St.Lawrence capped off a weekend sweep of travel pair Dartmouth and Harvard by defeating Harvard in overtime on Saturday, 5-4.
At 1:06 into overtime, St. Lawrence assistant captain Kayla Raniwsky corralled a rebound from a Jenna Marks’ shot and fit it past Maschmeyer to give the Saints the overtime win.
“We had a great backcheck, and then turned the puck over,” said Raniwsky. “I saw Jackie Wand skating up the ice, so I decided I would jump in the play. She [Wand] made a nice pass to Jenna Marks and she took a nice shot that rebounded right to my stick. Couldn’t ask for a better play.”
Marks opened the scoring on a power play for St. Lawrence at the 5:28 mark of the first period. She received a pass from fellow junior Abbey McRae and fired a one-timer past Crimson goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer to give the Saints the 1-0 lead. Maschmeyer finished the game with 15 saves.
The lead lasted less than a minute, as Samantha Reber evened the score for Harvard.
Just under 10 minutes later, Harvard took a 2-1 lead when Sydney Daniels capped off a two-on-one with the goal for the Crimson.
Just over two minutes later, Kennedy Marchment flipped a backhand past Maschmeyer to tie up the game for St. Lawrence.
The Saints scored two straight goals in the second to take a 4-2 lead. First, Brooke Webster snapped a shot from the left faceoff circle past Maschmeyer’s glove hand at 6:13. Then Marks managed to flip a shot past Maschmeyer while falling at 11:29 to open the two-goal lead.
Before the second period expired, Marissa Gedman brought the Crimson within one on a goal that was reviewed.
The third period saw a defensive struggle until the very end. With under two minutes left in the contest, Miye O’Doench gave Harvard life. She took pass from Reber and fired a snap shot past SLU netminder Carmen MacDonald.
“I had a one-on-one and just shot it as hard as I could; I think the defender was partially screening the goalie, which helped,” said O’Doench.
Harvard coach Katey Stone was proud of the way her team came back to tie the game after trailing by two.
“I loved how we stayed in the game; we could have disappeared in the second period and I thought we came back hard,” Stone said.
St. Lawrence coach Chris Wells liked the way his team played overall, especially in the third period.
“I thought we had real good resiliency, going down 2-1 and battling back; going up 4-2 was huge for us too,” said Wells.
