CANTON, N.Y. – The No. 5/5 Colgate women's ice hockey team's winning streak came to an end Saturday afternoon as the Raiders fell to the No. 7/8 St. Lawrence Saints, 3-1, at Appleton Arena.
 
First-year Malia Schneider (Millarville, Alberta) continued her torrid start to her collegiate career as she tallied her sixth goal of the season to extend her point streak to seven games. Schneider has goals in three straight games as well as four of her last five after her second period tally against the Saints.
 
Schneider's goal cut the Saints lead in half 6:23 into the second period with a great deflection in front of the goal. After Jessie Eldridge (Barrie, Ontario) won a faceoff in the offensive zone, Annika Zalewski (New Hartford, New York) tapped the puck back to Kaila Pinkney (Denfield, Ontario) at the right point. Pinkney quickly shifted the puck to Lauren Wildfang (Waterdown, Ontario) who wound up and wristed the puck towards the goal. Schneider was perfectly position in front of St. Lawrence goaltender Grace Harrison to redirect home the puck.
 
The Saints jumped out to 2-0 lead with a pair of goals in the first period as Amanda Butterfield and Rachael Smith each found the back of the net, including Butterfield's on the power play just over the midway point of the period.
 
Lydia Grauer scored a key insurance power-play goal for St. Lawrence with 9:51 to go in the second period with the Saints on a 4-on-3 power play. Grauer's tally with the advantage gave the Saints two power play goals in the game.
 
Colgate pulled goaltender Liz Auby (Stoughton, Wisconsin) for an extra skater over the final 2:40 of the game but could not find the net despite controlling the puck for the majority of that time. The Raiders had three shots blocked by the Saints defense while Harrison also made a save in that span.
 
BOTTOM LINE
St. Lawrence 3, Colgate 1
 
WIN/LOSS RECORDS
The Saints snapped a three-game losing streak with Saturday's win to improve to 3-3-2 (1-1-0 ECAC Hockey) while the Raiders fall for the first time in the 2017-18 season and drop to 7-1-0 (1-1-0 ECAC Hockey)
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Colgate's seven-game winning streak was snapped with the loss, which tied the program record for the longest winning streak in program history
-Schneider has caught fire in the early going, tallying her sixth goal of the season
-The Raiders' first-year has points in each of the last seven games and goals in each of the last three
-Wildfang tallied her fourth assist of the weekend with the primary assist on Schneider's goal
-Wildfang now has points in three of her last four games
-Pinkney picked up her fourth assist of the season to give her helpers in four of the last five games
-Auby tallied 17 saves on Saturday for the Raiders as she lost for the first time after opening her collegiate career with an eight-game unbeaten streak (7-0-1).
 
FACTS AND FIGURES
-Colgate outshot St. Lawrence, 23-20, on Saturday with a dominant 8-1 edge in the third period as the Raiders attempted to mount a comeback
-The Raiders were 0 for 2 on their power plays while the Saints went 2 for 5 with the advantage
-Colgate was the better team on faceoffs, winning 29 compared to St. Lawrence's 21, led by Breanne Wilson-Bennett's game-high 12 wins
 
UP NEXT
The Raiders return back to Class of 1965 Arena next weekend for another ECAC Hockey matchup as the Princeton Tigers come to Hamilton Friday night at 6 p.m. before Saturday's 3 p.m. game against the Quinnipiac Bobcats.