taking a 2-0 lead into the first intermission and holding off the Massachusetts Spitfires the rest of the way for a 4-0 victory and a district title.

The Team Pittsburgh 16 & Under team is headed to the USA Hockey 16-Under National Tournament, courtesy of a thrilling 1-0 overtime win over the Ohio Flames in the Mid-American District finals Saturday afternoon at Hoover Arena in Strongsville, Ohio.

Colorado, behind a hat-trick from Taylor Gross, defeated the Texas Attack 7-1 at Alltel Ice Den in Scottsdale, Ariz., and advanced to the national tournament April 2-6 in West Chester, Penn.

It wasn’t easy, but Honeybaked reigned supreme earlier this week at the Michigan District 16-Under championship tournament at the Taylor Sportsplex in Taylor, Mich.