By Janet Schultz, NYHOL
The season is fully underway in New York State Women’s Collegiate hockey.
Buffalo State made history with a 15-0 victory over Hilbert College setting the record for the most goals in a single game. Kaydence Kemp had a hat trick; Laney Harold at 2 goals and 4 assists for 6 points; Madi Digges, Mikala Gould, Sequoisa Recollet-Nebenionquit had two goals each, Goalie Casey Horrigan made 5 saves for the SO and Brooke Thompson had 74 saves for Hilbert.
On the leader board for scoring its Laney with 2 goals and 5 assists for 7 points; and Vanesse Willick (Williamsville) 3/3 sits at #3. Two other WNYGVIH alum are also scoring with Sydney Radecki (LID) at #7 with 2/2 and former CASH player Lilli Adimey with a goal and two assists.
The Bengals are 3-4-1 overall as they head into December. They face Oswego at home on December 7 at 3 p.m.
The RIT Tigers are 7-7-3 overall and 2-3-1 in the conference with their next game being December 6 and 7 at home against Lindenwood at 3 and 1 p.m. respectively.
Kylie Aquaro has 5 goals and 10 assists to top the scoring followed by NY native Addie Alvarez of Rochester with 5 goals and 5 assists.
Emma Pickering was named RIT Athlete of the Week after 3 goals in two games against Mercyhurst. She had a powerplay goal that tied the game on Friday and then a PP to win the game on Saturday.
Nazareth hits the road in December with a game on December 6 at Trinity College and then the following day at Wesleyan College.
Meredith Boettcher is 4-3 for 7 points at the top along with Allie Zach with 4/3. Oceanside’s Kate Cascio has had one goal and Massena’s Brook Terry has two goals and two assists. Brook Judkiewicz, East Concort, has two assists.
Ella Cedrone was named UCHC Player of the Week with two goals in a 4-1 win over Utica College. McKinley Hoff was UCHA Goalie of the Week, for the second consecutive week, after making 22 saves against Utica and 26 saves in a 1-2 loss to Utica the following day. Her first honor came after an 8 save shutout and then a second 8 save shutout against Manhattanville earlier in November.
Nazareth is 5-2-0 overall and 3-1-0 in the UCHC.
Hilbert is going through some growing pains with a 0-7-0 record but despite that Izabelle Wagner has a goal and 3 assists for 4 points to led the scoring. One player familiar to the NYS hockey scene is Kaitlin Cowie of Rochester with 2 goals and 1 assist. Other NY players include Alexandria Heyden of Henrietta, Kelsey Fuller, Rome; Brooke Kwiecien of Perry.
Hilbert held their first Faceoff Against Cancer is the game against Buffalo State College. Brooke Thompson recorded the most saves with 74 in the 15-0 loss to the Bengals.
Both Niagara University’s ACHA teams are in full swing.
Leading the scoring for the D1 squad is Bianca Rushford with 2 goals and 9 assists; Julie Peters has 2 assist and Goalie Myta Castrillo has seen action in 7 games with a 4 win; 2 loss record. The D1 team is 11th overall in the ACHA and third in their league with a 6-7-0 record.
On the D2 team Holly Lesage leads the scoring with 7 goals and 5 assists. Next is Grace Miller, 4/4. Former players in the WNYGVIH Federation are making their mark including Skylar Berube, a goal and 4 assists and Hayley Luderman has a goal and 3 assists; Kayla Buczkowski, 2/3; Mary Whelan 2/1; Sara Primiano, 3 assists and Lillian Drzazgowski, 1 goal.
This team is #6 in the Southeast Division at #2 in the CHE with a record of 6-4-0.
St. John Fisher, who will take to the ice next season, has announced the addition of Georgiana Santullo as an assistant coach. She played 5 seasons with Utica College and one year of professional hockey in Italy. She holds Utica’s record for 55 points in a single season including 29 goals, 9 ppg and points per game at 2.12.
Williamsville’s Ellie Schau is playing on the ACHA D2 Mercyhurst team and has had 22 goals and 12 assists this season. She leads the ACHA D2 in scoring.
Also on the team with Schau are former WNYGVIH players Elizabeth Jackson, Brook Warren and Erin Prendergast.
A look at the ACHA and we have Brockport at 4-5-0 and RIT 0-2-0.
