PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.- Coming off a two-win weekend, the thirteenth ranked Norwich Women's Hockey team looked to stretch their win streak to four games with a non-conference battle with regional rival, third ranked Plattsburgh State.

The first period began with both sides locked in a defensive chess match with neither side giving the other a ton of space to work with. Eventually, the Cardinals would take over leading to their first of six powerplays on the evening. The powerplay would be unsuccessful with Plattsburgh generating four shots, but Leocadia Clark (Stowe, Vt.) kept the game scoreless. Neither side would find the scoresheet in the opening frame with the Cardinals outshooting the Cadets 9-4.

Once the puck was dropped for the second period, it only took a minute for the Cadets to jump ahead. Fresh off a line change, Wilda Ohman (Lulea, Sweden) kept the play alive at the left blue line sending the puck down the near boards where it was collected by Livia Brooks (Walpole, Mass.) who sent a cross crease pass for Taylor Girouard (Burlington, Mass.) who beat Cardinal goaltender Lila Nease putting Norwich ahead by one.

After falling behind, the Cardinals dominated the territorial play leading to another powerplay which was killed off. However, Plattsburgh would find the equalizer, with Julia Masotta circling around the offensive zone, she would find Bridget Orr camped out in front of the net to bring the game back to even. Seconds after the tying marker, Norwich was saddled with a five-minute penalty kill after a checking from behind major to Ohman along with a game misconduct. Clark, and the rest of the penalty kill unit, suppressed the Plattsburgh man advantage only allowing four shots with Clark stopping all of them. In the last two minutes of the period, the Cardinals would take the lead with Orr putting home the rebound of a rush chance by Masotta taking a 2-1 lead into intermission in a period where Norwich was outshot 16-5.

Three minutes into the third period, the Cadet would tie the game once again. Looking for a line change, Olivia Boyer (Saint Paul, Minn.) gave the puck to Girouard as she entered the zone. Girouard sent a centering pass to Madison Anderson (Green Bay, Wis.) who touched it along to Brooks at the left faceoff circle whose wrist shot rocketed off the back post echoing throughout Stafford Ice Arena and tying the game at two with her sixth goal in the last three games.  
The Cardinals would get two more powerplays before the end of regulation but would come away empty handed, with the Norwich penalty kill going a perfect five for five with Clark making 12 of her 38 saves in regulation while shorthanded.

With sixty minutes not solving anything, the two sides headed for the three-on-three overtime period. Within the first two minutes of overtime, Clark stonewalled Masotta on the doorstep several times. A minute later, Aimee Headland (Nottingham, U.K.) had a chance that was shut down by Nease. In the dying seconds of the extra frame, Headland had another chance, but the Cardinal defender got her stick in the way leading to a chance for Plattsburgh the other way which Clark shut down, ending the game in a 2-2 draw.

"Leo was outstanding for us tonight," said Head Coach Sophie Leclerc Doherty. "Both teams played hard, and I'm proud of our group for finding a way to score despite getting into some penalty trouble. We are going to take some positives out of this one but also use this to learn and grow from."

Norwich will resume New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) action when they return to home ice to take on Plymouth State on Nov 17 at 6 PM.