Women's Hockey | 11/11/2011 9:50:00 PM
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POTSDAM, NY -- The No. 1 RIT wwomen's hockey team improved to 5-0-0 on the season with a 4-2 win over SUNY Potsdam in ECAC West action on Friday evening. The Tigers scored two goals in the second period to win their fifth straight to open the season.
Freshman #
Morgan Scoyne (Drumbo, Ontario/Stoney Creek Sabres)# scored two goals, and #
Kourtney Kunichika (Fullerton, CA/LA Selects) and
Kolbee McCrea (Wawa, Ontario/Burlington Barracudas) each tallied a goal for the Tigers who outshot Potsdam 34-14. (Drumbo, Ontario/Stoney Creek Sabres)Laura Chamberlain (Norco, CA/LA Selects)# picked up her fourth win of the season allowing two goals and making 12 saves.
The Bears took a 1-0 lead with a power play goal from Annmarie Lewis at 7:43 of the first period on assists from Breanna Roy and Brittany Lucky.
RIT tied the score at 1-1 with a power play goal from Scoyne at 9:27 of the first on an assists from #
Emilee Bulleid (Waterdown, Ontario/Stoney Creek Sabres)#.
McCrea tallied her sixth of the season twenty-six seconds into the second period on assists from #
Kristina Moss (Webster, NY/Buffalo Bisons) and
Danielle Read (Brantford, Ontario/Hamilton Hawks)# to give the Tigers their first lead of the game.
Kunichika increased RIT's lead to 3-1 with her fifth goal of the season at 3:20 of the second off assists from #
Ariane Yokoyama (Van Nuys, CA/LA Selects)# and Moss.
Scoyne made it 4-1 on her second of the game and third of the season at 17:04 of the third on assists from #
Kim Schlattman (Stratford, Ontario/Cambridge Fury) and
Tenecia Hiller (Brampton, Ontario/Brampton Thunder)#.
The Bears added a late goal to cut the lead to 4-2.
RIT was 1-for-8 on the power play, while Potsdam was 2-for-9 with the man advantage.
RIT will face Potsdam on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. in Potsdam, New York.
