POTSDAM, N.Y. (1/18/08) – The Clarkson University women’s hockey team edged Colgate University, 3-1 in ECAC Hockey action on Friday, Jan. 18 at Cheel Arena. The Golden Knights scored a goal in each period, while the Raiders earned a power-play tally in the middle frame.

 

With 4.8 seconds remaining in the first period, Marie-Jo Gaudet and Melissa Waldie teamed up to give Clarkson the 1-0 lead. Waldie skated down the center of the ice with the puck and sent it to Gaudet on the right side. With a Raider defender tripping her up Gaudet sent the puck across the paint to Waldie, but the puck banked off of a Raider skate and into the back of the net.

 

Clarkson made it 2-0 just over two minutes into the middle frame. Seconds after a Raider skater had a great chance on net, the puck rebounded back onto the ice where Clarkson’s Waldie picked it up and skated it into the Raider zone. She rifled a shot from the top of the left face-off circle and it went over the left shoulder of netminder Lisa Plenderleith (Ajax, Ont.) and into the upper right 90.

 

Colgate cut the lead back to one with a power-play goal at 18:59. Junior Kiira Dosdall (Fairfield, Conn.) had the puck at the blue line and sent it down the right side of the ice to Elin Brown (Calgary, Atla.). Brown released a shot from the bottom edge of the face-off circle but it bounced up and Jacquie Colborne (Calgary, Alta.) was perched on the left side of the paint and was able to knock the puck in.

 

Clarkson put the game out of reach, when it tallied its third goal at 17:32 of the final frame. Brooke Beazer had a shot that was stopped by Plenderleith, who went down on the ice to cover it. Amidst traffic out in front, a scuffle of players descended upon the puck and Genevieve Lavoie managed to poke it over the goal line.

 

Colgate called a timeout with 54 seconds left and pulled Plenderleith in favor of the extra attacker. The Raiders could only muster two shots and couldn’t get a second goal by goaltender Eve Grandmont-Berube.

 

Clarkson held a slight 25-24 edge in shots on net, with Plenderleith making 22 saves and Grandmont-Berube stopping 23.

 

Colgate went 1-for-6 on the power play and was 7-for-7 on the penalty kill.

 

The Raiders move to 8-10-3 overall with a 5-4-2 mark in ECAC Hockey, while the Golden Knights improve to 15-5-3 overall and 6-4-1 in the league.

 

Colgate faces No. 6/7 St. Lawrence on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 4 p.m., at Appleton Arena.