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UMaine returns home with road sweep

By Ryan Clark

Posted on Monday, December 6th, 2004, 12:00 am

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FADING SHOT - Sonia Corriveau takes a shot at the Providence goalie during the women´s last home game on Nov. 20. The women played Northeastern this weekend, winning both games.

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On Friday, the University of Maine women’s hockey team resided at the bottom of the Hockey East Standings. However, after the completion of this weekend’s road trip, the Black Bears returned to Orono with an impressive third-place slot in the standings.

Funny how things can change in just 48 hours.

With two wins against Northeastern on Friday and Saturday, the Black Bears are now ranked in the upper half of the Hockey East standings. The sweep against Northeastern merited UMaine’s first conference wins of the season. As of Sunday, the Black Bears were three points behind Providence College for second place.

UMaine’s 3-1 win over Northeastern saw the Black Bear attack score a goal in every period. UMaine finished the decision outshooting the Huskies 45-15. The Black Bears were able to get on the scoreboard within the first four minutes of the game. On a play in Husky territory, the Black Bears were able to work the puck around to Kelly Law, who proceeded to rifle a shot on Marisa Hourihan. The shot forced a rebound that was easily recovered by Cheryl White, who slammed the puck home for a 1-0 lead.

The Black Bears were able to add to their advantage early when they put another one past Hourihan for a 2-0 lead. The mark came just 49 seconds into the second period. The goal was scored by senior co-captain Tristan Desmet. The tally was Desment’s sixth of the season.

Even with the early success one thing the Black Bears could not avoid was conceding a power play goal. The lone blemish for UMaine goalie Rachel Gettings came in the second period, when the Huskies’ Lindsay Snider was able to blast a slap shot that eluded Gettings to cut the lead to 2-1. Despite giving up the goal, Gettings finished with 14 saves.

UMaine’s last burst of offensive energy came late in the third period as Kate Sunstrum was able to give the Black Bears a 3-1 advantage. Friday’s contest also saw the Black Bears register 45 shots.

Saturday’s game saw the Huskies and Black Bears deadlocked after three periods but UMaine picked up the win in overtime thanks to Sonia Corriveau. Corrvieau’s second goal of the game came two minutes into overtime. The Black Bears were able to score 20 seconds into the period only to have the goal disallowed. However, the Corriveau goal saw UMaine jump over the .500 plateau with a 3-2 win.

Northeastern got on the scoreboard in the first period via a power play goal from Lori DiGiacomo. On the power play, the Huskies’ Nikki Petrich moved the puck to Crystal Rochon who slid a backhand pass to an open DiGiacomo who put it in the back of the net.

Early in the third period, DiGiacomo found Jessica Coppney in front of the net to give the Huskies a 2-1 lead. However, Northeastern’s lead was short lived when Corriveau scored four minutes later to tie the game at 2-2. For the remainder of the period, UMaine successfully killed three penalties.