MIDDLETOWN, CT – After two scoreless periods Saturday afternoon, the Amherst College women's hockey team broke through with
Alyssa Xu's goal at 13:06 of the third, followed by
Bea Flynn's empty-netter with 56.9 seconds left, securing a 2-1 win over the Wesleyan College Cardinals at Snyder Rink.
The Mammoth's record improved to 12-3-1 overall, and 5-2-1 for in-conference play.
Amherst faces its next opponent, Bowdoin College, this Friday (Jan. 31) at 7 p.m. for an in-conference match at home.
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
- On an Amherst penalty kill with 6:25 remaining in the first period, Amherst's Gretchen Dann cleared the puck out of the zone for Xu to skate onto behind Wesleyan's net. Xu fired the initial shot for Maeve Reynolds to come in from the slot for the rebound, nearly scoring a shorthanded goal.
- With 13:06 remaining, Dann fired a wrist shot from the left point, forcing a save from Cardinal goaltender Jenna Guglielmi. Flynn skated into the slot for the rebound, but the puck sailed wide of the right post. Moments later, in a crease scramble, Flynn tapped the puck left of Guglielmi, where Xu redirected it in for the Mammoths' first goal.
- After Dann's defensive clear, Flynn chased down the puck and pressured Wesleyan's defense, intercepting it near the Cardinal's net. Xu collected the loose puck and fed it back to Flynn, who was positioned in the crease, where she tapped it in with 56.9 seconds left in the game.
- Cardinal Aimee Seppenwolde fired a shot from the right point on a Wesleyan power play, but it was blocked and sent wide. Christina Tournas retrieved the puck behind Amherst's net and fed it to Amelia Moline in the low slot. Moline's shot was stopped by goaltender Natalie Stott, but Tournas buried the rebound with 13.6 seconds left in play.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Amherst out shot Wesleyan 40 to 25.
- The Mammoths went 0-2 on power plays, whereas the Cardinals went 1-6.
- Wesleyan won 34 of the 66 faceoffs.
- Stott stopped 24 of 25 shots in net for Amherst, while Guglielmi made 38 saves on 39 shots for Wesleyan.
