MVU LOSES LEAD IN THIRD, FALLS TO GREEN KNIGHTS
For the second game in a row, Missisquoi fell in heartbreaking fashion, following an overtime loss to U-32 on Wednesday with a 5-4 loss to Rice on Monday night.
The Thunderbirds (1-10) led 4-1 with less than five minutes to go in the second period Monday, yielding a shorthanded goal in that period and three unanswered in the third to gift Rice (1-9) its first win of the year. The game-winner broke a 4-4 tie with just 1:05 left in regulation and came on Katie Craig’s fourth goal of the evening.
MVU got off to a strong start with Holley MacLellan scoring off a pass from Rory Schreindorfer less than two minutes in. Craig answered with an equalizer five minutes later but Lindsey Gagne converted a Haley Stefaniak assist late in the period to give MVU a 2-1 lead at the first intermission.
Schreindorfer scored less than 30 seconds into the second period off a MacLellan rebound and Emily Airoldi punched in a MacLellan rebound (initially set up by Stefianek) two minutes later to make it a 4-1 MVU lead. Craig scored shorthanded with a little over four minutes remaining in the second to cut the Missisquoi lead to 4-2 entering the third.
Becky Penny got Rice within one with a goal just under six minutes into the final frame and Craig scored on the power play three minutes later to knot the score at 4-4. Craig’s fourth, the final goal of the game, sealed a 5-4 Green Knight win with just over a minute left in the third.
Missisquoi limited itself to just one penalty on Monday, though that power play did lead to a Rice goal in addition to the shorthanded score in the second period. Kali Favreau-Ward stopped 16 shots in the MVU goal while Rice’s Lindsey Taylor had 28 saves. Missisquoi returns to the ice at home against Woodstock on Wednesday.
