MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Hamilton College's Sarah Wagner '28 scored the game-winner a minute into the sudden-victory overtime period and lifted the Continentals to a 5-4 NESCAC win against the Wesleyan University Cardinals inside Wesleyan's Spurrier-Snyder Rink on Friday night, Jan. 16.
 

Season Update

• Hamilton (7-5-1, 3-3-1 NESCAC) picked up a pair of road wins over the last four days, including a 6-0 victory at William Smith College on Jan. 13.
• Wesleyan (2-11-1, 0-7-0) is currently mired in a four-game losing streak.

 

How It Happened

• In overtime the Continentals quickly gained control of the puck. Lydia Bullock '26 drove at the defense and a defender poked the puck away only for it to fall right to Wagner, who buried her shot and capped a miraculous comeback.
• Hamilton trailed 4-2 and had just killed a penalty that ended with 1:12 left in the third period. The Continentals immediately pulled goaltender Evie Sheridan '26 for a sixth skater and it paid off. Within seconds after the extra skater hit the ice, a blocked pass by Cuora Sullivan '26 found its way to Sophie Berghammer '26 and she picked out the top corner with a shot from just across the blue line. That made the score 4-3 with 1:05 remaining.
• With time winding down and the Continentals in desperation mode, Sadie Klein '29 fed a pass to Bullock, who fired a shot from the right side of the offensive zone. The shot went through defenders and past the goaltender, tying the score at 4-4 with just 25 seconds left.
• The teams scored two goals apiece in the first period. Klein opened the scoring at 5:28 but the Cardinals were up 2-1 less than 90 seconds later after goals by Sam Galanek and Dylan Green.
• Wesleyan was on the power play late in the first period, but a giveaway at the blue line by the Cardinals allowed Bullock to pick up the puck. She took the puck down the ice, went around the goaltender, and scored with a backhand shot that leveled the score at 2-2.
• After a scoreless second period, Wesleyan regained its lead 1:57 into the third. Bree Anderson got the puck at the top of the offensive zone and fired a long-distance shot that found the top corner.
• A little more than two minutes later, the puck found its way to Aiko Sims off a faceoff in the Cardinals' offensive zone. Sims steered it around the goaltender and into the back of the net for the 4-2 advantage.

 

Notes

• Wagner scored her first career goal and added an assist. She has all four of her collegiate points in the last two games.
• Bullock finished with two goals and three points for the first time at Hamilton.
• Klein scored the first goal of her college career and recorded her first multi-point game. She also won 10-of-15 faceoffs.
• Berghammer, who is a defender, scored her first goal since the season opener and has two this season.
• Grace Crowley '26 picked up three assists for the first time with the Continentals. Crowley has six points in the last two games and leads the team with eight helpers and 12 points.
• Sullivan, who was injured during the fall semester, has an assist in three of the five games she has played in this season.
• Sheridan made a season-high 31 stops and improved to 4-1 this season.
• Hamilton held a 64-42 advantage in overall shots and 44-35 in shots on goal.
• Both teams were scoreless on the power play with Hamilton going 0-for-3 and Wesleyan going 0-for-6. The Continentals killed a 5-on-3 situation for 90 seconds midway through the third period.
• Wesleyan won 39-of-75 faceoffs.
• Hamilton has lost to the Cardinals once in the last 14 meetings (11-1-2).

 

Next Game

The two teams meet again at Wesleyan on Saturday, Jan. 17 at 3 p.m.