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SUNY Potsdam women's hockey team plays tough but fall to No. 1 ranked RIT

Posted 11/12/11

POTSDAM -- The SUNY Potsdam women’s team fell to the nation’s top ranked RIT Tigers, by a score of 4-2. The Tigers (5-0, 3-0 ECAC West) got two goals from Morgan Scoyne (Drumbo, Ont./Stoney Creek …

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SUNY Potsdam women's hockey team plays tough but fall to No. 1 ranked RIT

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POTSDAM -- The SUNY Potsdam women’s team fell to the nation’s top ranked RIT Tigers, by a score of 4-2. The Tigers (5-0, 3-0 ECAC West) got two goals from Morgan Scoyne (Drumbo, Ont./Stoney Creek Sabers) to keep the Tigers unbeaten.

Each team would capitalize on power-play opportunities in the first period. Potsdam (1-3, 1-3) struck first in the opening period on when senior Annmarie Lewis (Newmarket, Ontario/Aurora Panthers) was the beneficiary of Breanna Roy’s (Orleans, Ontario/Nepean Wildcats) great vision from the point.

Roy found an open Lewis to the right of the crease and Lewis beat the goalie. That lead would last less than two minutes as the Tigers stormed back and Scoyne lit the lamp to knot the game at 1.

The period would end with the Tigers holding a marginal 7-5 lead in shots.

The Tigers asserted themselves in the second period. 26 seconds into the stanza, Lindsay Grigg (Oakville, Ont./Oakville Hornets) fed Kolbee McCrea (Wawa, Ontario/Burlington Barracudas) for a breakaway goal.

Three minutes later, Kourtney Kunichika (Fullerton, Calif/L.A. Selects) took a wrist shot from the right wing that beat junior goalie Jen Conophy (Glenmont, N.Y./Albany Ice Cats).

Conophy would stop 18 shots the rest of the period to keep Potsdam within striking distance.

Each team would tack on a goal in the third period. Scoyne’s second score of the night gave the Tigers a 4-1 advantage but the Bears would respond. 1:55 later, Brittany Lucky (Kanata, Ontario/Ottawa Senators) scored on an assist from Lewis to cut the lead to two. The Bears would get no closer, but Head Coach Jay Green was impressed with the effort.

“For only having 12 skaters, they did a great job. They executed what we had been practicing all week,” said Green. “We had a different approach on defense that paid dividends.” The two teams will come back to play today at 2 p.m.