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Savannah Harmon scored the game-winner at RPI - photo by Jim Meagher
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Winner Clarkson CLARKSON 18-8-3; 12-3-2 ECAC
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Rensselaer RPIWH 5-20-4; 3-13-1 ECAC
Winner
Clarkson CLARKSON
18-8-3; 12-3-2 ECAC
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Final
1
Rensselaer RPIWH
5-20-4; 3-13-1 ECAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
Clarkson CLARKSON 1 0 1 2
Rensselaer RPIWH 0 1 0 1

Game Recap: Women's Hockey | | Feb. 6, 2015

Clarkson Escapes With 2-1 Win

A goal early in the third period from freshman Savannah Harmon (Downers Grove, IL) helped the Clarkson University Women's Hockey team escape Troy with a 2-1 win over Rensselear on Friday night.
 
Clarkson is now 18-8-3 overall and 12-3-2 in ECAC Hockey games, which places them in a three-way tie for second place, just a solitary point behind league-leading Harvard. Rensselear is 5-19-4 overall and their 3-13-1 record in ECAC Hockey games places them in tenth place.

"It was great to get the two points tonight, but we definitely didn't bring our best game and it wasn't near what we need heading into playoffs," stated Clarkson Head Coach Matt Desrosiers. "Our main focus heading into the game was to make sure we were treating it as if it were a playoff game to help start getting us into that postseason hockey mindset. I thought we started the game off sluggish though and RPI was able to take advantage of that to create some good scoring chances. Shea (Tiley) did a great job tonight especially in the first period making some big saves to keep the lead heading into the first intermission. We showed spurts of playing our game, but it was far too inconsistent tonight. We have done a great job over the course of the season to put ourselves in the position we are in, which is to compete for the league championship. We need to start realizing that there isn't a lot of room for error in these types of situations and that you need to be consistent and clicking on all cylinders come this time of year. We are going to need to regroup tomorrow and get back to playing the way we need to in order to be successful."

Clarkson would take the lead the lead 5:58 into the first period when junior Cayley Mercer (Exeter, ONT) collected a pass from junior assistant captain Renata Fast (Burlington, ONT) and skated past the RPI goalie and finished into an open net. It was her team-leading 17th goal of the season.
 
RPI would tie the game at 18:17 of the second period when Alex Gruschow scored a short-handed goal for the Engineers.
 
However, just 54 seconds into the third period, the Golden Knights would regain the lead for good when Harmon scored a power-play goal, with senior Christine Lambert (Thetford Mines, QUE) and Mercer picking up assists on the goal. Lambert now has at least a point in four straight games.
 
Clarkson freshman goaltender Shea Tiley (Owen Sound, ONT) finished with 27 saves. Clarkson scored on one of their five man-advantage opportunities while stopping Rensselear on all nine of their power plays.  Clarkson was outshot 28-25, but was still able to extend their winning streak to three games for the first time in 2015.
 
The Green and Gold, winners of three straight, will travel to Union tomorrow for a 4:00 pm game. 
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