NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The Norwich University women's ice hockey team won its fourth straight game with a 6-2 victory over Plymouth State at Kreitzberg Arena on Friday night. 

Junior Kenady Nevicosi (Breckenridge, Colo.) scored twice and tallied an assist to lead the Norwich offense as the Cadets (4-1-0) improved to 30-0-0 all-time against Plymouth State. 

Senior defenseman Samantha Benoit (Bow, N.H.) continued to creep closer to the 100 career points mark with a goal and an assist. She now sits at 96 career points, including 81 assists, which ranks fourth all-time and just one helper shy of tying Julie Fortier '12 for third all-time in program history. 

Junior Maddie Moell (Clarence Center, N.Y.) had two assists, while Molly Flanagan (Lutz, Fla.), Taylor Tom (Kenora, Ontario) and Ally LaGue (Barre, Vt.) each scored a goal to round out the Cadet offensive leaders. 

Norwich jumped out to a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes. Ally LaGue scored her first collegiate goal off an assist from Carley Sedlar (Howell, Mich.) at the 7:16 mark of the first period. Sedlar picked off a blind clearing attempt by a Plymouth State player off the side boards and skated in from the right wing. Sedlar stick handled around a Plymouth defender and then fired a crossing pass to a wide open LaGue on the far left post who easily redirected into it the wide open net to put the Cadets up 1-0. 

Nevicosi scored her second goal of the season, ripping a wrist shot over the blocker of Plymouth State goalie Olivia Petito at the 9:07 mark to increase the lead to 2-0. Ingrid Holstad-Berge (Stavanger, Norway) and Benoit picked up the assists after Benoit sent an outlet pass up the boards and Holstad-Berge got a piece of it before finding its way to Nevicosi at the far blue line. 

Flanagan needed just 31 seconds to give Norwich a 3-0 lead to open the second period with a shot from the top of the slot that deflected off a Plymouth State player's skate and trickled into the back of the net. Sophomore forward Mikah Baptiste (Ottawa, Ontario) picked up the primary assist after she skated around three Plymouth State defenders to get of a backhand shot that was stoned by the pad of Petito. The puck ended up rebounding out to Flanagan who snapped it back towards goal and it found its way into the back of the net. 

Plymouth State (2-2-1) fought back with the next two goals of the game coming just 1:06 apart to cut the lead to 3-2. Zoe Killisch got the Panthers on the board, roofing a shot under the crossbar on a breakaway and past the glove of Alexa Berg (West Fargo, N.D.).  Meghan Hamilton picked up the assist after she picked off a Norwich pass in the defensive zone. Hamilton fired a pass up to Killisch, who was all alone at the Norwich blue line after she had just hopped onto the ice from a PSU player returning to the bench from a penalty.

The Panthers cut the deficit to 3-2 just over a minute later with Chantelle Ross and Siri Brett executing a textbook 2-on-1 rush for Ross' second goal of the season and beating Berg up high again leaving the NU goalie with no chance. Georgia McLellan picked up the secondary assist with an outstanding indirect pass off the glass to spring Ross and Brett on the rush. 

Norwich rebounded late in the period with two quick goals from Benoit on the power play and then another from Tom to regain the three-goal lead. 

Benoit blasted a slap shot from the point that beat Petito low for her first goal of the season. Nikki LaGue (Barre, Vt.) and Nevicosi picked up assists on the goal. 

Tom scored unassisted for her first goal of the year with a wrist shot through traffic from the top of the slot after she held in a Plymouth State clearing attempt. 

Nevicosi capped the scoring at the 5:37 mark of the third period with an assist from Moell to make it 6-2 Norwich. 

Norwich outshot Plymouth State 50-9 in the game. Berg picked up her second win of the season. Petito made 25 saves before being pulled after the fifth Norwich goal. Amelia Julian came on to make 19 saves in relief for the Panthers. 

Norwich closes out the home doubleheader series tomorrow by hosting the Panthers again at noon in Kreitzberg Arena. The game was originally scheduled to be at 1 p.m. in Plymouth.