Women's Hockey | 12/11/2009 9:17:00 PM

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AMHERST, MA - The fourth-ranked women's hockey team (5-0-2) extended its season-opening unbeaten streak to seven games with a 1-1 tie against No. 2 Amherst (4-0-2) on Friday evening.  Amherst scored with 1:41 left in regulation to earn the tie.  Amherst is the defending NCAA Champion.

Both teams played stifling defense throughout, despite a total of 72 shots in the game.  Amherst out-shot RIT 39-33, with each team firing 16 shots in the third period. 

Freshman goaltender #Carley King (Tinley Park, IL)# was excellent in goal for RIT, stopping 38 shots.  For the second straight game, King lost the shutout with exactly 1:41 left in the third period.

Amherst's Courtney Hanlon won the face-off back to Julia Koch.  Koch's shot from the line had eyes, going through a maze of bodies in front and eluding King, who never saw the shot.

Junior forward #Katie Stack (Batavia, NY/Rochester Edge)# scored her team-leading eighth goal of the season early in the second period to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead.  The Tigers put the pressure on Amherst while playing 5-on-5, keeping the puck in the offensive zone for an extended period.  Stack grabbed a rebound off a blocked shot, wheeled around and slid a backhander from the right circle in.

Amherst's Sinead Murphy made 32 saves in the tie for Amherst, who has allowed just four goals in six games this season.

RIT went 0-for-3 with the man-advantage.  It is the first time RIT did not score a power-play goal this season.  Amherst was 0-for-5 on the power-play.

RIT is now 7-0-2 all-time against the Lord Jeffs.

The same two teams meet on Saturday at 3 p.m.