NEW HAVEN, Conn.  – The series finale is tomorrow at 3 p.m. at Ingalls Rink!

The No. 7 Yale Women's Ice Hockey Team erased a pair of deficits with a huge second period to beat St. Lawrence 4-2 in the second game of the best-of-three series and force a final contest on Sunday.

Blueliner Emma Seitz scored twice while forwards Anja Trummer and Charlotte Welch each hit the net as the Bulldogs scored twice on the power play and outshot the Saints 35-15 overall.

The Saints got on the board first for a second straight game, and the Bulldogs answered again. This time it was late in the first on a power play when Seitz took a crossing pass from Olivia Muhn. Seitz circled along the top of the left circle and then took a few strides toward the net before flicking a low wrister through traffic with 69 seconds left in the opening frame.

Just like in game one, the visitors grabbed a 2-1 lead and the home team responded. However, this time the Elis put up two straight - and they came 13 seconds apart - late in the middle period to take a 3-2 lead.

Seitz skated in from the blueline and headed for the slot with her team set up in the offensive zone. She got around a few players before attempting a shot that hit a defenseman and came back to her along the side of the crease where she could flick it home for her 11^th of the year.

Yale didn't waste any time grabbing its first lead of the series. Trummer took a pass in the middle of the slot and was falling when she fired a wrister high past Lucy Morgan and then slid past the cage.         

"We were in a do-or-die situation, so we had a lot of fight in us," said Mark Bolding, Yale's Susan Cavanagh Head Coach. "We fell behind and fought our way back. It was really satisfying to claw our way back and take the lead."

Welch's behind the back, put-back tally from the low slot at 7:48 of the third gave the home team the cushion it needed to hold on for victory. A late SLU power play with their goalie on the bench helped the Saints produce a bunch of late shots in the closing minutes of the game, but Yale senior Gianna Meloni (13 saves) came through with a few big stops as bodies were flying all around her.

"We were so fearless blocking shots," said Bolding. "We raised our compete level and kept fighting with our great goaltender playing so well."
Tomorrow's winner advances to next weekend's conference semifinals.