UNH Rallies to Tie Vermont, 3-3

Friday, October 18

Burlington, Vt.

6 PM

University of New Hampshire

3-1-2, 2-0-1WHEA

Vermont

2-0-3, 0-0-1WHEA

OT 1

New Hampshire

Vermont

Jada Christian (Photo by Vincent Dejana)

Photo by: Vincent Dejana

10/18/2019 10:08:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

Box Score Highlights

Three unanswered goals from McManus, Wenczkowski, and Christian salvage a league point for UNH.

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The University of New Hampshire women's ice hockey team found itself in a three goal deficit against the University of Vermont at the first intermission of their Friday evening contest.

In the second and third periods, the Wildcats rallied back with three unanswered goals to tie the game and take a conference point from Vermont, 3-3.

Goals were scored by senior Meghara McManus (Milton, Mass.) in the second, and senior Taylor Wenczkowski (Rochester, N.H.) and freshman Jada Christian (Caledon East, Ontario) in the third.

Freshman netminder Nikki Harnett (Plymouth, Minn.) saw her first career appearance; the rookie played 46 minutes in relief, stopping all 19 shots faced, including one in overtime, to get her first career decision in the tie.

The Wildcats are now unbeaten in their last four (2-0-2) and face the #3 team in the nation, Northeastern University, on Sunday afternoon on NESN+. Puck drop is scheduled for 3:05 P.M.

GAME INFORMATION:
Date: October 18, 2019 – 6 P.M.
Location: Gutterson Field House – Burlington, Vt.
Attendance: 277
Score: UNH 3 (3-1-2, 2-0-1 HEA) UVM 3 (2-0-3, 0-0-1 HEA)

Goals:
UNH (3) – Meghara McManus, Taylor Wenczkowski (PP), Jada Christian (GT)
UVM (3) – Lilly Holmes, Corinne McCool, Ali O'Leary

Assists:
UNH (6) – Talli Warren, Nicole Dunbar, Carlee Turner, Tori Howran, Annie Berry, Tamara Thiérus
UVM (4) – Sini Karjalanien, Val Caldwell, Ellice Murphy, Hailey Burns

Goaltenders:
UNH - Ava Boutilier – 6-x-x-x – 6 (3 GA) {18:38} (ND)
Nikki Harnett – 0-9-9-1 – 19 (0 GA) {46:22} (Tie)
UVM – Blanka Skodova – 4-6-9-1 – 20 (3 GA) {65:00} (Tie)

GAME RECAP

Vermont jumped out to an early lead over UNH just over two minutes into the first; the Wildcats turned the puck over on a power play in the neutral zone and a breakaway goal by Lilly Holmes put the Catamounts on the board.
The Catamounts followed that up with two power play goals with traffic in front of the net 5:14 and 18:38 into the first period.
New Hampshire was able to answer back 6:16 into the second period as a home run pass from Nicole Dunbar (Coto de Caza, Calif.) found a rushing Meghara McManus who gave the Vermont netminder a little forehand/backhand misdirection and snuck it past the left skate of Skodova to cut into the lead.
Down by two goals entering the third period, the Wildcats got a power play opportunity 1:18 into the frame. As the advantage was winding down Carlee Turner (Scottsdale, Ariz.) sent it to the point for a waiting Wenczkowski who settled the puck and fired a shot top shelf to the right of the net to cut the Vermont lead to one.
With five minutes to go in regulation the Wildcats got a rush up-ice started by freshman Tamara Thiérus (Saint-Jérôme, Quebec); she sent it to Annie Berry (Milton, Mass.) in the neutral zone, Berry skated down the right side and crossed the puck towards the crease where Jada Christian was crashing the net, and tipped the puck from one knee through the five-hole to tie the game.

PENALTIES
UNH: 7-14 UVM: 8-16

POWER PLAYS
UNH: 1-7 UVM: 2-7

NEW HAMPSHIRE LEADERS:
Points (1): Nine players
Goals (1): Three players
Assists (1): Six players
Shots (6): Tamara Thiérus
Blocked Shots (2): Abby Chapman
Faceoffs (18): Carlee Turner

VERMONT LEADERS:
Points (1): Six players
Goals (1): Three players
Assists (1): Three players
Shots (5): Corinne McCool
Blocked Shots (2): Two players
Faceoffs (10): Theresa Schafzahl
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