Box Score Feb. 20: After trading second period goals, the No. 10 St. Lawrence women's hockey team tied No. 3/4 Harvard 1-1 at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center in Cambridge, Mass. It's the second time the teams required overtime this season, as the Saints took the first game of the series 5-4 at Appleton Arena.

With the tie the Saints sit at 18-10-5 and 12-5-5 against conference opponents heading into tomorrow's regular season finale at Dartmouth. Meanwhile, Harvard is 21-4-3 and 16-3-2.

"That was certainly an exciting hockey game tonight," Head Coach Chris Wells said. "Both teams played hard and clean and created plenty of scoring chances." 

Senior netminder Carmen MacDonald, who become the program's all-time saves leader last weekend, added 44 saves to her career total on Friday night, as the Crimson outshot the Saints 45-32 in the contest; including a 7-3 advantage in overtime.

Harvard had a goal disallowed early in the first period, and the teams entered the first intermission in a scoreless tie.

Hannah Miller put the Saints out in front 1-0 early in the middle frame off a feed from classmate Kennedy Marchment. Miller deked a defender to create enough space to rip a top-shelf wrister from the slot that beat Harvard netminder Emerance Maschemeyer on the blocker side.

Harvard evened things up midway through the second with Sydney Daniels besting MacDonald on an odd-man rush with a redirection that went high on the blocker side.
Maschmeyer stuffed Marchment on  a two-on-one rush with senior Amanda Boulier with time winding down in the third period. Boulier carried down the left wing and dished to Marchment in front. Maschmeyer slid across and took the Courtice, Ont. native's redirection into her chest and held on for a faceoff.

Forty-nine seconds into overtime, the Saints were whistled for too many men on the ice, but managed to weather the kill thanks to some timely saves by MacDonald.

"We had some excellent efforts out of our PK, who blocked some key shots especially in OT," Wells said. "It is going right down to the wire and it looks like many people will be looking closely at the out of town scores."

The Saints will finish the regular season with a 4 p.m. game at Dartmouth on Saturday afternoon and await their playoff position.