SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Colgate women's hockey handled Syracuse on the road, downing the Orange, 9-0, behind 14 different Raiders who tallied a point. The road warriors were led by junior
Neena Brick who poured in five points for the second time this season and is now the only player in the country to have scored four goals in a game twice this year.
"We played a really good team game tonight and everyone was moving pucks," Brick said. "We came off a tough weekend against Minnesota Duluth so it was nice to bounce back and get the result we wanted."
The Raiders scored early and often in the Tennity Ice Pavilion with first-year Madeline Palumbo starting the lamp-lighting celebration less than three minutes into the contest. Four minutes later, she would later go on to earn her first career multi-point performance when she assisted on Brick's first score of the night.
First-year Avery Pickering involved the Raiders' blueliners just before the halfway point of the first period, slotting a wrister glove side off the feed from fifth-years Kaitlyn O'Donohoe and Danielle Serdachny. Brick then capped off the four-point opening period with her second goal at the 10:25 mark.
Colgate picked up right where it left off after the intermission when Brick pounced on a puck rebound off a shot from Sydney Bard. The Raiders would not score for the ensuing 16 minutes until Serdachny and Dara Greig found the back of the net less than a minute apart from each other to send Colgate into the final frame up a touchdown.
The fourth line took their turn in the last period with Kas Betinol scoring her third goal of the season on the helper from Tessa Holk. Brick would go on to nail her fourth and final score of the night at the 17-minute mark, putting the Raiders back in the win column with their 14th triumph of the season.
UP NEXT
Colgate (14-2-1, 8-0 ECAC) takes a three-week hiatus before heading to the Keystone State for the Battle at the Burgh tournament on Dec. 29 and 30. The Raiders will face Maine on Friday and either Robert Morris or Bemidji State on Saturday, with both game times being announced closer to the start of the tournament.
