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ITHACA, N.Y. — Senior Hanna Bunton tallied two goals and an assist while classmate Kaitlin Doering extended her goal-streak to four games to help carry the women's hockey team to a 5-1 victory over Union on Friday night at Lynah Rink. The win extended Cornell's unbeaten streak against Union to 25 games.

Despite possessing the puck in the Union zone for the first three minutes of the game, Cornell found itself down, 1-0, just 3:44 into the game after the Dutchwomen capitalized on a Big Red penalty when Arianna Kosakowski whipped a backhand through a screen and past goaltender Paula Voorheis.

"I didn't think we were very good in our execution early on in the game," said head coach Doug Derraugh. "I thought we possessed the puck well in offensive zone but we weren't really generating many quality chances."

Cornell didn't let the goal effect its play, though, and answered back just four minutes later when Doering took a shot from the right that rebounded out into the left circle where a driving Bunton had an easy finish.

Doering earned a goal of her own when she threaded a pass across the zone to sophomore Micah Hart and then streaked towards the right post for a return pass that she was able control and backhand over Kate Spooner's left pad. Sophomore Diana Buckley earned her fourth assist of the year after digging the puck out for Doering in the corner.

Bunton would pot her second goal of the game at the 8:04 mark of the second period when she dug the puck out halfway up the left boards and carried it through four Dutchwomen defensemen into the slot and wristed a shot that Spooner couldn't squeeze.

Just three minutes later, Hart tallied her fourth power-play goal of the season. Freshman Jaime Bourbonnais and Bunton worked to draw a shooting lane open for Hart and the co-captain was able to wrist in a puck that pinged off the left post and in for a 4-1 lead.

"We talked in between the periods about not turning the puck over, not becoming selfish and [just] moving that puck." said Doering. "When we move that puck I think we're unstoppable and that's what we did in the second period there."

Cornell's fifth goal came on Kristin O'Neill's nation-leading fifth short-handed goal of the season less than five minutes into the third period when she forced a turnover below the Union goal line, took the puck on her backhand and deked Spooner down for an easy finish at the right post. O'Neill is the first freshman to notch five short-handed goals in a season since Monqiue Lamoreux recorded five during her 2008-09 freshman season at Minnesota.

Voorheis finished the game with 10 saves and moved to 7-5-2 on the season and 4-0-0 in her career against Union. Spooner finished with 32 saves for Union and Celine Tessier made 10 save in relief.

Cornell held the final edge in shots on goal, 47-11.

The win bumped Cornell to 15-6-3 overall and 11-3-3 in ECAC Hockey while Union fell to 4-24-1 overall and 1-14-1 in league play.

Cornell welcomes Rensselaer to Lynah Rink tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m. in what will also serve as the annual Do It For Daron game.