Box Score NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale Women's Hockey Team earned its greatest victory of the Mark Bolding era tonight with a 5-2 win over No. 5 Clarkson at Ingalls Rink in ECAC Hockey action. Gianna Meloni made 20 saves and five different skaters found the net as the Bulldogs knocked off the highly ranked Golden Knights for the second straight year at New Haven.
Meloni, the junior netminder, made half of her saves in the third period and helped the Elis stop four of five Clarkson power plays. Of the two that got past her, one was controversial and the other came with a two-skater advantage.
Clarkson scored 13 minutes into the opening period on a tally that was waved off by the officials before being called a goal after a review. Rebecca Vanstone's goal with 13.6 seconds left in the first took some of the sting out of that score. Charlotte Welch's pretty pass set up the Vanstone score, and the sophomore forward fired a wrister inside the left post for her seventh of the year.
The Bulldogs made it two straight with a Sophie Veronneau power-play tally just 2:15 into the second, but that 2-1 lead only lasted for a bit more than seven minutes. The Knights (14-3-4, 5-2-2) took advantage of a 5-on-3 to even things before the Elis scored the last three straight.
Welch banged home a loose puck in the crease, Elle Hartje buried a breakaway shot and Claire Dalton potted an empty-netter to improve Yale's record to 8-8-0 (5-4-0 ECAC) and give captain Laura Anderson a fitting 100th career game.
The Bulldogs are back tomorrow at 3 p.m. to host St. Lawrence at Ingalls Rink.
