Summer Bissaillion’s Hat Trick Leads Women’s Hockey Past Framingham State, 6-1

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – The MCLA Women's Ice Hockey team headed east this evening for a MASCAC matchup with the Framingham State Rams at the Loring Arena. Summer Bissaillion scored three times and Kaitlyn O'Brien stopped 27 of 28 shots to help their Trailblazers snap a four game losing streak.

THE BASICS:

• Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
• Score: MCLA 6, Framingham 1
• Records: MCLA Trailblazers 8-8-0 (MASCAC 2-4-0) | Framingham State University Rams 0-14-0 (MASCAC 0-8-0)
• Series History: MCLA leads the all-time series 2-0, including a 5-2 win earlier this season on November 15^th in North Adams.

HIGHLIGHTS

• MCLA wasted little time setting the tone for the evening, scoring the first goal of the game only 16 seconds after the initial faceoff. Sophomore defenseman Summer Bissaillion (Blind River, ON / Sudbury Wolves) knocked a Ram's player off the puck and then skated it through the neutral zone before ripping a shot over the goalie's stick-side shoulder. First-year forward Kiera Grom (Livonia, MI / Belle Tire) and sophomore forward Maggie Danchak (Chalfont, PA / Philadelphia Little Flyers) were credited with their third and fifth assists respectively.
• About five minutes later Framingham would respond with what would turn out to be their only score of the night when Sarah St. Lewis found her third goal of the year with an assist from Adrianna Rizzotto.
• With about two and half minutes left in the first period, Bissaillion scored what would turn out to be the game winning goal on a power play, after sophomore forward Rebekah Ade (Yucca Valley, CA / New Jersey Colonials) emerged from a scrum along the left side boards in the MCLA end. Ade chipped the puck ahead to Bissaillion who was streaking through center ice and circled around the back side of the Ram's net before firing off a shot that clipped the goalie before trickling across the goal line and sent the teams into the first intermission with the Trailblazers ahead 2-1.
• The score would hold at 2-1 until just under six minutes remained in the second period when MCLA doubled their score with a pair of goals less than a minute apart. The first goal was scored by senior forward Alexandrea Bednar (Vita, MB / Univ. of Wisconsin–Eau Claire) after she picked the pocket of a Framingham player at the Ram's blue line and then deked left before depositing the puck into the lower right side of the net, around a sprawled-out Framingham netminder. The goal was Bednar's 11^th of the year.
• Less than a minute later, Bissaillion completed her hat trick after stopping the puck in the neutral zone and skating in with the puck and sniping a shot from the center slot to light the lamp. The three goals brought Bissaillion's total to six and set the score going into the final period at 4-1.
• Sophomore defenseman Carlen Bertrand (Timmins, ON / Sudbury Wolves) notched her 11^th goal of the season to start the third period scoring with a bit over 13 minutes left in the game. After a Framingham player dumped the puck in from the blue line, Bertrand out skated the nearest Rams' player and took the puck end to end, cutting past one Framingham defender at the MCLA blue line, then skating through the neutral zone before splitting a pair of Rams just inside their blue line and then dangling the puck in front of the goalie and slipping it past the netminder to the lower right side.
• The Trailblazers added one additional power play goal with less than a minute to play. Bertrand started the play by forcing a Framingham player off the puck in the corner of the MCLA end, leaving the puck for Danchak above the goal line. Danchak pushed the puck out to Bednar who carried the it through the neutral zone and brought it behind the net, before slamming on the brakes and reversing the puck back to sophomore forward Katie Pica (Woburn, MA / Woburn High School), who was camped out in front of the net and backhanded the puck into the cage just before absorbing a hit from a pair of crashing Rams defenders.
• The win by sophomore goalie Kaitlyn O'Brien (Ridley Park, PA / Philadelphia Jr. Flyers) improved her record to 4-3-0 after she stopped 27 of 28 shots. For Framingham, Lila Chamoun suffered the loss, falling to 0-6-0.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• Shots: MCLA 28, Framingham 28
• Saves: MCLA 27, Framingham 22
• Faceoffs Won: MCLA 29, Framingham 30
• Penalty/Minutes: MCLA 2/4:00, Framingham 6/12:00
• Power Plays: MCLA 2 for 6, Framingham 0 for 2

UP NEXT:

On Saturday, MCLA will be back in action when they play host to Worcester State for a MASCAC matchup with the Lancers at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink. The puck will drop at 8:30 p.m.

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