SHELTON, Conn. – The difference less than 24 hours can make for a team cannot be understated as Post University Women's Ice Hockey showed just that with a wire-to-wire dominant home victory against Saint Anselm College on Saturday afternoon. 

Shaking off the slow legs from last night's 3-1 defeat, the Eagles got the scoring started early and often en route to a 3-0 shutout win in junior goalie Hannah Saunders' fifth shutout win of the season and the eighth of her career while forward Tymmarie Grom played in her 100th collegiate game, becoming the ninth player to reach that mark and fourth player to play 100 consecutive games in program history. 

THE BASICS

Post University 3, Saint Anselm College 0 

Post University (9-16-3, 9-10-3 NEWHA)

Saint Anselm College (9-15-4, 9-9-4 NEWHA)

HOW IT HAPPENED
There was nothing slow about the start the Eagles would get out to in this contest as they outshot the Hawks by a 17-14 margin overall while peppering senior goalie Carina Mancini with 14 shots compared to just five shots on goal against junior goalie Hannah Saunders through the first period. Only 1:22 into the contest, freshman forward Rowyn Ringor found the back of the net for her ninth goal of the season with the help of her linemates in sophomore forward Celena Mickevicius and senior forward Julia Wysocki.

Towards the end of the frame, Ringor would cement her name in the record books for Post as the team's all-time single-season leader for assists, recording her 13th this year on Wysocki's team-leading 14th goal of the season off a defensive zone turnover by Saint Anselm which gave the Eagles a 2-0 lead with still 2:04 to go in the first. Ringor surpassed Kiersten Browning's 2022-23 record of 12 assists en route to setting the new mark and counting this season. 

Both Ringor and Wysocki after that period had two points each, giving them 22 points on the season which put them three away from tying the single-season points record set by Jenna Abeyta in the 2019-20 season at 25 points. 

Getting some help from the fourth line, senior forward Hannah Luckman tallied her first goal of the season and the first of the season for the fourth line which has played together in all by two games so far this year. Getting her first collegiate point was freshman defenseman Ruby Mitchell who forced the pass breakup and hit Luckman in stride for the breakaway five-hole shot that gave the Eagles a three-goal lead heading into the third.

Vying for her fifth shutout of the season still going into that third period was Saunders who stopped all 10 shots she faced in the first 40 minutes to help keep Post ahead by that 3-0 margin. That is exactly how things would shake out for the junior too as a scoreless third period saw Saunders make 19 saves.

Saint Anselm had three power-play opportunities in the third period, all shut down by the Post defense en route to a perfect 8-for-8 day on the penalty kill for the Eagles, who were held off the scoreboard by Mancini in the final 20 minutes during her 38-save day. In the 3-0 win, Saunders was perfect in net with 29 total saves after facing just 10 shots on goal in the first two periods of action which marked the first time in program history that Post won at home against Saint Anselm. 

BY THE NUMBERS

• Julia Wysocki scored her 14th goal of the season and 28th of her career which puts her one away from the season record set by Jenna Abeyta during the 2019-20 season at 15 goals and one away from breaking the all-time record of 28 goals set by Jenna Abeyta 
• With an assist in today's game, Rowyn Ringor has 13 assists on the season, surpassing Kiersten Browning's 12 assists during the 2022-23 season for the most single-season assists in program history 
• Hannah Saunders picked up her program-leading fifth shutout of the season and the eighth of her career after making 29 saves on 29 attempts in net for Post University 
• Both Julia Wysocki and Rowyn Ringor are tied for the team-lead in 22 points after today which puts them both just three away from tying Jenna Abeyta's single-season record of 25 points set back during the 2019-20 season
• Playing in her 100th collegiate game, Tymmarie Grom is the ninth player in program history and fourth player this season to play in 100 games for Post University Women's Ice Hockey
• Tymmarie Grom becomes only the fourth player in program history to play 100 consecutive games alongside Molly Brumfield, Kendall Fitzgerald, and Kalena Mueller who played in all 122 games of their four-year careers from 2016-20 – Grom joins them as the fourth player ever to play her 100th collegiate game on home ice 
• This is the first time in program history in which Post University has beaten Saint Anselm College at home, losing their previous 13 matchups at home since November 10th, 2017 – The Eagles are now 2-28-1 in the all-time series against the Hawks with this being their first regular season win against them 

WHO'S NEXT
Post University has a home-and-home series slated for next weekend against Stonehill College in which they will play on the road on Friday night at 6:00 PM before returning home on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 PM. The Eagles split the last home-and-home series this season against the Skyhawks back in November, winning in shutout fashion at home, 1-0, before falling 3-0 on the road.