Women’s Hockey Scores Program Record in 10-3 Victory Over Curry

EAST BOSTON, Mass. – A bakers' dozen Rams produced at least one point as Suffolk women's hockey reset its goals scored record in a 10-3 pouncing of Curry in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) action Saturday at Louis E. Porrazzo Memorial Skating Rink.  

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 10 | Curry 3
RECORDS: Suffolk (6-0-0, 2-0-0 CCC) | Curry (1-5-0, 1-3-0 CCC)   

HOW IT HAPPENED
It was all Suffolk in the first 20 minutes as the blue-and-gold built a 3-0 lead. Julia Franklin got the goals going 2:08 into the action. Seniors Payton Dockus and Shana Cote assisted on the game opening goal.  

Just under five minutes later Maddy Burton put the puck away six seconds into the power play with help from Cassidy Gruning and Julia Franklin, who won the face-off, to double the distance.  

Nearly five more minutes went by until Sofia Scilipoti joined Suffolk's scorers. The junior tucked in a wrap-around set up by Franklin for the three-goal edge. Cote aided in the marker that helped send Suffolk into the break ahead.  

The Rams kept rolling in the second stanza. Special teams played a factor yet again, this time though, Suffolk scored with a skater-down. Jesse Kennedy won a puck on along the boards took it into the Colonels zone, beat one Curry defender, tricked another and flipped it past Anna Langton to push matters to 4-0 Rams 5:46 out of the locker rooms.  

Curry erased the shutout with a short-handed strike of its own at the midway point. Similar to Suffolk's tally, Ali Olroenshaw won a puck in the neutral zone, zoomed past blue-and-gold skaters for a one-on-one with Julia McLellan. Froom the right side, she sniped one over McLellan's stick side shoulder to trim the gap back to three, 4-1, with 10:04 left in the middle period.

Three minutes later the Colonels got another one back this time Grayson Goolgasian mirrored Scilipoti's wrap-around goal in the first to slice the margin two a pair of pucks, 4-2.  

The Rams righted both those wrongs with a pair of unanswered goals of their own. Emily Bozzi tipped in a slap shot from Stephanie Moy on the power play at the 15:27 minute mark and 36 seconds later Bella Kaczorowksi found the back of the net to restore the four-goal distance, which stood at the second break.  

Suffolk kept its foot on the gas pedal as it poured in four goals to finish with a new program record 10. Curry managed to get on the board one last time in the third as well for the final 10-3 score. 

NETMINDER NOTES

• Julia McLellan picked up the win with 19 saves. 
• Langton logged 20 saves in the first 36:09 of play. 
• Vivi Helquist came in for the final 23:51 and recorded nine stops.  

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Cote had five points behind four helpers and one goal. 
• Burton finished with four points with a hat trick and one helper. 
• Bozzi and Franklin both had three-point performances. The former's came on a pair of goals and one assist, while the latter's' was behind a one-goal, two-assist night. 
• Scilipoti's two-point outing was evenly divided between goals (1) and assists (1).
• Gruning dished out two assists. 
• Kaczorowski and Kennedy both supplied one marker. 
• Madison Duff, Dockus, Leslie Steiner and Julia Volpe all had one assist to their credit. 
• Suffolk outshot Curry, 39-22. 
• The Rams won the face-off battle as well, 41-21. 
• The blue-and-gold went 3-for-7 on the power play and 6-for-7 on the penalty kill. 

NOTEWORTHY

• The blue-and-gold's 10 goals are the most in program history, upstaging the previous set mark of nine that Suffolk scored in a 9-0 shutout over Anna Maria, Nov. 14, 2018.  
• The Rams remain unbeaten this season with their sixth straight win. 
• Suffolk stays unbeaten all-time against Curry, 2-0-0. 
• The blue-and-gold swept its second straight home-and-home series and won its second home-and-home in program history. 
• The blue-and-gold is now 4-6-0 in home-and-home games series games in program history. 
• The Rams have now beat the same opponents in back-to-back battles for the third time in program history. 
• Suffolk is now 6-8 all-time when playing the same foe in back-to-back games.  
• The Rams began their conference calendar 2-0-0 for the first-time program history. 
• Suffolk scored a power play and short-handed goal for the second time this season, first since the season opening 5-2 win over Plymouth State Oct. 29, 2021. 
• The Rams have potted a power play goal in all six of their contests this year. 
• Burton logged her second collegiate hat trick, first since a three-goal night in an 8-0 decision over Johnson & Wales Jan. 24, 2019. 
• Burton is the first Ram to produce a hat trick since she did in an 8-0 win over Johnson & Wales Jan. 24, 2020. 
• Burton had multiple goals for the second time this season.  
• Burton's three goals tie a personal-best.
• Burton pushed her point streak to 11 outings. In that time, she has racked up 10 goals and seven helpers. 
• Bozzi, Franklin and Kaczorowski found the back of the net for the first time in her collegiate career. 
• Kaczorowski made her collegiate debut. 
• Franklin notched a career-high in points (3) and assists (2).  
• Scilipoti has notched a point in all six of Suffolk's games with four multi-point performances. 
• Kennedy notched her second career short-handed strike, first since her freshman campaign in a 9-0 win over Anna Maria Nov. 14, 2018. 
• Kennedy ran her point streak to three games. 
• Cote stretched her point streak to eight game. Over that span she has assembled 10 markers and 12 set-ups. 
• Cote set a new personal best in points (5) and assists (4). 
• Cote's five points are the second-most by a Suffolk student-athlete in program history behind Tess Adams '19 record of six points (1g, 5a), which was set in a 9-0 win over Anna Maria Nov. 14, 2018. 
• Cote's four assists sit second in the Rams' single-game record book behind Adam's five-helper outing in the 9-0 victory against Anan Maria Nov. 14, 2018. 
• Moy notched her first point of the season with one assist. 
• Steiner has set-up a score in each of the last two games. 
• Duff has at least one assist to her credit in each of the last five games. 
• Gruning is now on a three-game point streak. Over that time, she has logged one goal and three helpers. 
• Gruning matched a career-high in points (2) and set a new personal-best in assists (2). 

POST-GAME PIC
  

SUFFOLK'S SCHEDULE
Suffolk is in store for a home-and-home series with the University of New England next weekend. The Rams will host the Nor'Easters Friday, Nov. 19 at 6 p.m. in Eastie, before trekking to Biddeford, Maine the next day, Saturday, Nov. 20 for a 4 p.m. face-off.