Saint Michael's College

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. - The Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team opened a weekend series at Long Island University with a 6-3 loss on Friday during New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) action in the Northwell Health Ice Center.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (0-11, 0-7 NEWHA), LIU (4-4-1, 3-1-1 NEWHA)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Alicia McDonald (Kelowna, British Columbia/Rink Hockey Academy Kelowna), 3 assists
• Senior Anna Jerylo (Stillwater, Minn./Gentry Academy), 2 assists, 9-for-19 faceoffs
• Senior Maddie Quinn (Chicago, Ill./Team Illinois AAA), 1 goal, 4 blocked shots
• First-year Jen Birolini (Pembroke, Mass./Tabor Academy), 1 goal (1st career)
• First-year Shayla Scinocca (Brandon, Manitoba/Okanagan Hockey Academy U18), 1 goal
• First-year Makena Underwood (Farmington, Minn./Farmington), 46 saves
• First-year Taryn Richter (Victoria, Minn./Holy Family Catholic), 8-for-16 faceoffs
• First-year Kate Louder (Holden, Mass./NAHA White 19U AAA), 7-for-16 faceoffs
• Senior Victoria FitzGibbon (Stittsville, Ontario/East Ottawa Junior Stars U22 AA), 3 blocked shots

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Grace Babington, 2 goals, 1 assist
• Junior Drew Dyczkowski, 1 goal, 1 assist
• First-year Parker Small, 1 goal, 1 assist
• Redshirt junior Victoria Rutnik, 1 goal, 19 saves
• First-year Autumn Kelly, 1 goal

THE ACTION

• LIU took the lead with 9:46 gone in the first period when Small stole the puck behind the net before her centering pass hit a defender's skate and bounced past Underwood.
• Birolini tied the game at 17:01, following her own blocked shot and spinning in the left circle to pick Rutnik's blocker corner. McDonald and Richter set up the tally.
• Scinocca buried a wrister from the slot at 8:39 of the second period to give Saint Michael's the lead, assisted by Jerylo and McDonald.
• Babington tied the game only 57 seconds later, ripping a shot from the right circle through Underwood's glove.
• Late in the frame, junior Brianna Jarvis (Swanton, Vt./BFA-Saint Albans) forced a giveaway at the Purple Knight blue line and got a step on two Shark defenders to put a backhanded bid off of Rutnik, in the process drawing a delayed penalty. As Saint Michael's worked to maintain possession and Underwood left her net for an extra skater, however, the loose puck found its way the length of the ice into the vacated Purple Knight cage at 18:27. Rutnik was credited with the goal.
• Underwood stoned Small's point-blank power-play bid 4:55 into the final frame, but a failed clear ended up on the stick of Babington, whose slap shot from the left circle found net at 5:02, making it 4-2.
• Only 17 seconds later, Kelly added to the lead after her shot from the slot hit a Purple Knight stick out front.
• Quinn trimmed the deficit to 5-3 at 17:46 when her shot from the right point slipped inside the right post.
• With Underwood pulled for an extra skater, the Purple Knights won a faceoff leading up to Quinn having a shot from the blue line blocked at 18:28, and Dyczkowski tallied on the empty net nine seconds later.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday at LIU, 2 p.m.