BEVERLY, Mass. — Coming off a robust 3-0 home-opening win over the No. 15-ranked Norwich Cadets, the No. 7-ranked Plattsburgh State girls’s ice hockey staff hit the street on Saturday afternoon to tackle No. 13-ranked Endicott. Regardless of leaping out to an early lead, the Cardinals couldn’t maintain the momentum and fell 3-1 to the Gulls.
From the opening puck drop, Plattsburgh seemed poised to construct on its dwelling success. Tessa Morris (Grand Island, N.Y.) opened the scoring late within the first interval, burying a feed from Kayson Ruegge(Edmond, Okla.) and Taya Balfour (Moorestown, N.J.) with simply 4.2 seconds remaining to offer the Cardinals a 1-0 lead.
Endicott responded within the second interval with a pair of targets to swing the momentum. Ava Schmidt tied the sport at 7:53 off assists from Mackenzie Graham and Lily Anderson, earlier than Ella Rago capitalized on an influence play at 15:32, assisted by Jo Wimler and Lilly Corso, to offer the Gulls a 2-1 lead heading into the intermission.
Within the third interval, the Gulls prolonged their benefit when Cammi Ahern scored on the facility play halfway via the body, with assists credited to Corso and Rago, placing the sport out of attain at 3-1.
Regardless of controlling a lot of the play, Plattsburgh couldn’t break via in opposition to Endicott’s goaltender Lauren Ferrari, who made 45 saves in a standout efficiency. The Cardinals outshot the Gulls 46-20 and maintained management all through, however Endicott’s energy play success proved to be the distinction, scoring twice whereas holding Plattsburgh to only one objective on 46 pictures.
The matchup marked simply the third all-time assembly between the 2 packages, with every of the earlier two contests going into additional time. Regardless of taking the early lead, the Cardinals couldn’t recreate the late-game magic this time round.
Plattsburgh State falls to 1-1-0 on the season and can return to motion on Friday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m., after they open State College of New York Athletic Convention (SUNYAC) play at dwelling in opposition to William Smith.
