Lake Forest College Sports Information
February 22, 2003
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Foresters Fall in Semifinal, Defeat Superior in Third-Place Game
Final game highlighted by Slater's hat trick and Caligiuri's five points
  

Robyn Slater scored a hat trick in her final collegiate game.
RIVER FALLS, WI - The Lake Forest College women's hockey team completed the best of its three years over the weekend (February 21-22) at the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association Tournament, hosted by UW-River Falls. The third-seeded Foresters were defeated by #2-seed UW-Stevens Point 7-0 in Friday's semifinal. On Saturday, Lake Forest defeated UW-Superior 7-1 in the third-place game to complete its season with a 14-9-3 overall record. Stevens Point, the nation's #8 team, lost 5-1 to River Falls, the #7 team in the country, in the championship game.

On Friday, four first-period goals by the Pointers put Lake Forest in an early hole. Stevens Point scored three more times in the second and held on for the shutout.

After a scoreless first period on Saturday, Forester senior captain Robyn Slater (Granite City, IL/ Granite City Senior) scored at the 3:22 mark of the second, the first of five Forester goals in the period. After Jodi Faye scored Superior's only goal of the game at 5:44, freshman Lil Caligiuri (Wheaton, IL/Culver Academy), who had assisted on Slater's goal, scored one of her own at 11:49. Slater, who assisted on Caligiuri's goal, scored again just 31 seconds later and at the 16:37 mark with her third of the game, 13th of the season, and 50th of her career. Caligiuri and fellow freshman Emily Blegen (Elk River, MN/Fridley) recorded assists on both goals. Mel Guillermo (North Las Vegas, NV/Culver Academy), another freshman, closed out the period's scoring at the 18:47 mark. Freshman Nicki Paquette (Moncton, NB/New Hampton School) and sophomore Lindsey Wild (Inver Grove Heights, MN/Rosemount) were each credited with an assist on Guillermo's fifth goal of the season. 
 

Lil Caligiuri set one school record and tied two others.
Lake Forest lit the lamp two more times in the third period. Caligiuri scored her second of the game and ninth of the year at the 13:31 mark with Blegen recording her third assist of the contest. Finally, with 1:06 remaining, freshman Nadia Sarkarat (Waukesha, WI/Wisconsin Wild) assisted on sophomore Nichole Greco's (Franklin Park, IL/Chicago Young Americans) fifth goal of the year.

Junior Theresa Taylor (Spartanburg, SC/National Sports Academy) tallied 25 saves and finished her third season in goal with a 12-9-3 record, a 2.75 goals against average, and a .906 save percentage.

Slater's hat trick in her final game was the fifth of her career. She'll graduate as the school record-holder with 50 goals, 28 assists, and 78 points. Caligiuri's five points broke the previous school record of four achieved by Slater (twice) and Wild last season. Caligiuri also finished the year with 15 assists, tying the school record set by Wild in 2001-02. With three helpers each in the game, Caligiuri and Blegen, who led the 2002-03 squad with 27 points, tied yet another school record set by Slater in 2001-02 and matched by Wild last year.

Lake Forest - UW-Stevens Point Box Score
Lake Forest - UW-Superior Box Score