No. 10 Quinnipiac Gets Past No. 6 Princeton in OT, Forces Decisive Game Sunday

Saturday, February 29

Princeton, N.J.

3:00 PM

Princeton University

23-6-1, 17-4-1ECAC

Quinnipiac

20-13-3, 11-9-2ECAC

OT 1

Quinnipiac

Princeton

Carly Bullock had Princeton's tying goal in Saturday's Game 2 against Quinnipiac.

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

No. 10 Quinnipiac Gets Past No. 6 Princeton in OT, Forces Decisive Game Sunday

February 29, 2020 | Women's Ice Hockey

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As elated as the sixth-ranked Princeton women's hockey team was upon Carly Bullock scoring her tying goal with three minutes left in the third period, 10th-ranked Quinnipiac brought the Tigers back to ice level with a deflected shot by Courtney Vorster less than two minutes into the overtime to force a decisive game in the ECAC quarterfinals best-of-three Sunday at 3 p.m. back at Baker Rink.

Tickets for Sunday's game are available here.

Princeton joined Harvard as host teams playing third games Sunday. Cornell swept eighth-seeded St. Lawrence Saturday and will host next weekend's ECAC semifinals and final, and third-seeded Clarkson closed out sixth-seeded Colgate to advance. Princeton would meet Clarkson in the semifinals with a win Sunday, sending the Harvard-Yale winner to face top-seeded Cornell. Quinnipiac would face Cornell in the semis if it wins, with the Harvard-Yale winner meeting Clarkson in that scenario.

Saturday's first period didn't have the scoring pop that Friday's did, when Princeton scored four times and never looked back in taking the series lead. This time, Maggie Connors had the lone goal of the opening period, picking off a pass with just more than a minute to go, taking it down the ice past a pair of Quinnipiac defenders and threading it underneath Bobcats netminder Abbie Ives to put Princeton in front.

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Maggie Connors steals a pass, takes it down the ice and threads it through!
Watch the game here: https://t.co/OXQLvLK8AI pic.twitter.com/0qrRB6Hc9t
— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) February 29, 2020

Quinnipiac scored twice in the second period and held that 2-1 lead until three minutes remained in the game. On a power play, Sarah Fillier and Claire Thompson cycled the puck around to Bullock near the faceoff dot to Ives' right, and Bullock blasted it home to square the game.

3' left, 3rd period | #6 Princeton 2, #10 Quinnipiac 2
TIE GAME!
Carly Bullock fires it on net, and we're tied!
Watch the finish here: https://t.co/OXQLvLK8AI pic.twitter.com/PBe511r1zM
— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) February 29, 2020

Quinnipiac scored just 1:45 into the OT, with a Vorster shot nicking Taylor House's blade and finding its way inside the post to Tiger netminder Stephanie Neatby's left.

It'll be the fourth time in five years that Princeton has gone the distance in the ECAC quarterfinals, and the second time in that span against Quinnipiac. In 2017, Princeton bounced back from an OT loss to the Bobcats at Baker in the first game to win the next two and advance.