KEENE, NH –Hilbert College Women's Hockey returned to Keene ICE this morning for a second matchup with the Keene State Owls in as many days. The Hawks scored a pair of goals in the third period, but a 5-0 deficit was too much to overcome as Hilbert fell 7-2.
Kaitlin Cowie and
Izabelle Wagner recorded the late tallies for the Hawks, while
Tia Card worked between the pipes to keep the team in the game, making 63 saves.
The first 40 minutes of the game were dominated by the Owls, as the hosts held a 41-6 shots on goal advantage after the first two periods. Despite the large shot total, Keene State was only able to find a trio of goals in this span, as Card made 38 stops, including six on the lone Owl powerplay opportunity in the first two periods. Cowie led the offense of Hilbert with four of the first six shots of the game for the Hawks.
When play resumed in the final frame, it took over 13 minutes for the fourth goal of the game to be scored, but after the Owls made it a 4-0 game, the two teams combined for four more goals in an action-filled final seven minutes of the game.
After Keene quickly added a second goal of the period to make it 5-0, Hilbert scored two of the game's next three goals to make it 6-2. Wagner broke the ice for the Hawks on an assist by
Jacqueline Alaburda, before Cowie found the back of the net on her eighth shot of the morning off a feed from
Megan Moceri.
Keene State would add one more tally, on the final shot of the game, to conclude the contest with a 7-2 victory.
GAME NOTES
- Card had a 90% save percentage in the game as she added 63 saves to the more than 1,000 shots she has already stopped in her career.
- The goal scorers, Cowie and Wagner, were the only Hawks to record multiple shots in the game with eight and two respectively.
- Jacqueline Alaburda, Kelsey Fuller, Sophia Perry, and Caitlin Conrad each blocked four shots in the game.
UP NEXT
After a week off, the Hawks will host their first home game since the beginning of the month, when Nazareth University comes to Northtown Center on Friday, January 31
st at 2 pm.