Mandl Makes Six Saves for Shutout

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale women's ice hockey team got goals from nine different players, including hat tricks by junior forward Jamie Haddad and senior defenseman Aurora Kennedy, as the Bulldogs bested Sacred Heart 13-0 Friday night at Ingalls rink. Senior defenseman Madi Murray and freshman forward Brittany Wheeler scored their first career goals, and sophomore goalie Hanna Mandl made six saves for her first career shutout in her first start of the season.

Yale (4-3-1, 1-3-0 ECAC Hockey) established complete control of the game in the first period, outshooting Sacred Heart 35-1. Pioneers goalie Amanda Fontaine held off the onslaught of shots until the 7:22 mark, when a Sacred Heart turnover deep in the Pioneer zone enabled forward Kaitlin Gately to send the puck across to sophomore forward Gretchen Tarrant, who poked it in for her second goal of the season. That was also Gately's first career point. Less than a minute later, freshman forward Courtney Pensavalle got the puck in the SHU zone to Haddad, and she sent it up to Kennedy for a shot that eluded Fontaine at the eight-minute mark.

Wheeler got her first career goal thanks to a persistent effort. After Haddad set up junior defenseman Kate Martini for a shot that Fontaine stopped, Wheeler poked away at the rebound until she got it past Fontaine. Murray then scored her first career goal, assisted by senior forward Stephanie Mock, 51 seconds later.

The goals continued coming in bunches for Yale in the second. Sophomore forward Krista Yip-Chuck scored Yale's first power play goal of the game at 7:49, assisted by junior forward Janelle Ferrara and Kennedy. Less than a minute later, an unassisted goal by Haddad made it 6-0 Bulldogs.

Yale's next goal came in delayed fashion. A Sacred Heart defender swiped the puck out of the goal quickly enough to keep play going, but during the next stoppage of play (at 9:33) the officials reviewed the play and ruled that it was a goal (by Mock, assisted by sophomore forward Phoebe Staenz and junior forward Hanna Åström) at the 9:17 mark.

Kennedy scored again off assists by Haddad and Martini at 11:49. The Bulldogs' ninth goal came in short-handed fashion, as sophomore defenseman Taylor Marchin scored on a breakaway after stealing the puck inside the Yale blue line -- her first goal of the season.

The Bulldogs finished off the second period killing off a 5-on-3, and wound up allowing their first shot on goal of the period during that stretch with just over two minutes left to play. Mandl kicked that one aside for her second save. Mandl also denied forward Alanna Woodford's shot after a turnover deep in the Yale zone. Yale ended the second with a 9-0 lead, having outshot SHU 54-3.

Haddad started the scoring quickly in the third, wristing one past Fontaine 51 seconds in. Pensavalle and Wheeler assisted. Yale extended the lead with a power play goal at 9:17 by Pensavalle, who redirected a pass by Staenz. Marchin also assisted on the play.

Kennedy then sent a slap shot from the blue line inside the far post with 3:19 remaining to make it 12-0, completing her hat trick. Tarrant and Martini assisted. A power play goal with 1:49 to play by Haddad, assisted by Kennedy and Ferrara, completed her hat trick and capped the scoring.

Yale finished with a 74-6 shot advantage and was 3-for-5 on the power play. Fontaine made 61 saves.

Sacred Heart falls to 2-3-0. Yale hosts No 1. Boston College next Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.

Report by Sam Rubin '95 (sam.rubin@yale.edu), Yale Sports Publicity