NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Gianna Meloni's fourth shutout of the year came at the most crucial of times for the No. 10 Yale Women's Ice Hockey Team, which improved to 13-4-1 overall tonight.

Meloni, a senior goalie, stopped 26 shots and held off three power plays as the Bulldogs blanked No. 6 Colgate 3-0 at Ingalls Rink for a fifth win in their last six games. She kept the Raiders off the scoreboard on many quality scoring chances during a scoreless first 41 minutes of the game while making 11 stops in the second period.

"It was an awesome team effort tonight. We were really solid in all three zones and were determined to finish out the 60 minutes on top," said Meloni, who stopped a breakaway and another grade A chance late in the second period. "We knew it was going to be a fast-paced, competitive game. It was a fun game to play in and it's times like these I'm going to miss after I graduate."

The Bulldogs broke through early in the third period when first-year forward Emma Harvey grabbed the puck along the boards in her own end, wheeled up the ice and spotted senior Rebecca Foggia sprinting toward the blueline. Harvey split the defenders with a perfect lead pass on her teammate's stick and Foggia added the finishing touches by deking left, going right and then flicking the puck over Kayle Osborne for her first goal of the year.

The Foggia tally opened the flood gates for the home team, which added goals by Charlotte Welch and Elle Hartje to put the game away. Welch's goal was set up by a hustling Tess Dettling, while Hartje stole the puck from a Raider and found an open net at 15:31 of the third for her team-high 10^th of the year.

Yale outshot the Raiders (17-5-1, 7-3-1) and moved ahead of them into fourth place in the ECAC Hockey standings with Cornell coming to town Saturday for a 3 p.m. contest.