NEW HAVEN, Conn.  – The Yale Women's Hockey Team posted 63 shots on goal this weekend but had only one goal to show for it, running into a pair of hot goalies and a nationally ranked team.
 
Today, the Bulldogs got a goal from Vita Poniatovskaia and 16 saves from Pia Dukaric in a 3-1 loss to No. 8 Quinnipiac at Ingalls Rink.
 
Yale outshot the visitors 32-19 and had plenty of quality chances that could have changed the course of this contest.
 
"It was a really good hockey game for only our fourth game of the year," said Mark Bolding, Yale's Susan Cavanagh Head Coach. "We played hard, we responded, and we were a better team than we were yesterday, which is the main agenda. We were more complete overall but, unfortunately, couldn't get the result but there are plenty of things to build off."
 
Dukaric, a first-year, stopped a breakaway in the second period and kept the Bulldogs close during her third straight start.
 
The Bobcats drew first blood in the opening frame. Yale then thought it responded with the equalizer by Rebecca Vanstone before the end of the first. However, the officials used video to take the tally off the board because of a high stick.
 
Poniatovskaia, another newcomer, did eventually even things in the second after a shot by Charlotte Welch. Poniatovskaia pounced on the rebound for her second tally of the season.
 
Yale's next games are in upstate New York next weekend against Colgate and Cornell.