Trinity Women's Ice Hockey Stays Unbeaten, Settles For Tie At Hamilton
Clinton, N.Y. - Freshman Katie Zimmerman scored a power-play goal with 2:28 left in the third period to lift the Hamilton College Continentals to a 1-1 tie with the visiting Trinity College Bantams in a New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) women's ice hockey game at Russell Sage Rink this afternoon.
Trinity moves to 3-0-1 overall and 1-0-1 in the NESCAC, while
the Continentals are now 1-3-1 overall and 1-2-1 in the
league. The Bantams are 5-0-1 in their last six games against
Hamilton, but the Continentals own the all-time series,
15-6-1. Zimmerman's goal was her second in as many games for
the Continentals. Junior defender Laura
Komarek (Plymouth, Minn.) notched the lone
Trinity goal on a power play with 3:16 remaining in the second
period.
Komarek scored her first goal this season just three seconds into a
5-on-3 advantage for Trinity, as Bantam junior
forward Jill Roloff (West Seneca, N.Y.)
had just left the penalty box after she was whistled for hooking at
14:41. Hamilton's Rachel Rapoza '10 was sent off for tripping at
15:32, and teammate Meredith Bitterman '12 joined Rapoza 37 seconds
later to create a 4-on-3 advantage for Trinity. Bantam sophomore
Hannah Harvey (Silverthorne, Colo.) was
credited with her second assist on Komarek's goal.
The Bantams held on to their 1-0 lead until late in the third
period, when they were whistled for two penalties just 20 seconds
apart. Sophomore forward Celia
Colman-McGaw (Manchester, Conn.) received the
first for hooking with 3:20 left, and Harvey was called for
tripping. Zimmerman scored from the right side 32 seconds later
after senior tri-captain goalie Isabel
Iwachiw (New York, N.Y.) stopped shots by
Bitterman and Stephanie Miguel '11.
Both teams had power-play opportunities in overtime. The
Continentals had an extra skater for the final 62 seconds. Trinity
took three shots during the extra session while Hamilton had one.
Both teams finished 1-for-9 on the power play. Iwachiw
finished with 22 saves and the Continentals' Becca Hazlett '13
stopped 35 shots.
