BIDDEFORD, Maine – Suffolk women's hockey faced a two-goal deficit twice, including late in the third period, mount a comeback, but ran out of time to fall to the University of New England, 4-3, in a Conference of New England contest Tuesday night at Harold Alfond Forum. 

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 3 | University of New England 4
RECORDS: Suffolk (3-6-0, 2-3-0 CNE) | University of New England (4-4-0, 4-3-0 CNE)  

HOW IT HAPPENED
UNE got on the board on the power play 13:06 into the first frame as the puck snuck by Katelyn Michals off the face-off inside the Rams zone.  

The host lengthened the lead 2:23 into the middle period. Mackenzie O'Leary stole the puck skated towards the front of Suffolk's net and slipped a pass to Amanda Forziati, who chipped it home to double the distance. 

The Rams made it a game with just under four minutes remaining in the second stanza. Bella Schmidt won a battle on the boards and dished to Jenna Caballero, who wasted no time in finding Katie Newkirk for a one-timer that made it a 2-1 game at the 16:05 mark.  

Moose leveled the playing field at the 11:05 mark of the third period as the junior potted a power play goal with help from Schmidt. 

UNE restored the initial two-goal gap as it netted a pair of pucks in a 1:49 span to put the Rams in a 4-2 hole with 4:33 remaining in regulation. 

Michals left her post from between the pipes with 2:30 left on the clock. The extra skater paid off for the blue-and-gold as Alexia Hill put away a goal 30 seconds later to pull the blue-and-gold within one, 4-3. 

Over the final two minutes, Kaleigh Laurendeau denied two more Suffolk attempts and the Nor'Easters blocked a third to seal the conference setback for Suffolk. 

NETMINDER NOTES

• Michals logged 22 saves in the loss. 
• Laurendeau made 28 stops for the Nor'Easters.  

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Hill, Moose and Newkirk all scored one goal apiece for the Rams. 
• Schmidt supplied two helpers. 
• Caballero, Sammy Lassman, Sam Molind and Kate Pohl dished out one assist apiece. 
• The Rams outshot the Nor'Easters, 58-37 including a 32-26 edge in shots on target. 
• Suffolk went 1-for-2 on the power play, while UNE converted one of its three man-up chances. 
• The blue-and-gold took the face-off battle, 30-23. 
• UNE's defense blocked 15 shots compared to the Rams' seven.  

NOTEWORTHY

• Newkirk has scored in back-to-back games. She is now on a three-game point streak. In that span she has two goals and one assist. A three-game point streak is a career-high for the junior. 
• Caballero set-up a score in her third consecutive contest. The three-game point streak matches a personal-best for the junior. 
• Schmidt has registered a point in her third straight outing, which is a career-high point streak for the sophomore. In that stretch she has assembled three goals and three assists. 
• Schmidt logged a career-high two assists. 
• Lassman has set-up a score in back-to-back contests. 
• Hill stretched her point streak to four games. In that span she has one goal and three helpers. 
• Molind extended her point streak to three games. Over that stretch she has scored once and dished out three assists. 
• Pohl has produced one point in the last four games. She has scored three games and logged one assist in the last four contests.  

WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk turns its attention to its semester-ending home-and-home CNE series with Curry Dec. 6-7. The Rams will clash at Curry Friday at 7:00 p.m., before hosting the Colonels on Saturday at 2:50 p.m.