Turnbull, Sceptres pounce on late Charge mistake to score 4-2 win

The Ottawa Charge felt like they beat themselves Tuesday night.

The Charge (4-0-2-4) struggled to match the Toronto Sceptres' intensity and effort and ultimately fell short in a 4-2 loss.

Toronto (3-0-2-5), which sits last in the Professional Women's Hockey League, came in looking like they were determined to get back into the thick of the standings and Ottawa was lucky to have it as close as it was.

And that was only because of Emerance Maschmeyer, who faced 38 shots.

"Like, if we don't have Masch in that, we're in some trouble," said Charge coach Carla MacLeod. "It's that simple."

MacLeod gave Toronto full credit for its effort.

"These teams are so even, but we weren't even tonight with Toronto," said MacLeod. "They outplayed us. They deserved that win."

Despite playing well Toronto has struggled this season to come up with the "W" after 60 minutes.

"I think they just got rewarded," said Toronto coach Troy Ryan. "It still probably was 60 minutes of the whole roster playing the right way, so it's just nice that they got rewarded on a night like that."

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The Sceptres outshot Ottawa 14-5 in the opening period, but the score was 1-1.

Ottawa (4-0-2-4) opened the scoring early in the first with a power-play goal after a Toronto turnover allowed Victoria Bach, now riding a three-game point streak, to backhand a pass to Mannon McMahon out front.

Toronto tied the game midway through the period when Daryl Watts found Sarah Nurse at the side of the net. Nurse redirected the puck in mid-air to Hannah Miller in the slot for her fourth of the year.

"We get to see that every day