CORTLAND, N.Y. – The Cortland women's ice hockey team scored a pair of second-period power-play goals and added a late empty-net goal to earn a 3-0 home SUNYAC win versus Morrisville Saturday afternoon in the second game of a weekend home-and-home series. The Red Dragons swept the two games with two shutouts and improved to 14-3-1 overall and 9-2-1 in the conference.
Junior
Meggan Cramer (Cicero/Northwood School) and freshmen
Katie Mahoney (Toronto, ON/Toronto Leaside) and
McKenzie Brown (Peru/Lovell Academy) each netted goals for Cortland. Graduate student
Dany Donegan (Cicero/Syracuse Nationals) and sophomore
Kayla Persinger (Lewiston/Newark Ironbound) collected two assists apiece, while senior
Molly McCabe (Webster/18UAA Webster) and sophomore
Ainsley Delacourt (Stoney Creek, ON/Brampton Canadettes) each picked up an assist.
Junior goalie
Molly Goergen (Eden Prairie, MN/Eden Prairie H.S.) made 25 saves for the Red Dragons, including multiple acrobatic stops on point-blank shots, in posting her fourth shutout of the season. Junior goalie Elizabeth Timby turned aside 32 shots for the Mustangs (8-9, 3-7 SUNYAC).
After a scoreless first period, Mahoney opened the scoring with her seventh goal of the season at 7:39 of the second period, putting in a rebound in front on the power play. Brown made it a 2-0 game at 12:14 also on the power play, scoring on a wrist shot from the high slot for her third goal of the season.
In the third period, each goalie came up with key saves to hold the score at 2-0. With 1:58 remaining, Morrisville pulled Timby for an extra skater. Twenty-two seconds later the Red Dragons iced the game when Cramer converted a 2-on-1 into the empty net for the 3-0 final.
Cortland 3, Morrisville 0
Score by periods:
Morrisville 0-0-0 0
Cortland 0-2-1 3
Scoring Summary (Goals-Assists):
Morrisville: no scoring
Cortland:
Katie Mahoney 1-0,
McKenzie Brown 1-0,
Meggan Cramer 1-0,
Dany Donegan 0-2,
Kayla Persinger 0-2,
Ainsley Delacourt 0-1,
Molly McCabe 0-1
Saves: Elizabeth Timby (Morrisville) 32 saves (2 GA in 59:38, Empty Net 1 GA in :22;
Molly Goergen (Cortland) 25 saves (0 GA in 60:00)
Shots on goal: Cortland 35 (11-17-7), Morrisville 25 (8-10-7)
Penalties: Morrisville 5-10:00, Cortland 3-6:00
Power Play: Cortland 2-4, Morrisville 0-3
Records after game: Morrisville (Mustangs) 8-9, 3-7 SUNYAC; Cortland (Red Dragons) 14-3-1, 9-2-1 SUNYAC
