University of Connecticut Athletics
University of Connecticut
16-11-4, 10-10-4
Northeastern
27-2-1, 22-2-1
No. 15 Huskies Fall In OT to No. 5 Northeastern
2/10/2023 8:30:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey
STORRS, Conn. - The No. 5 nationally ranked Northeastern's Tory Mariano scored the game-winner at 3:32 in overtime to come away with a 3-2 win over the No. 15 ranked UConn Huskies Friday night in front of 1,071 fans at Toscano Family Ice Forum.
Northeastern runs their winning streak to 15-straight and sweep the season series with the Huskies as they improve to 27-2-1 overall and 22-2-1 in Hockey East. UConn moves to 16-11-4 overall and are even at 10-10-4 in the league.
UConn scored the game's opening goal at 14:48 in the first. The Huskies turned over Northeastern and broke out on an odd man rush. Freshman Kyla Josifovic carried into the slot and slid a pass to senior Amy Landry breaking to the left post who got a redirect past Philips for her second this season and a 1-0 lead. UConn's goaltender Tia Chan turned away all 10 shots she faced in the first and the Huskies killed off a NU power play chance.
Northeastern got it back early in the second period, getting on the board shorthanded on UConn's first power play chance of the night. Defenseman Megan Carter picked off the puck deep in the right corner and threaded a pass into the neutral zone to get Chloe Aurard free on a break-away chance. The grad student buried it for her 17th this season to tie the game at 1-1 just 3:02 in the second.Â
Shots remined dead even through the second period as well, 17-17 while UConn was 0-2 with the extra skater in the second. Â
UConn grabbed the lead back at 10:45 on Kate Thurman's seventh of the season. The puck cycled to Jada Habisch on the high left boards and she fed Thurman in the slot who's wrist shot clipped Philips shoulder and cleared the line to make it 2-1. Northeastern found the equalizer late in the period as Taze Thompson picked-up her sixth of the season. The shot came in from the high point off the stick of Maude Poulin-Labelle and Thompson was parked in front to clean up a rebound to knot the game at 2-2 at 16:07.
NU got the game-winner 3:32 into the overtime as Aurard fed Mariano at the right post who redirected into the open net for the 3-2 win.
Chan finished with 30 saves in the loss. NU's Philips made 19 saves for the win.
UConn is back at home tomorrow to host Holy Cross at 3 pm in the Toscano Family Ice Forum
