NEW HAVEN, CT – Rebecca Foggia of Rumson, N.J., scored the game-winner, as Yale University doubled a road-weary McGill squad 4-2 in women's preseason hockey at Ingalls Rink, Saturday.
 
It was Yale's preseason opener, while McGill dropped to 5-1-1. The result gave the Bulldogs their first victory against McGill in three attempts dating back to a 1-0 Bulldogs win on Oct. 15, 2016. The Martlets own an 11-7-3 lifetime record against Yale.
 
Yale led 1-0 after the opening period and 2-1 after two. McGill managed to equalize the score early in the third but Foggia's goal and an empty net marker eight seconds before the end put a damper on a road trip from hell.
 
McGill was scheduled to face Harvard yesterday in their first of three Ivy League exhibition fixtures but a mechanical failure on the team bus forced the game's cancellation as the Martlets were marooned for 10 hours on Interstate 89, near the Vermont and Connecticut state line. Trooper Tingle of the Vermont State Police stopped by, picked up the coach and gave him a ride to pick up pizza for the team. 
 
"The first period we were skating in sand," remarked head coach Peter Smith, who's team arrived at their hotel at 3 a.m. on the morning of the game. "They played faster than we did in the first and had us on our heels. In the second and third we were pretty good, created a lot of chances. We just couldn't get the puck in the back of the net. But overall, a learning experience for us. It was a good bounce-back from a very mediocre first period."
 
Tabea Botthof scored Yale's go-ahead goal shorthanded while teammate and Toronto native Claire Dalton notched the second.
 
Foggia, a 5-foot-7 junior, cleverly tipped a Charlotte Welch centering pass over the shoulder of McGill netminder Trisha Deguire to snap a 2-2 stalemate at 8:45 of  the final frame.

Grace Lee padded the lead with an empty netter.
 
McGill blueliners Emilia Cotter of Toronto and Kate Devries of Dollard des Ormeaux, Que., both scored equalizers (1-1 and 2-2, respectively). It was Cotter's second of the preseason and Devries' first.

Both teams came up short on the power-play. McGill was 0-for-5 while Yale went 0-for-3.
 
Yale rotated all three of their netminders. Senior Tera Hofmann started and made seven saves in a 22-minute appearance. Gianna Meloni played most of the middle period and made 11 saves while rookie Courtney DeNaut officially registered the win with seven saves in the final frame.
 
Deguire, who was pulled with under two minutes remaining in the third period, stopped 31 pucks in the loss for McGill.
 
McGill closes its Ivy League road-trip on Sunday  against Dartmouth at 2 p.m. before beginning its OUA regular season against Concordia on Oct. 19 t 2 p.m.. Yale returns to the ice on Oct. 19 for a scrimmage against Brown.

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