Box Score WINCHENDON, Mass. – The Saint Anselm College women's ice hockey team fell in overtime to Franklin Pierce University by a 3-2 score in New England Women's Hockey Alliance play on Friday evening.

The Hawks six-game unbeaten streak comes to a close as the team is now 8-11-3 on the season with a 5-5-3 mark against NEWHA opponents. Franklin Pierce improves to 12-8-1 overall and 8-3-0 against the league. The squads were slated to finish their regular season series on Saturday, Jan. 29 at Sullivan Arena but that contest has been postponed due to the impending inclement weather.

Franklin Pierce scored the overtime winner less than 90 seconds into the extra period after Katerina Dajia blocked a Hawks shot attempt. Ava Kison collected the loose puck and drove toward the Hawks zone with Dajia in a two-on-one. Kison elected to shoot and fired her wrist shot into the upper half of the goal to give the Ravens a 3-2 overtime win.

Saint Anselm took an early 1-0 lead thanks to junior Margaret Sullivan (Burlington, Mass.) and her second goal of the season at 9:04 of the opening period. Freshman Gracee Donovan (Orchard Park, N.Y.) forced a turnover in the attacking zone and drove to the slot, firing a wrist shot on Ravens goaltender Emme Ostrander that was denied, but Sullivan cashed in the rebound chance.

Just 2:53 after the Hawks opening goal, Becca Kniss fired a shot on junior goaltender Allie Kelley (East Berne, N.Y.) but Kelley made the save. Ava Kison had a rebound chance that Kelley also saved, however Kniss managed to clean up a second chance rebound to tie the score at one.

Tied at one through the first period, the Ravens grabbed their first lead of the contest when Kison redirected a shot attempt by Kniss on the power play at 13:41 of the second stanza.

Saint Anselm responded just 1:18 later as freshman Tyra Turner (Andover, Minn.) chipped in her sixth goal of the season off a shot attempt by Donovan, which pushed the score to 2-2 through two periods of play.

The squads were evenly matched in the third period as both teams had power play chances but neither managed to find the back of the net, forcing a five-minute overtime.

The Hawks registered the first scoring chance in the three-on-three extra period but Turner's shot attempt was saved by Ostrander. Franklin Pierce was able to lock down the win with Kison's game-winning overtime marker.

Kelley stopped 32 of 35 shots on goal for the Hawks while Ostrander turned aside 25 shots on frame in the winning effort. Kelley crossed 700 saves this season and now has 731 saves this campaign.

The Hawks are back in action on Friday, Feb. 4 at Post University starting their final road trip of the 2021-22 regular season. The puck drop in that contest is scheduled for 8 p.m.