HAMILTON, N.Y. - Senior Kristin O'Neill notched her second career hat trick to lead the Cornell women's ice hockey team to a 5-0 win over host, Colgate, Saturday evening.
 
Senior Jaime Bourbonnais opened the scoring in the third minute with a short-handed goal. Just 44 seconds after senior Micah Zandee-Hart entered the penalty box, O'Neill took the puck from a Colgate offender in the Cornell defensive zone. As O'Neill went skating towards the Raiders' goalie, she passed the puck to Bourbonnais, who sunk the puck into the net from right outside the goalie crease.
 
O'Neill followed her assist less than three minutes later with the first of her three goals. At 5:27, junior Maddie Mills caught the faceoff O'Neill took. Mills passed the puck to a waiting O'Neill at the top of the faceoff circle to lead to the second Big Red goal.
 
Colgate was unable to answer either of the first two goals and Cornell entered the first intermission with a two-goal lead.
 
O'Neill scored the lone goal of the second period, unassisted. Once again stealing the puck from Colgate possession, O'Neill brought the puck from the defensive zone to the goal for a backhanded tally from the goalie crease.
 
The Big Red entered the third period with a 3-0 advantage but that did not stop O'Neill from getting her third goal within the first 30 seconds of play. Junior Kendra Nealey took a shot on goal but it went wide and wrapped around the net. Mills caught the puck on the right side of the goaltender and sent a cross between the goalie and net to O'Neill, who received the cross and topped the puck in between the posts for her second career hat trick. 
 
Junior Finley Frechette scored what proved to be the final goal of the game with just over a minute left. Junior Willow Slobodzian sent the puck flying, on the boards, from behind the net. Junior Joie Phelps helped to release the puck from a possible Raider possession and sent a pass to the goal-scorer. Frechette took the puck from the blue line and made the shot from the bottom of the slot for the final Cornell goal.
 
With O'Neill's hat trick, she now sits in 10th place on the Big Red's all-time top-10 with 70 goals in her career.
 
Junior Lindsay Browning stopped 14 shots for her eighth shutout of the 2019-20 season. With her ninth career shutout. Browning sits tied for fifth in Cornell's all-time top-10.
 
The Big Red will be back in action as it hosts Clarkson and St. Lawrence on Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 1, respectively.