BURLINGTON, Vt. – Shelby Perry (Elginburg, Ontario) scored a pair of goals and had three points to lead the No. 2/2 Colgate women's ice hockey team in a 6-1 rout of the RIT Tigers Saturday evening. The Raiders and Tigers met in the consolation game of the Windjammer Classic hosted by the University of Vermont at Gutterson Fieldhouse.
 
Perry's two-goal performance was just the second such game of her career and she tied her career-high with three points for the first time since Feb. 10, 2017 at Brown. Her two goals are also the ninth time this season that the Raiders had a player with multiple goals in a game.
 
Shae Labbe (Calgary, Alberta) was one of four Raiders to tally two points on Saturday as she had a goal and an assist while Bailey Larson (Sycamore, Illinois), Breanne Wilson-Bennett (Markham, Ontario) and Kaila Pinkney (Denfield, Ontario) all picked up two assists in the win. Larson and Wilson-Bennett extended their point streaks to five games with their pair of helpers.
 
Lauren Wildfang (Waterdown, Ontario) took over sole possession as the second-highest scoring defenseman in program history with a goal on Saturday to give her 64 points in her career, just eight points behind Tara French '07 program record 72 points.
 
First-year Bailey Bennett (Gardena, California) found the back of the net for the second time this season while Megan Sullivan (Toronto, Ontario) rounded out the scoring for the Raiders with her seventh goal of the season.
 
The Raiders came out firing from the beginning of the contest with three goals in the first period to jump out to a 3-0 lead. Colgate's three goals were the fifth time this season it had scored at least three goals in a single period.
 
After several good looks, the Raiders finally broke through as Perry potted her first goal of the game to stake the Raiders out to a 1-0 lead with 11:01 left in the first period on assists from Bailey Larson (Sycamore, Illinois) and Kaila Pinkney (Denfield, Ontario).
 
Labbe doubled the Raiders lead exactly three minutes late for her team-leading ninth of the season to make it 2-0 in favor of Colgate. Shelby Wood (Cambridge, Ontario) tallied her third assist on the year while Pinkney picked up the secondary assist for her first career two-assist game.
 
Colgate took a 3-0 lead 1:40 after Labbe's goal as Wildfang got into the scoring action with her second of the season with 6:21 to go in the first period. Labbe tallied her second point of the night with an assist while Perry added an assist to complete her three-point effort.
 
The second period picked up right where the first left off as Bennett got the Raiders on the board with 4:02 into the period off assists from Ellie DeCaprio (Wellesley, Massachusetts) and Wilson-Bennett
 
After the Tigers got a goal back near the midway point of the second period, Perry reclaimed the four-goal lead for the Raiders on an unassisted goal that made it 5-1 with 8:38 left in the second period.
 
Sullivan closed out the scoring for the Raiders with her seventh goal of the season near the midway point of the third period to make it 6-1 Colgate. Larson and Wilson-Bennett picked up the helpers on Sullivan's tally.
 
BOTTOM LINE
No. 2/2 Colgate 6, RIT 1
 
WIN/LOSS RECORDS
The Raiders rebounded to pick up their 14^th win of the season, improving to 14-2-0, while the Tigers are winless in their six games, falling to 4-10-2.
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Perry tied her career-highs with two goals and three points in Saturday's win, her second two-goal game and third three-point game
-The Raiders now have nine multi-goal games this season
-Labbe scored a goal and had an assist to take over the team-lead with nine goals and 17 points this season
-Labbe's two-point night was her 19^th career multi-point effort
-Larson and Wilson-Bennett each recorded two assists to extend their point streaks to five games
-Larson had her 10^th career multi-assist game and 16^th multi-point game while Wilson-Bennett recorded her fourth multi-assist and 14^th multi-point game
-Pinkney assisted the first two goals of the game for her first career two-assist game and second career two-point game
-Wildfang took over as the second-highest scoring defenseman with her goal on Saturday, giving her 64 points to put her eight behind tying Tara French '07 for the most in program history
-Sullivan recorded her seventh goal of the season while Bennett added her second in the win
-DeCaprio picked up her second assist in as many weekends to give her two this season
-Wood tallied her third assist of the season on Labbe's game-winning goal

FACTS AND FIGURES
-Colgate held a strong 31-21 advantage in shots after outshooting RIT in the first and third periods
-The Raiders were 0 for 5 on the power play while the Tigers scored their only goal with the advantage, going 1 for 6
-The Raiders edged out the Tigers in faceoffs, 30-29, behind a team-high 10 wins from Labbe and Wilson-Bennett
 
FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Greg Fargo
"It was a good response from our group tonight. We were much better in the areas we talked about before the game.
 
"Overall, it was a positive weekend for us. It was nice to play a couple of teams we don't often see and play in a first class tournament.
 
"We will rest up and get ready for another exciting weekend of ECAC Hockey play."
 
UP NEXT
No. 2/2 Colgate women's ice hockey returns to league play for one more weekend in the 2017 calendar year as they face No. 8/8 Cornell in a home-and-home series, starting at Lynah Rink in Ithaca, New York, on Friday at 6 p.m. before returning to Class of 1965 Arena on Saturday at 3 p.m.