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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – Senior Kendall Coyne notched her ninth career hat trick as part of a four-point afternoon as the No. 9 Northeastern women's hockey team (7-1-1, 3-0-0 WHEA) rolled to its fifth straight win in a 5-1 victory at Merrimack (2-7-0, 1-2-0 WHEA) on Friday.

Sophomore Denisa Krizova dished out two assists–her fifth multi-assist game of the season–while junior Hayley Scamurra added a goal and an assist. Sophomore Christina Zalewski also scored, while freshman netminder Brittany Bugalski turned aside 20 shots to earn a win in her fifth straight start.

Goal Recaps
• Coyne opened the scoring with a breakaway snipe at the 18:45 mark of the first period. Junior Heather Mottau started the play with a feed up the left boards to Krizova, who was able to direct the puck into space in the neutral zone. Coyne latched onto the loose puck, skated by a defender, and wristed a shot under the blocker of MC netminder Samantha Ridgewell to make it 1-0.
• Northeastern doubled the lead midway through the second period when Zalewski stole the puck outside the blue line and skated in on the right wing, before unleashing a wrister under the crossbar at 10:33.
• Coyne made it 3-0 five minutes later with a dazzling individual effort. After taking a feed from senior Jordan Krause at center ice, Coyne skated through all five Merrimack players, before banking a shot off Ridgewell from behind the goal line.
• Scamurra capped a three-goal second period with her sixth of the season at 18:59 of the frame. Ridgewell made the initial save on Coyne at the left of the net, but Scamurra crashed the cage and was rewarded when the puck popped into space for an easy finish in the slot to make it 4-0.
• Merrimack scored its lone goal on a shot by Paige Voight that took a deflection between the circles and skipped by Bugalski at the 6:35 mark of the third period.
• Coyne completed the hat trick at 11:47 of the third with another brilliant solo-goal, racing up the ice from the neutral zone, and finishing at the left of the net.

Stats of the Game
• Coyne posted four points for the third time this season.
• Coyne notched her second hat trick of the year and the ninth of her career.
• Coyne currently leads all NCAA players with 15 goals this season.
• Krizova posted her fifth multi-assist effort of the year.
• Krizova has seven assists in her last three games.
• Both Coyne and Krizova have points in their last eight contests.
• Scamurra extended her point streak to five games.
• Bugalski won her fifth straight start.
• NU has scored at least four goals in five straight games.
• Northeastern outshot Merrimack, 32-22.

Up Next
The Huskies will look to keep the momentum going on Nov. 6 at Maine.