BOSTON – Mercyhurst handed Penn State its first regulation loss in Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) play since Feb. 8, 2025, highlighting three women’s games on Saturday.

SCOREBOARD
Mercyhurst 3, #7/7 Penn State 0
RIT 5, Lindenwood 1
RPI 2, Syracuse 1 OT
Recaps available below

MERCYHURST 3, #7/7 PENN STATE 0
Box Score | Game Highlights
Erie, Pa. – Mercyhurst got goals from three players and 18 saves from Lexington Secreto (New Windsor, N.Y.) to post a 3-0 shutout win over Penn State Saturday, snapping a Nittany Lion streak of 35 straight conference games earning at least a point in the standings (32 wins, 3 overtime losses). The only team in conference history with a longer point streak was Mercyhurst, which went 37-0-4 from March 7, 2004, to Feb. 8, 2008.  

Mercyhurst outshot Penn State, 21-18, scored on two of three power plays, and killed off a five-minute major in the second half of the third period to preserve the win.

Senior Henlee Mahoney (Niagara Falls, Ont.), freshman Sophie Erlam (Edmonton, Alta.) and freshman Mariia Polozkova (Moscow, Russia) accounted for the Laker goals. Mahoney’s goal to start the scoring was her first point of the season and just her fifth career goal. Erlam scored for the second weekend in a row and Polozkova added her team-leading seventh goal into an empty net.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Penn State	0-0-0–0	18	4/8	0/2	9-4-0 (7-2-0)
Mercyhurst	1-1-1–3	21	3/17	2/4	10-4-1 (6-1-0)

RIT 5, LINDENWOOD 1
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Rochester, N.Y. – RIT scored a season-high five goals and completed its sweep of Lindenwood, 5-1, earning a third win in four games and improving to 5-3-0 in conference play.

Five Tigers scored goals, with Eryka DeRocha (Hannibal, N.Y.), Laura Dyke (St. John’s, Newf.) and Brac Kelley (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) leading the offense with a goal and an assist each. DeRocha and Dyke sparked the offense with first-period goals just 3:44 apart, with the freshman DeRocha recording her first two career points on the tallies.

Oceanne Thiffault (Montreal, Que.), making her ninth consecutive start, stopped 17 of 18 shots she faced and earned her fourth win of the season.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Lindenwood	0-0-1–1	18	2/4	1/3	6-12-0 (3-9-0)
RIT	2-1-2–5	40	3/6	0/2	5-11-0 (5-3-0)

RPI 2, SYRACUSE 1 OT
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Syracuse, N.Y. – RPI scored 2:40 into overtime to complete the sweep of its home-and-home series with Syracuse, winning 2-1 on Saturday.

The teams traded goals in the first period, with Rylee McLeod (Grande Prairie, Alta.) tying the score for Syracuse in the final minute.

Both goaltenders shined, with Reese Keating stopping 37 shots for RPI and Cicely Harnum (Beaver Bank, N.S.) making 29 saves in her first collegiate start.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Syracuse	1-0-0-0–1	38	2/4	0/3	8-6-0 (6-4-0)
RPI	1-0-0-1–2	31	3/6	0/2	4-14-0 (1-6-0)

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Tuesday, November 17
Colgate at Syracuse, 6 p.m. ET

Thursday, November 19
Delaware at Penn State, 6 p.m. ET

Friday, November 20
Delaware at Penn State, 4 p.m. ET
Mercyhurst at Robert Morris, 6 p.m. ET
RIT at Syracuse, 6 p.m. ET

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