Women's hockey traveled to Erie, PA to take on Mercyhurst at the Mercyhurst Ice Center this weekend.
The Tigers scored two late goals on Saturday to secure an overtime victory over No. 10 Mercyhurst (10-5-1 overall). On Sunday, the Tigers and Lakers tied, 2-2. Princeton has played overtime in three of the last four games and has come out with a win, a loss, and a tie.
The Tigers (5-2-1) took advantage of late momentum on Saturday to slip the puck past Mercyhurst goalie Tiffany Ribble, who stopped 21 of the 23 shots she saw on the day. Only thirty seconds into the extra frame, the Tigers were holding a one-skater advantage.
As Ribble was moving to her left to see around a Princeton screen, junior forward Lisa Rasmussen put the Tigers' second goal of the game behind Ribble on a shot that flew just into the far corner of the net, cementing the 2-1 victory for the Tigers.
In a game with good goaltending and a total of 44 shots stopped, the score was 0-0 well into the second period. The scoreless tie was broken when Mercyhurst forward Aimee Collins tallied her second score of the season at 18:19 in the second period, giving the Lakers a 1-0 lead that would last almost the rest of the game.
Late in the third period, with Mercyhurst still leading 1-0, the two teams suffered concurrent penalties, and the ice was opened up, as there were only four skaters to a side. Senior forward Nikola Holmes banged home a shot from just in front of the goalie to tie the contest at one apiece and give the crowd on hand an exciting finish.
The overtime victory pushed the Tigers' record to 5-2 on the year, and snapped the two-game losing streak that they suffered on their road trip to New Hampshire the previous weekend.
Princeton goaltender senior Sarah Ahlquist stopped as many shots as Ribble saw — 23 — and let only one shot cross the goal line, which was a major reason for the Tiger win. Ahlquist is 2-0-0 on the season.
Yesterday in the second game, the Tigers and the Lakers skated to a 2-2 tie in a fast-paced game that featured 34 shots on each side.
Just four minutes, four seconds after Mercyhurst took a 2-1 lead on a goal by C.J. Ireland, the Tigers bounced back to tie the game. Ireland's goal had come eight seconds into a Princeton penalty. Junior forward Gretchen Anderson scored her first goal of the season 8:38 into the third period, knotting up the game for good. Anderson's shot came from between the circles and rose out of Laker goaltender Desi Clark's grasp.
Princeton had jumped out to an early 1-0 lead, recording the only scoring of the first period on a goal by junior defenseman Angela Gooldy.
Senior forward Andrea Kilbourne won a face-off in the Mercyhurst zone, and Gooldy collected the puck above the left circle. She wound up for the shot and fired the puck past Clark.
Her fourth goal of the season came at 9:15 into the first period on a power play. It was her third power-play goal of the season.
With the teams skating four-on-four once again, Mercyhurst tied up the game with a goal off the stick of forward Sara McDonald, 6:31 into the second period. The puck got past junior goaltender Megan Van Beusekom, who was back in net for the Tigers after Ahlquist had played the first game of the series. Van Beusekom's record is now 2-2-1.
This goal was followed up by Ireland's power-play score, which put the Lakers up 2-1, only to allow the Anderson goal that led to the tie.
Mercyhurst is now on a four-game winless streak thanks to the Tigers.
Princeton will return home on a two-game unbeaten string to Hobey Baker Rink over Thanksgiving weekend to take on Maine and Northeastern.
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