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Romanchuk's Four Points Helps Women's Hockey to 6-3 Win Over Union
November 01, 2009 | Women's Ice Hockey
PRINCETON (10/31/09) -- Junior Paula Romanchuk scored two goals and added two assists to help lead the Princeton women's hockey team to a 6-3 win over Union on Saturday afternoon at Hobey Baker Rink in ECAC Hockey action.
The Tigers took control of the game with two goals in the second half of the second period after the teams traded goals over the first 30 minutes of the game. Union opened the scoring 16 seconds into the game as Rhianna Kurio knocked in a deflected shot. Princeton answered three minutes later when junior Laura Martindale scored her first goal of the season. Romanchuk gained control of the puck along the boards and fed Martindale at the point for the goal.
Romanchuk scored two goals nine seconds apart in the second minute of the second period to give Princeton a 3-1 lead. Her first came on the rebound of her own shot and the second came after she jammed in a loose puck lying in the crease. Sophomore Danielle assisted on both goals and had three points in the game.
Union quickly answered to knot the game at 3-3. In the sixth minute, Lauren Cromartie deflected a point shot in and at 9:19 Emilie Arsenault scored on a breakaway with a backhand shot.
DiCesare gave Princeton the lead back at 13:37 of the second period when she snuck a shot under the blocker of Union goaltender Alana Marcinko. Romanchuk and sophomore Heather Landry had assists on the go-ahead goal. Princeton made it a two-goal lead with 26 seconds left in the period when senior Maddie Endicott netted her second goal in as many nights, scoring on the power play off a feed from freshman Kelly Cooke.
Freshman Corey Stearns capped the scoring in the final minute of the game with her first of the season on the power play. Cooke and classmate Alex Kinney added assists on the team's sixth goal.
Princeton sophomore goaltender Rachel Weber made 10 saves for her second win of the year and Marcinko made 32 saves in the loss.
Princeton is now 2-1-1 overall and 1-0-1 in the ECAC. Princeton visits Yale and Brown next weekend.