Fredericton, NB – The U SPORTS No. 3 ranked STFX X-Women earned a convincing 5-1 win over the St. Thomas Tommies Friday night at the Grant-Harvey Centre. The victory extends their winning streak to five games in a row.

This rivalry hockey night was one to watch with both teams gearing up for the playoffs. The X-Women played a fast and rough game giving them the edge over a confident Tommies team. Both teams had plenty of opportunities using their special teams with a total of 36 penalty minutes. Neither team, however, scoring a goal on their respective powerplay units. With the Tommies missing some players it was a struggle to keep up with the healthy X-Women squad.

The first period was a tight one with each team putting on pressure to take the lead, but they would head into the first intermission tied 1-1 as goals were exchanged by STFX's Lea MacLeod and St. Thomas' Mariah Carey. Both teams kept it close matching each others pace and not letting up.

The second period was again very close, but Emerson Elliot scored to put the X-Women in the lead again and they would never look back. Although the Tommies wouldn't give up, as they kept pace with the X-Women all period only being outshot 13-11, keeping the X-Women's lead to one.

The third period was where the X-Women really took it to the Tommies, scoring three goals to take the commanding lead and the game. Markers came from Jayden Thompson, Lauren Dabrowski and Kamdyn Switzer. The Tommies fought by putting eight shots on net, but nothing else would get past X-Women goaltender Amaya Giraudier.

"We're missing a few players key players and I think once we have our full team back and we practice that will really help," said Tommies' captain Alex Woods (Courtice, ON). "That game just shows the level of playoff hockey we're going to see."

You can catch the Tommies next game on Tuesday, March 1st at 7:00 PM against Moncton.

StFX is back in action on Saturday, February 26th at 7:00 PM against UNB, also in Fredericton.

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Recap courtesy Brock Johnson, St. Thomas Sports Information

Congrats to X-Women Hockey defense Lauren Dabrowski, the Subway Player of the Game in STFX's 5-1 win over STU Friday night! Lauren had 1G, 1A in the win! #SubwayFuel pic.twitter.com/VDV027c6xu

— StFX Athletics (@StFXAthletics) February 26, 2022