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PINE VALLEY, N.Y. – After suffering its first loss of the season Friday night, Chelsea VanGlahn scored the game-winning goal with 1:12 left in overtime to lift the top-ranked Plattsburgh State women's hockey team to a 2-1 win over No. 3 Elmira at the Murray Athletic Center Saturday afternoon.
Saturday's game began much like Friday's matchup with the Cardinals bringing a heavy offensive attack in the first period. Plattsburgh State outshot Elmira, 19-8, through the first 20 minutes but both sides remained scoreless at the first intermission.
The Cardinals broke through at the 4:58 mark of the second period when Jordan Caldwell's wrist shot beat Elmira goaltender Lisa Marshall to give Plattsburgh State a 1-0 lead. Shannon Stewart and Bridget Balisy picked up assists on Caldwell's ninth of the year. Despite a couple opportunities by the Soaring Eagles, Plattsburgh State was able to keep Elmira off the board and maintain the one-goal lead through the first two periods.
Early in the third, Ali Vakos had a chance to extend Plattsburgh State's lead with a breakaway shortly after the 5:00 mark. Vakos made a quick move to the left and firing a wrist shot, but Marshall came up with the save to deny Vakos.
Elmira tied it up at 9:34 of the third period when a scrum in front of the Cardinals' net led to trouble for Plattsburgh State. In the scrum, the puck bounced out of reach of Plattsburgh State goaltender Sydney Aveson and Elmira's Tanis Lamoureux found the back of the net to make it a 1-1 game.
Neither side was able to score the go-ahead goal as both teams battled back and forth the remainder of regulation, setting up a five-minute overtime period. Plattsburgh State came out flying at in the extra session, outshooting Elmira 9-1, before VanGlahn's would sneak past Marshall at the 3:48 mark of overtime. Giovanna Senese was credited with the assist on VanGlahn's seventh of the year to give the Cardinals the 2-1 win.
The Cardinals finished the afternoon with a 58-34 edge in shots on goal. Aveson recorded 33 saves to earn her 14
th win of the year. Marshall made 56 stops in the loss for Elmira.
With the win, the Cardinals improve to 18-1-1 overall and 11-1-0 in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) West division. The Soaring Eagles drop to 16-4-1 on the year and 11-1-0 in the league. Plattsburgh State and Elmira remain tied atop the division standings with four conference games remaining.
Plattsburgh State returns home Tuesday night for the final home game of the regular season as the Cardinals host Middlebury in a non-conference game at 7 p.m. at the Stafford Ice Arena.
