PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Paul Colontino said his Robert Morris women's hockey team needed to be smarter as it prepared for another New England-area road trip this weekend. Ironically, it was their Ivy League opponent who went to school Friday night, and the Colonials, collectively, were the professor.

Freshmen Emilie Harley, Emily Curlett and Lexi Templeman netted their first collegiate goals, with Curlett adding another, and Sarah Lecavalier potted her first since transferring from North Dakota on the power play as No. 10 RMU (4-1-0) vindicated its 18th consecutive national ranking with a historic 11-0 blowout of Brown (0-1-0).

It ranks among the top five greatest single-game outbursts in program history. The 11 goals were the third-most all-time by the Colonials and the most since a Jan. 22, 2010 rout of Sacred Heart. RMU also finished with 18 assists, which ties for its second-most ever in a game and the most since another lopsided win over SHU Jan. 23, 2010.

While Colontino's offense was busy amassing its largest margin of victory since he took over the program in 2011-12, reigning CHA Goalie of the Week Elijah Milne-Price was quietly stopping 22 Brown shots for her first shutout and third win to begin the season.

Robert Morris, for the second game in a row, came out flying, but this time it was rewarded for its early onslaught, in which it out-shot the Bears 8-2 at one point. The Colonials' 56 shots on the night were their most since the second of those aforementioned 2010 triumphs over Sacred Heart, and they were reminiscent of a rare 53-shot effort against Brown last New Year's Eve.

Sophomore right wing Jaycee Gebhard, who would finish this night with a team-leading five points, snapped a puck past Lauren Rippy 6:10 into the first period for the only goal RMU would actually need, but there was so much more to come.

Harley further silenced the Meehan Auditorium crowd 2:24 into the second period when the first-year forward fired a slow-moving shot from the right wing circle that fooled Rippy and sparked a five-goal frame by Robert Morris.

Less than three minutes later, RMU took a commanding 4-0 lead when Gebhard, from behind the Brown net, found Curlett on the left side, and the rookie defender wristed home a shorthanded goal. The second shorty in as many games is already one more than Robert Morris registered all of last season.

Lecavalier got into the act during a 5-on-4 off a deflection right in front to make it a five-goal game with 9:45 to go until the ice cut. On a subsequent Colonials power play, Templeman opened her NCAA account by diligently banging in a loose puck with just a minute-and-a-half left in the period. Natalie Marcuzzi added her first goal of the campaign for good measure a mere 18 seconds later.

Amber Rennie would also score twice, and conference leader Brittany Howard, now riding a career-best goal-scoring streak of five games, tacked on her seventh and eighth of the season early in the third period.

The Colonials, now 4-0 all-time versus the Bears, will go for the sweep Saturday at 1:00 p.m.

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