SHELTON, Conn. – Senior forward Maddy Noonan scored her first goal of the season for Post University Women's Ice Hockey on Sunday at the Sports Center of Connecticut, but the Eagles would be unable to keep up with the University of St. Thomas, falling 6-1, behind a pair of goals each from junior forward Rylee Bartz and sophomore forward Chloe Boreen as the Tommies swept the opening weekend series.

THE BASICS

Post University 1, University of St. Thomas 6

Post University (0-2-0)

University of St. Thomas (2-0-0)

HOW IT HAPPENED
In all, four different players found the back of the net against sophomore goalie Devyn Amundson, while nine different players for the Tommies had at least one assist. Boreen and Bartz accounted for four of the first five goals scored by St. Thomas, a stretch that was broken up by Noonan in the third period on her shot from the blue line. An innocent push down the ice, graduate goalie Julia Minotti was unable to secure the puck as it slipped between her pads and into the back of the net for the first Post goal of the 2025-26 campaign. 

Minotti closed the game, making 14 saves with that being her only blemish in the game, finishing the two-game weekend having made 17 saves on 18 attempts by Post. Opposite of her, Amundson, who had 23 saves in relief of senior goalie Hannah Saunders in the third period on Saturday, made 50 stops while allowing six goals to the Tommies in the 6-1 loss.

Sophomore forward Nora Sauer and junior forward Keara Parker each had two assists for St. Thomas in a game that saw just freshman defenseman Josie Skoogman as the lone multi-point scorer with her third-period goal following her assist on senior forward Sadie Lindsay's goal in the first, which started the scoring for the Tommies. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Chloe Boreen scored twice in the win for the University of St. Thomas -- Boreen was one of four different scorers for the Tommies on Sunday
• Devyn Amundson faced 56 shots across her 60 minutes in net, making 50 saves, while falling to 0-1-0 in net this year
• Rylee Bartz finishes the weekend scoring three goals and having two assists against Post University across both games -- Bartz scored twice on Sunday after scoring once and tacking on two assists on Saturday
• Post University falls to 0-4-0 in the all-time series against the University of St. Thomas -- The Eagles have allowed at least six goals in three of the four matchups

WHO'S NEXT
Post University heads on the road next weekend to take on RIT in Rochester, New York, on both Friday and Saturday, with the Friday game taking place at 6:00 PM. Last season, the Tigers visited the Sports Center of Connecticut in January, sweeping the Eagles, 4-1 and 4-3, over the first weekend of the new year.