Rustlers celebrate after the second goal of the night Oct. 16. Dan Gray - The Border Pulse
The Lakeland Rustlers women’s hockey team beat Northwestern Polytechnic 7-0 on Friday and 2-1 on Saturday.
Both games were played at the Co-op Community Rink at the Cenovus Energy Hub in Lloydminster.
Goalie Schay Camphaug stopped all 20 shots in Friday’s shutout. Lakeland scored three goals in each of the first two periods and one in the third.
Kyla Benjamin opened the scoring at 5:41 of the first period. Marly Dumanski scored 10 seconds later, and Kylie Perry added a power-play goal at 9:36.
Keyra Buziak, Ashlyn Hinton and Payton Farkash scored in the second period. Bria Hull added the lone third-period goal at 13:19.
Lakeland outshot Northwestern Polytechnic 41-20. Goalie Brea Kuprash made 34 saves for the visitors.
Saturday’s game was much tighter. Paige Cheek scored on the power play at 18:10 of the first period to put Northwestern Polytechnic ahead 1-0.
Neither team scored in the second period, which Lakeland dominated 16-1 in shots. Benjamin tied the game at 3:42 of the third, with an assist from Alexa Kobley.
Perry scored the winner at 12:03, set up by Dumanski. Northwestern Polytechnic pulled goalie Rehn Hall for the final 55 seconds without scoring.
Hall stopped 47 of 49 shots. Goalie Lauren Cherkas made 15 saves for Lakeland.
Perry led the Rustlers with four points over the two games. Benjamin and Dumanski each had three.
Lakeland went 2-for-6 on the power play Friday and 0-for-6 Saturday. Northwestern Polytechnic went 0-for-8 Friday and 1-for-4 Saturday.
Northwestern Polytechnic’s Olivia Ferguson received a checking-from-behind minor and a game misconduct in the second period Friday.
Lakeland is 4-0 and leads the conference standings with 12 points. The Rustlers have outscored opponents 16-3.
NAIT visits the Co-op Community Rink on Friday, Oct. 23. Puck drop is 7:15 p.m.
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