Knox shuts out Lancers for Lady Hawks victory

Hawks’ net minder Liz Knox shuts out the Windsor Lancers leading team to a 5-0 win, and 4th straight victory of the season

The WLU women’s hockey team hosted the Windsor Lancers this past Sunday at Pillars Ice in RIM Park. The defending OUA champs dominated the Lancers with a total of 41 shots on goal, while WLU’s net minder Liz Knox faced merely six shots, completing a shut out. The win brings the Lady Hawks to a perfect 4-0 season so far.

“Between yesterday and today we scored ten consecutive goals. But we gave up three goals early in yesterday’s game, which is very out of character for us. So today’s challenge was to make sure we played a 60-minute game,” explained head coach Rick Osborne. And that’s exactly what the Hawks did.

Laurier went 2:9 on the power play, scoring their first two goals with the man advantage. Heather Fortuna claimed some open net space off a cross ice pass veteran Kat Psota sent from the corner. Just over a minute later, Candace Kellough fired another from Psota, with team captain Andrea Bevan also picking up an assist.

In the second period of play, scrambling out front of the net, Kaley Powers snuck one in past Windsor goaltender Jamie Tessier. Sophomore Katherine Shirriff, and freshman Abby Rainsberry were credited with assists.

Poor defensive effort from the Lancers led to another Laurier goal; Shirriff going top shelf from Rainsberry and Powers. “We have a lot of outside speed…I think we just skated a lot better than they did today,” said Coach Osborne.

The final goal of the game was the result of a beautiful play, coming again from the Psota/Fortuna duo. Fortuna now leads her team in scoring, with a total of six goals in four games.

The Lady Hawks travel to Kingston this Saturday October 25th, to face the 2-1 Queen University Gaels.