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Sophie Berghammer shoots from the blue line against Amherst in November 2023
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Sophie Berghammer '26
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Hamilton HAM 13-5-6, 6-5-5
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Middlebury MID 13-6-4, 10-3-3
Hamilton HAM
13-5-6, 6-5-5
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Final
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Middlebury MID
13-6-4, 10-3-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 OT 1 F
Hamilton HAM 1 0 0 0 1
Middlebury MID 0 1 0 0 1

Game Recap: Women's Ice Hockey | | Jim Taylor

No. 7 women's hockey ties No. 8 Middlebury 1-1 in season finale

Continentals host Trinity in a NESCAC Championship quarterfinal on Feb. 24

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Hamilton College defender Sophie Berghammer '26 scored an unassisted goal and Mac Donovan '26 made 18 saves as the Continentals and the Middlebury College Panthers played to a 1-1 NESCAC tie inside Middlebury's Chip Kenyon Arena on Saturday, Feb. 17.
 

Season Update

  • Despite two wins in its last nine games, seventh-ranked Hamilton (13-5-6, 6-5-5 NESCAC) tied for third place in the conference standings and secured the fourth seed for the NESCAC Championship. The Continentals host Trinity College for a quarterfinal at Russell Sage Rink on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 4:30 p.m.
  • The eighth-ranked Panthers (13-6-4, 10-3-3) had won their previous three contests, including a 4-3 overtime victory against Hamilton on Friday night. Middlebury clinched the No. 2 seed for the NESCAC Championship and hosts Williams College for a quarterfinal on Feb. 24.
 

How It Happened

  • Berghammer gave the Continentals a 1-0 lead with 8:11 left in the first period. The Panthers rang a shot off the post about seven minutes into the period and did it again with a little under six minutes remaining in the second.
  • Molly MacQueen put Middlebury on the scoreboard with 56.7 seconds to go in the second period.
  • After the teams combined for just seven shots on goal in the third period, they went all out in the five-minute, 3-on-3 overtime session. Hamilton put seven shots on goal and the Panthers had six shot attempts, including another off the post a few seconds after the opening faceoff. Four Middlebury shots were blocked by the Continentals. Donovan made one final stop as the horn sounded to end the game.
 

Notes

  • Berghammer scored her first goal this season and the second of her Hamilton career. Both goals were scored against Middlebury.
  • Donovan, who has a 1.61 goals against average and .925 save percentage in six starts, was making her third straight appearance in place of the injured Teagan Brown '27.
  • The Continentals blocked 19 shots by the Panthers.
  • Bobbi Roca '24 won 13 of 23 faceoffs for Hamilton.
  • Sophia Will stopped 22 shots for Middlebury. Audrey Lazar and Cece Ziegler had the assists on the Panthers' goal.
  • Middlebury was 0-for-3 on the power play while the Continentals were 0-for-1.
  • Hamilton has allowed just five power-play goals in 62 chances this season.
  • Exactly half of the Continentals' 24 games have gone to overtime.
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