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Sly Scores Twice as Women's Hockey Tops Brown 4-1
February 21, 2015 | Women's Ice Hockey
Box Score
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (2/20/15) - Sophomore Morgan Sly scored twice to help lead the Princeton women's hockey team to a 4-1 win over Brown on Friday night at Meehan Auditorium and one step closer to the Ivy League title.
Senior Brianna Leahy and junior Cristin Shanahan had two assists apiece, while junior Jaimie McDonell had both a goal and an assist. Freshmen defender Emily Achterkirch recorded her first collegiate goal, the game-winning goal and junior netminder Kimberly Newell earned the win with 21 stops.
The Tigers (15-11-2, 13-7-1 ECAC) will play the final game of the regular season tomorrow at Yale at 4 p.m. If Princeton beats Yale it will win the Ivy League Championship, a tie with give Princeton a share of the title with Harvard.
Seeds 1-6 are still undetermined in the ECAC playoffs. Princeton can finish anywhere between 4-6, as is currently sixth with 27 points. Cornell and St. Lawrence are tied for fourth with 28. Harvard and Clarkson will battle it out tomorrow to determine the No. 1 seed. (see seeding ranges below)
The teams traded power-play goals in the second period after a scoreless first period.
It was the Bears (5-22-1, 2-18-1 ECAC) that got on the board first with a Sam Donovan power-play goal. Lauren Vella took a shot from the point and with Donovan and Sarah Robson crowding in on Newell on either side, the pair made sure the puck went through with Donovan getting credit.
Newell would have her say with Donovan four minutes later when she came up with arguably the save of the night. It came shortly after Hunter Davis was called for Brown's first infraction of the game and Robson picked the puck off a Tiger and skated in for a shorthanded breakaway, getting denied by Newell with the pad save.
Less than a minute later the Tigers would convert on that same power play, with Sly netting her seventh of the season. A shot by senior Brianne Mahoney went off the pad of goalie Monica Elvin and out into the corner. Freshman Kiersten Falck battled for it and came away with the puck before a shuffle pass to Leahy who ripped a shot from the right side. The rebound bounced out to the opposite side where Sly was there to bury the rebound.
The offense got things going in the third period with three straight tallies.
The first was the collegiate first for Achterkirch, at 7:45. Leahy sent the puck behind the goal to junior Fiona McKenna. McKenna went up the right side boards with it to Achterkirch who sent a shot in on goal and it took a deflection off of Elvin and went between her legs and into the goal.
Shanahan and Sly teamed up for the Tigers' third goal at 16:12. Shanahan came streaking down the left side and whipped a shot in on goal, with the puck bouncing off of Elvin's pads to Sly who had the wide open right side on Elvin.
McDonell iced the win with an empty-net goal at 18:56, with Molly Strabley and Shanahan receiving credit on the goal. McDonell took off on a foot race with Vella. Vella tripped McDonell and got called for the penalty while McDonell got to her feet and put the puck into the empty net.
Elvin finished the game with 32 saves, as Princeton outshot Brown 36-22.
ECAC Seeding Ranges
Harvard: 1-2 (seeded #1 with win or tie vs Clarkson)
Clarkson: 1-3 (seeded #1 with win over Harvard)
Quinnipiac: 2-5 (needs 1 pt to clinch home ice)
Cornell: 3-6 (needs 2 pts to clinch home ice)
St. Lawrence: 3-6
Princeton: 4-6
Yale: 7
Dartmouth: 8