NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The No. 2/2 Yale women's hockey team defeated Harvard, 4-0, to advance to the ECAC Hockey tournament semifinals. The top-seeded Bulldogs improved to 28-2-1 overall, while the eighth-seeded Crimson ended their season 7-21-3.
Scoring Summary
- P1, 14:33 | Tijana Miskovic started the play that led to Yale's first goal and eventual game-winner. The sophomore slid a puck up to Elle Hartje in the neutral zone. Hartje skated into the offensive zone and dropped a pass back to Grace Lee, who lasered a shot into the back of the net from the top of the circles.
- P3, 10:35 | Charlotte Welch made a power move towards goal from the corner and found Carina DiAntonio hanging out all alone in front for the one touch and in.Â
- P3, 11:13 | A shot from Emma Seitz at the point saw the puck tipped from Claire Sedgewick to Grace Lee and into the net.
- P3, 14:14 | Hartje kept doing Hartje things. The junior skated from Yale's defensive zone, and found a seam between four Harvard players to connect with Anna Bargman for the Bulldogs' fourth and final goal.
Notes
- Pia Dukaric made 19 saves en route to her eighth shutout of the season, a program record.
- Elle Hartje broke the single season program assists record (36) with two tallies. Hartje originally broke Maria Dennis' (28) (1985-86) record last season and became the new record holder after 37Â years. She now has 37Â this season.Â
- Hartje extended her point streak to 17 games.
- Yale extended its single-season program record for wins with 28.Â
- This was the seventh game-winning goal of Grace Lee's career and her second of the season. She scored the game-winner in the first game of the series as well.Â
- Charlotte Welch is on a five-game point streak.Â
Looking Ahead
Yale will await the results from the remaining quarterfinals seeds to determine who they will face in the conference semifinals next week.
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