Guelph vs. Mercyhurst Boxscore

ERIE, Pa. – Nine different players found the back of the net as the Mercyhurst College women's hockey team routed Guelph 10-0 to close out the preseason Saturday afternoon at the Mercyhurst Ice Center. Overall, 15 skaters combined for 10 goals and 12 assists, bringing the two-game preseason total to 47 points.

Freshman Jessica Christofferson highlighted the offense with a pair of goals, including a short-handed score midway through the first period. The man-down goal was one of five special teams scores in the game, as the Lakers went 3-for-3 on the power play and exposed Guelph twice with a skater in the penalty box.

Four other players recorded at least two or more points. Junior Vicki Bendus and sophomore Jess Jones combined for six points with a goal and two assists apiece, while junior blueliners Cassea Schols and Melissa Lacroix each contributed a goal and an assist.

Senior Johanna Malmstrom, junior Jesse Scanzano and sophomores Bailey Bram and Meghan Corbett rounded out the offense with single tallies.

Specials teams played a key role in the first two periods as four of the Lakers' seven goals came on either the penalty kill or the power play. The man-down unit accounted for all of the offense in the first, with Scanzano and Christofferson tickling the twine at 7:57 and 10:12, before the extra-man group blasted two of the team's five scores in the second.

Schols started the five-goal, second-period run with a marker just 33 seconds into the frame, followed by Bram on the power-play at 5:56, Malmstrom at 9:50, Christofferson with the extra man at 15:20, and Corbett at 16:56.

Goals courtesy of Jones, Bendus and Lacroix capped off the game in the third.

In net, sophomore Hillary Pattenden fended off nine shots through the first two periods before giving way to freshman Kelci Lanthier, who made three saves to preserve the shutout in the third. Mercyhurst outshot the Gryphons 50-12 and held them scoreless on five power-play opportunities.

The Lakers will officially open their 11th season of intercollegiate play when Bemidji State visits the Ice Center for a two-game series beginning on Friday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m.