With some timely goal scoring by Kelty Apperson and the solid goaltending of Kristin Wolfe, the Lady Tommies defeated the St-FX X-Women 3 to 2 in a shoot out. It was STU's first win at the Grant-Harvey Center over X in four tries since opening the building back in the fall of 2012.
Tonight, it was Apperson who opened the scoring for STU at the 8:00 minute mark of the first period when she took a Katie Brewster pass at the side of the net and fired it home from a sharp angle. Connor Garagan tied the game for X 1:17 later. The match would remain tied until the third period.
St. FX would take their first lead of the game at 6:08 of the third period on the powerplay. With time running out on the Tommies, Kelty Apperson (Steinert, Brewster) tied the game with 1:41 to go. She also missed on a breakaway with under 30 seconds to play and was a force all night creating havoc in the X-Women's end from the "get go".
After regulation the game was tied at 2 and the shots favoured X, 38 to 25.
The overtime period solved nothing.
In the shootout Kristin Wolfe was spectacular stopping all 5 X-Women shooters and Jenna Scott put one in the attic knocking the water bottle off the net for STU's only goal.
This was a huge win for the Tommies and an important 2 points in the standings.
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