Box Score

ST. CLOUD, Minn. - Junior goaltender Sonja van der Bliek stopped all 38 shots she faced to lead the Rensselaer women's hockey team to a 2-0 victory at St. Cloud State in the Easton/St. Cloud Showcase.  van der Bliek (Toronto, ON/Toronto Jr. Aeros) made 17 saves in the first period, five in the second and 16 in the third to help the Engineers improve to 11-6-2.  The Huskies fall to 9-9-2.

RPI got both of its goals on the power play, including junior Laura Gersten's (Queensbury, NY/Troy-Albany Ice Cats) at 13:06 of the first period.  Allysen Weidner (Wichita, KS/Shattuck St. Mary's) and Kendra Dunlop (Granum, AB/Warner Hockey School) set up the goal, Gersten's fourth of the season.  The Engineers doubled their lead just 31 seconds into the second period when junior Whitney Naslund (Bloomington, MN/Bloomington-Jefferson) notched her seventh of the season.  

Rensselaer is now 6-1-1 in its last seven games.  The Engineers are back in action on Friday night against Princeton at the Houston Field House (7pm).

St. Cloud, which has lost four straight games, saw Tayler VanDenakker stop 22 shots in the loss.