Lake Forest College Sports Information
January 22, 2006
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Lake Forest Falls to River Falls, Ties Eau Claire Again
Foresters and Blugolds went to overtime in all three of their games
  

Sally Bevis is on pace to break her own single-season school goals against average record.
LAKE FOREST, IL - The Forester women’s hockey team fell 2-0 at home Saturday (January 21) afternoon to UW-River Falls before skating to a 2-2 tie with UW-Eau Claire on Sunday (January 22). Lake Forest is now 11-5-3 overall this season and 4-2-3 in Northern Collegiate Hockey Association play. River Falls raised its record to 10-6-1 overall and 5-3-0 in the league. Eau Claire in now 5-10-2 overall with a 0-6-2 mark in the NCHA.

River Falls scored Saturday’s first goal with just 0.3 seconds to play in the second period. The visitors added a power play score at the 5:39 mark of the third.

Sophomore goaltender Sally Bevis (Huntington, NY/North American Hockey Academy) tallied 26 saves in both of the weekend’s games and three of the four goals she allowed came on the power play. She is now 9-4-3 on the season with a .921 save percentage and 2.27 goals against average.

Eau Claire got on the scoreboard first on Sunday with a power play goal at the 4:47 mark of the opening period. The Foresters tied the score with a power play goal of their own at the 14:50 mark. Sophomore Courtney DeHoey (Chatham, ON/Bluewater Jr. Hawks) scored for the 14th time this season off assists from seniors Lil Caligiuri (Wheaton, IL/Culver Academy) and Darby McGrath (Chippawa, ON/Niagara Rapids).

After a scoreless second stanza, Eau Claire regained the lead with another power play goal at the 3:27 mark of the third. Lake Forest pulled Bevis with just over a minute remaining and scored to tie the game just 20 seconds later. Freshman Dayna Kanis (Georgetown, ON/Etobicoke Dolphins) scored the unassisted goal, her team-high 16th of the year.

Neither team was able to score in the five-minute extra period. It was the second 2-2 tie between the Foresters and Blugolds this season. Lake Forest won the other meeting 3-2 in overtime.

The Foresters will have two weekends off from competition before resuming league play with a weekend series at UW-River Falls on February 10-11.

Lake Forest - River Falls Box Score
Lake Forest - Eau Claire Box Score