Bobcats Complete Sweep with 3-1 Win over Merrimack

Sunday, January 5

Belfast, Northern Ireland / SSE Arena

7:00 AM (ET) / 12:00 PM (BST)

Quinnipiac University

11-7-3, 3-6-2ECAC

Merrimack

4-16-2, 1-12-2HEAW

Quinnipiac

Merrimack College

1/5/2020 11:07:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey

Box Score

Quinnipiac set to come home with two wins after Game 2 of Friendship Series

By: QU Athletic Communications

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – The Quinnipiac women's ice hockey team closed out the 2020 Friendship Series with a 3-1 win against the Merrimack Warriors. The Bobcats swept the series after a 4-2 win on Friday, Jan. 4.

Junior Olivia Konigson scored the first Bobcat goal in the second period, which was the first goal of the season for the junior defenseman. Senior Sarah-Eve Coutu-Godbout scored the game-winning goal on a Quinnipiac power play. First-year Kate Reilly added a third power play to give the Bobcats a 3-1 lead and the eventual win.

Red-shirt first-year Logan Angers tallied her third win of the season in the net with 18 saves.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 3, Merrimack 1

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (11-7-3, 3-6-2 ECAC), Merrimack (4-16-2, 1-12-2 Hockey East)

LOCATION
SSE Arena | Belfast, Northern Ireland

SCORING SUMMARY

(9:15, 2nd period, EV) – Quinnipiac 1, Merrimack 0: Junior Olivia Konigson scored her first goal of the season in the second period off a shot from the point. Sophomore Lexie Adzija and Taylor Girard tallied assists on the play.
(18:57, 2nd period, EV) – Quinnipiac 1, Merrimack 1: The Warriors scored with just over a minute to go in the second period to even the score. Dominika Laskova scored from Courtney Maud.
(5:15, 3rd period, PP) – Quinnipiac 2, Merrimack 1: Senior Sarah-Eve Coutu-Godbout scored the game-winning goal in the third period on the power play. She received the puck from Adzija in the corner, skated back to the middle and shot top-shelf past Merrimack's Emma Gorski.
(7:56, 3rd period, PP) – Quinnipiac 3, Merrimack 1: Reilly also scored on the power play two minutes later with a laser of a snipe from the left circle.

NOTES

Adzija led the Bobcats through the weekend with three assists and one goal for four points. Her three-point performance today was a season-high.
Senior Kenzie Prater had three points this weekend with one goal and two assists.
Konigson scored her first goal of the year and has two points so far this season.
Junior Brooke Bonsteel recorded 13 faceoff wins out of 21 total.
Junior Laura Lundblad led the team with five shots on goal.

UPCOMING GAME

The Bobcats are set to travel home to the U.S. with two wins. Quinnipiac will return to ECAC play on Friday, Jan. 10 to take on Harvard in Boston, Mass., followed by Dartmouth on Saturday, Jan. 11.