NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The Norwich University women's ice hockey team rebounded from its first conference loss since 2017 with a 2-1 win over UMass Boston on Saturday afternoon at Kreitzberg Arena. 

Juniors Ann-Frederique Guay (St. Lambert-de-Lauzon, Quebec) and Julia Masotta (Tewksbury, Mass.) each scored goals, while sophomore Leocadia Clark (Stowe, Vt.) made a career-high 32 saves in goal to backstop the Cadets to the big victory. 

Norwich (9-4-0, 8-1-0 NEHC) was outshot 15-5 in the opening period, but rebounded quickly with two goals early in the second period to assume control of the game. Guay scored on a pretty breakaway, backhand and flipped the puck over the pad of UMass Boston goalie Victoria Kennedy for the game's first goal. 

Morgan Tefft (Redwood City, Calif.) hit Guay in stride up the right wing after she received a pass from Taylor Tom (Kenora, Ontario). Guay sped past the UMB defender and skated down the right wing before crossing to the goal mouth and scoring her seventh goal of the season. 

Just 1:23 later Masotta banked a shot off the pad of Kennedy and into the back of the net for her eighth goal of the season off assists from Molly Flanagan (Lutz, Fla.) and Jillian Jackson (Fredericton, New Brunswick). 

UMass Boston (6-9-0, 5-4-0 NEHC) cut into the deficit at the 5:49 mark of the third period with Ana Gustafson scoring on a 2-on-1 odd-man rush to make it 2-1. Katie Leffler and Margeaux Butters notched assists on the goal. Butters flicked the puck up and out of the zone off the boards to hit Leffler on an indirect pass. Leffler skated in from the right and found Gustafson all alone in the slot for the goal. 

UMass Boston outshot Norwich 33-28 in the game. 

Norwich will host Amherst College on Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 6 p.m. at Kreitzberg Arena in a non-conference matchup.