FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – The New England College women's ice hockey team shook off two unanswered goals to come back and claim a 3-2 overtime win at Framingham State on Tuesday evening at Loring Arena in non-conference action. 

THE BASICS 
Score: New England College 3, Framingham State 2 
Records: Pilgrims 3-20 | Rams 0-19 

HOW IT HAPPENED 

• The Pilgrims earned themselves an early lead as just 1:26 into the contest the team's leading scorer, junior forward Meadow Gilchrist (Stamford, Conn.), dissected the Rams defense and finished for her 11th goal of the season.  
• Deep into the second period, passes from sophomore forward Sofia Gualtieri (Montreal, Quebec) and sophomore forward Samantha Babbitt (Weathersfield, Vt.)  left the puck in the possession of junior defender Jordan Pond (Gardner, Mass.). Pond, skating in from the back line in the Pilgrims' offensive zone, fired off a shot that snuck past the Rams goaltender to give the 'Grims a 2-0 lead with 7:10 left in the period. 
• Framingham State would pull within a goal 1:56 into the third period, as it was the Rams' leading scorer, Petra Cernicek (Jackson, Wyo.), who netted her seventh goal of the season to keep her team close. Later in the period, Sarah Lewis (Emyvale, P.E.I) scored the equalizer with 6:48 left in the game to eventually force overtime. 
• A minute into the extra period, Babbitt poked the puck away around center ice and jumpstarted a breakaway; The speedy Babbitt beat the retreating Rams defenders to the net and sent a shot past the goaltender to the bottom left corner of the net for the game-winner.  

INSIDE THE NUMBERS 

• NEC freshman goaltender Kayden Lallier Whissell (Stevensville, Ontario) made 35 saves in the win, posting a season's best .946 save percentage on the night. 
• FSU's Brigid Milligan (Philadelphia, Pa.) stopped 19/22 shots for the hosts. 
• Gilchrist joins teammate Olivia Lindberg (Stockholm, Sweden) as tied for 5th in the conference with 19 points this season. 
• Shots on goal were 37-22 in favor of the Rams. 
• Neither team was able to capitalize on their lone power play opportunities of the game. 
• This was the team's sixth overtime game of the season.

UP NEXT 

• NEC is back on the ice on Friday when they travel to Norwich University for their final two games of the season. The first of two NEHC contests begins at 4:00 PM on Friday, February 14th.

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