Four Saints scored, but the Brown Bears led a high-scoring affair, as they defeated the St. Lawrence University women's hockey team 8-4 on Friday evening at Appleton Arena.
Brown was first on the scoreboard. The Bears' Emma Yates was able to capitalize on a miscue in the Saints' zone for the 1-0 lead.
Almost exactly two minutes later,
Kendall Doiron knotted the game 1-1 on the power play.
Jaylee MacKinnon pulled the puck off the boards, and after a give and go with Alexia Côté, Doiron fired from the point.
The Bears then scored two unanswered in 45 seconds to take a 3-1 lead over the Saints.
Brooke Mulvihill slipped one past Ryleigh Maxwell to make it 3-2 and bring the Saints back within one before the end of the first period.
SLU led 12-11 in shots on goal after the first 20 minutes.
The Bears scored just 3:45 into the second period netting their fourth of the game. After the fourth Brown goal,
Maja Helge took over in net for the Saints.
Brown's Victoria Bahiczki and Ella Muralt were able to take advantage of a five-minute penalty and tallied two more goals and the Bears to lead 6-3.
MacKinnon capped scoring in the second by scoring the her second goal and the Saints first short-handed goal of the season with 7:42 to play.
The Bears led 6-3 on the scoreboard and 16-11 in shots on goal after the second.
The high-scoring affair started early in the third as
Jenny Keller scored her first career goal in Scarlet and Brown going five hole with a backhanded shot to make the game 6-4.
Muralt tallied her second of the game to give Brown back their three-goal lead at 7-4 with 12:26 to play in the third and Monique Lyons finished off the scoring with an empty netter.
"That was an old school game where there were a lot of chances each way," said head coach
Chris Wells. "Brown did a better job executing in their plays than we did and that was the difference. We had a lot of zone time and pressure. Each time we seemed to grab some momentum Brown was able to answer quickly."Â
Lawrence made nine saves, while Helge made 18, and
Sami Phelan finished things off with three. Maxwell stopped 34 for Brown.
"We are due for a win at Appleton and look forward to having Yale in tomorrow," Wells added.
Brown led 75-50 in shots, while both teams logged 38 shots on goal apiece.
St. Lawrence fell to 5-10-0 on the season and 3-2-0 in ECAC play, while Brown improved to 5-2-0 and 3-2-0, respectively.
The Saints will be back in action tomorrow afternoon when they host No. 13 Yale at 3 p.m.
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