By Gayle Simone
Freshman Marie Desrosiers scored the winning goal with 2:18 left in regulation to lift the Northeastern women’s hockey team to a 3-1 victory over Boston College at Kelley Rink Sunday afternoon.
In the final minutes of the third period, the Eagles were pressuring in the NU zone, until Cyndy Kenyon dove to beat a BC player to the puck. The puck went to Desrosiers just over the blue line. Desrosiers then skated the length of the ice and deked Eagle goalie Lisa Davis. The puck slid under Davis’ leg pad for Desrosiers’ six goal of the season. Kenyon earned the lone assist.
The teams skated into the first intermission with the score knotted at one.
The Eagles scored first on a power-play goal by Kerri Sanders. Sanders knocked in the rebound of Jen Fischl’s shot past Chanda Gunn to give BC the 1-0 lead at 14:06.
Less than three minutes later, Kenyon notched her ninth goal of the season and tied the game for NU. Ashly Waggoner earned her third assist of the season on the play.
After skating to a scoreless second, Desrosiers’ goal put NU in the lead for good.
Co-captain Lori DiGiacomo added an insurance empty-net, shorthanded goal with 1:08 left in the game.
The Huskies spent most of the first period skating a man down.
NU was called for five penalties in the first period and after giving up the first power-play goal of the game, the Huskies stonewalled the Eagles as they went 1-7 on the man advantage.
The Huskies couldn’t capitalize on the power-play either. They went 0-5 including a 29-second two-man advantage.
Gunn, who earned the Hockey East Player of the Week honors for her spectacular performance last weekend of 103 saves on 106 shots, stopped 28 BC shots. Davis made 29 saves.
The Huskies improve to 2-3-2 in Hockey East Action and 8-5-6 overall. The Eagles are winless in Hockey East with a record of 0-6-0, 5-9-2 overall.
The Huskies return home to Matthews Arena Sunday to face Providence for a 2 p.m. tilt.
The Friars and Huskies skated to a 1-1 tie in the first match-up in October.
NU will face Connecticut in a home-home series next weekend before heading into Beanpot action on Feb. 3 at BC’s Kelley Rink.
