Box Score
Brock 3, Guelph 1
 
GUELPH, Ont. (November 16, 2013) – The Guelph Gryphons women's hockey team dropped a 3-1 final against the Brock Badgers on Saturday night at the Gryphon Centre. This drops the Gryphons to 9-3-0, moving the Badgers to 2-9-1.
 
"We had such an emotional weekend last weekend that we seemed to play with a bit of an emotional hangover tonight. The girls are disappointed and we know we need to go back to the drawing board this week," commented Gryphon head coach Rachel Flanagan.
 
The Gryphons started the game out strong with Amanda Parkins scoring the first goal of the game for Guelph in the first 12 seconds of the period, with Jessica Pinkerton and Emily Corbett on the assists. The game was back and forth from that point with the Gryphons taking advantage of the Badger turnovers. Brock was finding it hard to break through the Guelph players to set up any scoring opportunities, clearing the puck from their territory and giving the Gryphons possession of the puck. Parkins almost scored herself another goal in the second half of the period after a breakaway through the neutral zone. She found herself tripped up by a Brock player and the score stayed at 1-0 for the Gryphons going into the second period.
 
The Brock game improved significantly in the second period, with a goal in the first minute and a half of play. Guelph turned over the puck, and the Badgers took advantage of that turnover with Brianne Veale (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) chipping the puck up to Jessica Fickel (Fort Erie, Ont.) to make it 1-1. The Badgers dominated possession of the puck for the majority of the second period, taking advantage of all of the Gryphon turnovers, turning them into goals. The Badgers scored again with a slap shot from Veale that turned into a pass to Erin McColm (Peterborough, Ont.), who tipped the puck in to make it 2-1 for the Badgers.
 
The Gryphons would step up with Jessica Pellegrino aiming for the top corner of the Brock net, but she was unable to beat Brock goalie Jenna Sosnoski (New Dundee, Ont.). The Badgers would score for a third time in the second period after a scrum at the net had Leigh Vanderveen (Niagara on the Lake, Ont.) making it 3-1 for Brock, with Veale and Fickel on the assists.
 
The Gryphons started the third period with a power play at the 1:30 mark after Brock player Leigh Vanderveen was called for hooking. Guelph was unable to use the man advantage, taking only two shots on net for the entire two minutes. The Gryphons were unable to find a way through the energized Brock defense and found themselves outskated on almost all breakaways. Pinkerton was able to get through in the second half of the period and found herself in the crease, but wasn't able to poke the puck past the Badger goalie.
 
Although the Gryphons fought out the last few minutes hard with key plays by Averi Nooren and Jessica Pinkerton they were unable to get past the Badgers and the game ended with a final score of 3-1.
 
The total for shots on goal was 21-18 in favour of Guelph.
 
The Gryphons hit the ice again on Friday November 22nd in London against the Western Mustangs with the puck set to drop at 7:00 p.m.