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Brown University
3-10-0
Merrimack
6-10-2
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merrimack | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Brown | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
11/29/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Brown women's hockey team came back to score two goals in the second period to knot the game, 2-2, but Merrimack retaliated with three goals in the third to claim a 5-2 win over the Bears in non-conference action on Tuesday night at Meehan Auditorium.
After Merrimack took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission, Brown recorded two unanswered goals in the second to bring a tie game into the third.
The Warriors regained their lead when Dominique Kremer connected on a slap shot from the blue line at 7:23 of the third period. Annie Boeckers registered Merrimack's second goal in the stanza (9:40) when she poked in the puck following a Katelyn Rae shot, and Paige Voight added an extra security goal at 17:12.
To open the game, Merrimack (6-10-2) scored its first goal at 8:23 of the first when Marie Delarbre registered the score. The Warriors next went up 2-0 at 10:54 with a power-play goal from Jackie Pieper. The first period concluded with shots even for both teams at 9-9. Merrimack went 1-for-1 on the power play while Brown was 0-for-1.
Brown (3-10-0) got on the board at 9:17 of the second when freshman Lucinda Quigley (Newton, Mass.) recorded her first-career goal to bring the Bears within one. Junior Samantha Swanstrom (Ham Lake, Minn.) started the play from the far boards and dished the puck to freshman Sena Hanson (New Brighton, Minn.) in the faceoff circle who slid it to Quigley in the slot for the tally.
Coming out of a Merrimack timeout (18:18 - 2nd), S. Swanstrom registered the game-tying goal at 18:22. Hanson battled to win the faceoff behind the net and passed it to Swanstrom for the finish right in front. Held scoreless in the second behind nine saves from junior Julianne Landry (Hanover, Mass.), the Warriors held slight edge in shots in the frame, 9-8. The Bears went 0-for-2 in the period on the power play.
Overall, Merrimack outshot Brown, 29-27. The Warriors capitalized on their only power play of the game in the first while the Bears went 0-for-4.
Landry finished the contest with 24 saves while Samantha Ridgewell turned away 25 shots.
Both Hanson and S. Swanstrom concluded the game with two points, Hanson on two assists and Swanstrom on a goal and a helper.
The Bears resume action on Friday, Dec. 30 and Saturday, Dec. 31 at Robert Morris. Friday's game at the RMU Island Sports Center will begin at 7:00 p.m., while the series finale on Saturday will start at 2:00 p.m.
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