Borski and Bertrand Lead Women's Hockey Past Framingham State, 2-1

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The MCLA Women's Ice Hockey team returned to action this evening with a MASCAC matchup with Framingham State at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink. Kaia Borski 30 of 31 shots, Carlen Bertrand and Milena Monell each scored a goal to power the Trailblazers to a 2-1 win.

THE BASICS:

• Date: Saturday, February 8, 2025
• Score: Framingham 1, MCLA 2
• Records: Framingham State University Rams 0-18-0 (MASCAC 0-12-0) | MCLA Trailblazers 9-10-0 (MASCAC 3-6-0)
• Series History: MCLA leads the all-time series 3-0, including a 5-2 win earlier this season on November 11^th in North Adams and a 6-1 win in Framingham on January 21^st.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Sophomore defenseman Carlen Bertrand (Timmins, ON / Sudbury Wolves) opened the scoring with one of her patent pending coast to coast unassisted goals for the first period sole tally. With the Trailblazers on the power play, Framingham cleared the puck back into the MCLA defensive end, where Bertrand recovered it and circled behind her own net before skating out along the left side boards. She split a pair of defenders near her own blue line, brought the puck through the neutral zone, juked off another defender inside the Ram's blue line, turned at the right faceoff circle and chipped the puck over the goalie's stick side shoulder. The goal was her team-leading 12^th of the season.
• The Trailblazers doubled their lead just under seven minutes into the second period. In a scrum along the left boards, Bertrand and sophomore forward Milena Monell (Tampa, FL / Florida Alliance) battled the puck into the corner where sophomore forward Belle Wurmser (Brick, NJ / Princeton Tiger Lillies) retrieved and passed it to senior forward Alexandrea Bednar (Vita, MB / Univ. of Wisconsin–Eau Claire) near the front of the net. Bednar stabbed at the puck before Monell cleaned up in front of the net for her second goal of the year. Bednar and Wurmser were credited with their fifth and sixth assists, respectively.
• With just over eight and a half minutes to play in the second period, the Rams fought back to cut MCLA's lead in half when Jamie Webster scored with a helper from Ceira Garrity. The goal was Webster's first, while the assist was Garrity's first and would send the teams into the second intermission with the Trailblazers ahead 2-1.
• The third period featured 26 shots, with MCLA accounting for 16 of them, but neither team lit the lamp during the final frame.
• Junior goalie  Kaia Borski (Eagle, CO / Brattle Mountain High School) stopped 30 of 31 shots and improved her record to 2-0-0, while Brigid Milligan fell to 0-3-0 for Framingham.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• Shots: Framingham 31, MCLA 39
• Saves: Framingham 37, MCLA 30
• Faceoffs Won: Framingham 22, MCLA 35
• Penalty/Minutes: Framingham 7/14:00, MCLA 3/6:00
• Power Plays: Framingham 0 for 3, MCLA 1 for 7

UP NEXT:

On Tuesday, MCLA will be back in action when it travels to Rivier University at the Conway Arena for a MASCAC matchup with the Raiders. The puck will drop at noon.

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