Box Score NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The Norwich University women's ice hockey team rolled to an impressive 8-0 win over Southern Maine on Saturday afternoon on Senior Day in New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) action at Kreitzberg Arena.
Senior Emma O'Neill (Hamburg, N.Y.) scored twice and tallied an assist for a career-high three-point game, while classmate Alexa Berg (West Fargo, N.D.) stopped all 18 shots she faced to earn her fifth shutout of the season and 14th of her career.
Sophomores Aimee Headland (Nottingham, United Kingdom) and Melianne Reynolds (Sherbrooke, Quebec) each tallied a goal and two assists as well.
Ann-Frederique Guay (St. Lambert-de-Lauzon, Quebec), Julia Masotta (Tewksbury, Mass.), Taylor Girouard (Burlington, Mass.) and Ally LaGue (Barre, Vt.) each scored goals as well for the Cadets to round out the offensive leaders.
Norwich (16-5-0, 14-1-0 NEHC) had 13 different skaters on the scoresheet as they clinched at worst second-place in the NEHC standings. The Cadets still trail first-place Elmira College by six points, but they have one game in hand and a head-to-head meeting vs. the Soaring Eagles next Friday, Feb. 11.
Berg picked up her fifth shutout in her last six starts to continue her impressive play down the stretch.
Headland gave Norwich the only lead it would need just 1:20 into the game after she slapped a puck home from the middle of the high slot after an initial shot by Molly Flanagan (Lutz, Fla.) deflected off the back of Girouard leaving the puck waiting for Headland to throw toward the net and beat USM goalie Haley McKim.
Norwich added four more goals in the second period and three more in the third to cruise to the win and sweep the season series from Southern Maine.
The Cadets will host Salem State on Sunday at 1 p.m. in its final regular season home game of the 2021-22 season.
Norwich will then close the regular season with three games on the road at Conn. College on Feb. 8 and then Elmira on Feb. 11 and William Smith on Feb. 12.
