TROY, NY – Jamie Grigsby scored her second goal of the game with 1.2 seconds left in regulation to break a 2-2 tie and lift host Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2-3-2) to a 3-2 win over the RIT women's hockey team (1-4-3) from Houston Field House on Saturday afternoon.
 
RIT took a penalty with 1:06 left in regulation and looked poised to kill it off and head to overtime. Unfortunately for the Tigers, a shot by Sabrina Repaci that looked to be going wide deflected off Grigsby and a RIT player in front and past goaltender Terra Lanteigne (Hatchet Lake, Nova Scotia/Charles P. Allen) for the winning goal.
 
Claudia Black (Newmarket, Ontario/St. Maximilian Kobe) and Kendall Cornine (Kinnelon, NJ/Morristown Beard) scored for the Tigers. Lanteigne made 18 saves, as RIT's defense allowed a season-low 21 shots, including 11 over the first two periods.
 
Grigsby opened and closed the scoring for the Engineers, sandwiched around a goal by Josefine Hansen. Blake Orosz and Repaci had two assists apiece. Goaltender Lovisa Sealander stopped 24 shots in the win.
 
The Engineers finished 2-for-3 on the power-play, while RIT went scoreless on two power-play attempts.

"I really like our complete level, but we are are going through the pains right now on how to win," said Bruce B. Bates Women's Hockey Coach Chad Davis. "I am up for the challenge and is so is the team. We need to keep pushing through until we make it happen."
 
The two teams traded goals 1:30 apart in the opening period. Grigsby opened the scoring 6:57 into the game, while Black scored her first goal of the season at the 8:27 mark with assists going to Brittney Gout (Caledon, Ontario/Brampton Canadettes) and Madison Farrand (Potomac, MD/Winston Churchill). Hansen would give Rensselaer a 2-1 lead on the power-play with 1:54 left in the first.
 
Cornine knotted the game at 2-2 in the final minute of the second period, firing a shot past Sealander for her team-best sixth goal in eight games this season. Hunter Barnett (Caledon, Ontario/Mississauga Jr. Chiefs) and Logan Land (Turkey Point, Ontario/Holy Trinity Catholic) drew assists on the goal.
 
Yesterday, the two teams played to a 1-1 draw. Kathryn Kennedy (Hamilton, Ontario/) scored RIT's goal, while Lanteigne made 37 saves.
 
Six of RIT's eight games this season have ended in a tie or one-goal difference.

RIT is back in action next weekend, opening up College Hockey America play with a pair of home games against Robert Morris University. On Nov. 2-3. Friday's contest starts at 6 p.m., while Saturday's game begins at 1 p.m.