The 2007-08 Lady Huskies

The Northeastern University Women's Ice Hockey team is composed of 25 student-athletes and three alumni coaches. Northeastern practices and plays out the historic Matthews Arena in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The team competes in one of the toughest leagues in the country, Hockey East. The women's Hockey East is made up of Boston University, Boston College, University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, University of Connecticut, Providence College and University of Maine. The Lady Huskies also play for the Beanpot title every February with Boston University, Boston College and Harvard.

The Lady Huskies began their 2007-08 season this past weekend (Oct. 6 & 7) when they traveled to the University of Minnesota for the Nike Bauer Women's Classic. The Lady Huskies were joined by Boston University, University of North Dakota, and host school University of Minnesota. Northeastern first played the Golden Gophers of Minnesota. While Minnesota came out firing, the Lady Huskies managed to battle back. Unfortunately they were not able to make up the difference as they fell to Minnesota 5-3.

On Saturday, Oct. 7, the team was back on the ice to face University of North Dakota. The Fighting Sioux lost to Boston University the previous night in a shootout. The Huskies found themselves down 1-0 after the first period. After neither team scored in the second period, Northeastern was able to outscore North Dakota 2-1 to end regulation in a 2-2 tie. The overtime period ended with the same score, a 2-2 tie. In at goal for the Lady Huskies was freshman Leah Sulyma who recorded 26 saves. Scoring for Northeastern was freshman Allyssa Wohlfeiler and senior captain Nikki Petrich (pictured at right).

The following Friday night, Oct. 12, the Lady Huskies found themselves traveling to Connecticut to take on Quinnipiac. The Bobcats came on strong outscoring Northeastern 2-0 to end the first period. The Huskies then came out for the second period ready to even the score. They were able to post two goals of their own, but not without Quinnipiac scoring two of their own. At the end of two periods the Bobcats still held a two goal advantage leading 4-2. With one period left the Huskies knew what they had to do. While they were able to get one goal back, they just weren't able to connect for that second goal to tie the game. The game ended with a final score of 4-3 in favor of the host Quinnipiac Bobcats. Chelsey Jones (pictured at top) scored two goals for the Huskies and Nikki Pietrich scored her 31st career goal in her 100th game for Northeastern. Freshman goalie Leah Sulyma made 17 saves on the night. The Lady Ice Huskies next meeting is home at Matthews Arena on Saturday, October 20, when they meet Niagara at 2pm.

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