WINCHENDON, Mass. (February 11, 2022) -- Two goals in each period and none against on Friday night added up to a 6-0 home-ice win for the Franklin Pierce University women's ice hockey team over visiting Post at Jason Ritchie Ice Arena. Six different Ravens found the back of the net as Franklin Pierce posted a 61-15 shots advantage on the way to the win in New England Women's Hockey Alliance play. Graduate student Katerina Dajia (Aurora, Ontario) led the way with a goal and two assists.

With the win, Franklin Pierce improves to 15-8-1 (11-3-0 NEWHA) and has won seven in a row, while Post falls to 5-21-0 (2-13-0 NEWHA). The two will meet again at 4 p.m. on Saturday, with the Ravens looking to finish off a five-game season sweep.

Franklin Pierce scored twice in the final eight minutes of the first and never looked back. Fresh off a win in the team's weekly social media competition (Twitter link), freshmen Lucy Hanson (Medina, Minn.) and Cailey McLaughlin (McLean, Va.) combined to open the scoring at the 12:57 mark, as the former forced a turnover behind the net and set up the latter in the left circle for McLaughlin's second of the season, and second in as many games. At 18:41, junior Kaitlyn Brightbill (Silver Spring, Md.) walked from behind the net into the left circle and was denied on her initial attempt but put away her own rebound for her fifth of the year.

The Ravens struck twice in a span of 48 seconds after the midpoint of the second period to balloon the lead to 4-0. The first came on the power play, as sophomore Emilie Prive (Morrisville, Vt.) and Dajia combined to work the puck into the right circle for freshman Mikayla Kelley (Eagan, Minn.), who picked the short-side top corner from there for her fourth of the campaign at 11:33. On the very next shift, junior Becca Kniss (Eden Prairie, Minn.) tracked down a rebound on the right half-wall, walked it out into the right circle and beat sophomore goaltender Grace Glasrud from a similar location for her eighth of the year, at 12:21.

The crimson and grey tacked on two more in the third to win going away. At 2:48, Dajia took a wrist shot from the middle of the blue line, which redirected off of Post junior defender Cassidy Elvidge and found its way home for Dajia's third in three games. Junior Reece Diener (McKinney, Texas) capped the scoring at 14:42, as she finished a give-and-go on a 2-on-1 rush with Hanson with a one-timer from the left circle. The second assist of the night gave Hanson her first career multiple-point game.

Senior Emme Ostrander (Westborough, Mass.) faced only 15 shots, but stopped all of them, to pick up the win (6-6-0) and extend her program record with her 17^th career shutout. Glasrud (2-7-0) was under siege at the other end of the ice and finished with 55 saves against 61 shots in defeat.