Summer Break for Women’s Hockey, Bissaillion Leads MCLA Over Hood College

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The MCLA Women's Hockey Team wrapped up a two-game series with the Hood College Blazers this afternoon at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink. Following up last night's 2-1 win, Summer Bissaillion scored twice, including a short-handed goal to tie the game in the second period and then the game-winner in overtime.

THE BASICS:

• Date: Sunday, December 1, 2024
• Score: Hood 1, MCLA 2
• Records: Hood College Blazers 2-8-0 (MAC 0-6-0) | MCLA Trailblazers 7-4-0 (MASCAC 1-2-0)
• Series History: MCLA won the teams' first-ever meeting 2-1 last night.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Hood College recorded the game's first goal just over five minutes into the first period. The Blazers' Dakota Ormiston picked up a pass from a teammate that leaked out of the MCLA end around center ice and skated into the left corner before letting a short angle shot that found its way into the goal. The goal was Ormiston's first of her collegiate career.
• Ormiston's goal held until just over five minutes left in the second period when sophomore defenseman Summer Bissaillion (Blind River, ON / Sudbury Wolves) scored the Trailblazers' second short-handed goal of the season. After a scrum in front of her own net, Bissaillion came out with the puck and passed it off the boards to herself along the right wing. She outskated a pair of Blazer defenders across mid-ice and chipped the puck over the goalie's stick-side shoulder from between the faceoff circles.
• Following a scoreless third period that forced some bonus hockey, Bissaillion scored again to send the MCLA home with a sweep of the visitors from Maryland. Almost the entirety of the three-on-three overtime was spent with the Trailblazers in control of the puck until sophomore forward Rebekah Ade (Yucca Valley, CA / New Jersey Colonials) came out of the right-side corner with possession and centered a pass to a streaking Bissaillion in front of the net for another chip over the goalie's stick-side shoulder to the short side of the net. The goal was Bissaillion's third of the season, and the assist was Ade's third of the year.
• Sophomore goalie Kaitlyn O'Brien (Ridley Park, PA / Philadelphia Jr. Flyers) stopped 25 of 26 shots on net for the Trailblazers to improve her record to 3-2-0, while Hood's Kamryn Sohner finished the day with 29 saves on 31 shots to fall to 1-2-0.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• Shots: Hood 26, MCLA 31
• Saves: Hood 29, MCLA 25
• Faceoffs Won: Hood 17, MCLA 34
• Penalty/Minutes: Hood 3/6:00, MCLA 2/4:00
• Power Plays: Hood 0 for 2, MCLA 0 for 3

UP NEXT:

On Friday, MCLA will be back in action when they play host to Plymouth State for a MASCAC matchup with the Panthers at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink. The puck will drop at 6 p.m.

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