Junior goalkeeper's 25 saves backbone Skyhawks first win behind four different goal scorers

Zukow's second career shutout came on the same day one year apart, finishing today with 25 saves (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard)

BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (October 14, 2023) – Junior goalkeeper Hanna Zukow stopped all 25 Post University shots on goal to secure Stonehill College's first win of the season with a 4-0 triumph to earn a split of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) weekend series at Bridgewater Ice Arena this afternoon.

Zukow's 25-save effort backboned the scoring effort of four-different goal scorers for Stonehill, led by a goal and assist from sophomore Alexis Petford, and complete their second career shutout. The win was also the first career victory for Skyhawks first year head coach Lee-J Mirasolo.

Highlights

• Zukow registered 25 saves, including 18 over the final two periods, to notch their first shutout of the season and second over their career after a 2-0 victory over Saint Michael's College exactly one year ago today.
• Petford notched her first multi-point game of the year, netting her first goal and adding an assist, to lead four different goal scorers for Stonehill.
• Junior Josie Mendeszoon and sophomores Gracie Sacca and Bailey Feeney each found the back of the net for the first time this season to round out the Stonehill scorers for the afternoon.
• Sophomore Hannah Saunders finished with 27 saves in goal for Post.

Petford paced the offense with a goal and assist, registering at least a point in her third-straight game with her first multi-point outing of the season (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard)

How it Happened 

• Mendeszoon opened the scoring with her second career goal with 3:37 to play in the opening period, crashing the crease during a scrum in front of Saunders and depositing a shot into the upper right corner of the goal.
• Petford's first goal of the season doubled Stonehill's lead on the power play 3:53 in to the second period that sparked a three-goal flurry in the frame to break the game open.
• Sacca's first goal of the year came less than three minutes later with an unassisted tally at 6:47.
• Feeney capped the scoring on the afternoon with her first of the season on a power play with 2:24 remaining in the second, assisted by sophomore Sydney Russell and Petford.
• Zukow did the rest, adding eight saves in a scoreless third after ten in the second, to close out the win and shutout.

Noteworthy

• Stonehill was a perfect 2-for-2 on the power play this afternoon.
• Zukow's second career shutout is the third in program history for Stonehill, all coming on either October 14 or 15 after Zukow and sophomore Eve Stone each blanked Saint Michael's in a weekend series on October 14-15 last year.
• Zukow surpassed 800 career saves (31 games) in the win (.909 career save percentage).
• Petford has a point in three-straight games for the Skyhawks, netting her 29^th career goal (43 games) and dishing out her team-leading third assist of the season. It's her seventh career power play tally.

• Mendeszoon netted her second career goal on the one-year anniversary of her first to push the Skyhawks in front late in the first period. (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard)

  Mendeszoon's second career goal comes exactly a year to the day since her first collegiate goal in the 2-0 win over Saint Michael's.
• Sacca's first goal of the year is the seventh of her career, while Feeney potted her fifth career marker – her second on the power play.
• Sophomore Maddison Achtyl assisted on Petford's goal, giving her a point in back-to-back games.
• Russell's assist is her first of the season and 11^th of her career.

Up Next

Stonehill (1-5-0, 1-1-0 NEWHA) returns to action in NEWHA play next weekend with a home and home series with Saint Anselm College, starting on Friday in Manchester, New Hampshire, at 6 p.m., before the series concludes here at the Bridgewater Ice Arena on Saturday at 1 p.m. Post (1-5-0, 1-1-0 NEWHA) visits Assumption University for a NEWHA matchup next Saturday at 7:10 p.m.

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