MORRISVILLE, N.Y. -- Kept off the scoreboard for the first 55 minutes of Saturday Mustang Cup Tournament championship game versus #9 Adrian College, the Amherst College women's hockey team was not deterred as it rallied to score three times in the final 4 minutes and 49 seconds to capture the win -- and the tournament title - via a 3-1 decision at the SUNY-Morrisville IcePlex. 

Amherst improved to 7-0-2 with the victory while the Bulldogs fell to 11-4-0 on the season. Next up for the Mammoths is a Thursday night match-up with Western New England University. Puck drop is 7 p.m. at Orr Rink.

GAME HIGHLIGHTS:

* The Bulldogs claimed a 1-0 lead in the second period on a power play goal by Courtney Ben assisted by Emma Simon. Ben received a pass at the left point, skated to the top of the cirlce and fired a shot that beat Mammoth goalie Natalie Stott glove high into the top right-hand corner of the goal.

* Adrian held the lead deep into the third, but the Mammoths drew even with their own power-play goal that came with 4:49 remaining in the final stanza. After a nice break out of her own zone, Emily Hohmann pushed a pass to Natalie Fu as the latter broke over the Adrian blueline. That created a 2-on-1 chance, with Fu sliding a pass of to her left and teammate Calleigh Brown, who skated into the lower left corner of the circle and wristed a shot that deflected off Bulldogs' goalie Kiera Stack and into the net for a 1-1 score. 

* Only 2:13 later, Amherst had a 2-1 lead. Senior Gretchen Dann won a puck along the left boards and as a Bulldog approached, spun backwards and to her right, curling into open ice. From the top of the circle she fired a shot that beat Stack low and into the right corner of the goal with just 2:36 remaining in the game. 

* Senior Maeve Reynolds put the finishing touches on the win with an empty-net goal, collecting the puck just outside her own blueline and skating directly into the Bulldogs' zone, skating around one defender and then with another right in front of her, sliding the rubber sphere right past her and into the empty goal for a 3-1 lead. 

BY THE NUMBERS:

* Amherst outshot Adrian, 29-28. Stott stopped 27 of those 28 shots. 

* The face-offs were even for the game, 31-31. Reynolds won a whopping 13 of 21 face-offs for the Mammoths. 

* Amherst defeated host SUNY-Morrisville Friday night 4-1 behind 2 goals from Dann and 2 saves from MaleighTittel.