Feb. 6, 2009
Box Score
STORRS, Conn. - Senior Caroline Bourdeau netted the decisive goal to cap a seven-round shootout and lift the Boston University women's ice hockey team to a shootout win over ninth-ranked Connecticut after a 2-2 tie on Friday evening at Mark Freitas Ice Forum. Sophomores Lauren Cherewyk and Jillian Kirchner scored in regulation for the Terriers, who move to 13-10-6 overall and 11-5-1 in Hockey East action and rise to third place in the league standings.
Junior Melissa Haber made 30 saves for BU before delivering the 4-3 win in the marathon shootout, the longest so far in Hockey East in this first season of shootouts. Haber stopped shots from junior Cristin Allen, senior Brianna Uliasz and senior Nicole Tritter and sophomore Michelle Binning missed wide.
For the Terriers, junior Melissa Anderson, freshman Tara Watchorn and senior Laurel Koller put the puck past senior goalie Brittany Wilson in the shootout with the latter two needing to score the keep BU alive.
After the Terriers staked out a 2-0 lead after two periods, the Huskies came back to tie the score with goals from freshmen Sami Evelyn and Binning. Wilson made 25 saves in the game for UConn.
BU came out displaying a sharp forecheck and playing aggressively with that effort paying off midway through the first period when Cherewyk netted her 11th tally of the season. Russell sent a shot in from the blue line through traffic that junior Melissa Anderson tried to jam into the net before Cherewyk found the rebound and scored 8:15 into the game.
A pair of penalties gave the Terriers a five-on-three opportunity for 53 seconds midway through the second and BU capitalized with a textbook power-play goal at the 8:54 mark. After Russell and junior Sarah Appleton cycled the puck at the blue line, Appleton passed to Kirchner on the right wing, who doubled the Terriers' lead with her eighth goal of the season at the 8:54 mark.
The Huskies battled back in the third with a pair of peculiar goals. With UConn on the power play, Evelyn let loose a shot from beyond the blue line that took a funny hop and ate up Haber, finding the back of the net 5:22 into the final frame for Evelyn's fourth tally.
Midway through the period, freshman Monique Weber got free on a breakaway. Her effort was saved by Haber, but Binning popped in the rebound to level the score with her 16th goal of the season.
The Huskies held a 32-27 edge in shots on goal in the game and each side was 1-for-4 on the power play.
The Terriers wrap up their home-and-home series with the Huskies on Saturday (Feb. 7) at 3 p.m. at Walter Brown Arena in Boston as part of Hockey East's Skating Strides Against Breast Cancer campaign.
