Women's Ice Hockey Loses To Harvard, 5-0
December 04, 2001 | Women's Hockey
Dec. 4, 2001
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- The Boston College women's ice hockey team lost, 5-0, to Harvard University, Tuesday night at the Bright Center. With the loss, BC drops to 2-9-1 overall while the Crimson improve to 5-4-1. Freshman Nicole Corriero scored her first career hat trick and goaltender Alison Kuusisto made 18 saves for the Crimson. Freshman goaltender Lisa Davis made 20 saves for the Eagles, who failed to score a goal for the second time this season.
Corriero scored the deciding goal with 6:12 left in the first period when she controlled the puck off a face off outside the blue line, skated in and beat Davis with a quick wrist shot. The first period ended with the Crimson holding a 1-0 advantage.
In the second period, sophomore Lauren McAuliffe made it 2-0 when Tracy Catlin stickhandled through traffic and brought the puck behind the net, where she set McAuliffe in the slot. Corriero struck again with just 1:40 left in the period, scoring off of her own rebound shot.
BC pressured in the final period, registering 10 of its 18 shots in the final 20 minutes. Several of those shots came on odd man rushes, including two breakaways, but Kuusisto stopped every Eagle chance. While BC held the territorial advantage in the period, Harvard made the most of its few chances. Sophomore Mina Pell broke in with freshman Ali Crum and sent a pass across to Crum, who scored her second goal of the season with 3:16 left in the game. Just 15 seconds later, Corriero finished the hat trick with a wrap-around goal for her 13th tally of the season.
Kuusisto finished with 18 saves against Davis' 20 for the Eagles.
BC returns to the ice on January 5, 2002 at Quinnipiac.
