Boston, Mass. - Senior goaltender Isabel Iwachiw (New York, N.Y.) made 24 saves and earned a shutout to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 3-0 win over the Bowdoin College Polar Bears in the opening round of the Codfish Bowl Women's Ice Hockey Tournament at the University of Massachusetts-Boston this afternoon.  Trinity, ranked No. 10 in the nation, improves to 6-1-2 with its third straight victory and advances to the finals against the host Mass.-Boston Beacons, which downed the No. 6-ranked Lake Forest College Foresters, 3-1, this afternoon, tomorrow at 3 p.m.  The Bantams will be competing for their third straight Codfish Bowl title, and Iwachiw is a two-time, all-tournament selection and the 2008 Codfish Bowl MVP.  Bowdoin falls to 4-3-1 with its first loss in five games and will play in the consolation game tomorrow at noon.

Iwachiw turned away 12 shots in the second period, while the Bantams scored twice in the same frame to take a 2-0 lead into the third.  Sophomore forward Brigitte Cellino (Buffalo, N.Y.) scored the gamewinner from junior defender Laura Komarek (Plymouth, Minn.) and junior forward Kim Weiss (Bethesda, Md.) on a power play 6:49 into the second.  Junior forward Jill Roloff (West Seneca, N.Y.) added a second Bantam goal with 23 seconds left before the second break, and sophomore forward Celia Colman-McGaw (Manchester, Conn.) tallied early in the third frame.  Sophomore goaltender Sage Santangelo (Laporte, Colo.) had 26 saves for the Polar Bears.

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