Senior Netminder Makes 18 Saves

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Senior goaltender Jaimie Leonoff has accomplished a lot during her career with the Yale women's ice hockey team; she is among the school's top four in career goals-against average, saves and save percentage. On Friday afternoon at Colgate, though, she accomplished something new: she got her first career assist. Her helper, on Yale's third and final goal, provided the exclamation mark on her fifth career shutout. She made 18 saves in the 3-0 win.

Yale (3-2-1, 1-2-0 ECAC Hockey) took a 1-0 lead on a power play goal at 14:51 of the first. With the puck tied up along the boards deep in Colgate's zone, a Raiders player attempted to clear it. Senior defenseman Aurora Kennedy intercepted the puck just inside the blue line at the left point, and fired a shot toward the net. Senior forward Jackie Raines deflected it in for the 1-0 lead.

The Bulldogs extended their lead to 2-0 shortly after a power play ended in the second period. From the right point, freshman defenseman Kara Drexler sent the puck in between the circles. Junior forward Hanna Åström kept the puck alive, and senior forward Stephanie Mock gathered it in and slid it past Colgate netminder Brittney Brooks at 10:38. That was Drexler's first career point.

Yale went into the second intermission with a 3-0 lead thanks to a late goal. Sophomore forward Krista Yip-Chuck deflected in a feed from junior forward Janelle Ferrara with just 90 seconds left on the clock. Leonoff, who sent a long pass ahead to Ferrara to get the play started, picked up an assist on the play.

Neither team scored in the third, and Brooks finished with 24 saves for Colgate (2-8-0, 0-3-0 ECAC Hockey). Yale was 1-for-6 on the power play, while the Raiders were 0-for-4. The Bulldogs had a 27-18 shot advantage.

Yale visits Cornell, which beat Brown 5-1 Friday, Saturday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.

Report by Sam Rubin '95 (sam.rubin@yale.edu), Yale Sports Publicity