Three members of the St. Lawrence University women's hockey team scored and Saints' goaltender Lucy Morgan made 32 saves, as the Scarlet and Brown posted their first ECAC Hockey win of the season, topping Rensselaer 3-0 at the Houston Field House in Troy, New York on Friday night.

The Saints got off to a hot start and took advantage of some early opportunities to get on the board and out in front of RPI.

Off the faceoff, Gout played the puck back, then cashed in on a tip over RPI goaltender Amanda Rampado's shoulder for the first goal of the game, one minute and one second into play. Claire Dudley tallied her first assist of the season on the play.

Just over ten minutes later, Aly McLeod battled for the puck behind the goal line, walked in and scored unassisted through the Engineers' defense, making it 2-0 Saints at the 11:13 mark.

"We really jumped out to a great start tonight," said head coach Chris Well '92. "We were ready to go from puck drop. We followed up a good week of practice with one of our better periods of the year. Getting an early one was certainly on the "wish list!" RPI has been playing some very good hockey leading up to tonight so to get up 2-0 was a big plus." 

With the Engineers on the power play, Hustler stole the puck at the blue line and scored a short-handed breakaway goal, making it 3-0 Saints with just over seven seconds remaining in the second period. Rampado made tried to make the save, but the puck trickled in between her pads.

RPI started the third frame on the power play and nearly spoiled the Saints shutout with a shot from Riena Jahnke, but the puck was blocked by the skate of Melissa Jefferies.

Morgan denied Jahnke again with the glove save at the 4:32 mark.

The Engineers poured on the pressure with an extra attacker in the final minutes, but the Saints held on for the win and the shutout for Morgan.  

A timely goal short-handed goal and Lucy making some great saves got us to the win," Wells added.

Morgan finished with 32 saves, including 14 in the third period, while Rampado made 22 saves for the Engineers.

RPI held a 32-25 shot on goal advantage. The Engineers also held a 28-20 faceoff advantage.

St. Lawrence improved to 4-2-2 overall and 1-0-0 in conference play, while RPI fell to 4-5-0 and 2-1-0.

The Saints will close their weekend on the road with a 3 p.m. matchup against Union, tomorrow October 30th.