Box Score ROCHESTER, NY – Sophomore Makenna Wiljanen and juniors Madison Nichols and Abbey Luth all scored goals as the Nazareth College Women's Hockey team posted a 3-0 victory over visiting Chatham College in an United Collegiate Hockey Conference (UCHC) game Saturday at the Bill Gray's Iceplex.
The Golden Flyers (4-1-0, 4-1-0 UCHC) earned a shutout victory for the fourth consecutive game and ran their scoreless streak to 250 minutes and six seconds dating back to the first game of the season.
Wiljanen gave Nazareth the lead in the second period as she took a centering pass from junior Elie Fallieras and made a quick move before sending a shot over the shoulder of the Chatham (3-3-0, 3-3-0 UCHC) goalie 2:10 into the second period.
Late in the same period Nichols skated between a pair of Cougar player to intercept a pass and then skated in on a breakaway and used a backhand shot to give Nazareth the 2-0 advantage with 1:01 left in the stanza.
Luth capped the scoring with just under four minutes to play in the game as she sent a hard shot past the goalie from the high slot after taking a pass from junior Kyla Thompson. The goal was the fourth of the season and third of the weekend for Luth.
Freshman goalie McKinley Hoff made her first start of the season and turned away all 27 Chatham shots including 16 in the second period. Lilly Rogers made 41 stops for Chatham with 15 saves in each of the final two periods.
The Golden Flyers will face conference foe Manhattanville in a pair of games Friday and Sunday with both games taking place on neutral ice at Utica College.
