Box Score
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - The Brock University women's hockey team (5-10-1 OUA) defeated the Waterloo Warriors (6-7-4 OUA) 4-3 in shootout Sunday afternoon at the Seymour-Hannah Centre.
Waterloo opened the scoring 1:14 into the opening period as Amy Barnard beat Brock rookie goaltender
Jenna Sosnoski (New Dundee, Ont.) for her third goal of the season.
Just over two minutes later at 3:39, Bailey Bradt and Rachel Marriott setup Kelly Toms to give the Warriors a 2-0 lead.Â
Brock would cut the lead in half at 6:03 of the first period as senior
Leigh Vanderveen (NOTL, Ont.) buried it past Waterloo starter Rebecca Bouwhuis for her eighth goal of the campaign. Senior
Jessica Fickel (Fort Erie, Ont.) and
Ally Graham (Thamesford, Ont.) added the assists.
Waterloo regained the two-goal lead at 12:24 as Marriott and Redmond found Nicole Ballantyne who registered her second goal of the season.
The lone goal of the second period came at the 1:10 mark as Fickel setup senior
Kaitie Phelan (Kitchener, Ont.) for the shorthanded goal, making it a one-goal game 3-2 at the end of 40 minutes.
Six minutes into the third period, Brock would tie the game 3-3 as rookie
Victoria Chapman (Belleville, Ont.) recorded her first career OUA goal. Fickel registered her third assist of the game and moved into third all-time in career assists surpassing Briar Komenda (2003-07) (48).Â
After a scoreless overtime, the game would be decided after 10 shooters as sophomore
Sarah Dolden (Brampton, Ont.) slid it past Bouwhuis for the game winner. This was the Badgers second straight shootout victory in 2014.
In goal, Sosnoski recorded 26 saves or the victory . Bouwhuis collected 43 saves in the loss.
The Badgers next action is January 18th vs Nipissing and January 19th vs Laurentian. Both games are scheduled for 3:15pm at the Seymour-Hannah Centre.