SYRACUSE, N.Y.—The Union College women's hockey team fell Syracuse Orange 5-2 on Saturday afternoon at the Tennity Ice Pavilion despite tallies from sophomore forward
Jessica Kaminsky and junior forward
Christine Valente. With the loss, the Dutchwomen fall to 3-5 on the season heading into the start of ECAC action next week.
Syracuse took a 1-0 lead 6:17 into the first period when Margot Scharfe tipped in a slap shot from Nicole Renault at the top of the right circle. Caitlin Roach started the play on the left side, passing to Renault and earning herself her third assist of the season.
Roach tallied a goal of her own in the middle of the second period, the first power-play score of the game. Jessica Sibley
took a shot on net and scooped up her own rebound, deciding to pass it right to Roach who slapped it past junior goaltender
Shenae Lundberg to take a 2-0 lead with 10:14 left in the second.
The Dutchwomen would answer 3:39 minutes later off a shot from Valente. Valente scooped up a rebound from freshman forward
Alli Devins's shot and netted it to cut the SU lead to one goal. Devins assist was the first point of her Union hockey career. Junior defenseman
Alex Tancrell-Fontaine also tallied an assist on the play.
Sharfe tipped in her second goal of the game later in the second period, which would be the eventual game-winner. Kallie Goodnough slapped one hard at the net from the top of the right circle and Scharfe got her stick on it to make the score 3-1 with 1:27 left in the second.
Nicole Ferrara scored her second goal of the season with five seconds remaining in the second period to go into the second intermission with a 4-1 lead. Akane Hosoyamada flipped a pass from Larissa Martyniuk toward the net and Ferrara was there to finish the job, shooting it past the goalie and gaining a three-goal advantage.
Sophomore goaltender
Madeleine Dahl saw action in her second game of the season after she replaced Lundberg to start the third period.
Union scored one last time at the 7:24 mark in the third period when Kaminsky intercepted a pass and brought it past the center line, passing to Valente, who gave it back to Kaminsky at the crease and sent it in to cut the Orange lead to two. Valente's assist was her second point of the game and sixth of the season.
Syracuse would re-gain its three-goal advantage however, when Melissa Piacentini scored her first goal of the year. Renault wound up and took a shot from the top of the left circle and Scharfe tipped it to Piacentini, who redirected it into the goal.
Orange netminder Jenesica Drinkwater made 22 saves in the contest including 10 in the second period while Lundberg led the Dutchwomen in saves with 22. Dahl tallied five saves on six shots faced in her 20 minutes of action.
SU outshot the Dutchwomen 32 to 24. Senior defenseman
Ashley Johnston led the Dutchwomen in shots with five. The Dutchwomen went 0-4 on the power play while surrendering four power play goals to the Orange.
Union returns to the confines of Messa Rink next weekend as they open up ECAC Hockey action against Dartmouth on Friday at 7 p.m. and Harvard on Saturday at 4 pm.
