CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Three different Dutchwomen found the back of the net as head coach Josh Sciba became the Union College women's hockey team's all-time winningest coach with a 3-1 victory over Harvard on Saturday afternoon.

Sciba earned his 37th win of the season to grab sole position of the program's all-time wins record after tying Claudia Asano Barcomb with the team's win over St. Michael's College on January 2.

The Dutchwomen also tied the program's all-time single-season wins record with their 11th victory of the season. The last team to reach 11 wins in a season was the 2002-03 team in Union's final season before moving up to Division I.

The victory is the first win for Union over Harvard since January 6, 2018 and also marks the first time in program history that Union has won the season series (1-0-1) against the Crimson.

Seniors Carmen Merlo and Emily King and first-year Riley Walsh each found the back of the net in Union's win. Sophomores Maddie Suitor and Ashley Adams as well as first-years Greta Kropp and Stephanie Bourque all chipped in with assists.

The Crimson opened the scoring just 2:04 into the first period. Harvard's Ellie Bayard whipped a shot from below the left circle and the shot snuck under the blocker of sophomore Sophie Matsoukas. Union was out shot 15-8 in the opening frame and trailed 1-0.

The Dutchwomen responded well in the second period. Merlo evened the score at 1-1 less than three minutes into the second stanza. Kropp worked the puck loose from a Harvard defender, and Suitor had a pass deflect to Merlo. Merlo raced over the blue line and fired a shot that snuck under the Harvard net minder's arm and into the back of the net. This was Merlo's third goal of the season.

Union took their first lead of the game at the 12:44 mark of the middle frame. Bourque fired a shot from the left point that missed the net wide and the rebound bounced right to Adams, who dished a centering pass to King. King roofed the shot through a scramble in front of the net and beat the goalie for a 2-1 lead. This was King's ninth goal of the season and her fourth game-winning goal of the season, joining Walsh, Cheyenne Harris '20 (2017-18) and Molly Flanagan (2002-03) as the only Union skaters to have four game-winning goals in a season.
With the Harvard net empty looking for the equalizer, Walsh added an empty-net goal with 1:28 remaining in the third period to put the game away. This was Walsh's team-leading 12th goal of the season, moving her into a tie for seventh place on the school single-season goals list and third on the school D-I single-season scoring ledger.

Matsoukas stopped 33 of 34 shots in the game while earning her 11th win of the season, extending her own program single-season record. Harvard finished the game with a slight 34-32 edge in shots.

Union will look to continue their winning ways when they travel to Troy, N.Y. on Friday, January 27 for a ECAC matchup with cross town rival Rensselaer. Puck drop is set for 6 p.m.