Middlebury, Vt. - Middlebury College's Emily Fluke scored her first goal of the season 1:18 into overtime, giving the No. 2-ranked Panthers (3-0, 3-0) a 3-2 win over the visiting Trinity College Bantams (1-1-1, 1-1-1) in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) women's ice hockey action in Kenyon Arena this evening. Middlebury improves to 3-0 and Trinity falls to 1-1-1.  The teams will go back at it tomorrow with a 3 p.m. face-off.

Middlebury struck first 11:21 into the first period when Katie Sullivan circled the net and moved to the left wing. Mackenzie Martin was streaking towards the goal and the right side and scored with a wrister to put her team up 1-0.  Sullivan gave the Panthers a 2-0 lead 9:58 into the second period with a power play goal. After a shot from the right side by Kate Moreau had been saved by Trinity senior goalie Kristen Maxwell (Nashville, Tenn.), Sullivan saw her first shot denied by a Maxwell glove save before flipping a shot high into the net for her second of the year.

Trinity followed with a goal just 12 seconds later and then tied it up just 1:03 after getting on the board.  Junior defender Emily Riccio (Simsbury, Conn.) scored the first goal, tipping in a shot after the puck was sent in from the right point by sophomore forward Emma Tani (Orange, Calif.). The Bantams took advantage of a Panther turnover shortly thereafter, as sophomore forward Cheeky Herr (Princeton, N.J.) skated in on the left side and scored with a wrister to knot the game at 2-2 at the 11:13 mark.  Senior forward Whitney Colbert (Ithaca, N.Y.) assisted on the play.

Each team had some good looks in the third period, but Maxwell and Panther netminder Annabelle Jones kept it a 2-2 game. Middlebury had a power play with 2:21 remaining, but was unable to get things set up, as the game went into overtime. The Panthers nearly ended the game as the power play expired, but Jennifer Krakower's shot from the high slot hit the crossbar.  Fluke's game-winner came on the left side after taking a pass from Carly Schader. She scored from the middle of the face-off circle with a snipe to the top left corner of the net, just over the shoulder of Maxwell.  Jones finished with 20 saves in goal to earn the win, while Maxwell made 27 stops for Trinity.

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