Boxscore
NORTHFORD, Conn. (12/2/05) - The Colgate University women’s ice hockey team skated to a 1-1 overtime draw with Quinnipiac University on Friday evening, Dec. 2, at the Northford Ice Pavilion.
Colgate is now 7-4-3 overall and 4-0-1 in the ECAC Hockey League, while Quinnipiac moves to 6-7-2 overall and 2-4-2 in the conference.
The Raiders and the Bobcats battled through a scoreless first period, the first contest in six games that the Raiders did not score in the opening session. Colgate had the majority of the scoring opportunities, outshooting the Bobcats 13-10, including an Allison Paiano (Orleans, Ont.) breakaway midway through the first stanza. The ECACHL Goalie of the Week Connie Craig squashed the shot and turned away 12 more.
Senior Becky Irvine (Lakeview, N.S.) opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 15:56 of the second period. With a Bobcat in the box on a tripping infraction, Raiders set up in power-play formation. Tara French (Truro, N.S.) took the puck at the blue line and moved the puck to Paiano at the right face-off circle. Paiano sent a cross-ice pass to Irvine who was waiting just inside the opposite circle, and wristed the puck top shelf on Craig.
Quinnipiac’s Antoinette Maldonado answered back minutes later when she picked up a loose puck at the top of the circle inside the Bobcat offensive zone and skated in one-on-one with Wheeler. Wheeler went down on her knees to stop the puck, which she believed she did but the puck trickled through her pads and across the goal line at 18:12.
Entering the third knotted at one apiece, neither team could capitalize and the game was sent into overtime. With a contact to the head elbowing call on the Raiders, Colgate was forced to play two of the final five minutes man-down.
Wheeler denied all of Bobcat shots in the extra session and 24 overall, as the Raiders penalty-killing unit was solid going 4-for-4. Craig made 43 saves for Quinnipiac.
The Raiders will travel to Princeton tomorrow afternoon for a 4 p.m., contest against the No. 6/7 nationally-ranked Tigers.
