No. 8/8 Princeton Opens N.Y. Capital Region Trip With Win at Union

Friday, November 15

Schenectady, N.Y.

6:00 PM

Princeton University

6-2-0, 4-2-0ECACH

Union

1-9-1, 1-3-0ECACH

Princeton

Union (NY)

Sarah Fillier had a four-point night with a goal and three assists.

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

No. 8/8 Princeton Opens N.Y. Capital Region Trip With Win at Union

November 15, 2019 | Women's Ice Hockey

Box Score

A quick pair of goals early in the second period gave Princeton a lead, and the eighth-ranked Tigers rode it to a 7-2 win at Union Friday night to open a weekend ECAC Hockey League swing through New York's capital region.

Princeton will close the weekend Saturday at 3 p.m. at RPI.

After a first-period Union goal from Grace Heiting gave the Dutchwomen the lead 13 minutes into the game, Sarah Fillier, in her first game back after missing last weekend to play in a pair of exhibition games with Team Canada, took the puck up the ice and sent a cross-goal pass to Solveig Neunzert, who fired it home to tie the game.

16' left, 2nd period | #8/8 Princeton 1, Union 1
Solveig Neunzert takes the pass from Sarah Fillier, and we're tied!
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— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) November 15, 2019

Just 13 seconds later, Fillier curled around in the corner and found Maggie Connors in the slot, and Connors tucked it inside the right post to give Princeton a 2-1 lead with 16-plus minutes left in the middle frame.

16' left, 2nd period | #8/8 Princeton 2, Union 1
Goals 13 seconds apart! Maggie Connors gives the Tigers the lead.
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— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) November 16, 2019

Princeton made it 3-1 just past the midway point of the second period when Kate Monihan sent a pass forward for Connors, who found Carly Bullock charging toward goal for her team-best seventh of the season.

10:49 left, 2nd period | #8/8 Princeton 3, Union 1

Bullock scores her seventh goal of the season to give Princeton a 3-1 advantage over Union! pic.twitter.com/3HoX1omnQN
— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) November 16, 2019

Princeton entered the final 20 minutes with the two-goal lead, and Shannon Griffin made it 4-1 when she took a pass forward from Neunzert and sent it in on the doorstep of the goal.

17' left, 3rd period | #8/8 Princeton 4, Union 1
Shannon Griffin makes it a three-goal lead!
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— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) November 16, 2019

Bullock had her second goal of the night and eighth on the season when Sarah Fillier won the puck near the Tigers' blue line and had a two-on-one with Bullock despite the Dutchwomen being on the power play. Fillier had her initial shot stopped, but Bullock was there to pounce on the rebound for the shorthanded goal.

10' left, 3rd period | #8/8 Princeton 5, Union 1

Bullock nets her second goal of the night to give the Tigers a 5-1 advantage! pic.twitter.com/gREunGYmoT
— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) November 16, 2019

Princeton's sixth goal was on the Tigers' power play this time, with Fillier getting her third assist on the night when she found Sharon Frankel near goal for a finish and a 6-2 lead with less than five minutes to go.

4' left, 3rd period | #8/8 Princeton 6, Union 1
Sarah Fillier finds Sharon Frankel, and the Tigers are up five!
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— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) November 16, 2019

The Tigers weren't done scoring, with Neunzert sending the team's seventh goal in after Frankel wrapped around the net and found Neunzert in the middle of a crowd in front of the crease with less than two minutes to play.

1' left, 3rd period | #8/8 Princeton 7, Union 2
Neunzert scores her second goal of the night to make it a 7-2 game in the late stages! pic.twitter.com/sffE4g8EON
— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) November 16, 2019

Princeton's seven goals were a season high and the team's most since Feb. 8, 2019 at Brown (eight), with Bullock and Neunzert getting two and Fillier getting four points on a goal and three helpers.