Women's Ice Hockey | 11/23/2019 5:14:00 PM

Box Score TROY, N.Y. – Freshman Maggy Burbridge had a goal and an assist and two teammates had a pair of assists each to lead the Robert Morris University women's hockey team to a 3-1 victory over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) at the Houston Field House. The game was the first of a two-game set between the non-league foes. Sunday's game begins at 1pm.
 
The Colonials took the lead just 48 seconds into the contest when Sarah Lecavalier hit Jaycee Gebhard with a long pass that sprung the senior center up the left side. She got behind the defenders, cut to the crease and backhanded a shot past Engineers goaltender Ena Nystrom. Emilie Harley also had an assist on the goal, the ninth of the season for Gebhard.
 
The visitors doubled their lead at 11:02 of the second period when Harley passed the puck out of her defensive zone diagonally up the ice to Courtney Kollman. The sophomore skated down the right side to the faceoff dot and made a pass back to the crease to Burbridge, who scored high to Nystrom's stick side with what would prove to be the game-winning goal.

Anjelica Diffendal made it 3-0 when she picked up a loose puck in front of the goal and scored for the second time this season. Lecavalier started the play with a pass to Burbidge, who re-directed the puck from the right circle to Diffendal, who was cutting across the crease.
 
RPI got a goal back at 5:48 of the third period when junior Morgan Ondrick skated up the right side from her own blueline and sent a low shot from the top of the faceoff circle that found the back of the net on the far side. Ondrick's stick-side goal came on the power play and was assisted by senior Megan Hayes. It was her second tally of the season.
 
Freshman Raygan Kirk finished with 22 saves to improve to 5-2-0 for the Colonials, who are now 7-5-1. She had seven saves in the first period, nine in the second and six in the third. Nystrom stopped 34 shots for the Engineers, who fall to 0-13-1. She had nine first period saves, 13 in the second and 12 in the third.