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Women’s Hockey: Black Bears fall to UNH to open weekend set

Posted on Jan. 29, 2010, at 10:56 p.m.

Despite taking a 1-0 lead just 10 seconds into Friday’s game against rival University of New Hampshire, the University of Maine women’s hockey team fell to the No. 4 Wildcats 5-2 at Alfond Arena.

UNH’s power play unit capitalized on 3-of-7 chances with the extra skater and maintained their lead of the nation in that category. Forwards Kelly Cahill, Micaela Long and Julie Allen contributed the power play goals, while Brittany Skudder and Kristina Lavoie scored at even strength.

UNH ( 14-4-5, 8-3-2-0 Hockey East) snapped a three-game winless streak in league games and extended their unbeaten streak in the all-time series against UMaine to 26 games, including wins in the last 13 meetings. UMaine fell to 6-14-5 (3-9-3-1 Hockey East).

Senior right wing Amy Stech scored on UMaine’s first offensive sequence, but Cahill answered midway through the period and UNH took a 15-5 advantage in shots into the first intermission. The Wildcats nearly doubled UMaine’s shot total in the game, finishing with a 40-21 margin.

UNH built a 4-1 second-period lead before UMaine freshman left wing Brittany Dougherty broke through for her third goal of the season with 1:19 remaining in the period.

Lavoie’s goal was the only scoring in the third period.

UMaine went 0-for-6 on the power play and generated just five shots against UNH’s penalty kill. UNH goalie Kayley Herman turned away 19-of-20 shots for the Wildcats and improved to 8-2-2.

Freshman Brittany Ott was the losing goalie for UMaine, despite making 35 saves. She fell to 4-8-3.

The teams will finish the weekend set and season series on Saturday at 7 p.m.

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