Sophomore Surge Lifts Harvard to Win at St. Lawrence
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard (1-0-0, 1-0-0 ECACH) | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| St. Lawrence (3-2-2, 0-1-0 ECACH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Scoring Summary | |
|---|---|
| 1st - 18:22 | PP - Brooke Fernandez (St. Lawrence) |
| 2nd - 01:24 | Fry, Lyndsey (Harvard) |
| 2nd - 04:30 | Gedman, Marissa (Harvard) |
| 2nd - 11:16 | PP - Dempsey, Jillian (Harvard) |
| 2nd - 19:01 | PP - Fry, Lyndsey (Harvard) |
| 3rd - 06:49 | PP - Dempsey, Jillian (Harvard) |
| 3rd - 16:33 | Reber, Samantha (Harvard) |
| 3rd - 19:46 | McDonald, Gina (Harvard) |
| Harvard | St. Lawrence |
|---|---|
|
G:
2 Players (#9, #14 - 2)
A: 2 Players (#2, #16 - 2) Sh: Lyndsey Fry - 9 Sv: Laura Bellamy - 17 |
G:
Brooke Fernandez - 1
A: 2 Players (#9, #15 - 1) Sh: Brooke Fernandez - 5 Sv: Carmen Macdonald - 39 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | Harvard | St. Lawrence |
|---|---|---|
| Power Plays | 3 for 7 | 1 for 7 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 0 | 0 |
| Penalties (min) | 7 (14) | 7 (14) |
| Shots on Goal | 46 | 18 |
| Face Offs Won | 33 | 27 |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After falling behind, 1-0, the Harvard
women’s ice hockey team, led by its sophomore class, tallied
seven unanswered goals in a 7-1 season-opening win against
conference foe St. Lawrence Friday at Appleton Arena. With the win,
Harvard has now outscored the Saints, 21-5, in the teams’
last three meetings.
While the Crimson won the pressure battle in the opening frame,
the hosts managed to jump out to a 1-0 lead late in the period.
After Harvard’s second and third penalties of the game
created a 5-on-3 for the Saints, Rylee Smith won a faceoff to Ally
Bero, and Bero passed to Brooke Fernandez whose slapshot zipped
through a crowd in front of the net and past Harvard goalie Laura
Bellamy for a 1-0 lead. The Crimson outshot the Saints, 8-5, in the
frame, but was unable to convert on a handful of promising
chances.
In the second period, however, Harvard turned those scoring
chances into goals, potting four unanswered goals to take a
commanding lead. Harvard killed 16 seconds of a remaining penalty
from the first period and proceeded to tie the score just over a
minute later. Samantha Reber slid the puck to a streaking Lyndsey
Fry and the sophomore forward beat St. Lawrence goalie Carmen
MacDonald glove side to knot the score at 1-1.
Three minutes later, it was classmate Marissa Gedman giving the
Crimson a 2-1 lead, blasting home a shot from just inside the
blueline off passes from Gina McDonald and Kaitlin Spurling. In the
back half of the period, Harvard showed its power-play prowess,
netting two more goals, both on skater-advantage opportunities.
Jillian Dempsey put back a shot-range deflection off a Gedman shot
at 11:16 and Fry capped the scoring in the period with her second
of the game, putting home the puck off passes from Gedman and
Josephine Pucci.
Harvard struck on the power play once again in the third as
Dempsey collected passes from Fry and Pucci and lifted home a shot
to push the score to 5-1 with 13:49 to play. Reber notched her
first collegiate goal late in the third, besting MacDonald on an
unassisted effort with 3:27 showing on the clock, and McDonald took
an Armstrong faceoff win and deposited the puck in the net with 13
seconds to play to seal the 7-1 win.
Gedman and Fry both finished with three points on the evening,
while Dempsey (2g), Reber (2a), McDonald (1g, 1a) and Pucci (2a)
all had two apiece. Bellamy was stellar in goal for Harvard,
helping the Crimson kill six-of-seven power plays and making 17
saves in the game.
Harvard is back in action tomorrow afternoon in Potsdam,
N.Y., when it takes on league foe Clarkson in a 4 p.m.
showdown.
