ERIE, Pa. –
Emma Nuutinen scored four goals as the Lakers took down ninth-ranked Colgate 8-5 on Sunday at the Mercyhurst Ice Center.
Sam Isbell recorded two goals and three assists while
Rachel Marmen had the other Laker goal.
Maggie Knott and
Vilma Tanskanen had three assists each, Vilma
Samantha Fieseler tallied two assists and K.K Thiessen and
Mary Katherine Gialames had one assist apiece for Mercyhurst (9-9-3).
Malia Schneider scored two goals while Nemo Neubauerova, Olivia Zafuto and Jessie Eldridge had one goal each for Colgate (11-6-3).
Nuutinen started the scoring off at 4:54 of the first period with and assist from Tanskanen.
Colgate then scored three goals to take a 3-1 lead. Schneider scored her first of the game before Neubauerova gave the Raiders the lead 1:02 later.
Zafauto capitalized on the power play to make it 3-1.
One minute and one second later, Nuutinen scored her second of the game to bring the Lakers within one.
During the second period, Marmen tied the game at 3-3 on the power play with helpers from Isbell and Tanskanen.
Eldridge scored to give Colgate a 4-3 lead heading into the second intermission.
Two minutes and three seconds into the third period, Tanskanen scored a short-handed goal to tie the game at 4-4. Thiessen and Gialames picked up assists.
Colgate came back with one more goal from Schneider, but it wasn't enough as the Lakers went on to score four unanswered goals to win 8-5.
Isbell scored her first power play goal of the game at 8:00 assisted by Fieseler and Knott.
Forty-seven seconds later, Nuutinen finished her hat trick on the power play, for the second time this season. Isbell and Tanskanen added assists.
A little over two minutes later, Isbell scored her second power play goal of the game to give Mercyhurst a 7-5 lead. Fieseler and Knott picked by assists.
At 15:36 of the third period, Nuutinen scored for fourth goal, short-handed, to give the Lakers a 8-5 win.
Nuutinen is the first player to record four goals since Jan. 2012, when
Kelley Steadman had four goals during a 4-2 win over Robert Morris.
The eight-goal output marks the first time Mercyhurst has scored eight goals since the 2013-14 season.
Winning goaltender
Kennedy Blair made 19 saves in net for Mercyhurst while Julia VanDyk made 21 saves for Colgate.
Mercyhurst finished 4-for-6 on the power play while Colgate went 3-for-7.
The Lakers have a week off before they are back in action at the Rochester Institute of Technology on Jan. 18-19. Puck drops at 6 p.m. on Friday and 1 p.m. on Saturday.
