Seahawks skate past Huskies, 4-1

GORHAM, Maine – Freshman Danielle Phalon (Stoneham, Mass.) was the difference in Salve Regina women's ice hockey 4-1 win over Southern Maine, Friday afternoon.

With the victory, the Seahawks improve to 11-7 on the season and 7-4 in ECAC East while Southern Maine slips to 4-9-4 overall and 3-6-2 in the conference.

With seven seconds remaining in the Seahawks final power play of the second period, Phalon took a pass from junior Shannon Coleman (Chicago, Ill.) and freshman Shelby Johnson (Sterling, Mass.) to break the 1-1 tie with the eventual game-winning goal. Phalon sent home her ninth goal of the season 5:21 into the third period to give Salve Regina 3-1 lead as the Seahawks were shorthanded. Sophomore Michaela Chiuccariello (Winchester, Mass.) handed out her sixth assist of the season on Phalon's goal.

Sandwiched around the two from Phalon, sophomores Taylor Shepherd (Quincy, Mass.) and Sarah Markey (Ashland, Mass.) each added a goal for the Seahawks.

Shepherd got the scoring started for Salve Regina to open the second frame and tie the game at 1-1. Shepherd took a pass from Chiuccariello and junior Monika Borkowski (Ann Arbor, Mich.) got the puck to Shepherd for her team-leading 11^th goal of the year.

Markey capped the scoring to bring to score to its final at 4-1. Just over two minutes after Phalon's shorthanded goal, Markey took a pass from Shepherd and senior Rachel Porter (Franklin, Mass.) and sent the puck past the Southern Maine goalie, sophomore Liz Bergstrom (Chanhassen, Minn.) for her sixth goal of the year. Porter's assist raises her season point total to 19 and brings her career total to 93, just two points away from tying Salve Regina's all-time points record.

The Huskies struck first in the opening period at 5:04 as senior Kailey Bubier (Auburn, Maine) did it herself, and scored the first goal of the game unassisted.

Senior goalie Ali Muehlbronner (Glenside, Pa.) made 16 stops in her 11^th victory of the season while Bergstrom 22 of the Huskies' 35 saves while suffering the loss.

Salve Regina returns to the ice tomorrow, January 26 when the Seahawks travel to Plymouth, N.H. to take on Plymouth State at 2 p.m.