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Pine Valley, NY -- On a night where the Elmira College women's ice hockey team had one of their largest crowds of the year, the Soaring Eagles road the momentum of the fans and their play between the pipes to defeat visiting No. 4 Norwich University, 3-1. 

Tonight's win over the Cadets avenges an earlier loss to Norwich, improving the Soaring Eagles to 9-3-1 on the season.  Credit a large part of tonight's win to EC netminder Lisa Marshall '14, who made a career-high 33 saves in net tonight, guiding the Soaring Eagles to their first win of the New Year.  

Also, after tonight's game, the EC women welcomed members of the YMCA Wildlife Princesses on the ice for a meet and greet.  Local youth as well as parents came onto the ice to take pictures with the Elmira women and held an autograph session. 

It took nearly 27 seven minutes for the first goal to go on the scoreboard, but when it did, the Purple and Gold found themselves ahead 1-0.  Elmira's captain, Tanis Lamoureux '14, scored the game's opening goal on a two-on-one opportunity, snapping a shot into the open side of the net on a one-timer off a rebounded shot by Ashley Ryan '15.  Ryan earned the assist on the goal by making a hustle play at center ice, stealing the puck before taking the initial shot that Lamoureux would follow-up and score on.

With the seconds ticking away in the second period, it looked like Elmira would carry their one goal lead into the final intermission.  However, with just 0.7 seconds remaining, Johanna Eidensten '17 made one of the biggest plays of the game, and of her young career, when she put the Soaring Eagles ahead 2-0 on a power play goal.  After receiving a pass from Olivia Nyström '16, Ella Stewart '14 took a slap shot from the left faceoff circle, which would make its way behind the net, off the boards, and eventually find Eidensten who would bury the last second shot.

The Cadets fought back in the third period, cutting the Elmira lead to one at the 6:18 mark.  Elmira charged back however, scoring a goal less than four minutes later to reclaim their two-goal lead at 3-1.  Stewart initiated the goal by passing the puck to Ryan, who was streaking down the right side of the ice.  Ryan's speed proved to be too much for the Cadets as she raced towards the goal, dumping the pass off to Sydney Fischer '17 who one-timed the pass with the back-side of her stick to seal Elmira's 3-1 victory. 

Elmira will look to build on tonight's big win as they travel to take on Hamilton College tomorrow, January 11th in a 7:00 p.m. non-conference game.