Box Score

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Junior Chelsea Karpenko had a goal and three assists, leading five players with a multi-point game, as the Cornell women's hockey team defeated Niagara, 6-0, on Friday night at Lynah Rink. In all, five different players scored at least one goal, while nine different players recorded at least one point on the night. The night was also punctuated with the 100th career point for junior forward Catherine White.

White had a pair of goals and an assist, with her assist giving her 100 points for her career at Cornell, while Alyssa Gagliardi picked up three assists for her biggest night in her young Cornell career. Laura Fortino added a pair of assists and Hayley Hughes chipped in with a goal and an assist on the evening. Amber Overguard and Brianne Jenner each recorded a goal, with Lauriane Rougeau and Rebecca Johnston both collecting one assist. 

Amanda Mazzotta got the victory in goal for the Big Red, making 11 saves in the first 42:42 of the contest before giving way to the collegiate debut of Lauren Slebodnick, who made nine saves over the game's final 17:18 to preserve the fourth shutout of the season for the Big Red. Cornell finished the evening scoreless in three power-play chances, while Niagara was 0-for-2 with the man advantage.

For Niagara (3-9-3), goaltender Jenni Bauer stopped 40 shots in taking the loss.

Cornell (9-1) got on the board at the 12:44 mark of the first period when Amber Overguard scored the eventual game-winning goal, crashing the net to pop in a shot past Bauer. A little more than four minutes later, it was Hughes scoring, taking a pass from Karpenko from the faceoff dot to the right of Bauer and one-timing a shot inside the weak-side post as Cornell took the 2-0 lead into the first intermission.

In the second, it was Jenner who added to the lead at the 5:50 mark of the period, taking a pass in the slot from Gagliardi ripping a shot over Bauer's shoulder on the stick side to make the score 3-0.  White then made the score 4-0 when she tipped home a shot from the point by Gagliardi that beat Bauer inside the glove-side post.

White added her second goal of the night at the 1:52 mark of the third period with Hughes and Karpenko adding assists, and Karpenko finished off the night with her goal, jamming home the puck at the 17:02 mark of the third period. 

Cornell will look for the weekend sweep of Niagara and its sixth straight victory when the Big Red takes on the Purple Eagles on Saturday in a 2 p.m. contest at Lynah Rink.