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No. 5 QU Women's Ice Hockey's Erica Uden Johansson Has Three-Point Night In 5-0 Win Against Union
11/15/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey
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Hamden, Conn. - Nationally ranked No. 5 Quinnipiac women's ice hockey blanked Union, 5-0, in an ECAC Hockey match-up at High Point Solutions Arena at the TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Conn. The Bobcats remaing undefeated a 9-0-1 with a 4-0-0 ECAC Hockey mark. Union drops to 1-10-2 overall and 0-4-0 in league play.
Quinnipiac's seventh-straight win ties the Bobcats longest winning streak in program history, set originally from Nov. 22 through Dec. 10 in 2011. Quinnipiac also outshot its opponent, 63-8, giving the Bobcats their first 60-shot game since Nov. 26, 2010 when the Bobcats put 66 shots on goal in a 9-1 win against Sacred Heart.
Erica Uden Johansson (Sundsvall, Sweden) had her second straight three-point game, scoring twice and assisting on another goal to lead the Bobcats. In the Bobcats' 6-1 win againt RPI on Friday, Nov. 15, Uden Johansson had a goal and two assists. Cydney Roesler (Stittsville, Ontario), Nicole Kosta (Mississauga, Ontario) and Emma Woods (Burford, Ontario) also scored for Quinnipiac, while Kosta also had an assist in the win. Nicole Brown (Oshawa, Ontario), T.T. Cianfarano (Oswego, New York) and Shannon Cherpak (Enfield, Connecticut) all had assists for the Bobcats.
Chelsea Laden (Lakeville, Minn.) picked up her NCAA-leading sixth shutout of the season - in her ninth game - after holding Union scoreless. Laden was seemingly untested in the game, as the Bobcats' defense didn't allow a shot on goal until the second period, and allowed just eight shots on goal over the full 60 minutes. Laden has now allowed just one goal - which came in last night's 6-1 win against Renssealer - at home this season. Quinnipiac out-shot the Dutchwomen, 63-8.
Roesler put the Bobcats out in front with her third goal of the season. The Bobcats assistant captain started the play on the other end of the ice, winning a battle in the Bobcats' defensive zone and attempting to clear the puck. Meghan Turner (Bedford, New Hampshire) grabbed the loose puck in the face-off circle to the left of Laden and back-handed it off the boards by the Bobcats bench and into the neutral zone. After Union picked it up just below the blue line in their zone, Brown picked off a pass, skated between the face-off circles and dropped the puck back to Roesler who was just skating into the zone. Roesler one-timed the puck through traffic, beating Union goalie Shenae Lundberg to the opposite post. The assist was Brown's fifth of the season.
With less than nine minutes to play in the second period, Uden Johansson scored her second goal in as many nights to put the Bobcats out in front, 2-0. Emma Greco (Burlington, Ontario) carried the puck behind the Union goal before dropping it on the boards to Shiann Darkangelo (Brigthon, Michigan). Darkangelo got tied up in the corner, leaving the puck to trickle off her stick to Uden Johansson. Uden Johansson stepped over the goal line and walked across the crease before going to her back hand and roofing the puck over Lundberg to give the Bobcats a two-goal lead.
With just under 13 minutes left to play, a scrum in front of the Union goal resulted in a goal credited to Kosta. Kosta took a pass from Uden Johansson and fired on goal before Greco picked up a rebound and attempted to pound it home. After several players converged on the crease, it was Kosta who touched the puck last before it trickled over the goal line to give the Bobcats a 3-0 lead.
With four minutes to play, Cianfarano dug the puck out of the corner to the right of Lundberg and cut behind the goal. Cianfarano's wrap-around was denied by Lundberg but the puck ran across the goal mouth where Woods re-directed it into the goal to give the Bobcats a 4-0 lead. The assist gives Cianfarano a seven-game point streak and gives her seven goals and seven assists on the year.
Moments later, Kosta carried the puck all the way down the right flank, wrapped around the goal and then zipped a pass to Uden Johansson in the slot for the one-timer to give Quinnipiac a 5-0 lead.
Quinnipiac returns to action next weekend when it hosts defending national champion No. 7 Clarkson on Friday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. and St. Lawrence on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 4 p.m. at High Point Solutions Arena at the TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Conn.
