Ohio State Skates Past SU, 6-3 - Syracuse University Athletics

Friday, November 18

Syracuse, NY

7 p.m.

Syracuse University

5-8-0

Ohio State

6-4-1

Team	1	2	3	F
Ohio State	1	1	4	6
Syracuse	2	0	1	3

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11/18/2011 9:58:23 PM | Ice Hockey

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With the score tied at two entering the third period, Ohio State scored four straight goals in the final frame to down the SU ice hockey team 6-3 on Friday night at Tennity Ice Pavilion. Holly Carrie-Mattimoe scored two goals for the Orange (5-8-0), while Kallie Billadeau made 26 saves in goal. The teams will square off again tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in the series finale.

Ohio State held a 32-21 edge in shots for the game and was 1-of-3 on the power play. SU went 1-of-6 on the man advantage.

Despite being outshot 8-5 in the first period, the Orange hung with the Buckeyes throughout the frame, and took a one-goal lead into the locker room with a goal in the final five second of the stanza. Carrie-Mattimoe got things started for the Orange midway through the frame when she got a piece of Megan Skelly's centering pass and snuck the puck past Steffes for the score.

Ohio State would even the score with 1:10 to go as Madison Marcotte's shot the slot hit a body on its way towards the cage and got past Billadeau for Marcotte's first of the season.

Syracuse went on the power play with 42 second s left in the period, and Carrie-Mattimoe put the Orange up 2-1 with less than five seconds left in the frame as Jordyn Burns threaded a pass from the blue line down to Carrie-Mattimoe in between the hashmarks for the score.

Ohio State began to take control in the second period, outshooting SU 16-8 and second the first of five straight goals when Spooner scored her first of the night with a wrist shot that beat Billadeau to the right side.

Spooner made it 3-2 Ohio State four minutes into the third when she buried a rebound off a McIntosh initial bid before the Buckeyes made it a two-goal game as Danielle Gagne collected a goal from in tight to the net.

Ohio State made it 5-2 eight minutes into the period when Sara Schmidt's shot from just inside the point deflected off a Syracuse stick on its way through Billadeau.

Gagne scored her first goal of the season with 4:53 remaining in regulation when her shot from the doorstep squeaked through the pads of Billadeau. Jessica Sorensen would cut the deficit to 6-3 with 14 seconds left in regulation when she took a pass from Julie Knerr and deeked past Steffes for her fourth goal of the season.