NEW HAVEN, Conn.  –Getting outshot and playing from behind is not something the No. 7 Yale Women's Ice Hockey Team has faced much this year. The Bulldogs erased a pair of deficits tonight but couldn't do it a third time before falling to St. Lawrence 4-2 in the first game of a best-of-three ECAC Hockey series at Ingalls Rink.

Goals by Anna Bargman and Tabea Botthof evened the score in the second and third periods respectively, but the Saints capitalized on their scoring chances and found the net four times in the final frame.

"We got outplayed," said Mark Bolding, Yale's Susan Cavanagh Head Coach, whose team was outshot 32-24. "We had spurts of momentum and momentum is big in the playoffs. Scoring first is big this time of year. Give them credit, we have not been outshot a lot this year. We are a little frustrated, but I know we will respond tomorrow."
The Elis must respond tomorrow at 3 p.m. in game two if they want to extend the series to a Sunday finale.

Bargman's 11^th tally of the year, scored from the edge of the crease, was set up by a great one-touch pass from Elle Hartje. Botthof snapped off a shot from the high slot for her first of the season. She got the puck from Tess Dettling, while Bargman picked up the other assist for her second point.