UTICA, N.Y. - Seniors
Leah Rubinshteyn and
Claire Murphy finished with multi-point efforts, while senior goaltender
Erin Pye earned her second consecutive shutout with 29 saves for the Williams College women's ice hockey team during a 4-0 non-conference victory at Utica Tuesday afternoon.
First-year
Grace Johnson recorded her first collegiate point with an assist, while first-year
Laney Mead buried her first goal at the college level. Pye currently ranks first among all Division I and III goalies in the nation with a .976 save percentage during the 2025-26 season.
Eight different student-athletes tallied at least one point in the victory for the Ephs (6-1-2) over the Pioneers (3-9-0, 2-2-0 United Collegiate Hockey Conference), as Williams scored three goals in a span of one minute, 55 seconds, in the first period. Williams finished 1 of 3 on the power play and killed off Utica's two opportunities.
"I was proud of the team showing up to get a big road win," said head coach
Meghan Gillis. "Erin was stellar between the pipes again. It was great to see Laney get her first college goal and Grace get her first college point."
First-year
Becca White opened the scoring 7:01 into the first period with her second collegiate goal. She stole the puck just beyond the blue line, and then proceeded to skate down the left side of the attacking zone and ripped a wrist shot from the left faceoff circle that beat the goalie five-hole.
The Ephs kept applying pressure, as Mead sent a wrist shot from the left point into the bottom right corner of the net for a 2-0 lead 1:33 after the initial goal, with assists going to Murphy and Rubinshteyn. Sophomore
Charlotte Fetherston scored on a breakaway opportunity 22 seconds later, burying a shot from the right faceoff circle into the top left corner of the goal, with assists credited to senior
Lucie Bond and Johnson.
Neither team scored in the second period, and then Murphy sent a pass from the right faceoff circle toward the front of the net, which was tipped by senior
Jaelyn Keiver and one-timed by Rubinshteyn into the back of the net for the power-play tally with 2:05 remaining in the third. Williams shared the wealth on offense, as 16 different Ephs tallied at least one shot.
The Ephs will resume NESCAC competition Friday with a 7 p.m. game against Little-Three rival Wesleyan at Lansing Chapman Rink in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
