HAMILTON – The No. 5 Colgate women's hockey program picked up its fifth top-10 win of the season against No. 9 Clarkson University as the Raiders defeated the Golden Knights 4-1. First-year
Kayle Osborne had a season-high 34 saves and four different Raiders scored a goal in the win.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Raiders got on the board first as sophomore
Danielle Serdachny passed a deflected shot to sophomore
Kaitlyn O'Donohoe who scored at the 3:08 mark of the first period.
With the score 1-0 early in the game, Colgate continued to get great shots throughout the period, but the Raiders did not score again until 4:13 remained in the period as sophomore
Darcie Lappan extended the Raiders' lead to 2-0 as she snuck a deflected shot into the top of the net.
Colgate continued the momentum in the second period by scoring two power play goals in the first seven minutes. After the Golden Knights were called for tripping just 3:39 into the period, senior
Coralie Larose scored her first goal of the season on the power play to make the score 3-0.
The Raiders then took advantage of a Clarkson crosschecking penalty as junior
Noemi Neubauerova scored her sixth goal of the season to give the Raiders the 4-0 lead. At the end of the second period, Colgate steadily led Clarkson 23-17 in shots.
The third period was dominated by Clarkson as the Golden Knights outshot the Raiders 18-3. However, Osborne held the Golden Knights to only one power play tally to keep Colgate ahead. Clarkson finished the contest outshooting the Raiders 35-26 but were unable to close the gap as the Raiders ran ahead to a 4-1 victory.
COLGATE SCORING PLAYS
• Period 1 | 3:08 – Sophomore
Sydney Bard passed the puck to sophomore
Kaitlyn O'Donohoe to score, but her first shot was saved by the goalie. Sophomore
Danielle Serdachny passed the deflected shot back to O'Donohoe who snuck it in past the toe of the netminder on the rebound.
• Period 1 | 15:47 – Serdachny passed to junior
Delani MacKay, who shot near the blueline before sophomore
Darcie Lappan scored off the deflected shot.
• Period 2 | 3:39 – On a power play junior
Delani MacKay passed to sophomore
Allyson Simpson who first shot from just in front of the blueline, but the shot hit the post and was chipped in on the rebound by senior
Coralie Larose, which was her first goal of the season.
• Period 2 | 6:24 – On the second of back-to-back Clarkson penalties, junior
Noemi Neubauerova scored off first-year
Kalty Kaltounkova's deflected shot, which was originally passed to her from sophomore
Sammy Smigliani.
STATISTICAL STANDOUTS
• First-year
Kayle Osborne recorded a season-high 34 saves, including 17 saves in the final period.
• Junior
Delani MacKay and sophomore
Danielle Serdachny picked up multi-point games, as both players finished with two assists.
• Serdachny extended her point streak to three games with two assists against Clarkson and sophomore
Darcie Lappan now has a three-game point streak as well as she scored one goal in the matchup.
• Junior
Eleri MacKay led the Raiders in shots with five and senior
Shelby Wood led the team in blocked shots with three.
• The Raiders tied their season-high of four goals and are now 5-0 in the previous five games.
• This is the Colgate's fifth top-10 win of the season, with three of the five wins coming against the Golden Knights.
• Colgate held Clarkson to just one power play goal as the Raiders finished the game going 7-for-8 on the penalty kill.
THE BOTTOM LINE
• No. 5 Colgate 4, No. 9 Clarkson 1
RECORD UPDATES
• No. 5 Colgate holds a 7-1-1 record and remains undefeated in the ECAC at 3-0-0.
• No. 9 Clarkson is now 3-3-1 on the season with an 0-1-0 start to its conference record.
HEAD COACH GREG FARGO'S TAKE
"We were focused and ready to play today. It really showed in the first two periods of play, I thought we controlled space all over the ice. Our special teams play continues to get better and Kayle came up big with saves when we needed her.
"All around, a very good team effort today and it has us excited to play again on Monday."
UP NEXT
The No. 5 Raiders are on the road in the final game of the home-and-home series as they take on Clarkson at 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18 in Potsdam, N.Y.
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