(Halifax, NS) On Sunday night at the Halifax Forum the StFX X-Women took down the Dalhousie Tigers 5-2 in AUS women's hockey action. Kara Power had three points in the winning effort for the X-Women.
It was a slow first period that didn't feature to many scoring chances. Both goalies were barely tested, as the puck seemed to be clog in the neutral ice for majority of the frame.
StFX outshot the Tigers 8-5 in the opening 20 minutes of play.
It was all X-Women in the second period as they put up four goals to the Tigers one. Dalhousie struggled to contain the line of Kara Power, Taylor Dale, and Daley Oddy who accounted for three of the four X-Women goals.
Power started the offensive explosion with a beautiful shorthanded goal four minutes into the second period. Sarah Bujold sprung Power on a break away with a beautiful pass who made no mistake beating Jessica Severeyns with a low blocker shot.
Taylor Dale quickly followed up the Power tally adding one of her own just two minutes later giving the X-Women a 2-0 lead.
Tara Mourning was able to slow the X-Women rush down adding a goal of her own. Mourning backhanded a shot past a screened Pascale Daigle cutting the lead to 2-1 for StFX half way through the second period.
The line of Power, Dale and Oddy were back at it again adding their third goal of the game 15:13 into the period. Power let a shot go from the point that Severeyns could not control leaving a wide-open cage for Oddy to put the X-Women up 3-1.
Shyla Campell was able to stretch the lead to 4-1 with just 18 seconds remaining in the period. Campell was left all alone in front of the Tigers net and tipped home a shot from Nicole Halladay on the power play.
In the third period the X-Women kept up the pressure hemming the Tigers in their own zone for majority of the frame.
Lisa Maclean managed to net a goal for the Tigers half way through the period. MacLean popped out from behind the net and made her way to the high slot where she ripped a shot through traffic. Dalhousie trailed 4-2.
Kara Power notched her second goal of the night on the empty net with 11 seconds left for a final score of 5-2.
Dalhousie (5-6) will be action next Saturday when they host St. Thomas (6-4-1) at 4:30pm at the Halifax Forum while StFX won't see the ice until January.