Lake Forest College Sports Information
January 11, 2003
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Foresters Take Three Points at UW-Eau Claire
Taylor records second career shutout
  

Theresa Taylor got her second career shutout on Friday.
EAU CLAIRE, WI - The Forester women's hockey team moved back into third place in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association with a three-point weekend at UW-Eau Claire. Lake Forest shut out the home team Friday (January 10) night 2-0 and then tied the Blugolds 4-4 on Saturday (January 11). The Foresters are now 9-3-3 overall this season and 3-3-2 in league play. Eau Claire is 5-9-2 overall and 0-7-1 in the conference.

On Friday, junior goaltender Theresa Taylor (Spartanburg, SC/National Sports Academy) recorded her second career shutout by stopping all 27 shots on goal from Eau Claire, including 12 in the third.
 
Lake Forest got on the scoreboard at the 11:59 mark of the opening period with freshman Andrea Richmond's (Enfield, NH/Northfield Mount Hermon School) first career goal. Emily Blegen (Elk River, MN/Fridley), the team-leader in points, recorded the assist. The teams played scoreless hockey until, with just 21 seconds remaining in the contest, senior Robyn Slater (Granite City, IL/Granite City Senior) scored off a pass from freshman Mel Guillermo (North Las Vegas, NV/Culver Academy).

Saturday's game was a different story, as Eau Claire scored first on a goal by Amanda Schultz at 3:26 in the first period. The Foresters tied the score on Slater's eighth goal of the year at 13:17.

In the second period, Blegen connected for the 12th time this season to give Lake Forest the lead at 4:33. Sophomore Lindsey Wild (Inver Grove Heights, MN/Rosemount) scored for the third time in 2002-03 at 13:10 but the Blugolds' Kristi Hawkinson cut the lead to 3-2 with 3:43 to play in the period.

Sophomore Nichole Greco (Franklin Park, IL/Chicago Young Americans) helped the visitors regain the two-goal advantage with her third of the year at the 8:30 of the third. However, Hawkinson scored again with 1:20 left and, while the Blugolds were on the power play, they also pulled goalie Tara Berlute and Connie Cameron tied the game with just 11 seconds to play.

Both Taylor and Berlute stopped a pair of shots on goal in the five-minute overtime period.

The Foresters will play their next five games at home, beginning with next weekend's (January 17-18) NCHA series against UW-Stevens Point (12-3-1, 6-2-0 NCHA). The teams will face off Friday night at 7:30 and Saturday afternoon at 2:00.

Saturday's Box Score
Sunday's Box Score