BOSTON – Six Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) women’s teams faced non-conference opponents on Friday, including five contests featuring ranked teams.

SCOREBOARD
Long Island 2, Delaware 1 OT
#4/6 Northeastern 5, RIT 0
#RV/15 Minnesota State 6, Robert Morris 3
#2/3 Minnesota 5, Lindenwood 2
#6/5 Penn State 3, St. Lawrence 1
#11/8 UConn 3, Mercyhurst 1
Recaps available below 

LONG ISLAND 2, DELAWARE 1 OT
Box Score 
East Meadow, N.Y. – Delaware took an early 1-0 lead at Long Island, but the Sharks answered with a tying goal late in the second period and potted the game winner in overtime in the series opener on Friday. 

Katie Belk (Otonobee, Ont.) got the Blue Hens on the board less than four minutes into the first period, with Tiana McIntyre (Park City, Utah) assisting.

Long Island tied the score with less than a minute remaining in the second. After a scoreless third, Crosby Wildfong scored the winner 2:13 into overtime.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Delaware	1-0-0-0–1	23	2/4	0/1	2-6-1 (1-3-0)
Long Island	0-1-0-1–2	18	1/2	0/2	3-3-1 (2-1-1)

#4/6 NORTHEASTERN 5, RIT 0
Box Score 
Rochester, N.Y. – RIT, playing its fifth non-conference opponent ranked in the national polls this season, fell to Northeastern, 5-0, Friday afternoon.  

The Huskies took a 2-0 lead in the first period that held through the second. The Tigers battled, with freshman Oceanne Thiffault (Montreal, Que.) making 35 saves in the game, but allowed three more goals in the back half of the third period.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Northeastern	2-0-3–5	40	4/8	0/2	4-1-1 (2-0-0)
RIT	0-0-0–0	18	2/4	0/4	2-7-0 (2-0-0)

#RV/15 MINNESOTA STATE 6, ROBERT MORRIS 3
Box Score 
Boston, Mass. – Minnesota State scored four third-period goals – two into an empty net – to secure a 6-3 win Friday afternoon in the opening game of the Ice Breaker Tournament at Boston University’s Walter Brown Arena.

Rowyn Ringor (Winnipeg, Man.) got Robert Morris on the board first in the first minute of the second period and the teams traded leads before entering the third period tied.

Minnesota State scored twice in a 53-second span near the midpoint of the third to claim a 4-2 lead, including Ayla Puppe’s second of the day. Ava Vrana (Kingston, Ont.) pulled the Colonials within one but they couldn’t get an equalizer. 

Robert Morris will face the loser of Friday night’s Yale-Boston University game in Saturday’s Ice Breaker consolation game at 2 p.m. ET.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Robert Morris	0-2-1–3	34	5/10	0/2	3-6-0 (0-4-0)
Minnesota State	0-2-4–6	36	2/4	1/5	3-4-0 (0-4-0)

#2/3 MINNESOTA 5, LINDENWOOD 2
Box Score 
Minneapolis, Minn. – One night after an 11-0 loss to #2/3 Minnesota, Lindenwood kept it much closer against the high-flying Golden Gophers, falling 5-2 on Friday night.

Tilde Simensen (Halden, Norway) scored both goals for the Lions, the first multiple-goal game of the freshman’s career. Senior Eva Filippova (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia) made her second start of the season and stopped 68 shots, third-most all-time by an AHA goaltender and trailing only former Lindenwood great Nicole Hensley (90 and 69 saves in two 2013 games).
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Lindenwood	0-1-1–2	14	4/8	0/0	4-8-0 (1-5-0)
Minnesota	2-1-2–5	73	2/4	1/2	7-1-0 (3-1-0)

#6/5 PENN STATE 3, ST. LAWRENCE 1
Box Score 
Canton, N.Y. – Penn State scored three third-period goals to overcome a 1-0 St. Lawrence lead and earn a 3-1 victory over the Saints, the fourth straight victory for the Nittany Lions.

Abby Stonehouse (Blenheim, Ont.) tied the score with a goal 11:53 into the third period, then added a second on the power play just 2:29 later to give Penn State a 2-1 lead. Grace Outwater (Picton, Ont.) scored another power-play goal for the 3-1 final as the Nittany Lions held an 11-5 shot advantage in the third period.

Friday marked the second time this season that the Penn State power play has scored twice in a game. The Nittany Lions have converted on 32% of power plays in their last seven games (8-for-25).
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Penn State	0-0-3–3	35	0/0	2/4	6-3-0 (5-1-0)
St. Lawrence	1-0-0–1	22	2/7	0/0	2-7-0 (0-0-0)

#11/8 UCONN 3, MERCYHURST 1
Box Score 
Storrs, Conn. – UConn came back from a 1-0 first-period deficit to defeat Mercyhurst, 3-1, Friday night in the first of the teams’ two-game series.

Freshman Mariia Polozkova (Moscow, Russia) scored her fifth of the season to give the Lakers a 1-0 lead 6:32 into the game. 

UConn answered with two second-period goals and another in the third, with Maya Serdachny and Caileigh Tiller each posting a goal and an assist.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Mercyhurst	1-0-0–1	30	2/4	0/0	5-4-0 (3-1-0)
UConn	0-2-1–3	39	0/0	0/2	3-4-0 (0-0-0)

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Saturday, October 24
Robert Morris vs. Yale or BU, 2 p.m. ET (Ice Breaker Tournament, Boston, Mass.)
Mercyhurst at #11/8 UConn, 1 p.m. ET
Delaware at Long Island, 2 p.m. ET
#6/5 Penn State at St. Lawrence, 3 p.m. ET
#4/6 Northeastern at RIT, 3 p.m. ET

Thursday, October 29
Delaware at Syracuse, 5 p.m. ET
Robert Morris at Lindenwood, 7:15 p.m. CT

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