HAMILTON, NY- Despite another stout effort from sophomore goaltender Rebecca Lahar, the Colgate women's hockey team fell to Mercyhurst, 7-0.

The Lady Lakers scored four first period goals on 31 shots.  Britney Millar started the scoring at 9:42 with her third goal of the season.  Sam Shirley and Sara McDonald were credited with the assists.  McDonald scored the second goal at 12:39 from Shirley and Chrissy Yule.  It was McDonald's 10th of the season.

Mercyhurst made it 3-0 at 14:24 with a power play goal from Shirley, her seventh of the year.  Millar and Yule assisted on the goal.  The Lady Lakers netter their fourth goal of the period at 17:14 when Lyndsay Barch tallied her fifth of the year from Yule and Danielle Lansing.

Mercyhurst outshout Colgate 31-1 in the period as Rebecca Lahar stopped 27 shots between the pipes for the Raiders.

The second period saw much of the same as the first.  Merychurst outshot Colgate 30-3, but only tallied two scores thanks to another great effort from Rebecca Lahar.

Samantha Shirley scored her second of the game and eighth of the season at 12:22 from Lansing and Jennifer Jeffrey.  The Lady Lakers added a power play goal at 13:42 from Randi Pilger, her fifth of the season.  Aimee Collins was credited with the assist to give Mercyhurst a 6-0 lead after two periods.

Mercyhurst added one more in the third period at 7:10, when Lyndsay Barch found the net for the second time.  Pilger and Jeffrey were credited with the assists.

Colgate was outshot 79-15 in the contest.  Mercyhurst went 4-6 on the power play while Colgate was 0-5.

Rebecca Lahar played another outstanding game in net turning aside 72 of the 79 shots faced.

Colgate now 9-11 hosts Findlay on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. at Starr Rink.