HARTFORD, Conn. – Suffolk women's hockey responded to each of Trinity's goals to force overtime where Madison Duff potted the golden goal 2:25 into the extra session to lift the Rams over the Bantams, 4-3, Friday night at Koeppel Community Sports Center. 

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 4 | Trinity 3
RECORDS; Suffolk (9-1-0) | Trinity (4-1-1)  

HOW IT HAPPENED
Despite a scoreless first frame that was truly dominated by the Rams with an 18-1 lopsided shots advantage it was the Bantams that got on the board first. Trinity took advantage of the power play as Ellie Fellows' initial shot was kicked out by Lily O'Neil, but Stephanie Nevers was there to clean it up and give the hosts the 1-0 lead.  

Suffolk answered on an even-strength unassisted goal by Sofia Scilipoti at the 12:27 mark to send the teams into the second intermission even at one apiece.  

Trinity took advantage of man-up opportunity again, this time 3:29 into the third. Hannah Feinberg buried a power play goal on an assist from Annika Dyczkowski before Fellows found the back of the net to extend the distance to a pair, 3-1, less than three minutes later.  

A Rams response came three minutes after that. Maddy Burton's power play goal cut the deficit back to one before the graduate student leveled the playing field at 4-all with an even-strength strike 3:28 later. Jesse Kennedy aided on the game-tying goal.  

Trinity managed to put two shots on target in the 3-on-3 overtime period, but Suffolk wrapped up things when Duff netted the game-winner with help from Burton and Shana Cote.  

NETMINDER NOTES

• O'Neil recorded 14 saves in the overtime victory. 
• Hannah Leclair registered 28 stops in the setback, Trinity's first loss of the year. 

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Burton provided three points on two goals and one assist. 
• Duff and Scilipoti each found the back of the net once. 
• Cote notched two helpers. 
• Payton Dockus and Kennedy both set-up one Suffolk score. 
• Suffolk outshot Trinity, 32-17. 
• The Rams won the face-off battle, 36-28.  

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk and Trinity met for the second time in program history, first time in Hartford, Connecticut. 
• The Rams defeated the Bantams for the first time. 
• Suffolk is unbeaten all-time against Trinity and moves to 1-0-1 in the all-time series.
• Both of the battles between the blue-and-gold and Bantams have went into overtime. 
• The four goals scored against Trinity are the most for Suffolk in the all-time series.
• Suffolk needed extra time to decide a winner for the second time this season. 
• The Rams are 2-0-0 when playing in OT in 2021-22. 
• The OT win is Suffolk's third in program history. 
• The Rams are now 3-0-6 when playing more than 60 minutes in the record books.  

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WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk is idle until after the New Year when it heads to Salve Regina Saturday, Jan. 8 for a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) contest at 8 p.m. at St. George's Rink in Middletown, Rhode Island.