Box Score

NEW HAVEN, CT -- Sophomore forward Caroline Murphy scored the game-winner with 3:20 left in the third period as Yale rallied for a 2-1 win over Union Friday night at Ingalls Rink. Junior defenseman Helen Resor had tied the game three minutes earlier. Senior goaltender Shivon Zilis made 17 saves to outduel Union's Lundy Day (Calgary, Alb.), who made 40.
 
The Bulldogs peppered Day with 10 shots in the first period as they attempted to find any way possible to get the puck on net. That included Resor poking her stick into a pile in front of the net and managing to jar the puck loose, sending it just wide of the net. Shortly after that junior forward Crysti Howser had two straight deflections in front denied by Day.
 
The Dutchwomen got the first power play of the game but junior forward Danielle Kozlowski served as a virtual one-woman penalty kill on that one. She blocked one shot right at the start and dove to the ice to knock the puck out of the zone. She then got a piece of back-to-back shots in one sequence, then added another block later. Senior goalie Shivon Zilis made a kick save on defenseman Elsa Perushek, and Howser added a block of her own to finish off the Union power play. The teams were scoreless at the end of the first.
 
Union did not get a shot on goal in the second period until 13 minutes in. When the Dutchwomen got their next shot they made it count, as forward Suzanne Ostrow (Boise, Idaho) backhanded the puck in off a feed from forward Brenna Malnar (Soughgate, Mich.) at the 13:14 mark. The Bulldogs nearly tied it three minutes later, but forward Marissa Gentile (Groton, Mass.) swept away a rebound that was loose in the crease after a shot from the point by senior defenseman Ann-Renee Guillemette.
 
Yale tied the game when Murphy and Howser worked the puck off the boards to Resor in the right circle. Her initial shot was blocked but she stayed with the play and managed to knock the puck past day at the 13:55 mark.
 
Resor started the game-winning sequence by blocking an attempted clear by the Dutchwomen. She and Ketchum kept the puck alive behind the net before the Dutchwomen again attempted a clear, sliding the puck along the boards toward the blue line. Murphy was coming off the bench right at that time, so she grabbed the loose puck and teed up a slap shot that slid along the ice before bouncing in off a skate past Day at the 16:40 mark.
 
Yale controlled play for most of the rest of the way, but Union did pull Day in the final minute and Zilis came up with a big save on Elsa Perushek's (Maple Grove, Minn.) shot in traffic with eight seconds remaining. Howser won a pair of faceoffs in Yale's zone to ice the victory.

Union closes out the regular season in a 4 p.m. game at Brown Saturday.