Box Score EAST MEADOW, N.Y. - The Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team lost to two-time defending New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) champion Long Island University, 7-0, on Friday afternoon during the opener of a two-game weekend series at the Northwell Health Ice Center. LIU won the 2019-20 NEWHA Tournament before capturing the NEWHA Commissioner's Cup to cap an abbreviated 2020-21 season.
RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (0-4, 0-3 NEWHA), LIU (3-6, 3-0 NEWHA)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Sophomore Leah White (Hingham, Mass./The Winchendon School), 50 saves
- Sophomore Jenna Hoops (Woodbury, Minn./Saint Paul United), 13-for-16 faceoffs
- Sophomore Evelyn Andrade (San Ramon, Calif./Meijer AAA), 2 blocks
- First-year Lexi Bonfe (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall), 2 blocks
- First-year Lucy Drougas (Superior, Wis./Madison Capitols), 2 blocks
- First-year Gaby Tribelli (Montreal, Quebec/Dawson College), 2 blocks
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Junior Megan Bouveur, 1 goal, 1 assist, 15-for-24 faceoffs
- Junior Carrigan Umpherville, 1 goal, 1 assist
- Senior Megan Roe, 2 assists
- First-year Tindra Holm, 6 saves
GAME FACTS
- White made her first career regular-season appearance.
- The Purple Knights blocked 12 shots to LIU's one.
- The Sharks held a slim 29-for-53 advantage in faceoffs.
THE ACTION
- White made 17 saves to keep LIU off the board during the first period, including stopping four straight attempts around the four-minute mark before making one stop to help kill a Shark power play that began at 7:40.
- White had another four stops during a penalty kill early in the second frame before sophomore Payton Luff got the hosts on the board at 2:41, just 33 seconds after the end of the power play.
- Saint Michael's earned a woman advantage at 4:44, but White made a save on the only shot for either team in that time. She had another five saves in an LIU power play that started at 9:04 before Bouveur tallied a power-play marker with 10:15 gone.
- Graduate student Sasha Hartje and junior Alva Johnsson scored 1:37 apart later in the period, making it 4-0 by 14:22.
- On a late Saint Michael's power play, Hoops was denied by Holm with 17 minutes gone before sending a second bid wide.
- The Sharks added three goals spread across a 16:09 span of the third period.
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