Women's Hockey | 9/23/2012 4:03:00 PM
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ROCHESTER, NY - The RIT women's hockey team opened its 2012-13 season with a 6-1 win over the Oakville Hornets of the Ontario Provincial Women's Hockey League in an exhibition contest at Ritter Arena on Sunday afternoon. Today's game marks RIT's first as a Division I program, as the Tigers are making the move up for the 2012-13 season.
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Celeste Brown (Great Falls, MT/National Sports Academy) and
Tenecia Hiller (Brampton, Ontario/Brampton Thunder) scored a pair of goals apiece for RIT. (Woodstock, Ontario/Waterloo K-W Rangers)Katie Hubert (Burlington, Ontario/Burlington Barracudas) and
Marissa Maugeri (Ajax, Ontario/Durham West Lightning) also scored goals. (Woodstock, Ontario/Waterloo K-W Rangers)Carly Payerl (Kitchener, Ontario/Resurrection Catholic) and
Emilee Bulleid (Waterdown, Ontario/Stoney Creek Sabres) dished out two assists apiece. (Woodstock, Ontario/Waterloo K-W Rangers)Ali Binnington (Oakville, Ontario/Mississauga Chiefs)# earned the start in goal and picked up the win, stopping 11 shots in just over 30 minutes of play. #
Laura Chamberlain (Norco, CA/LA Selects)# played the final 29:17, stopping 12 shots.
RIT out-shot Oakville, 33-24. The Tigers were 1-for-4 with the man-advantage, while Oakville was 0-for-5. Hornets netminder Camille Leonard made 27 saves in defeat.
RIT jumped out to a 2-0 lead after one period of play, out-shooting the Hornets, 15-6.
Hubert gave RIT a 1-0 lead just 1:44 into the game, converting a perfect feed from #
Kim Schlattman (Stratford, Ontario/Cambridge Fury) in close. (Woodstock, Ontario/Waterloo K-W Rangers)Kolbee McCrea (Wawa, Ontario/Burlington Barracudas)# fed Schlattnman behind the net, who one-timed a perfect pass to Hubert who was all alone in front.
Binnington had to make a big save midway through the period, as a Tiger defensive miscue led to a partial breakaway by Hayley Scamurra. Binnington held her ground and was able to deny the Oakville forward the goal.
With 4:46 left in the period, Brown was the recipient of a great pass by Moss, banging in a shot from in tight past Leonard to make it 2-0 RIT. Kunichika won the face-off back to Moss, who circled down low and fired the pass to Brown.
Kunichika nearly made it 3-0 moments later, ringing a shot off the crossbar from the slot.
The Tigers went up 3-0 midway through the second period on a 5-on-3 power-play, as Hiller tipped in a pass from
Carly Payerl (Kitchener, Ontario/Resurrection Catholic) at the side of the net that just went over the goasl line. #
Morgan Scoyne (Drumbo, Ontario/Stoney Creek Sabres)# drew the second assist on the goal, as she found Payerl in front, who attempted a pass/shot that went off Hiller, who was all alone to the right of Leonard.
RIT scored three times in the third period to pull away. Brown tallied her second of the game at the 8:24 mark, firing a hard wrist shot from the slot over the shoulder of Leonard after taking a feed from #
Ariane Yokoyama (Van Nuys, CA/LA Selects)# in the neutral zone.
After Melissa Quick got Burlington on the board with a shot off the crossbar and in with seven minutes left, Maugeri took a perfect feed from #
Jess Paton (Woodstock, Ontario/Waterloo K-W Rangers)# on a 2-on-1 with 3:34 left and buried a shot just inside the left post to make it 5-1. Hiller blasted a hard shot over the shoulder of Leonard 1:03 later to complete the scoring.
The TIgers will open the 2012-13 regular season on Friday and Saturday against No. 10 Mercyhurst at Ritter Arena. Friday's contest, RIT's first as a Division I program, gets underway at 7:05 p.m., while Saturday's contest starts at 2 p.m.
