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Saints come marching in to UM

Women's hockey hosts St. Lawrence in non-conference battle

By Helen McKinnon

Posted on Dec. 07, 2006, at 12:00 a.m.

The University of Maine women’s hockey team will face off twice against St. Lawrence in a double-header this weekend at Alfond Arena. The Black Bears will enter the game coming from a weekend split, having defeated Northeastern 7-2 only to lose to them 6-2 the following day.

“With how we played Saturday I kind of expected us to turn around and play just as well Sunday, but we didn’t,” said Coach Lauren Steblen of the weekend’s action. “They were the better team that day, which is why they deserved the win.” Happy with the way the team played on Saturday, she felt the team was slightly overconfident entering Sunday’s game and later in the game were outworked by the Huskies.

This weekend the Black Bears face an impressive St. Lawrence team that currently sit at 12-5-2 on the season, a better record than UMaine’s 6-8-2. The Saints will enter the game off the back of two high-scoring wins last weekend, downing Brown and Yale 8-0 and 7-3 respectively.

“St. Lawrence is a very good team . they’re No. 5 in the nation right now. It’ll be nice to see how the girls react to having a very good game, then not our best game, and then walking into a game against the fifth in the nation” said Steblen.

“It should be a good competition,” With the Saints’ firepower up front the Black Bears will have to focus on their defense, and will hopefully round out the semester by adding two more wins to their tally.

The Black Bears play St. Lawrence on Friday December 8 at 7 p.m., and again on Saturday at 2 p.m. Both games will be played at Alfond Arena.

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