Box score

Senior Florence Schelling completed a perfect weekend with her third shutout in four games, and No. 9 Northeastern women's hockey authored its second four-game winning streak of the season, with a 3-0 win at Connecticut in a mirror score of last night's game between the two at Matthews Arena.

Junior Rachel Llanes supplied all the offense Northeastern would need. Sophomore Katie MacSorley and freshman Kendall Coyne also tallied for NU.

Northeastern did not grab the advantage right away against a struggling UConn side, bookending the opening period with hooking minors to juniors Kelly Wallace and Casey Pickett. Connecticut started brightly, outshooting NU by 11-6 after launching just six shots themselves in last night's first period, but met with familiar results. Schelling stopped all 11 to weather the storm, and both sets of Huskies entered the locker room still deadlocked.

The second period saw a shift in the run of play that was more in line with last night's game, also a 3-0 NU victory. Northeastern outshot their opponents 14-5 in the second period, and any Connecticut attempt at a rally after the intermission was stymied by Caitlin Hewes bodychecking minor at 5:46 that kept the home side on the back foot.

Northeastern was able to set up shop in the Connecticut zone, and finally broke through midway through the middle frame via Llanes.  Wallace and freshman Colleen Murphy combined to set up Llanes, who netted her third of the year to give Northeastern a lead they would not relinquish.

Northeastern's offense, which has had a habit of scoring in bunches this season, struck double once again. Just two minutes later, sophomore Claire Santostefano took possession and found MacSorley, who buried her fourth goal of the campaign to put Northeastern up 2-0, and knock Connecticut out of sight with eight minutes still to play in the second.

From there Northeastern's defense, which entered the day sixth in the nation in goals against average, duplicated its feat of last night, redoubling its efforts to make Schelling's goal a fortress. After their two first-period penalties, NU did not see the sin bin for the remainder of the evening, and UConn let fly with just 13 shots combined in the final two periods after their 11 in the first.

Coyne poached an empty-netter for the second straight game, her sixth of the season, and extended her point streak to eight games.  She remains the only Husky to have scored in every game this season.

Schelling, coming off a 23-save shutout last night at Matthews Arena, did herself one better this afternoon with 24 stops for her second consecutive shutout and third in four games. The 2009-10 WHEA Co-Player of the Year has now allowed just two goals from her last 103 shots against.

At 3-0-0 in Hockey East, Northeastern is the only team to be undefeated and untied in WHEA play. NU will rest in midweek before traveling to Burlington, Vt. for a two-game weekend series with Vermont. Game one begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 11, with game two at 2 p.m. the following afternoon.