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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.–  The Merrimack women's ice hockey team pushed the UConn Huskies on home ice, falling 3-2 in a close contest on Friday night.   
 
The Basics
Score: Merrimack Warriors 3, University of Connecticut Huskies 4
Records: Merrimack (0-7-1, 0-3-1 HEA) | UConn (7-0-0, 3-0-0 HEA)
Location: Lawler Rink | North Andover, Mass.
 
How It Happened

• UConn took a lead on an opening minute power play for a 1-0 lead which would hold through the game's opening 20 minutes. Emma Gorski held for 11 saves in the first to keep the game close for the Warriors.
• Merrimack tied the game up on its own power play midway through the second. Courtney Maud pinned the puck along the wall at the hash marks, where it was picked loose from the scrum by Teghan Inglis. Inglis walked the puck through the circle, connecting with Dominika Laskova coming from off the boards down low. Laskova waited, using the defender as a screen before pulling back for a high snap shot for the goal.
• The Huskies scored within the first minute again in the third, after pressure in the neutral zone led to a one-time shot from the break in for the lead.
• Laskova once again kept the Warriors in the mix with a goal at the end of a sharp penalty kill. As the penalty expired, Gabby Jones snapped up a loose puck, sending a breakout pass through the neutral zone to Katie Kaufman. Kaufman brought it in to the offensive zone, working firm on puck battle to hold possession in the high slot. Laskova curled to scoop up the puck with UConn's defense collapsed in the slot, pulling out to the circle for a hard one-time shot five hole to tie the game.  
• UConn scored the clincher in the final five minutes, cashing in on a two-on-one break for the victory.

Notes & Numbers.

• Katie Kaufman has now had a point in four straight games for the Warriors with an assist on Laskova's second of the night. Laskova has notched a point in three straight games, along with Inglis who's notched four points in her last three games.
• Laskova has scored two points in three straight games, notching a goal and an assist at Boston University (10/15), two assists on the road at UConn (10/17), and her two goals tonight.
• Goaltenders: Emma Gorski (22 saves, 0-6-1) | Samantha Carpentier-Yelle (22 saves, 5-0-0)
• Power Plays: MC 1-2 | UConn 1-5
• Shots on Goal: MC 5, UConn 11 | MC 8, UConn 4 | MC 9, UConn 7 | MC 34, UConn 25
• Faceoffs: 22 MC | 33 UConn               Blocks: 16 MC | 9 UConn

Up Next
Merrimack travels to Burlington, Vt. to face off against the University of Vermont Catamounts for the first time in 21 months on Sunday, Oct. 24 with puck drop at 2 p.m.
 
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