Pine Valley, NY – The Elmira College Women's Ice Hockey team dominated the visiting Buffalo State Bengals, 7-0, Saturday afternoon in the Murray Athletic Center. The win improves the Soaring Eagles to 18-2-1 overall and 13-1-0 in ECAC West play, while the loss drops the Bengals to 6-13-2 overall and 3-10-1 in conference competition.

 

Elmira came out striving for excellence once again in the first period. They did just that scoring the first goal at the 12:49 mark, then rolling off six more goals in the game. Tanis Lamoureux '14 (Canton, MI -- Victory Honda) scored off the feed from Alex Bresler '12 (Golden, CO -- Colorado Select) and Ashley Ryan '15 (North Chili, NY -- Rochester Edge). At the 17:18 mark of the period Lamoureux won the face-off, passing it up to Bresler. Bresler fed Tori Charron '14 (Goodwood, ONT -- Aurora Panthers) who skated past a Bengals defender and juked the goalie to score the easy power-play goal.

  

In the second period EC started scoring early at the 1:05 mark when Charron passed it to Mary-Kate Gellerman '13 (Fredrick, MD -- Washington Pride) who took the slap shot with Lindsay Mitchell '12 (Arnold, MD -- North American Hockey Academy) tipping the shot in front of net to beat Bengals goalie Jordan Lee.  At the 7:48 mark Ella Stewart '14 (Mississauga, ONT -- Notre Dame Hounds) scored EC's fourth goal of the game with Amber Tirri '14 (Ringwood, NJ -- Wyoming Seminary) and Erin Weston '15 (Ajax, ONT -- Etobicoke Dolphins) assisting on the play. Later in the period, at the 16:16 mark, Stewart and Katy Walker '12 (Edmonds, WA -- Colorado Select) helped out teammate Bresler in scoring a power-play marker to give EC a 5-0 lead.

 

The Purple and Gold continued to dominate the tempo and control the puck in the third stanza. At the 6:02 mark Lamoureux scored her second goal of the game and Elmira's first short-handed goal of the season on a breakaway, beating Bengals goaltender Jessica Garland. The EC scoring was capped off when Charron scored her second goal of the day, beating another Bengal defender and the goalie, closing the game at 7-0. Assisting on the play were Walker and Stewart.

 

Elmira outshot Buffalo State 46-18 in the contest and scored three of its seven goals on the power play. Lisa Marshall '14 (Powhatan, VA -- Wayne State University) stopped all 18 shots between the pipes for EC, earning her second shutout of the season.

 

The Soaring Eagles return to action on Friday when they travel to Rochester to take on conference rival, Rochester Institute of Technology, at 7:00 p.m.

 

Elmira 7 Buffalo State 0