PINE VALLEY, NY (January 18, 2019) – Sophomore captain Gracen Mahoney tallied her fourth goal of the year as the King's College women's ice hockey team fell to top-ranked Elmira College 12-1 on Friday evening from the Murray Athletic Center Ice Arena.

Mahoney's goal was her second power play goal of the season came at 16:05 of the third period off assists by Maggie Gould and Josée Aitken. Gould picked up her first assist of the year while Aitken tallied her third.

Elmira (13-2-1, 9-0-0 UCHC) entered the game as the top-ranked team in both polls while the Monarchs (1-15-0, 0-11-0 UCHC) were looking for their first conference victory. The Soaring Eagles scored seven times in the first period including two goals by Katie Granato and two by Maddie Evangelous. Granato also tallied two assists in the period while Shannon Strawinski had three assists.

King's locked up defensively in the second period holding the hosts to two goals on 29 shots. Kiva Sierra Stoltz took over the goaltending duties from Emma Zeveney after EC scored six times in the first 16:46 of the game. Zeveney stopped 29 shots in the period before being relieved. Stoltz stopped 17 of 20 shots in the third period to finish with 48 saves.

Zeveney and Stoltz combined for a season-high 77 saves on 89 shots. Elmira scored one power play goal on four opportunities and had one short-handed goal. King's was 1-for-3 on the power play. Tessa Schaefer-Flynn and Mahoney had three shots each while Erin King and Raeann Clancey took two apiece. Mahoney led the Monarchs with 15 faceoff wins in 32 chances.

Ariella Haas had three goals and an assist while Granato finished with two goals and an assist to lead the Eagles. 15 different EC skaters recorded a point and there were seven different goal scorers. Strawinski, Morgan Mordini, Devyn Gilman, Kiana Melvin, and Emma Crocker all had three assists in the game. Stephanie Martin recorded her 11th victory of the year in goal making nine saves.

The Monarchs will now return to Wilkes-Barre as the second game of the weekend series was postponed in anticipation of extreme snowfall expected to hit the region this weekend and the State of Emergency declared in Pennsylvania. A makeup date has not been scheduled yet.

King's will be back in action next weekend when they play at Revolution Ice Center for the first time in the 2019 calendar year by hosting Chatham University for a pair of games on Friday night and Saturday afternoon.