LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — Colgate and Lock Haven battled in a back-and-forth thriller that ended in a shootout victory for the Bald Eagles, taking the game 4-3.
Anna Lochhead scored twice for the Raiders, and Grace Schmelzinger tallied a goal and an assist.
"I am very proud of the team staying disciplined in a game where a lot things happened out of their control," said head coach April Cornell DeAngelis.
"It's great to score three goals and get on the board by it. We will need to clean somethings up defensively so that we stop the play earlier. Strong team defense needs to be a priority for all of us."
LHU won the shootout 3-1. Lochhead scored her penalty shot in the second round for Colgate, tying it at 1-1, but Lock Haven converted two more of their attempts.
Neither side could find a winner after two overtimes. Hannah Marcotrigiano had a chance to end it in the second extra period when she got free on a breakaway, but her shot got saved. The Raiders also had a penalty corner they could not convert and shots from Morgan Willis and Sarah Killcommons.
Claire van Kempen made back-to-back saves with seven minutes left in the second OT, keeping the game level. Colgate recorded one shot in the first extra period from Willis, but it got stopped by the goalie.
The Bald Eagles knotted the score at 3-3 with a tally from Constanza Lopez Zabala at the 2:48 mark of the third quarter.
Schmelzinger had given the Raiders a 3-2 advantage less than eight minutes prior. After Colgate got out in transition, Willis received the ball in the circle and fed a beautiful pass to Schmelzinnger, who was in front of the goal and tapped it in.
In the second, Lochhead notched her second goal to tie the game at 2-2 with 3:46 remaining. Following a penalty corner, Dani Palmer fed a pass to Schmelzinger, who ripped a shot that Lochhead deflected past the goalie.
Lock Haven pulled ahead 2-1 after tallying two straight to end the first quarter. Melanie Beall knotted the game at 1-1 with 6:55 left, then Madison Friend found the back of the cage with 1:10 remaining.
The Raiders took a 1-0 lead with just under seven minutes left in the first. A ball played into the penalty circle got kicked away by the goalie, but Lochhead picked it up and buried a shot for her first goal of the season.
Neither team could score the go-ahead goal in the fourth. The Raiders' best chance came with nine seconds remaining when they earned a penalty corner, and Marcotrigiano ripped a shot that got stopped by the goalie.
van Kempen recorded three saves in the third and three in the fourth, holding LHU scoreless in the final 15 minutes. She finished with 12 saves in the game.
The Raiders outshot the Bald Eagles 5-3 in the second. Lochhead had another great chance with four minutes left when the keeper came off her line, and she fired a shot that Molly Lynch just got her stick on for the defensive save. Palmer had two shots in the quarter, one getting saved and the other landing off target.
Colgate also had an early chance with a corner in the first quarter, but could not capitalize.
UP NEXT
The Raiders continue their four-game road streak next weekend with a trip to Michigan. Colgate plays Central Michigan at 4 p.m. Friday then heads to Michigan State for an 11 a.m. contest Sunday.
