Middletown, Conn. - The Trinity College Bantams shut
out the Wesleyan University Cardinals, 6-0, in New
England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) women's ice
hockey action this afternoon. Trinity, ranked No. 5 in the
nation, improves to 11-1-2 overall and 5-1-2 in the NESCAC with its
eighth win in a row, its second win over the Cardinals this season,
and its seventh consecutive triumph against them. Wesleyan
falls to 2-10 overall and 0-8 in the league. In Hartford on Dec. 8,
Trinity posted a 7-0 win.
Four of the Bantams' six goals came on the power play as
Wesleyan spent nearly one third of the game short-handed due to 10
penalties. Junior Jill Roloff (West Seneca,
N.Y.) got things going for Trinity at 5:46 of the
first period with a sharp-angled shot from the right on the power
play. At 11:50, another Bantam power play resulted in the
first of two goals on the day by sophomore Celia
Colman-McGaw (Manchester, Conn.), who took a centering
pass to the slot from Roloff for a one-timer. The two
connected again less than three minutes later after junior
Kait McCarthy (Ipswich, Mass.) drew a
face-off to Roloff for a pass to Colman-McGaw, who put home a shot
from the left. The first period ended, 4-0, when junior
tri-captain Kim Weiss (Potomac, Md.) scored
on the power play with just 29 seconds to go. Her high shot from
the middle found the net behind Wesleyan freshman keeper Ashleigh
Corvi after an initial shot was blocked in front by the
defense. The Bantams scored a pair of goals in a span of 1:48
early in the second period to end the day's scoring.
McCarthy, scoring on a rebound for her second of the year, and
sophomore Dominique DiDia (Studio City, Calif.),
with her first tally this season to go with six previous assists,
did the honors before the period was six minutes old.
Roloff finished the game with four points on a goal and three
assists. Colman-McGaw had three points with two goals and an
assist. With Trinity enjoying a 61-8 edge in shots, Corvi
logged 55 saves, the third time this year she has come away with 50
or more stops in a contest. With her second start of the
year, Bantam freshman Beth Hitchcock (Glencoe,
Ill.) made eight saves for her second victory by
shutout. Her first win also came against Wesleyan when she
made 20 saves.
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