WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The Bowdoin women's ice hockey team opened the 2023-24 season with a 3-2 win at Williams.
 
The Polar Bears (1-0-0, 1-0-0 NESCAC) open the year with a win against Williams (0-1-0, 0-1-0 NESCAC) for the second year in a row.
 
Game Highlights

• Gia Massari scored the first goal of the season for Bowdoin with 6:09 remaining in the opening period. Luna Lu and Kathryn Kester both tallied points with assists on the goal. Lu skated down along Massari's right side and passed center for a deflection off the blade of the junior's stick.
• Williams answered less than a minute later. Claire Murphy put the puck just off the underside of the crossbar from beyond the crease.
• Bowdoin went into the first intermission with a 2-1 lead as Massari tallied her second of the game with 15 seconds remaining in the period. Kester teed up a shot from the left point and Massari again deflected the puck, this time up and over the shoulder of Erin Pye.
• Williams tied the game again halfway through the second period. Jill Parsons earned a one-on-one with a Bowdoin defender and wristed a top shelf shot to make it 2-2.
• Bella Mele secured the Polar Bears' season-opening win with a solo effort with just over five minutes remaining in the third. Mele unleashed a wrist shot from the left side to just inside the near post.

 
By the Numbers

• Sally Solotaroff-Webber was outstanding in goal for the Polar Bears with 47 saves and two goals allowed.
• Pye made 28 stops for Williams.
• Bowdoin went 1-for-1 on the power play.
• The Ephs went 0-for-8 with the extra skater.

 
Up Next

• The two teams complete the series tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. at Williams.