The Lindenwood Women's Hockey team (6-12-0, 3-9-0 AHA) was swept in the series finale against RIT (5-11-0, 5-3-0 AHA) on Saturday afternoon by a final score of 5-1.
The Tigers found the back of the net twice in the opening frame with goals coming from Eryka DeRocha and Laura Dyke at the 7:45 and 11:29 marks. Despite giving up two goals early on, Lindenwood had three quality scoring chances in the first 20 minutes of play. Following the first goal of the game,
Renee Ng received a pass in the neutral zone from
Paige Cline midway through the period after RIT turned the puck over. Ng skated through the Tigers' defensive zone and fired a shot from the right circle, but the Tiger defenseman was in the right position and blocked Ng's attempt.
Later in the period,
Rhaea Flint and
Silje Gundersen both had point blank scoring chances, but RIT's Oceanne Thiffault stopped both shots to keep Lindenwood off the scoreboard in the first period.
The momentum generated for the Lions would carry over into the second period as they headed to the power play at the 2:01 mark. While on the power play,
Krisztina Weiler,
Raquel McCormack, and Cline all recorded a shot on goal, but the Black and Gold were unable to find the back of the net with the extra attacker. Shortly after the power play had expired, RIT found the back of the net for the third time in the game at the 5:56 mark and carried the three goal advantage into the second intermission.
On the opening faceoff of the third period following a penalty by RIT, McCormack won a faceoff that Cline sent back to
Ellie Muscedere. Muscedere sent a pass across the blue line to
Michaela Paulinyova in the Lions' defensive zone, and Paulinyova skated through the neutral zone and into the Tigers' zone untouched and fired a wrist shot past the left shoulder of the RIT netminder to cut the RIT lead down to 3-1. However, the Tigers immediately responded and regained their three-goal lead back less than two minutes later, and added a late empty net goal to complete the series sweep over the Lions.
Offensively, Paulinyova netted her third goal of the season, while Cline added her fourth assist and Muscedere recorded her third assist of the 2026-27 campaign. In the face-off dot,
Tiril Arntzen led the Lions with 13Â wins, and
Krisztina Weiler had a team-high four shots on goal.
Lindenwood will be on a bye next week and will return to the ice on November 27 and 28 at Bemidji State for their next series.
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