AMHERST, Mass. Alex Toupalnetted a hat trick and chipped in an assist andSabrina Dobbins registered 15 stops in between the pipes to help direct the Amherst College women's ice hockey team to an 8-1 victory over non-conference foe New England College Sunday afternoon at Orr Rink.
With the win, Amherst improves to 2-2-0 on the season, while New England College falls to 1-6-0 overall.
SCORING
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st 04:56 | AMH PP Emma Griese (Katelyn Pantera, Miriam Eickhoff)
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st 13:25 | AMH Miriam Eickhoff (Sarah Melanson, Katelyn Pantera)
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st 15:29 | AMH Jamie McNamara (Anne Malloy)
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nd 06:44 | AMH Alex Toupal (Kaitlin Hoang, Emma Flynn)
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nd 08:53 | AMH PP Alex Toupal (Katelyn Pantera, Miriam Eickhoff)
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nd 09:50 | AMH Emma Flynn (Alex Toupal)
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nd 16:02 | NEC Vicki Shaw (Kristen Dukette, Morgan Lamos)
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nd 17:58 | AMH SH Alex Toupal (Jocelyn Hunyadi)
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rd 01:07 | AMH PP Eliza Laycock (Laura Schmidlein, Jamie McNamara)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Winning a faceoff on the left side 4:56 into the tilt, Amherst claimed a 1-0 lead behind a seniorEmma Griese's second tally of the year. Redirecting a wrist shot from the point fromMiriam Eickhoff'19, Griese tipped the puck into the bottom left corner of the net.
Striking nine minutes later, Eickhoff made it a 2-0 game by corralling a pass at the right point, and blasting a shot over the pad of NEC
Jackie Clark.
Jamie McNamara extended the Mammoths lead to 3-0 with 4:31 remaining in the stanza following a perfect chip off the boards byAnne Malloythat found McNamara at center ice. Deking to her forehand, the Dedham, Mass. native beat the keeper for an easy score.
The Pilgrims nearly got on the board 4:39 into the second period, with Tara Turcotte intercepting a pass at the defensive blue line. However, her pass intended for Vicki Shaw to give Shaw a breakaway was just out of reach as Dobbins was able to come out of the net and deflect the puck to the corner.
Following the scare, Amherst turned up the offensive pressure to net three goals in a three-minute span to make it 6-0 in favor of the home team. Entering the zone on a breakaway with 13:16 on the clock Toupal registered her first of three goals in the stanza, powering a wrist shot into the bottom left hand corner.
Up a skater 2:09 later, Toupal found nylon once again, gathering a cross-ice dish fromKatelyn Pantera in the slot and sliding a shot inside the left post.
Emma Flynn capped off the quick three-goal onslaught with 10:08 to play, one-touching a pass from Toupal in the slot through the legs of the Pilgrim netminder.
Avoiding the shut out, New England College broke through in the 36th minute. Up a skater on the power play, Morgan Lamos sent a pass to Kristen Dukette on the right point who ripped a wrist shot off the near post and into the netting.
Logging a hat trick on a short-handed score and her fourth point of the tilt with 2:02 on the clock, Toupal found nylon following a tenacious forecheck by Hunyadi. Forcing a turn over, Hunyadi corralled the puck and skated behind the goal before finding Toupal out in front for the goal.
The Mammoths continued their offensive dominance in the third period, withEliza Laycock'20 notching her first score of the winter 1:07 into the stanza off of a rebound to extend the Amherst lead to 8-1.
GOALTENDERS
NEC's Clark compiled 31 saves in the loss, while Amherst's Dobbins stopped 15 of the 16 shots she faced.
WHAT'S NEXT
The Pilgrims will be back in action on Friday, December 1
st for a 3:30 p.m. non-conference game against Post University.
