Women's Hockey gets shutout by Princeton
Ben Gurlitz
Issue date: 2/4/10 Section: Sports
The Dutchwomen had no answer to Princeton's power play which scored twice to hand the Dutchwomen their 20th loss of the season.
Princeton's power play got the scoring underway 15 minutes in, when senior forward Melanie Wallace was left alone in front of the Union net, she made no mistake in putting the biscuit in the basket.
The visitors doubled their lead in the second period, when Freshman Forward Corey Stearns picked out the top corner on another Tigers power play.
It was Stearns again that tipped home Princeton's third, and final goal after a three on two rush, in the second.
The game started as a back and forth affair, with neither side able to apply consistent offensive pressure. The first real chance came four minutes into the game when sophomore defender Dania Simmons pinched all the way into the corner and won the puck. Simmons then did very well to pick out sophomore forward Lauren Cromartie, who put a shot right into the Princeton goalie Rachel Weber's chest.
A minute later the tigers were awarded with their first chance when sophomore forward Molly Kate Devin lost the puck in the neutral zone to Princeton's Charissa Stadnyk, who fired a shot on Union goalie Alana Marcinko who did very well to make a flashy glove save.
At the half way point in the first period the Dutchwomen were almost gifted with the first goal when a deflected shot from the neutral zone trickled away from Weber, and fell to the Dutchwomen's leading scorer Émilie Arsenault who flicked the puck goal bound but, Weber spared her own blushes by making a pad save on the follow up before her defenders got the puck to safety.
Union was given their first power play opportunity with about six minutes left in the first frame, but the Dutchwomen were unable to create anything before cutting their power play short by taking a penalty of their own, on an extremely dodgy tripping call.
Princeton's power play got the scoring underway 15 minutes in, when senior forward Melanie Wallace was left alone in front of the Union net, she made no mistake in putting the biscuit in the basket.
The visitors doubled their lead in the second period, when Freshman Forward Corey Stearns picked out the top corner on another Tigers power play.
It was Stearns again that tipped home Princeton's third, and final goal after a three on two rush, in the second.
The game started as a back and forth affair, with neither side able to apply consistent offensive pressure. The first real chance came four minutes into the game when sophomore defender Dania Simmons pinched all the way into the corner and won the puck. Simmons then did very well to pick out sophomore forward Lauren Cromartie, who put a shot right into the Princeton goalie Rachel Weber's chest.
A minute later the tigers were awarded with their first chance when sophomore forward Molly Kate Devin lost the puck in the neutral zone to Princeton's Charissa Stadnyk, who fired a shot on Union goalie Alana Marcinko who did very well to make a flashy glove save.
At the half way point in the first period the Dutchwomen were almost gifted with the first goal when a deflected shot from the neutral zone trickled away from Weber, and fell to the Dutchwomen's leading scorer Émilie Arsenault who flicked the puck goal bound but, Weber spared her own blushes by making a pad save on the follow up before her defenders got the puck to safety.
Union was given their first power play opportunity with about six minutes left in the first frame, but the Dutchwomen were unable to create anything before cutting their power play short by taking a penalty of their own, on an extremely dodgy tripping call.
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