MANCHESTER, N.H. -- To be on top, you have to beat the teams who are at the top and Post University Women's Ice Hockey has a chance to do that this week facing off against a Saint Anselm College team that heading into the day led the New England Women's Hockey Alliance with nine points at 4-1-1. The Hawks would show why they led the way in the early part of the season, using three goals between the first and second periods to take the first game of the weekend from the Eagles, 3-1. 

THE BASICS

Post University 1, Saint Anselm College 3

Post University (3-7-0, 3-3-0 NEWHA)

Saint Anselm College (5-5-1, 5-1-1 NEWHA)

HOW IT HAPPENED
16 shots on goal to open the game would pay dividends for the Hawks as junior forward Audrey Jackson was able to beat senior goalie Grace Glasrud for the first goal of the afternoon after being fed the puck from senior forwards Maddy McCaffery and Claire Weber to make it a 1-0 game. On the other side, freshman goalie Courtney Stagman halted six pucks sent her way by the Eagles to help hold their lead after the first 20 minutes of play. 

Saint Anselm would waste no time adding to their lead less than two minutes into the second period as Jackson found Weber after a redirect off the pads of Glasrud to make it a two-score game. As time wore on, Post would get a few odd man-rush opportunities to cut into the deficit by beating Stagman, but the freshman remained poised in the net stopping everything she faced. Meanwhile, her team would tack on another with sophomore forward Brooklyn Schneiderhan getting it past Glasrud on the left side from senior forward Natalie Tulchinsky and junior forward Tyra Turner for the three-goal advantage heading into the third.

While Glasrud would put up her first scoreless period of the game in the third to the tune of 10 saves, Stagman would match her as she would stop four of the five shots she faced before a power-play goal from junior defenseman Sajel Desai from sophomore forward Maddy Noonan would be the lone goal for the Eagles with 1:48 left in regulation as they would fall 3-1 on the road to the Hawks. 


BY THE NUMBERS

• After struggling early on in the year on the power play, Post University has recorded at least one goal on the man-up advantage in each of their last three games, raising their power-play conversion to 18.2% on the year
• Grace Glasrud finished the game making 34 saves on the 37 attempts sent her way by Saint Anselm
• Courtney Stagman faced just 18 total shots from Post University, stopping 17 of them to earn the victory
• In the all-time series, Post University is now 0-21-0 against Saint Anselm 

 
WHO'S NEXT
Post University closes out their two-game road trip to Manchester, New Hampshire against Saint Anselm College tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 PM. In the all-time series, the Eagles stand at 0-21-0 against the Hawks.