MANCHESTER, N.H. (November 12, 2022) -- A night after surrendering a third-period lead at home, the Franklin Pierce University women's ice hockey team made one stick on the road on Saturday afternoon. A pair of newcomers did the damage, as graduate student transfer Lindsey Dumond (Hampton, N.H.) struck on the power play in the first, and freshman Avery Farrell (Otsego, Minn.) added one in the second. The Ravens shut the door from there, as a scoreless third resulted in a 2-0 victory on the road at Saint Anselm, as Franklin Pierce forced a split of the weekend home-and-home New England Women's Hockey Alliance series.

With the win, Franklin Pierce improves to 4-6-1 (3-2-1 NE10), while Saint Anselm falls to 7-8-1 (7-3-1 NEWHA). The two teams will wrap up their four-game season series with another home-and-home after the winter break, on Jan. 27-28.

Both goals were timely on Saturday, as each came in the final minute of the period. The Ravens opened the scoring on the power play in the final minute of the first frame, at the 19:21 mark. The play started with sophomore Mikayla Kelley (Eagan, Minn.), who sent a centering feed into the slot from the right circle. Fellow sophomore Cailey McLaughlin (McLean, Va.) whiffed on a one-time attempt between the hash marks, but it proved fortuitous, as the puck carried through to junior Emilie Prive (Morrisville, Vt.), who put a shot on goal from the left circle. Senior goaltender Allie Kelley made the initial save on the play, but Dumond forced home the rebound from the goalmouth for her second of the season.

Franklin Pierce cashed in an insurance marker in a 4-on-4 situation at 19:53 of the second period, which would stand as the game's final goal. With Saint Anselm attempting to clear up the defensive left side, Kelley hassled sophomore Madi Ressler into a turnover along the boards. The puck squirted free into the middle of the right-wing circle for an opportunistic Farrell, who turned and rifled a shot off the crossbar and in for her team-leading fourth of the campaign.

The Ravens had surrendered 20 shots through two periods, but locked things down in the third this time, with a two-goal lead. Saint Anselm could put only six shots on net in the final stanza, and freshman Jill Hertl (Highland Park, Ill.) turned them all aside to pick up the win (3-2-1) and finish off a 26-save shutout, her third of the season.

Allie Kelley (7-8-1) stopped 18 of 20 shots at the other end and suffered the loss for Saint Anselm.

Franklin Pierce is on the road next weekend, for a two-game NEWHA series at Sacred Heart on Nov. 18-19. Puck drop is set for 4 p.m. on Friday and 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at Sports Center of Connecticut in Shelton, Conn.