BOSTON – The University of Maine women's hockey team struck early and often on Saturday afternoon, using three first period goals before adding one in the second period on its way to a 4-1 victory over the Boston University Terriers at Walter Brown Arena. Four different players scored for Maine while Carly Jackson made 21 saves in the win.

The win marked Maine's first at BU since Jan. 15, 2012, when the Black Bears topped the Terriers, 5-2, and extended the team's unbeaten streak to seven games.
 
The Black Bears carried the early edge in play, outshooting the Terriers, 6-3, in the first five minutes and eventually found the game's first goal.
 
With just over six minutes off the clock, Catherine Tufts potted a rebound off of a Vendula Pribylová shot at the left post. Ninety seconds later, a strong individual effort from Tereza Vanišová gave Maine a two-goal lead. After picking the puck up behind Jackson, Vanišová carried it up the right wing and past three BU forwards into the neutral zone. She then chipped it off the boards and picked it back up behind a defender before cutting left towards goal and wristing it past Corinne Schroeder.
 
Four minutes after Vanišová's tally, Cailey Hutchison got her third goal of the year. Hutchison got a quick shot off from the right hashmarks after the puck was dug out of the corner by Michelle Weis and slotted over by Daria Tereshkina. Jackson's initial save on a shot from the point and then her reaching, left pad save on the rebound bid enabled Maine to maintain the 3-0 lead heading into the first break.
 
The Black Bears continued to fire away in the second period and were rewarded just past the 8:30 mark. After Anna Zíková kept the puck in at the blue line, Pribylová picked it up and danced through the slot towards the left circle before sliding a pass back across to Lydia Murray. Murray was able to get down low and slam the puck inside the right post for her fifth of the season.
 
BU picked up the pace in the early stages of the third period in search of a goal but Jackson was solid between the pipes, meeting Natasza Tarnowski's shot at the left post and then doing it again on a bid from Kristina Schuler. The Terriers were able to get on the board with a power-play goal, though, as Deziray De Sousa tipped home a point shot.
 
Jackson – who had a nice shoulder save on a BU 2-on-1 chance late in the third period – and the Black Bears were able to shut it down for the remainder of the game for the 4-1 win.
 
Maine (13-6-3, 7-3-2 WHEA) held the final edge over BU (7-11-4, 3-8-3) in shots on goal (36-23) while Schroeder finished with 32 saves.
 
The Black Bears and Terriers will close out the regular season series tomorrow with another 3 p.m. puck drop at Walter Brown Arena.

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