Ice Hockey Opens Season With a Shutout Win

Friday, October 4

Syracuse, NY

5:30 pm

Syracuse University

1-0-0

Stonehill

0-2-0

Stonehill

Syracuse

10/4/2024 9:18:00 PM | Ice Hockey

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Four different players found the back of the net for Syracuse University women's ice hockey as the Orange picked up a 4-0 win over Stonehill Friday night at Tennity Ice Pavilion.

Jackson Kinsler lit the lamp just 68 seconds into her first career game with the Orange, while Jessica Cheung finished with two points, tallying her first collegiate goal and assisting Tatum White on the power play. Maya D'Arcy added a goal late in the third period to season the win for Syracuse (1-0-0).

Stonehill (0-2-0) got 37 saves from netminder Alexsa Caron, including 18 in a very busy second period. She added another 12 in the third as well. Maddison Achtyl and Lily Geist took four shots each to lead the Skyhawks offensive chances.

How it Happened

Kinsler, a sophomore transfer from Boston University, collected a blocked shot and scored just 68 seconds into the first game of the year for the Orange.
Five minutes later, White added a second goal for the Orange, converting on a power-play chance. Cheung and Charli Kettyle, another pair of newcomers to the program, added the assists.
Starting goalkeeper for Syracuse, Allie Kelley, made five saves in the first 20 minutes as the Orange took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission.
The second was a lower scoring frame before Cheung scored her first career goal, striking on the power-play at 17:42 of the second period. Cheung grabbed a rebounded Kettyle shot and scored for a 3-0 'Cuse lead after two.
Syracuse showed how quickly it has gelled this season as D'Arcy got her first of the year with another set of fresh faces, Bryn Saarela and Peyton Armstong, getting the assists. D'Arcy put the game out of reach with the fourth and final goal of the day at 18:11 of the third.

Head Coach Britni Smith
I'm really excited about our start. One of the things we've focused a lot on is being consistent in our play and making sure we come out hard to start every game and it was nice to see that in the first game of the season.

Behind the Numbers

Syracuse scored on two of its three power play chances, with both goals coming inside the first minute of the penalties. Likewise, the Syracuse penalty kill unit held off a pair of Skyhawk chances, once late in the first and the second early in the third.
The Orange out-shot Stonehill 41-20. Rylee McLeod won 10 of her 15 faceoffs while Kettyle and Sami Gendron each blocked a pair of shots.
Friday's clean sheet was the first time since Feb. 10, 2024 the Orange registered a shutout.

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