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11-4-1
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4-12-4
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Women's Hockey Ends 2015 on 6-0 Streak After Sweep of Penn State
December 12, 2015 | Women's Ice Hockey
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PRINCETON, N.J. (12/12/15) - A 3-2 win over Penn State gave the Princeton women's hockey team not only a series sweep of the Nittany Lions, but it extended the Tigers win streak to six as Princeton improves to 11-4-1 overall.
This is the longest win streak for Princeton since the 2010-11 season when the Tigers went 8-0 between Dec. 4 and Jan. 28.
In those six games Princeton has outscored its opponents by an incredible 23-5 margin, and has outshot its opponents by nearly 20 shots per game (41.5-22.5).
Sophomore Alysia DaSilva earned her third win of the season in goal for the Tigers, stopping 15 shots. Hannah Ehresmann was kept busy on the opposite end and made 36 stops for the Nittany Lions, who drop to 4-12-4 overall.
Princeton dominated the first period, outshooting Penn State 14-5, but wouldn't get a goal for its effort.
It was a more balance second half, with Princeton taking a 9-7 edge in shots, while the teams traded goals.
Penn State lit the lamp first at 10:58 of the second period, it's first goal of the series. After three penalties were called with Penn State having two in the box, the team got a player back and scored the 4x4 goal. Emily Laurenzi got the puck on a dump and chipped it to Kelsey Crow along the left side. Crow found Hannah Bramm in the neutral zone and she skated down, faked right on her defender and roofed a shot behind the helmet of DaSilva in the right upper 90.
Junior defender Kelsey Koelzer answered at 12:22 with freshman Karlie Lund assisting on her first of two of the night. Koelzer was circling in the right side before getting tripped up by two Nittany Lions. Lund recovered the puck and skated through the zone, around the back of the net and found Koelzer at the left point for the shot and goal through traffic.
Junior Morgan Sly's sixth goal of the season proved to be the game winner at 5:33 of the third period. It was a total team effort as freshman Stephanie Sucharda intercepted a pass at the blue line and sent a cross-ice pass to junior Molly Strabley. Strabley banked the puck off the boards to junior Molly Contini in the neutral zone and she found Lund inside the left circle. Lund sent the puck across the ice to Sly inside the right circle and she one-timed the puck past Ehresmann.
An unassisted Jaimie McDonell goal came with 52 seconds left as Penn State struggled to gain possession to get Ehresmann off the ice. McDonell broke up a play in the neutral zone and walked the puck up the left side, skated across the slot and put the puck between the glove and the right pipe.
The Nittany Lions were able to get the extra skater on with 28 seconds left and were able to notch an extra-attacker goal with 18 seconds left on the clock. It was Bramm again with Bella Sutton and Laura Bowman assisting.
Princeton takes a break from play and will resume action in the New Year – New Year's Day in fact when it takes on Brown at 7 p.m. The Tigers then play host to Yale on Saturday, Jan. 2 at 4 p.m.