
1/9/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Brown women's hockey team was defeated by No. 5/6 Clarkson on Saturday at Meehan Auditorium in an ECAC contest. Brown's record now stands at 3-13-0 overall and 1-9-0 in the conference while Clarkson improves to 17-3-2 on the season and 5-3-2 in the ECAC.
The Golden Knights came out strong in the opening period and Cassidy Vinkle scored the team's first goal at 4:07. Soon after, Kelly Mariana got in the scoring column to give Clarkson a 2-0 advantage at 5:04. Two more goals were added by the end of the period, with tallies from Loren Gabel (14:07) and Erin Ambrose (15:17).
Vinkle registered her second goal of the game at 3:59 in the second period. Lauren Lefler tacked on a goal at 5:30 and Ambrose scored her second goal at 10:55 to close out the games scoring.
The two teams skated to a scoreless third period as junior Monica Elvin (Oakland, Calif.) recorded 16 saves.
Clarkson held the shots on goal lead at 39-14 for the game.
Elvin and sophomore Julianne Landry (Hanover, Mass.) split time in net, with Elvin finishing the contest with 20 saves and Landry with 12. Shea Tiley got the win in goal for the Golden Knights with nine saves. McKenzie Johnson came in on relief in the second and tallied five stops.
Clarkson was 1-for-2 on the power play while Brown was 0-for-2.
The Bears' defense blocked 14 shots compared to Clarkson's eight.
With just a one weekend stay at Meehan Auditorium, the Bears will hit the road again and next play at Colgate on Friday, Dec. 15 for a 7:00 p.m. game and at Cornell on Saturday, Dec. 16 for a 4:00 p.m. puck drop in ECAC games.






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