SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – A pair of late third-period goals propelled the Saint Anselm College women's ice hockey team to a 4-2 win over Saint Michael's College in New England Women's Hockey Alliance play.

With the win, the Hawks move to 8-8-1 on the season with an 8-3-1 mark in NEWHA tilts while the Purple Knights drop to 1-9-1 overall and 1-7-1 in league games. The programs conclude their weekend series on Saturday, Nov. 19 from the Cairns Arena in South Burlington, Vt. The opening puck drop is slated for 3 p.m.

Graduate student Kelly Golini (Tewksbury, Mass.) netted a pair of goals for Saint Anselm with junior Natalie Tulchinsky (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and sophomore Madi Ressler (Brighton, Mich.) adding one goal each. Golini had a hand in all four Hawks goals, adding two assists to her two goals for four points.

Ressler fired a one-time shot from the top of the slot with 1:55 left in regulation to give the Hawks a 3-2 lead. Junior Claire Kuipers (Eden Prairie, Minn.) got the puck in behind the goal where Golini would collect it and work her way out to the front of the goal to feed Ressler for the eventual game-winning goal.

Golini, with just seconds left on the clock, added what was her second goal of the game, pushing the score to its 4-2 final.

Earlier in the contest, Tulchinsky opened the scoring with a power play goal which is her league-leading 11th of the season. The junior fired a shot from the slot off a Golini pass at 1:38 of the second period.

Maeghan Kennard knotted the score at one just over two minutes later when she sent a wrist shot by senior goaltender Allie Kelley (East Berne, N.Y.) and into the twine.

Golini wasted no time regaining the Hawks lead as she netted her first goal of the contest just 15 seconds after the Purple Knights tally. Golini managed to slap home a loose puck from the slot for the goal, giving Saint Anselm a 2-1 lead.

The Purple Knights responded at 12:50 of the second period with a power play goal of their own from Mary Leys. Leys managed to bury a rebound chance to push the score to 2-2 through two periods of play.

Saint Anselm put 52 shots on target compared to 21 for Saint Michael's. Golini led the Hawks with 19 faceoff wins, part of a group that won 40-of-60 draws in the tilt.

Kelley made 19 saves on 21 shots on goal in the win for the Hawks while her counterpart Carissa Mudrak made 48 saves including 22 in the second period alone in the losing effort.