Four different Saints scored in the sixth-ranked St. Lawrence University women's hockey team's 4-1 victory over the RPI Engineers on Friday night in Troy, New York.
 
St. Lawrence stuck first early in the first period. Julia Gosling won an offensive zone faceoff back to defender Mae Batherson. She sent a shot towards a crowd of players surrounding RPI goaltender Amanda Rampado. Sarah Marchand was in front of the crowd and tipped Batherson's shot past the RPI netminder.
 
The remainder of the first period was relatively quiet, and the Saints took a 9-6 shot advantage and a 1-0 into the locker room.
 
The beginning of the second period continued the quiet pace of the latter half of the first until a big RPI chance. A turnover in St. Lawrence's defensive-zone was quickly corralled by an RPI forward, who fed a fellow wide-open Engineer in the slot. The Engineer went 1-on-1 with Saints' goaltender Emma-Sofie Nordström, who denied the glorious RPI chance.
 
A few minutes later, the Saints earned a power-play. On the player-advantage, beautiful puck movement extended the SLU lead. Tic-tac-toe passing finished with Marchand's centering pass landed on Gosling's stick, and she beat a sliding Rampado.

St. Lawrence controlled the momentum of the game until a series of penalties by the Saints opened the door for the Engineers. On a 5-on-3 power play, RPI's Ellie Kaiser passed to Maddy Papineau, who was backdoor and finished the pass into a wide-open net to bring the game within one.
 
After the RPI goal, they still had more than a minute of a 5-on-3 advantage, which the Saints killed off, but they also had another four minutes of a 5-on-4 advantage. RPI could have completely shifted the momentum, but Abby Hustler had other plans.
 
On a short-handed 2-on-1 chance with eighteen seconds remaining in the period, Taylor Lum entered the Engineer zone. Lum's patience on the chance drew Rampado slightly out-of-position, but she could not come up with a miraculous save to stop Hustler's one-timer, and the Saints increased the lead back to two.
 
In the third period, the parade to the penalty box continued for both teams. SLU and RPI had opportunities on the power-play throughout the period, but neither team could capitalize.
 
St. Lawrence finished the game 1-5 on the power-play, while RPI was 1-4.
 
With 2:54 remaining, the Engineers pulled Rampado for the extra-attacker, but Nordström and the Saints' defense held strong. Then, with 1:22 left in the game, Anna Segedi put the exclamation mark on the St. Lawrence victory with an empty-net goal.

"We ended up on the right side of it again tonight," said head coach Chris Wells. "Our special teams was solid again and we really battled hard for tonight's win."
 
St. Lawrence outshot RPI 25-23 in shots-on-goal, but the Engineers outshot the Saints 47-44 in total attempts. Additionally, Nordström finished with 23 saves in the win, while Rampado had 21 in the loss.

"It was a physical game with both teams playing hard for 60 minutes," Wells added. "Every game will require great execution and effort to be on the winning side. We had both tonight and we will have a quick turnaround for tomorrow."
 
The Scarlet and Brown moved to 9-1-0 overall and 3-0-0 in ECAC play with the win; the Engineers fell to 6-4-3 and 2-3-0, respectively.
 
The Saints will continue their weekend on the road when they face off against Union tomorrow, November 4 at 3 p.m. in Schenectady.