SCHENECTADY, N.Y. - Senior goaltender Emily Evans earned her first career win and shutout, while six different goal scorers powered the Union College women's hockey team to a dominant 7–0 victory over the University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hens on Friday evening at M&T Bank Center.

The win marks the largest shutout margin in the program's Division I era and the team's largest margin of victory overall since a 9–2 result against Sacred Heart University in 2011.

Senior Stephanie Bourque opened the scoring for the Garnet Chargers and went on to assist on Union's final four tallies, recording a five-point night that ties the program's Division I single-game points record, achieved on three previous occasions. Her four assists also are tied for second on the school single-game list.

Sophomore Karianne Engelbert and first-year Megan Duplantie both had three-point games as well, with Engelbert scoring twice and adding an assist while Duplantie had a goal and two helpers.

After Bourque's goal, sophomore Jill Willis doubled the lead later in the frame, with classmate Peyton O'Neill picking up the assist. Union broke the game open in the second period, as Engelbert struck twice. Her first came unassisted, while first Duplantie and Bourque earned helpers on her second of the night on the power play. First-year Natalie Andelova added her first goal of the evening as well, with Bourque and sophomore Megan Ognibene collecting the assists.

In the third period, senior Mallory Mauracher and Duplantie capped off the scoring. Bourque and sophomore Lauren Johnson assisted on Mauracher's tally, while Bourque and Ognibene set up Duplantie's goal.

Bourque opened the scoring for the Garnet Chargers just 2:21 into the first period, firing a shot through traffic into the back of the net for her first goal of the season. Willis struck seven minutes later, redirecting an O'Neill shot from the bottom of the left circle to double the lead. Union controlled the opening frame, outshooting Delaware 12–6 heading into the first intermission.

The Garnet Chargers controlled much of the play in the second period, outshooting the Fighting Blue Hens, 15–5. Engelbert added her first goal of the evening nearly six minutes into the second period, skating off the boards into the slot and backhanding the puck into the top shelf of the net. Andelova tallied her goal ten minutes later, firing the puck from the bottom of the left circle short side. Engelbert capped off the period with her second goal on the power play with nearly two minutes left in the period tipping the puck into the back of the net. 

In the third period, Bourque fired a shot wide and Mauracher was able to deflect the puck and sneak it into the right side of the post past Delaware's goaltender. Duplantie capped off the scoring for the Garnet Chargers, burying the rebound from Bourque's initial shot.

Evans stopped 14 saves in the net to secure the shut out victory. Evans joins junior goaltender Monja Wagner and first year goaltender Emma Rhéaume who all recorded shut outs in their first starts of the season. Wagner and Rheaume earned a pair of back to back shut outs against Franklin Pierce University on September 26 and 27.

Women's Hockey wraps up the weekend series against the University of Delaware tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. for its Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Game. Kids 12 and under receive free admission. Please consider supporting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation by donating here.