EASTON, Mass. – Freshman Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) scored 18 seconds after the third Erica Rinsky (North Caldwell, N.J./West Essex) save in overtime to lead No. 12 New Haven (6-0, 4-0 NE10) over the No. 19 Stonehill Skyhawks 12-11 on Wednesday night at W.B. Mason Stadium. Rattigan's OT score was her second of the game, one of three players to finish with multiple goals.

Leading the Chargers offense overall was graduate student Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) who finished with five goals, her second time this season with five goals. Three of her five goals came in the final 10:25 of regulation, all unassisted, as she erased a three-goal deficit, forcing overtime.

Joining Cietek and Rattigan in leading New Haven was Mackenzie Reh (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue Medford) who added two goals and an assist with both of her goals coming on free position attempts. Nicole Belanger (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon), Samantha Galler (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield) and Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) rounded out the Blue and Gold's scoring for the day.

Freshman Erica Rinsky (North Caldwell, N.J./West Essex) earned the victory in net, playing the final 51:51 between the pipes. Overall, Rinsky finished her third victory of the season with 10 saves, tying her season-high, while allowing four of the Skyhawks goals.

SCORING

·         29:16 1st – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (1); Free Position

·         26:22 1st – UNH :: Nicole Belanger (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) (1) from Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) (1)

·         23:18 1st  – STO :: Elizabeth Vetter; Free Position, Man-up

·         19:28 1st – UNH :: Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) (1) unassisted

·         18:33 1st – STO :: Shannon Booth; Free Position

·         17:29 1st – STO :: Taylor Shannahan unassisted

·         17:03 1st – STO :: MacKenzie Pleshaw; Free Position

·         15:50 1st – STO :: Taylor Shannahan unassisted

·         14:11 1st – STO :: Kaitlin Healey unassisted

·         13:26 1st – STO :: Kiki Ryan from MacKenzie Pleshaw

·         10:31 1st – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (2) from Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) (2)

·         6:43 1st – UNH :: Mackenzie Reh (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue Medford) (1); Free Position

·         3:01 1st – STO :: Elizabeth Vetter unassisted

·         00:47 1st – UNH :: Samantha Galler (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield) (1) from Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) (3)

·         00:06 1st – UNH :: Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) (1) from Mackenzie Reh (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue Medford) (1)

·         24:01 2nd – STO :: MacKenzie Pleshaw unassisted

·         20:22 2nd – UNH :: Mackenzie Reh (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue Medford) (2); Free Position

·         20:13 2nd – STO :: Kaitlin Healey unassisted

·         13:08 2nd – STO :: MacKenzie Pleshaw unassisted

·         10:25 2nd – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (3) unassisted

·         5:54 2nd – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (4) unassisted

·         4:44 2nd – UNH :: Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) (5) unassisted

·         3:35 2OT – UNH :: Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) (2); Free Position

HIGHLIGHTS

·         New Haven opened up the game scoring the first two goals and three of the first four with all three coming from different players. The first goal of the night came on a free position attempt taken by Kendall Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y./Guilderland) just 44 seconds into the action.

·         Nicole Belanger (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) would extend the Chargers early goal when she connected with Jessica Mazliah (Holbrook, N.Y./Sachem North) just shy of four minutes into the action.

·         Caitlin O'Brien (Branford, Conn./Branford) regained a two-goal lead for the Chargers when she scored an unassisted tally with 19:28 remaining. found the back of the goal

·         Cietek then ended a six-goal rally for the Skyhawks that resulted in a 7-3 deficit for New Haven with 10:31 remaining before the break. Cietek's goal was the first of two-straight for New Haven and came off a feed from Mazliah. MacKenzie Reh added the second straight goal for the Blue and Gold when she scored on a free position attempt with 6:43 remaining in the half.

·         New Haven would then end the half the same way they started the game, scoring two straight goals before the intermission. The first of those came Samantha Galler (Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield) as she connected with Mazliah who provided her third helper of the half. Hailey Rattigan (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) then cut the deficit to one at the break when Reh fed her for the score with six seconds remaining.

·         After the halftime break, the Skyhawks would go on to score three of the first four goals, with the lone tally in that stretch for the Blue and Gold coming from Mackenzie Reh (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue Medford) who scored on a free position attempt for the second time on the night.

·         With just over 10 minutes remaining, Cietek began a run of her own, scoring three straight unassisted goals to knot the game at 11 with 4:44 remaining. Her second in the run came as she drove straight down the heart of the arc and fired to the lower half of the net from just outside the crease. For the equalizer, which came 70 seconds later, Cietek came across the arc and fired from left to right, again striking in the bottom of the net.

·         Both teams had shot attempts in the first three minutes of extra time with Erica Rinsky (North Caldwell, N.J./West Essex) coming up big for the Chargers as she stopped a shot that skidded across the turf. Over the second three minutes in the first OT, the Skyhawks managed the only shot which came on a free position attempt with three seconds remaining and went wide of the goal.

·         Rinsky would again provide a critical stop, this time less than 20 seconds into the Second OT frame when she stopped a point blank free position shot. She would provide one more save on a Stonehill attempt, which 18 seconds later Rattigan turned into the game-winning goal when she scored on a free position shot.

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