Manhattanville came into this season with two dates circled on the schedule.<\/p>\n
The first was a November 20 date with second-ranked Williams, which ended in a 5-3 win that moved the Valiants to No. 3 in the country. The second was a January 26 meeting with No. 1 Middlebury, which hadn’t lost a Division III game in seven years.<\/p>\n
That one ended in the Valiants’ favor as well, as Manhattanville snapped the Panthers’ 136-game unbeaten streak with a 4-1 win Saturday afternoon at New Roc City to improve to 15-0-1. The Valiants never allowed Middlebury into the game, giving the Panthers all they could handle for 60 minutes in the historic victory.<\/p>\n
In the game’s first 10 minutes, the two teams felt each other out; once both developed a rhythm, the offensive pace picked up and freshman sensation Cherie Stewart made Middlebury pay when she tallied her team-leading 22nd goal of the year to put the Valiants in front, 1-0.<\/p>\n
Playing in front of a sellout crowd of over 1,000 fans, the Valiants came out blazing in the second period and jumped ahead 2-0 on a slapshot from freshman Jen Mulick from just inside the blue line.<\/p>\n
As that goal was being announced, sophomore Amanda Zimecki tallied her 12th goal of the year to give Manhattanville the 3-0 edge. Zimecki blew around a Middlebury defender and fired the puck into the upper right hand corner and over the glove hand of Panther goaltender Megan Hutchinson.<\/p>\n
After the Panthers closed to 3-1 with just over eight minutes remaining, junior Lindsey Dorval clinched the victory with her first goal of the season.<\/p>\n
“We were getting a little nervous at first,” Dorval said. “We’d never been in a position like [that].”<\/p>\n
Playing a superb game in net for the Valiants was sophomore Renee Kirnan with 26 saves, including 10 in both the second and third periods.<\/p>\n
The Manhattanville defense played possibly its best game of the season, led by assistant captain Lindsey Paulsrud and junior Nicole Stephens.<\/p>\n
“This really means a lot,” Manhattanville head coach Rick Seeley said. “Only one team gets to end the streak.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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