SHU Women vs. Franklin Pierce 2/23/24 | 2024 NEWHA Quarterfinals Game 1 | 3-1 L
-This was the second year in a row Sacred Heart and Franklin Pierce have met in the NEWHA Quarters. Last year, FPU hosted, winning the series in three games -This was also the first playoff series the women's team has hosted at Martire Family Arena -The Ravens jumped out in front first. Anna Caumo scored on the Power Play to give FPU the lead -Sacred Heart would answer just 2:39 later, when Paige McNeil scored to tie the game. Olivia Laroche and Kailey Smith had the assists. This would be the lone goal for the Pioneers in the series -Franklin Pierce would regain the lead with 8:06 to play in the third on a goal from Claire Casey and add an empty netter with 40 seconds to play -Sacred Heart finished the game with only one Power Play opportunity. It was early off a high stick, the Pios registered two SOG. FPU was 1/5 on the Power Play -SHU had 39 shots on goal in the game. Their 7th highest total this season. Paige McNeil, Izzy Chaput, and Sydney Antonakis had 5 shots each. Chaput added three blocked shots -Jillian Petruno finished the game with 22 saves on 24 shots SHU Women vs. Franklin Pierce 2/24/24 | 2024 NEWHA Quarterfinals Game 2 | 2-0 L -Grace Schuck scored the opening goal of the game with 23 seconds to go in the first period. That was all the scoring until the final three minutes of the game when the Ravens added an empty netter -Jillian Petruno stopped 25 of 26 shots she faced. Pios finished with 29 SOG -Both teams went 0/3 on the Power Play. The Pios Power Play finished the year operating at 12.6% (Tied for 34th Nationally) -This is the third season in a row that Sacred Heart has been eliminated from the NEWHA Tournament by Franklin Pierce. The were knocked out in the quarterfinals last season, and the semifinals the season before -Season Leaders
SHU Men at Bentley 2/24/24 | 2-2 T | Bentley Won Shootout 2-0 -Heading into the weekend, SHU was out of the running for the regular season AHA Title (RIT went back to back). But the Pios could have finished between 2nd and 4th. The scenarios were as follows:
-Sacred Heart opened the scoring on the Power Play 12:31 in. Marcus Joughin potted his 8th of the year to give the Pios a 1-0 lead. John Jaworski and Mikey Adamson had the assists -The Sacred Heart PP would go 1/3 on the night -Brendan Dumas would score his second goal of the year six minutes after the Joughin goal, giving the Pioneers a 2-0 lead -Bentley would get their first goal 40 seconds into the second on the Power Play -The rest of the second period would be scoreless as was the first 12 minutes of the third, until Ryan Upson scored for the Falcons to tie the game at two -Sacred Heart did have a push at the end of the third, looking for the go ahead but couldn't find it. With the game heading to overtime, Sacred heart would be locked into the three seed in the AHA Playoffs -Bentley would end up winning the shootout 2-0, grabbing the extra point -Justin Robbins stopped 21 of 23 shots in regulation and overtime -Hunter Sansbury blocked four shots -Garrett Sundquist blocked three. He's got four blocks and a goal in the last two games after returning to the lineup -Slipping all the way to third is a little disappointing. Especially after being in first place as late as January 26th (heading into CT Ice). It would have been nice to have home Ice for the first two rounds, especially with a semifinal against Holy Cross as a possibility (SHU lost both games in Worcester this year) -The AHA Tournament reseeds after the first round. So SHU's quarterfinal opponent is TBD. If everything goes chalk, it would be Bentley (SHU was 1-1-1 against the Falcons this year) -SHU hasn't been to the Atlantic Hockey Semifinals since 2010, and have not won a playoff round since 2018 when they beat RIT 2-1 in a first round series (Technically SHU advanced in the 2021 AHA Tournament, but that was due to Holy Cross withdrawing because of COVID). They look to change all of that in two weeks
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