Box Score Syracuse, N.Y. - Syracuse took an early lead and never looked back as the Robert Morris University women's hockey team fell to the Orange, 5-2, in College Hockey America (CHA) action Friday evening as the Colonials continued their record-setting road trip at the Tennity Ice Pavilion.
Sophomore Jennifer Kindret (Winnipeg, Manitoba / BC Breakers) led the way for RMU by tallying both Colonial scores on the evening and moved into a tie for 10th place on the RMU career goals list. It was Kindret's first multi-point game of the season and the fifth of her career.
Senior forward Maria Stoa (Bloomington, Minn. / Eden Prairie) assisted on Kindret's first score of the night and became the sixth player in Colonial history to reach the 50-point plateau in the process.
Freshman forward Thea Imbrogno (Etobicoke, Ontario / Mississauga Jr. Chiefs) also added an assist for RMU and now has registered a point in four of her past five games.
Robert Morris had some early chances to take the lead, but the Orange blocked five Colonial shots in the opening minutes and were then granted a power play at the 8:32 mark. Syracuse capitalized when Stefanie Marty scored just under a minute into the man advantage to put the Orange on the board.
Not long after the opening score, RMU junior Brianna Delaney (Stittsville, Ontario / NCCP Raiders) nearly tied the game when her shot hit the post. Robert Morris was soon skating shorthanded again, but the Colonials were able to successfully kill the Syracuse chance in the closing minutes of the opening frame and entered the intermission trailing by one.
Syracuse did not wait long to take control in the second as the Orange scored twice, albeit once on the power play, in the first 4:21 of the middle stanza to open up a three-goal edge.
The Colonials grabbed some momentum at the 10:56 mark when Stoa circled behind the net and sent a beautiful feed in front to an awaiting Kindret who pounded it home. Robert Morris forced Syracuse goalie Kallie Billadeau to make six more saves over the remaining minutes of the second stanza but could draw no closer before 40 minutes had expired.
The Orange used a pattern nearly identical to the second period to open the third as Syracuse scored twice in the opening 3:23 to push its margin to four.
Kindret struck for RMU again at the 13:38 mark not long after her classmate Kelsey Thomas (Hamilton, Ontario / Hamilton Hawks) just missed and found the iron.
Robert Morris had a couple of chances to draw closer as it earned a pair of power plays in the waning minutes, but Syracuse held off the Colonial charge.
Kindret's pair of goals marked the first time she has ever scored courtesy of an assist from either Stoa or Imbrogno.
RMU will seek a split of the series as the teams will be right back on the ice Saturday afternoon for a 2:05 p.m. puck drop. The contest will mark the conclusion of the Colonials' program-record, eight-game road trip.
