Bero, Domenico Spark St. Lawrence

Final	1	2	3	Final
Robert Morris (3-3-0, 2-0-0)	0	0	0	0
St. Lawrence (3-1-2, 0-0-0)	1	1	3	5

Scoring Summary
1st - 01:24	Marianna Locke (St. Lawrence)
2nd - 15:00	Alley Bero (St. Lawrence)
3rd - 01:25	Alison Domenico (St. Lawrence)
3rd - 04:41	SH - Alison Domenico (St. Lawrence)
3rd - 18:54	PP - Alley Bero (St. Lawrence)

Robert Morris	St. Lawrence
G: N/A A: N/A Sh: 2 Players (#16, #18 - 3) Sv: McLAUGHLIN, Brianne - 35	G: 2 Players (#9, #22 - 2) A: 5 Players (#5, #12, #13, #14, #19 - 1) Sh: 2 Players (#9, #13 - 8) Sv: Brittony Chartier - 13

TEAM STATISTICS	Robert Morris	St. Lawrence
Power Plays	0 for 8	1 for 8
Shorthanded Goals	0	1
Penalties (min)	10 (20)	8 (16)
Shots on Goal	13	50
Face Offs Won	24	36

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Boxscore

CANTON, N.Y. — The No. 9 St. Lawrence University women’s hockey team got a pair of goals each from senior assistant captain Alison Domenico and first-year student Alley Bero, while junior goalie Brittony Chartier turned in a 13-save performance to pick up her first shutout of the season as the Saints blitzed Robert Morris at Appleton Arena on Saturday afternoon, 5-0.

The Saints (3-1-2, 0-0-0) outshot the Colonials 50-13 in the contest, and with the weekend sweep, improve to 18-1-1 in their last 20 meetings against CHA teams.

“I thought today’s game was certainly our best team effort of the season,” said St. Lawrence University head coach Chris Phelps. “We were able to create pretty consistent offensive pressure and get some important goals against a very solid goalie (Brianne McLaughlin).”

The home team wasted little time in taking a 1-0 lead, as first-year student Vanessa Emond fed senior captain Marianna Locke in front of McLaughlin and the Brasher Falls, NY, native banged in her own rebound for her first goal of the season to open the scoring. The goal occurred only 1:24 into the first period, but would be the only tally as McLaughlin made 15 first period saves to keep her team in the game.


Bero, who had her best offensive game of the season as she provided a consistent spark for the Saints’ offensive attack, would make it 2-0 with five minutes remaining in the second period. Senior Carson Duggan’s initial shot was stopped by McLaughlin, but the rebound came right out to Bero, who took advantage of the goaltender being on the ice surface and lifted a shot just under the cross bar for her first collegiate goal.


Though McLaughlin continued her impressive play in net with 17 more saves in the second period, there was very little she could do on the Saints’ third goal which came at 1:25 of the third period. Locke chipped a pass at center ice up to junior defenseman Brittaney Maschmeyer, who crossed the Robert Morris blue line with a two-on-one chance with Domenico. Maschmeyer wound up for a big slap shot, then gently passed the puck through the slot to a wide open Domenico, who fired the puck into the open net with McLaughlin out of position.

Domenico would strike again only 3:16 later while the Saints skated short-handed to make it a 4-0 game with 15:19 to play. The Nepean, ON native intercepted a pass in the visitor’s zone and sniped a wrist shot past McLaughlin, who would be replaced by Daneca Butterfield later in the period.

Despite Butterfield making ten saves during her time between the pipes for Robert Morris, she was unable to keep Bero off the scoreboard again as the Akwesasne, NY, native picked up her second of the game to complete the scoring at 18:54 of the third period. Bero, who showed great speed the entire weekend, took a pass from junior Becky Street, beat a defender and rifled a low shot past Butterfield for her second career goal. The assist was also a collegiate first for Street.

“I’m very happy with this weekend as we stayed focused and got very solid play on both ends of the ice,” added Coach Wells. “We get this week to rest up a bit before heading into conference play the following weekend against Yale and Brown.”

St. Lawrence finished 1-for-8 on the power play while Robert Morris was 0-for-8. Chartier, who was tested mostly in the third period, finished with 13 saves on the evening while McLaughlin suffered the loss despite making 35 stops.

St. Lawrence will open the 2008-09 ECAC Hockey regular season on Friday, November 7 against the Yale Bulldogs.