Women's Hockey | 11/19/2010 9:20:00 PM

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ROCHESTER, NY -- The #3 RIT women's hockey team defeated SUNY Potsdam 8-3 in ECAC West action on Friday night. Sophomore forward #Kim Schlattman (Stratford, Ontario/Cambridge Fury)# had the hat trick for the Tigers. The Tigers put the game away with a five-goal second period.

Freshman #Kolbee McCrea (Wawa, Ontario/Burlington Barracudas) had two goals and an assist for the Tigers who improve to 7-0-0 on the season. Senior (Pittsburgh, PA/Mountour)Sarah Dagg (St. George, Ontario/Hamilton Hawks)# added three assists.

After a scoreless first period, RIT exploded for five goals in the second period. Freshman #Erin Zach (Elmira, Ontario/Cambridge Fury)# opened the scoring on an even-strength goal at 3:48 of the second period on assists from Arianne Yokoyama and #Kourtney Kunichika (Fullerton, CA/LA Selects)#.

#Katie Stack (Batavia, NY/Rochester Edge)# had the second Tigers goal of the period. That came at 5:05 on the power play with the assists going to Yokoyama, her second of the period, and Zach.

Schlattman scored two straight goals for the Tigers in the second period one short handed at 8:22, then an even strength goal at 11:20, McCrea tallied a power play goal at 15:32.

Brittany Lucky and Stephanie Simons scored early on in the third period for Potsdam to cut the RIT lead to 5-2.

Schlattman tallied her hat-trick goal at 12 minutes of the third period to make it a three-goal spread, tipping in a point-shot from #Kristina Moss (Webster, NY/Buffalo Bisons)#.. #Tenecia Hiller (Brampton, Ontario/Brampton Thunder)# also assisted.

Freshman #Liz Gemmiti (Toronto, Ontario/Brampton Thunder)# made it 7-2 RIT with a power play goal at 12:53 of the third, and McCrea tallied a goal at 15:03 to round out the Tigers scoring.

Jessica Silveira added a goal six seconds after McCrea's goal to make it an 8-3 final.

RIT has now won six straight over the Bears who fall to 1-2-0 on the season.

RIT out shot Potsdam 46-21 on the night. The Tigers were 3-of-14 on the power play, while the Bears went 1-for-13.

#Carley King (Tinley Park, IL)# picked up the win for the Tigers, her second of the season, allowing three goals and making 18 saves. Jen Conophy took the loss for the Bears allowing eight goals and making 38 saves.

These ame two teams will face off tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m. at Ritter Arena.