Box Score REISTERSTOWN, Md. - The Stevenson women's ice hockey team had three different players score a goal, including senior Jordan Pirrello, as the Mustangs skated to a, 3-3, overtime tie versus Neumann in a United Collegiate Hockey Conference (UCHC) contest Saturday evening at Reisterstown Sportsplex.
- Neither team recorded a shot on net until the 3:23 mark when junior Trinity Barcless recorded the first shot of the game.
- The Mustangs (7-8-5, 5-5-3 UCHC) held the early momentum and earned the first power play of the contest, earning the player advantage at the 5:35 mark.
- Barcless and Pirrello each recorded a shot on net during the power play but both were saved by Helen Cooney.
- Just before the midway point of the period, the Knights (10-11-1, 7-5-1 UCHC) earned a power play but did not record a shot on net.
- The hosts went back on the power play at the 13:12 mark yet saw all three shots knocked away by Cooney, including a pair by sophomore Nikki Kendrick.
- With 27.6 seconds remaining in the period, Barcless gave the Mustangs a, 1-0, lead on assists from sophomore Elizabeth Gaudreau and freshman KaliJo Zagula.
- Early in the period, Neumann had a five-on-three power play for 1:43 and scored on its third shot to knot the game at, 1-1.
- Stevenson went on the power play at the 7:40 mark and reclaimed the lead with 21 seconds remaining in the player advantage.
- Sophomore Paige Sullivan found freshman Karly Aguirre down low before Aguirre sent the puck across the face of the goal to a wide open Pirrello who tapped it in on the back post.
- Just 2:28 later, the Knights once again tied the game, scoring on a rush up the ice.
- The Mustangs went on the power play, 1:58 after Neumann tied the game, and took a, 3-2, lead on a score by sophomore Tea Ferrara.
- Kendrick fired a shot from the face-off dot before sophomore Ally Gibson fired a rebound off the pad of Cooney with Ferrara finally burying the puck for the goal.
- The Mustangs recorded three shots on net the first of two power play opportunities of the period.
- Less than a minute after the first penalty expired, Stevenson had its second player advantage, this time getting just one shot on net.
- Team leading scorer, Katelyn Brown, scored on an odd-player rush to tie the game at, 3-3, with 2:39 remaining in regulation.
- With 1:56 left, the Mustangs were called for a penalty, but senior Annie Smyth-Hammond stopped a pair of shots on the penalty kill to send the game to overtime.
- Neumann held the early momentum in the extra period but the Mustangs defense came up with three blocked shots and a save by Smyth-Hammond.
- After the Mustangs called a timeout, the team sent five forwards on the ice and got three shots on net but all three were saved by Cooney.
- Smyth-Hammond stopped the last shot of the game, coming with 20 seconds remaining.
- Stevenson outshot Neumann, 45-21, including, 31-10, over the first two perios.
- The Mustangs finished 2-for-7 on the power play while the Knights were 1-for-4.
- With the tie, Stevenson remains two points behind Neumann for second place in the UCHC South, with three conference games remaining.
- Kendrick recorded a point in her fifth straight game and is now at 49 points in her career, which ranks tied for eighth all-time.
- It was the seventh goal of the season for Pirrello, with five of them coming on home ice. Pirrello and Ferrara share the team lead with five power play goals.
- In pregame ceremonies, the Mustangs honored their five seniors, Pirrello, Smyth-Hammond, Allyson Barlow, Rachel Grewette, and Carly McGee.
- Stevenson returns to action on Saturday, February 15 when the Mustangs travel to Lebanon Valley for a UCHC and Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) contest beginning at 4:00 p.m.