Women's Hockey | 11/18/2011 9:35:00 PM
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ASTON, PA -- The No. 1 RIT (7-0-0) women's hockey team defeated picked up their seventh straight win, blanking Neumann College (1-2-2) 4-0 in ECAC West action on Friday night. Four different Tigers scored goals led by #
Kourtney Kunichika (Fullerton, CA/LA Selects) who had a goal and an assist. (Drumbo, Ontario/Stoney Creek Sabres)Laura Chamberlain (Norco, CA/LA Selects)# picked up the shut-out victory in net making 11 saves.
RIT out shot the Knights 34-11. Both teams were 0-for-3 with the man advantage, and one of four RIT goals was short-handed. Neumann goalkeeper Shannon Donnelly took the loss allowing four goals and making 30 saves.
Junior assistant captain #
Tenecia Hiller (Brampton, Ontario/Brampton Thunder)# gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead at 2:21 of the first period, tallying a shorthanded, unassisted goal, her fifth of the season.
Kunichika made it 2-0 Tigers on her sixth goal of the season at 12:37 of the first period off assists from #
Ellesha Fortuna (Burlington, Ontario/Burlington Barracudas) and
Ali Hills (Honeoye Falls, NY)#.
Junior tri-captain #
Ariane Yokoyama (Van Nuys, CA/LA Selects)# tallied her first goal of the season at 9:49 of the second period to give RIT a 3-0 lead. Kunichika and ECAC West Rookie of the Week, #
Celeste Brown (Great Falls, MT/National Sports Academy)# had the assists on the play.
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Danielle Read (Brantford, Ontario/Hamilton Hawks)# rounded out the scoring for the Tigers with her second tally of the season at 19:53 of the third to make it 4-0 RIT. She scored off assists from #
Lindsay Grigg (Oakville, Ontario/Oakville Hornets) and
Kolbee McCrea (Wawa, Ontario/Burlington Barracudas)#.
These same two teams will face-off on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. in Aston, Penn.
