December 9, 2006

Castleton loses on the road, 6-1 to Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, NY-The RIT women’s hockey team continued its winning ways on Saturday night, moving to 9-0-0 in 2006-07 after defeating ECAC East rival Castleton (2-8-0, 0-8-0 ECAC East) 6-1 at the Ritter Arena.

RIT got on the board just 2:15 in, as Dayna Birch (Abbotsford, BC) scored on a tough angle on a 5-on-3 power-play to make it 1-0. Trish Silvestri (Horsham, PA) and Melissa Hall (Chesterland, OH) assisted on the goal.

The Tigers made it 2-0 at the 5:51 mark, as the top scoring line in Division III struck once again. Danielle Nagymarosi (Uxbridge, ON) scored her team-best 12th goal of the year, taking a rebound from a shot from Isabelle Richard (Malarctic, PQ) and slamming it home. Maegan Geypens (Oshawa, ON) also drew an assist.

RIT looked like they were going to make it into the intermission with a two goal lead, but Castleton got one back with two seconds left in the period, as Katelyn Greene cleaned up a rebound caused when Tiger goaltender Nicki Werner (Quakertown, PA) came too far out of the net to try to break up a possible Spartan breakaway. Werner’s attempt jarred the puck loose and cause her to crash into a defenseman, leaving Greene all alone in the slot with a wide open net.

After a scoreless second period, Lindsay Latour (South Kent, CT) put RIT up 3-1 just 47 seconds into the third period, redirecting a feed from Hall just inside the right goal post.

Jerica Young (Jay, NY) scored twice within a 31 second span to break the game wide open. Young put her in her own rebound to make it 4-1. She then took a pass from Kaley Ostanek (Binghamton, NY) at the side of the Castleton State net and snuck it just inside the right post to give the Tigers a 5-1 lead.

Geypens completed the scoring with 6:35 left.

Werner needed to make just five saves in picking up her fourth win of the year. Vanessa Carter stopped 38 shots for Castleton State.

RIT was 1-for-7 on the power-play, Castleton State 0-for-4.

The two teams meet again in Rochester on Sunday at 2 p.m. [Box Score]

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