Colby Stays Hot. Tops Trinity 4-0

Waterville, Maine- The Colby College White Mules (9-1-0) continued their impressive play with a shutout of the Trinity College Bantams (2-8-0) 4-0. Sarah Webster '05 (Yarmouth, Maine) was in net for Colby and recorded the victory, stopping 13 of 13 shots. To start the first period both teams took turns mounting offensive attacks in the opposition's end, but neither team seemed able to get any offensive flow going early on. Tough defense was the theme of the first half of the first period. Colby's best scoring opportunity in the early going came when Lauren Gremelspacher '03 (Granby, Ct.) took a cross-ice feed and had on opening as she blasted a slap-shot, but Mimi MacKinnon '04 (Glen Cove, N.Y.) was up to the task, turning away the shot. In the next few minutes Colby would sustain a consistent offensive attack, bombarding MacKinnon with shot after shot, but the Trinity goaltender continually turned the puck away. Trinity would make their first mistake when a Trinity player was called for hooking to put Colby on the power-play, and Colby would capitalize seven seconds later when Michele Barmash '05 (Kirkland, Que.) shot the puck into the net, giving Colby a 1-0 lead. The 1-0 margin would hold up for the remainder of the period as Colby went into first intermission with a 1-0 lead.

The second period started out similarly to the end of the first, with Colby able to keep the puck in their offensive zone, but the Trinity defense and MacKinnon were able to keep the lead to 1-0. Michelle O'Neil '05 (Westwood, Masss.) intercepted a Colby pass and on the breakaway took a blazing slapshot that beat Colby goaltender Sarah Webster low and to the right, but fortunately for Colby the shot hit the post and Colby's 1-0 lead was intact. Once again, Colby would take advantage of a power-play opportunity when Katie Bowman was called for hooking with three minutes to go in the period. Twenty-four seconds later Heather DeVito '05 (Arlington, Mass.) scooped up a rebound of Caitlin Krause's '05 (Keene, N.H.) shot, and while getting knocked down put in the shot for a 2-0 lead. Colby would take their 2-0 lead into the locker room for second intermission.

Midway through the third period Colby went on the power-play, and had an excellent chance for a scoring opportunity when they wokred it around the point and got the puck into Carrie Swiderski '02 (Watertown, Conn.), but MacMillan, sprawled out, made the save to keep the score at 2-0. A few minutes later Swiderski would fire and hit though, as she took a rebound a put it past the Bantam goaltender for a 3-0 Colby lead. Colby would soon add to their lead when Gremelspacher took the puck from the corner, weaved to the front of the net, and shot it past the sprawled out goaltender for a 4-0 Colby lead and final score.

Scoring

Team Period Time-Elap. Player (Assists)

COL 1 17:57 Michele Barmash (Kelley Jessopp)

COL 2 17:13 Heather DeVito (Caitlin Krause, Jill Young)

COL 3 13:49 C. Swiderski (L. Gremelspacher, Barmash)

COL 3 16:14 Lauren Gremelspacher (Jessopp)

Saves

T- Mimi MacKinnon- 39-43

C- Sarah Webster 13-13