The Brock Badgers women’s hockey team split their weekend homestand with a 4-3 overtime defeat to the Queen’s Gaels on Jan. 17 before beating the Windsor Lancers 4-3 in overtime on Jan. 18 for their first win of 2025.
Queen’s Gaels 4, Brock Badgers 3 (Overtime)
Madison Cronkwright, Randyll Strongman and Catriona Cormier each found the back of the net for the Badgers, but it wasn’t enough to overcome a late overtime winner by the Gaels.
After Queen’s opened the scoring less than a minute into the contest, Brock began testing the Gaels’ netminder with a flurry of chances until they found a breakthrough in the second.
Cronkwright buried the equalizer with a wrister glove-side after Allison Moore’s stretch-pass from the defensive zone found the speedy winger on the breakaway.
Strongman then doubled the Brock lead after Hannah Ryan’s stingy forecheck forced a Queen’s turnover in their defensive zone before the Gaels responded shortly thereafter to level the game at two apiece entering the third.
In the third, the Gaels got on the board first with a go-ahead goal midway through the frame, but the Badgers were eager to tie the game in front of their home fans at Canada Games Park.
After applying relentless pressure throughout the game, outshooting the Gaels 45-36, Cormier netted the tying goal with under 30 seconds left to force overtime, with assists by Camie Matteau Rushbrook and Madelyn Walsh.
But Queen’s responded with the game-winner off the stick of Alyson Reeves with 4.7 seconds left in the overtime period to hand the home side a single point in their heartbreaking overtime defeat.
Windsor Lancers 3, Brock Badgers 4 (Overtime)
Looking to avenge their overtime loss from the night prior, Allison Stevenson scored the overtime winner against Windsor — one of her three points on the night — which featured a pair of goals by Jenna Duarte and a power play marker by Madison Cronkwright.
Duarte buried the game’s opening goal midway through the first period, crashing the net with a slick move to beat the Lancers’ netminder and give the Badgers the quick one-goal lead.
The Badgers swiftly doubled their advantage in the opening minutes of the second off the stick of Cronkwright, scoring with the one-timer on the five-on-three power play, for her second of the weekend and Brock’s second of the game.
But the Lancers responded less than a minute into the third with a goal of their own to cut the Badgers’ lead in half before Duarte restored the two-goal cushion with her second of the night midway through the third period off assists by Cronkwright and Stevenson.
However, Windsor showed their resilience all game long, outshooting the Badgers 42-22, which resulted in two quick goals in the latter stages of the third, forcing overtime.
In the overtime frame, Stevenson forced a Windsor turnover in the neutral zone before taking it the length of the ice to score the game-winner high blocker side for Brock’s first victory of the 2025 calendar year, snapping their five-game losing streak.
Next, the Badgers look to build off their momentous win over Windsor with a trip to Waterloo to face the Warriors on Jan. 23 before hosting the TMU Bold on Jan. 24.
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