CANTON, N.Y. - A three-goal first period powered St. Lawrence past the Union College Women's Hockey team, 5–2, on Friday night at Appleton Arena.

Junior Maddie Leaney recorded a goal, with senior captain Stephanie Bourque assisting. Sophomore Karianne Engelbert scored an unassisted goal for the Garnet Chargers. With the assist, Bourque sits just four points shy of breaking the all-time points record (68), currently held by Elise Nichols '07, while Leaney, with her goal, sits just six points away.

Rylan Haslam opened the scoring for the Saints, netting two goals just seven minutes apart. Haslam got things started 3:18 into the first period when she fired an initial shot and tapped the midair rebound into the net. She struck again minutes later, putting home a short cross-ice pass from Cheyenne Degeer in front of the crease to give St. Lawrence a 2–0 lead.

Brooke Mulvihill capped the Saints' first-period scoring five minutes later on the power play, tipping the puck home to make it 3–0.

To begin the second period, Union earned three power-play opportunities over nearly 10 minutes but were unable to convert.

St. Lawrence added its fourth goal with four minutes remaining in the middle frame as Lilien Benakova fired a shot that squeaked past Union's goaltender to extend the lead to 4–0.

However, Union capitalized on its fourth power-play opportunity of the period. Bourque pinned a St. Lawrence player along the boards, allowing Leaney to collect the puck, skate up the left side, and chip it over Saints goaltender Emma-Sofie Nordström to cut the deficit to 4–1.

The Garnet Chargers opened the final frame killing a penalty before Engelbert added Union's second goal of the night. Engelbert intercepted a failed pass attempt in the slot and fired the puck into the left side of the net.

Union earned one more power-play chance before pulling junior goaltender Monja Wagner with just under three minutes remaining, but could not capitalize.

Haslam completed her hat trick with an empty-net goal to seal the 5–2 win for St. Lawrence.

Wagner finished the game with 32 saves.

Union wraps up the weekend series traveling cross-town to Potsdam to face the Clarkson University Golden Knights Saturday at 3:00 p.m. at Cheel Arena.