UTICA, NY - For a second consecutive day, the No. 9 Utica University women's hockey team shutout the visiting Neumann University Knights, this time 11-0, from the Utica University Nexus Center. 
 
By picking up the win, Angela Hawthorne broke the program's career win record with her 41st. She made four saves in her 20 minutes of play. The other 40 minutes belonged to Maddie Esposito who kept the Knights off the board while notching 10 saves. 
 
A grand total of 17 different Pioneers recorded a point in the win, none more than Hailey Modlin, who had two goals and two assists, and Nicole Flak, who totaled one goal and three assists. Carolyn Whitney matched Flak with a team high three helpers while Maggie Rylott and Erica Sheaffer shared the team lead of two goals with Modlin. 
 
Madison Novotny, Molly Pedone, Emma Corbett and Tess Barrett also found the back of the net for Utica. Corbett's goal served as her first with the Pioneers. Novotny and Kaci Ryder each had two assists while Sheaffer, Pedone, Corbett, Abby Lillis, Erica Sloan, Ava Suda, Cortney Staniszewski, Hannah Keating, Alexa Carlon and Carly Stefanini all had one. 
 
As a unit, the Pioneers outshot the Knights 66-14 and controlled faceoff battles 47-16. 
 
Utica replicated its five-goal first period on Friday with another one on Saturday. Pedone got the ball rolling 3:03 into the frame before Novotny pushed the score to 2-0 just over a minute later. Later at 12:53, Rylott notched her fourth of the season while Flak and Barrett scored less than 50 seconds apart at 17:02 and 17:46 to go into intermission up 5-0. 
 
Rylott opened the scoring in the second period with her second tally of the game at 5:21. Sheaffer recorded her goal at 8:14 while Corbett celebrated her first as a Pioneer just before the end of the period at 19:19. 
 
The finishing touches were put on in the third period by Modlin not once, but twice, with goals at 5:33 and 10:11 while Sheaffer notched her second of the contest at 16:51 as the Pioneers completed the season sweep of Neumann. 
 
No. 9 Utica (9-0-2, 6-0-2 UCHC) will make the short trip to Clinton, NY on Saturday, December 9 to take on No. 6 Hamilton College. Puck drop is set for 3 p.m.