MANCHESTER, N.H. - The Saint Anselm College women's ice hockey team dropped its New England Women's Hockey Alliance tilt to Franklin Pierce University by a 3-1 score on Tuesday.

The Hawks fall to 10-12-3 on the season with a 7-6-3 mark in NEWHA play. The Ravens improve to 17-8-1 overall and 13-3-0 in league contests. Saint Anselm is back in action on Friday, Feb. 18 and Saturday, Feb. 19 when Sacred Heart University comes to the Hilltop for a pair of conference contests.

Junior goaltender Allie Kelley (East Berne, N.Y.) eclipsed the 800-save mark on the season. Kelley, who is the women's ice hockey program record holder for saves in a single season, made 46 saves in the contest.

The Ravens struck first netting the game's opening goal with just two seconds left in the first period. Marissa Massaro fired a shot on Kelley which was stopped and Becca Kniss had a secondary chance that Kelley turned away, but Ava Kison managed to clean up the play, lifting a shot over a pile in front of the net, giving the visitors a 1-0 lead.

Saint Anselm found an equalizer at 15:24 of the second stanza as senior captain Erin Meyers (St. Paul, Minn.) forced a turnover in the attacking zone. She drove to the corner and found classmate Kelly Golini (Tewksbury, Mass.) in the slot. Golini fired a wrister into the upper half of the goal for her eighth marker of the season.

Franklin Pierce regained its lead at 18:56 of the period when Massaro collected a pass from Katelyn Brightbill in the slot and quickly sent a shot on goal. Kelley stopped the initial shot, but Massaro crashed the net and buried a rebound chance to give the visitors a 2-1 edge through two periods.

A third period five-on-three power play goal extended the Ravens lead as Mikayla Kelley fired a wrist shot from the right faceoff dot through traffic and into the upper half of the goal at 8:25. 

The Hawks were forced to pull Kelley in favor of the extra skater as time was winding down. Freshman Audrey Jackson (Shoreview, Minn.) and Meyers fired shots on Ravens net minder Suzette Faucher with the extra skater but both scoring attempts were turned aside. Faucher stopped 23 shots on goal for the Ravens.

Franklin Pierce fired 49 shots on goal in the contest compared to 24 for Saint Anselm. The Hawks were scoreless in three power play opportunities while the Ravens netted one goal on five power plays.