AMHERST, Mass. -  The Bowdoin women's ice hockey team picked up its second win of the season over William Smith in a 6-2 neutral ice contest at UMass-Amherst.
 
The Polar Bears climb to 9-2-0 and drop the Herons to 7-4-0. Bowdoin won both games this season by a four goal margin.
 
Game Highlights

• Anyi Sun scored her first of two goals with a tally at 6:03 in the first. Sun buried a near side wrister in the top right corner to make it 1-0.
• William Smith responded with a beautiful goal three minutes later. Bella Hacker drifted left to right across the middle of the zone and shot cross-body to the top left.
• Bea Palmer responded 30 seconds later to regain the lead for Bowdoin with a left post finish.
• Sun scored her second of the game in the 15^th minute of the second with a wrister from the right to the opposite side.
• Ava Provenzo made it 4-1 in the final 20 seconds of the frame. Sara Ito-Bagshaw skated the puck the length of the ice, coming down the left boards, and found Provenzo for a back door finish.
• Ava Imposimato pushed the score to five late in the third period and Ainsley Lonczak found a second for the Herons. Luna Lu capped the game with a last minute unassisted tally.

 
By the Numbers

• Bowdoin went 0-for-3 on the power play, as did William Smith.
• Sarah Peterson made 15 stops in the win.
• Mia Iwicki stopped 45 shots for the Herons.
• Bowdoin won 28 faceoffs and gave up 23.

 
Up Next

• Bowdoin returns to conference action with a 7:00 p.m. game against Trinity on Friday evening.