Pair of Power-Play Goals Help Brown Past Yale
| Scoring Summary | |
|---|---|
| 1st - 08:24 | Robson, Sarah (Brown) |
| 2nd - 12:48 | PP - Yang, Janice (Brown) |
| 2nd - 19:11 | Grant, Heather (Yale) |
| 3rd - 07:35 | Robson, Sarah (Brown) |
| 3rd - 14:58 | PP - Robson, Sarah (Brown) |
| Yale | Brown |
|---|---|
|
G:
Heather Grant - 1
A: 2 Players (#9, #18 - 1) Sh: 2 Players (#5, #18 - 6) Sv: Genny Ladiges - 41 |
G:
Sarah Robson - 3
A: 2 Players (#9, #21 - 2) Sh: Sarah Robson - 8 Sv: Aubree Moore - 24 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | Yale | Brown |
|---|---|---|
| Power Plays | 0 for 4 | 2 for 5 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 0 | 0 |
| Penalties (min) | 6 (12) | 5 (10) |
| Shots on Goal | 25 | 45 |
| Face Offs Won | 34 | 26 |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brown forward Sarah Robson’s hat
trick powered the Bears past the Yale women’s hockey team 4-1
Tuesday night at Meehan Auditorium. Robson had one of two power
play goals for the Bears, who were 2-for-5 on the man advantage.
Senior defenseman Heather Grant scored Yale’s goal, while
senior goalie Genny Ladiges finished with 41 saves.
The Bulldogs controlled play early on thanks largely to a Brown
penalty nearly two minutes in. Yale’s top power play unit
generated several shots during that stretch, but senior forward
Aleca Hughes had one deflected wide, Grant had one blocked and
another one deflected wide and Hughes then sent a wrister wide
before Brown goalie Aubree Moore stopped another shot by
Hughes.
Brown took advantage of one of its few early chances, as Robson
skated past a defender and rifled one past Ladiges at 8:24.
Yale once again generated some good chances on a power play later
in the first, but Hughes had a shot deflected by Moore up into the
netting and Moore also directed a shot by freshman forward Lynn
Kennedy wide.
A pair of breakaways at the end of the first period came up empty
to keep the score intact. Just after Yale sophomore forward
Patricia McGauley sent one wide, Brown forward Katleyn Landry sent
one high. The Bears held a 1-0 lead into the first
intermission.
Ladiges provided the highlights early in the second as Yale had its
first penalty kill. While down on the ice from trying to get to a
shot that went wide, she scrambled over to the near post and
somehow was able to deny forward Alena Polenska’s attempt to
jam the loose puck in. Right after that a flurry of shots caused
the goal judge to put the goal light on momentarily, but Ladiges
had made the save; she would finish with 24 stops in the second
period alone.
Moore made one of her best stops of the night when Kennedy fed
sophomore forward Jackie Raines on a breakaway and Moore denied
Raines’ backhand attempt, plus Kennedy’s attempt at a
follow-up. Moore, who would finish with 24 stops, also nabbed a
tricky slap shot by junior defenseman Natalie Wedell that was
deflected in front.
A quick kick save by Ladiges on a shot from forward Skyelar Siwak
from between the circles kept Yale within one, but a penalty on the
Bulldogs at 12:01 led to a power play goal for Brown forward Janice
Yang just 47 seconds later. Yang knocked a loose puck past a
sprawled-out Ladiges and junior defenseman Emily DesMeules in the
crease.
The Bulldogs clawed their way back into the game when Hughes
grabbed a loose puck low in the right circle and fed it back to
Grant, who flipped one past Moore with only 48.9 seconds left in
the period. Junior forward Danielle Moncion also picked up an
assist on the play.
Raines nearly snuck one past Moore with a quick shot from a face
off 30 seconds into the third, but Moore was able to make the stop.
Three minutes later Raines skated through the Bears defense for a
backhander that went high.
Robson expanded the lead to 3-1 with her second goal of the game,
at the 7:35 mark of the third. Yale’s best chance to get back
in it came during a delayed penalty on Brown at the 10:12 mark. As
the Bulldogs pulled Ladiges for an extra attacker, forward
Stephanie Mock beat Moore to a loose puck in the Brown zone and
momentarily had a completely empty net to work with, but she was at
too tough of an angle to be able to get off a good shot.
Robson’s power play goal at 14:58 gave her the hat trick and
put the game out of reach.
Yale hosts Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend at Ingalls Rink.
