Hartford, Conn. – The No. 10 Trinity College women's hockey team scored three power-play goals en route to a 5-2 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) win on Friday evening inside the Koeppel Community Sports Center on Williams Rink. The Bantams recorded their second straight home win to improve to 14-6-2 overall and 7-6-2 in league play, while the Cardinals moved to 8-13-1 on the year and 3-11-1 in conference tilts.

Trinity scored a season-high four special-team tallies, three on the power play and one shorthanded, and killed five of six penalties to remain tied for third in the NESCAC with just one game remaining in the regular season.

The Bantams broke open a one-goal game with a trio of third period markers. Leading 2-1 just over three minutes into the third period, Trinity's Caroline Howell (Lyme, N.H.) took a pass from first-year forward Hannah Oganeku (Castle Pines, Colo.) and skated along the left boards past several Wesleyan players before firing a wrist shot that beat Cardinals junior goaltender Corinne Rivard for the eventual game-winner.

Three minutes after Howell's marker, junior forward Shannon Farrell (Kennebunk, Maine) scored the first of her two goals in the stanza on the power play to stretch the Bantams lead to three at 4-1. Senior Lauren Fitzgerald (Milton, Mass.) fired a shot on goal and Farrell deflected the shot past Rivard. Midway through the period, Wesleyan cut the deficit to two as sophomore Ellery Sarosi (Ann Arbor, Mich.) scored on a deflected shot from the point that beat Trinity first-year netminder Sydney Belinskas (Port Orange, Fla.). On the power play with less than two minutes remaining in regulation, the visitors pulled Rivard in favor of an extra skater. Wesleyan peppered Belinskas with numerous shots in the final minute of play, but Trinity put the game out of reach as Farrell fired a shot from her own blue line that crossed the goal line and into the empty net with 23 seconds left on the clock.

Between the pipes, Belinskas made 33 saves to earn her ninth victory of the winter for the Bantams. On the opposite end, Rivard stopped 31 shots in a losing effort for the Cardinals.

The other three markers in the game all came in the first period. Wesleyan junior forward Laura Mead opened the scoring just over a minute into play as she deflected Lilah Fones shot from the point and beat Belinskas. The Bantams closed out the scoring in the first stanza as senior tri-captain Lucy Robinson (Toronto, Ontario) and junior Emma Tani (Orange, Calif.) both potted power-play tallies a minute and 21 seconds apart. Robinson's goal was a record setter, as the fourth-year forward set a new single season program record with 32 points.

The Bantams and Cardinals conclude a weekend home-and-home series to end the regular season tomorrow, Feb. 21, at 3:00 p.m. in Middletown.

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