Boxscore

RYE, N.Y. – The Manhattanville women's hockey team unleashed a 50-shot performance towards the Utica goal and found the back of the net twice as they defeated the Pioneers 2-1 on Friday evening in an ECAC East/West non-conference battle at Playland Ice Casino.

The Valiants poured on the shots in the contest as they outshot the Pioneers 50-17 and had at least 14 shots in all three periods.  Despite not scoring on seven man-advantages, the Valiants took 21 shots on goal during their 14 minutes of attack time.

Utica used seven seconds of their opening minute power-play to take a 1-0 lead as an offensive zone face-off won by Darcy Hier allowed Emily Russell to send a snap shot from the left wing behind sophomore netminder Emy Cote (Saint-Hubert, Quebec/Dawson College), 25 seconds into the contest.

The Valiants tied the contest nearly three minutes later, as sophomore Katie Little (Victoria, British Columbia/Team British Columbia) found a streaking freshman Haleigh Hutchinson (Allen Park, Mich./Honeybaked (TOEHL)) who cashed-in on her fourth goal of the season with a backhanded breakaway goal.  

Senior Captain Shannon Coffey (Malden, Mass./North American Hockey Academy) gave the Valiants the eventual game-winning goal early in the second period with junior Jackie Solomito (Sea Cliff, N.Y./Niagara University (CHA)) sending a pass to the forward at the 3:54 mark.

Neither team could muster much offense in the final period but the Valiants still took 14 shots towards the Utica goal.

Cote made 16 saves with a period high of eight made in the middle stanza, while Marissa Hotaling made 48 saves overall and was asked to make double-digit saves in each period.  The victory for Cote was her fifth and the loss was Hotaling's fourth.

Manhattanville (9-3-1, 7-1 ECAC East) will return to the ice tomorrow afternoon as they host third-ranked Plattsburgh St at 3 p.m. Saturday's contest will also be South Shore Warriors Youth Hockey Day. The contest will be can be viewed live on GoValiants.TV. Utica (7-6, 5-5 ECAC West) will head to Amherst College on January 12.