Five multi-point performances power Colgate past Post
HAMILTON — Jaimee Spring and Alexia Aubin recorded their first-career multi-point performances while Kaia Malachino, Madeline Palumbo and Kristýna Kaltounková added a pair of points each in No. 8/9 Colgate’s 6-1 victory over Post on Thursday night.
“It was so fun out there tonight,” Aubin said. “I think playing in our own rink helped me a lot, and playing with all the girls cheering me on just set me up perfectly.”
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Spring broke the scoring open for Colgate late in the first period with her first goal of the season, and Colgate headed into the first intermission leading shots on goal 21-5.
- Kaltounkova doubled the Raiders’ advantage with a goal at the 15-minute mark of the second stanza.
- Colgate exploded in the third frame, firing off four goals in 14 minutes powered by back-to-back scores off the stick of Malachino.
- After Post broke up the shutout late, junior Elyssa Biederman put the finishing touches on the win scoring her fourth goal of the season with under four minutes to play.
GAME NOTES
- Colgate overwhelmed Post with a season-high 44 shots on goal.
- A total of 12 different Raiders tallied a point in the victory, the most in a single game so far this year.
- Senior goalie Hannah Murphy contributed an assist, the third point of her career, on a goal from Sara Stewart early in the third period.
- Malachino added her third multipoint game of the season, also good for her second two-goal outing of the campaign.
- After adding an assist in the win, junior Casey Borgiel has now racked up three points in her past two games.
- Biederman inched closer to the 100 career point mark, scoring tally 97 in the victory.
- Kaltounkova now has 15 game-winning goals and is in a third-place tie for most game-winning goals in program history. She is also approaching the 200 career point mark with 193 tallies.
UP NEXT
The two teams return to the ice for a rematch Friday at 5 p.m. in the Class of 1965 Arena.
—- (Photo Credit “Brian Miller | Colgate Athletics”) —-
