MANCHESTER, N.H. – Senior
Allie Kelley (East Berne, N.Y.) set a program record for saves in a single season, surpassing the record she set in the 2021-22 season on Saturday as the Saint Anselm College women's ice hockey team downed Post University on Senior Day by a 10-0 score.
With the win, the Hawks will enter the New England Women's Hockey Alliance postseason with a 15-15-4 record and a 14-6-4 mark against league foes. Saint Anselm will be the second seed and will host Saint Michael's College, the seventh seed, in the First Round of the league's postseason tournament, starting on Friday, Feb. 24.
Prior to the start of the contest, the Hawks honored graduate student
Kelly Golini (Tewksbury, Mass.) and seniors
Devin Porazinski (Parker, Colo.),
Margaret Sullivan (Burlington, Mass.),
Gabrielle Huson (Edina, Minn.),
Kenadie Cooper (San Tan Valley, Ariz.), and Kelley with a Senior Day ceremony.
Kelley stopped all 21 of the Post shots on goal for her fourth shutout of the season.
Freshman
Brooklyn Pancoast (Helena, Mont.) netted her first collegiate hat trick and added an assist while Golini and sophomore
Audrey Jackson (Shoreview, Minn.) turned in one goal, three assist efforts in the contest. Junior
Natalie Tulchinsky (Clifton Park, N.Y.) dished four assists for the Hawks, who had eight different goal scorers and had 12 student-athletes record at least one point in the win.
Saint Anselm totaled 27 points as a team in the game which is the most in a single game since Nov. 5, 2019 when the Hawks posted 29 points in a win over Salem State University. That contest was also the last time that the women's ice hockey program netted 10 goals in a single game.
Pancoast got the scoring started just 4:29 into the opening period when she fired a wrist shot into the upper half of the goal, beating Eagles goaltender
Grace Glasrud.
Pancoast and junior
Claire Weber (Marshfield, Mass.) combined to score a pair of goals just over two minutes apart late in the first, giving the Hawks a 3-0 lead at the first intermission.
Jackson, Pancoast, and Golini netted one goal apiece in the second period. Jackson sent a wrist shot into the back of the net at 7:43. Pancoast capped off her hat trick with a power play goal at 17:36 before Golini cashed in with a shorthanded goal.
The Hawks added four in the third period as freshman
Sydney Merritt (San Jose, Calif.), sophomore
Tyra Turner (Andover, Minn.), Sullivan, and junior
Gracie Bruno (Needham, Mass.) all found the back of the goal, pushing Saint Anselm to the final of 10-0.
Saint Anselm put 56 shots on goal compared to 21 for Post. The Eagles were scoreless in three power play chances while the Hawks were two-for-five with the extra skater.