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Butsch Hat Trick Highlights Wild Women's Hockey Win at Cornell
February 11, 2005 | Women's Ice Hockey
Feb. 11, 2005
Box Score
Ithaca, N.Y. - She may not lead the Princeton women's hockey scoring charts, but whenever the Tigers have needed a goal in the clutch, they have been able to rely on junior Sarah Butsch. She scored Princeton's lone goals in a pair of 1-1 ties on the road against ranked teams, and on Friday night at Cornell, she provided not one and not two, but three big goals to help erase a 5-3 deficit with two minutes to play and lift the Tigers to a 6-5 overtime win.
Princeton improved to 13-6-4 overall and 7-5-2 in the ECAC with the win as the Tigers made up ground in the standings on idle Brown and Yale, which lost at Colgate. Cornell fell to 3-17-3 with the loss. The game was wild from the beginning as both teams held leads during the game before a crazy flourish as time would down in the third period. Cornell scored with 8:28 remaining in the third period to take a 5-3 lead and set the stage for Butsch's heroics. Butsch, who had been held off the scoreboard prior, tallied her first of the night with 1:32 left in the period as the Tigers had pulled freshman goaltender Rebecca Allen for an extra skater. Sophomore Dina McCumber assisted the goal. She then scored again 26 seconds later with the goalie pulled to knot the game up at 5-5. Sophomore Kim Pearce assisted that goal.
Butsch completed the trifecta 1:05 into overtime when junior Tarah Clark set up her game-winner. It was the first hat trick of her career and she now has seven goals on the season.
Cornell began the game by scoring twice in the first period despite being outshot 13-5. Halina Kristalyn opened the scoring at 5:07 and Brianne Schmidt made it 2-0 just prior to the 10-minute mark.
Princeton broke through with three power-play goals in the second period to take a 3-2 lead after two stanzas. The Tigers outshot the Big Red 11-3 in the period. Pearce opened the scoring at 11:55with her 14th of the season on the power play assisted by junior Heather Jackson and sophomore Liz Keady. Princeton evened it up 3:29 later when Keady scored her first of the game and 10th of the year from Pearce and sophomore Laura Watt. The goal also came on the power play. Keady closed out the scoring in the second period with her 11th unassisted with two minutes remaining in the period.
Cornell came out strong in the third and made it 3-3 at 1:06 when Kristalyn scored. The Big Red scored again at 4:24 from Miranda Callaghan to go up 4-3 and Kristalyn completed her hat trick at 12:32, before the Tigers came back late with two extra-attacker goals and the overtime game-winner.
Flora Vineburg made 36 saves in the loss for Cornell as the Tigers outshot the Big Red 42-16. Junior goaltender Roxanne Gaudiel played 52:35 and allowed five goals on 11 shots. Allen played 6:53 to earn the win and did not face a shot.
Princeton continues its road trip tomorrow afternoon at Colgate. Face off is at 4 p.m.