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Box Score 2 The Windsor Lancers Women's Hockey team earned four points in a Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend sweep of the Toronto Varsity Blues and York Lions.
With the victories, the Lancers have won four straight games and now sit at 10-13-0 on the year.
After a scoreless first periodon Saturday against Toronto, the Varsity Blues opened the scoring in the second period to take a 1-0 lead.
The Lancers quickly answered back with a goal of their own just three minutes later from Manon Davis. Davis tied the game with her 16th goal of the season after a beautiful pass from captain Kelly Meincke to send Davis in on a breakaway.
Less than a minute later Candace Rapchak tallied her 4th goal of the campaign to give the home team the 2-1 lead halfway through the game.
Jamie Tessier shut the door in the third period making 13 saves as the Varsity Blues battled hard to tie the game.
With just over a minute remaining, Julie Hamilton added an insurance marker with her 8th goal of the season to give the Lancers the 3-1 victory.
On day two of Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend, the Lancers were looking for their first win of the season over the third place York Lions.
The Lancers came out strong, continuing their aggressive play from Saturday's win over Toronto.
Jodilyn Brown scored her first goal of the season five minutes into the period to give Windsor a 1-0 lead early in the game.
Candace Rapchak gave Windsor a two goal lead off of the opening face-off in the second period, before
Stephanie Hebert added another to give Windsor a commanding 3-1 lead heading into the final period.
A strong Lancer defence and solid play by Tessier prevented York from having many third period scoring chances.
Pulling goaltender Sydney McMurter in favour of the extra attacker, York made a final push in the third but were unsuccessful in the attempt as
Manon Davis scored her 17th of the season on the empty net to give Windsor the 4-1 win.
The Lancers hit the road next weekend for two important games against the Queen's Golden Gaels on Saturday and theh UOIT Ridgebacks on Sunday.
