NASHUA, N.H. – Camden Ladzinski netted the first regulation even strength goal of the Owls' program history six minutes into their first of four games against Rivier University on Friday night and KSC cruised to a 5-1 victory over the Raiders to pick up their first regulation win in program history.

Records

• Keene State: 2-2
• Rivier: 2-3

How it Happened


Both goaltenders opened off the first 5:26 minutes of the contest with a few saves apiece, as Ai Chung saved three saves for KSC and Rachel Hinkley made four saves between the pipes for the Raiders. Ladzinski struck first for the Owls as Hinkley was unable to cleanly save her wrap around shot, giving Ladzinski her first career collegiate goal and point, and Madison Mosca her first collegiate point with an assist on the goal. KSC continued to pepper Hinkley in goal, but following five saves in net, KSC struck again. Ellie Patrick returned to the team after missing the Owls' previous game to play for the Great Britain national team for a few games. With 5:56 left to play in the first, Patrick picked up the puck in the neutral zone, weaved through the Rivier defenders, and fired a shot past Hinkley to put KSC up a pair for their first multi-goal lead of the season on her first career collegiate point. The rest of the period, both goalies made a pair of saves as Hinkley denied Ava Iantosca of her first career goal and Maddie DeSousa of a goal in her first career collegiate game.
 
The Owls did not let off the gas in the second period, as captain Haylee Owen scored her second goal of the season, 1:11 into the period. Emma McNeil won the offensive zone faceoff on the power play back to Emma Wiseman, who passed the puck over to Owen on the blueline and fired a shot on goal that went past Hinkley to put KSC up 3-0 with McNeil and Wiseman picking up their first career collegiate points. Hinkley saved the next four shots from KSC but she was unable to stop the fifth, as KSC scored once again, 7:24 into the second period. Paige Henault won the offensive zone faceoff and shortly after passed the puck to the blue line where Jodi Mercier was waiting and fired a shot on goal that Owen redirected into the back of the net for her second goal of the game, giving Mercier her first career collegiate point and Henault her first point as an Owl. Chung and the KSC defense continued to hold strong with four saves in net and a blocked shot by both Iantosca and Olivia Pollard, but the Raiders eventually found the back of the net at the 11:25 mark in the second. Paige Anger sent a centering pass through the Owl defense to Rebecca McKelvey, who rifled it into the top left corner of the net past Chung to put Rivier on the board and cut KSC's lead to three. Rivier looked to add another goal shortly after as they went on the power play, but they were unable to get a shot on target as Iantosca blocked both of the Raiders' shot attempts over the two minute penalty. Rivier had a penalty of their own few minutes later as KSC recorded a pair of shots on goal, coming from Owen and Brianna Finke, but Hinkley saved both to kill the penalty off for the Raiders. Neither team scored the remainder of the second as Chung recorded three more saves and Hinkley tallied two more as the Owls took their 4-1 lead into the final 20 minutes of play.
 
McKelvey and Molly Price both were called for penalties six seconds apart shortly into the final period as play headed to 4-on-4 but Finke got the only shot off on goal for either team over the span, which Hinkley saved. After each team traded a few shots on goal that were saved, Brianna Rumptz was called for a two minute roughing penalty for the Raiders at the 10:38 mark in the third. Hinkley saved the first two shots of the power play coming from Finke, but was unable to save the deflection from Iantosca for the Owls' fifth goal of the game. After Iantosca won the offensive zone faceoff, Patrick sent the puck to Price on the goal line from the blue line, who then send a pass to Iantosca on the edge of the crease and redirected the shot past Hinkley to put KSC up 5-1 for the first collegiate point for both Iantosca and Price. KSC killed off a penalty shortly after without allowing a shot on goal, while on the next power play for the Raiders shortly after, Rivier got four shots on goal off, but Chung saved them all to keep the Owls lead to four. Neither team scored the remaining two minutes of play as the Owls held on to their 5-1 victory over the Raiders.
 
"It was great to have Grace (Bazin) and [DeSouza] in the line-up, they both played well as did all of our defense" said head coach Rob Morgan. "Having the two of them on defense allowed us to have some stability up front with our lines."
 
"We cut down on our stick penalties which allowed us to play more 5-on-5 with pace. We are improving on our team defense and we are hoping for much of the same tomorrow."
 
Inside the Crease

• KSC outshot Rivier in shots on goal, 36-27.
• Chung made 26 saves in net while allowing only one goal in her first collegiate game, while Rachel Hinkley made 31 saves and allowed five goals.
• The Owls' defense blocked 17 shots, with Iantosca and Grace Bazin blocking three in her first career collegiate game, to just nine blocked shots by Rivier.
• KSC went 32-for-58 (55.2%) on faceoffs, with Henault dominating and going 13-for-18 (72.2%) for her best performance on faceoffs on the season thus far.
• The Owls cut back on their penalties, with just four after having six penalties in each of their previous two games.
• Rivier entered the game having won their previous two games by a combined score of 14-1 and fell to under .500 after the loss to the Owls.

Up Next
Both teams faceoff again on short rest, as they play on Saturday night, November 16, at 7:30 PM at Keene ICE for a Black Out game for the Owls