PITTSBURGH, PA. – Senior Kellie Micillo (Sayville/Suffolk PAL) scored the game-winning goal with one minute, 10 seconds remaining in overtime to lead the Cortland women’s ice hockey team to a 3-2 win at Chatham Sunday afternoon and a sweep of the two-game weekend series. The Red Dragons won their third straight game, improving to 4-11-1 overall and 4-6 in the ECAC West, while the Cougars fell to 1-13 and 0-10.
Seniors Maggie Giamo (Orchard Park/RIT) and Chelsey Wright (Medford/Suffolk PAL) also scored goals for Cortland with Micillo, senior Cara Latchum (Warrington, PA/Wyoming Seminary), sophomore Abbie Adams (Potsdam/Cornwall Typhoons) and freshman Katie Gili (Brooklyn/New Jersey Rockets) each recording an assist. Freshman goalie Deanna Meunier (Parsippany, NJ/New Jersey Rockets) made 13 saves.
Casey Morfeld led Chatham with one goal and one assist, Morgan Becer netted a goal and Marie Soukup chipped in with an assist. Goalie Megan Buchanan registered 33 saves.
Becer opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 5:36 of the first period before Giamo tied the game at 12:28 of the first. Wright tallied a power-play goal at 14:11 of the second period, and the Red Dragons took a 2-1 lead into the final 20 minutes. With time winding down in the third, Morfeld sent the game to overtime at 17:04. Micillo gave the Red Dragons the win when she netted an unassisted goal at the 3:50 mark of the extra session to give Cortland the two-game weekend sweep.
