Coach McPhee Nets 100th Career Victory

Hartford, Conn. – Junior Celia Colman-McGaw (Manchester, Conn.) scored two goals to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 3-1 win over the visiting Hamilton College Continentals in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) women's ice hockey Championship Tournament Quarterfinals this afternoon on Williams Rink in the Koeppel Community Sports Center.  No. 3-seeded Trinity, ranked No. 8 in the latest USCHO Division III National Poll, improves to 18-3-4 overall, while the Continentals end their season with a record of 11-14.  The win is also the 100th in the career of Trinity Head Coach Andrew McPhee, who has a career mark of 100-96-17.

The Bantams came out aggressive in the first period, as sophomore Chelsea Campbell (Surrey, British Columbia) scored 3:09 into the game, giving Trinity a lead it would not relinquish.  Colman-McGaw scored her first goal of the game later in the first period to give the Bantams a 2-0 edge, before adding another in the second frame, a period in which the Bantams outshot the Continentals 20-7.   Colman-McGaw has four goals and two assists in her last four games.

Hamilton first-year Nikki Haskins (Quincy, Mass.) scored the lone Hamilton goal with just under six minutes remaining in the game, immediately after the Continentals escaped harm with three players in the penalty box.  The goal was not enough, as the Bantams managed to kill the clock en route to their seventh straight victory. 

Trinity outshot Hamilton 39-19 in the game.  Sophomore Rebecca Hazlett (Grosse Point Park, Mich.) made 36 stops in the game, while first-year Alexa Pujol (New Canaan, Conn.) made 18 saves for the win in her first collegiate postseason start. 

Trinity advances to the NESCAC Semifinal Game, which will be played on Sat., Mar. 5 at either 1 p.m. or 4 p.m.  Opponent is yet to be determined. 

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