The women's hockey team has been skating to victory, winning their last four competitions. This past week, the Bears played three times, defeating Wesleyan 5-3, Hamilton 4-3, and Colby 4-1. The wins were significant for the Bears, as their success against Wesleyan guaranteed them a spot in the NESCAC playoffs, and the Colby win was the Bears' first victory in the new Watson Arena.
Against the Hamilton Continentals on Friday, Jill Campbell '11 scored the game-winner with less than two minutes left to play. Sam Stewart '09 and Maria Nicolais '10 also scored for the Bears.
Bowdoin again proved spectacular against Wesleyan the next day, as Danielle Lozzi '12 left the ice with a hat trick, and Lindsay McNamara '09 netted two goals and had two assists.
The Colby win on Tuesday represented the Bears' first victory against the Mules since December of 2005. "Beating Colby felt awesome," Sage Santangelo '12 said. "We have worked very hard, and we continued playing well so just winning was great, but especially against Colby in our own rink made it that much better."
Kelly Keebler '10 noted that the win was vital for Bowdoin's standings. "The Colby game was really important for our standings, so beating them will definitely help get us where we want to be for playoffs," she said. Currently, Bowdoin stands as the sixth-ranked team in the NESCAC.
With their four-game win streak, the Bears have reflected on their recent success. "I think this winning streak has just been the product of our hard work as a team in practice....We just take it game by game and focus on what we need to do each time to play to the best of our ability," Santangelo said.
"Since we're coming down to the wire in our season, we realized how important these final games are in the standings. Our team has come together as a whole and stepped it up to the next level," Keebler added.
The Bears will play this weekend away at Trinity. "The Trinity games are the last NESCAC games during the regular season and we just want to finish strong so that we can keep our momentum going into the playoffs," Young said.
"Our goal in the upcoming weekend is to just keep playing the way we have been over the past couple of weeks," Keebler added. "This means giving everything you have when you're on the ice, supporting each other off the ice, and playing as a unit. When we do this, we are definitely a team that the competition needs to look out for."