It was a career night for a pair of Warriors on Thursday night at the CIF as fifth year forward
Rachel Marriott (Waterloo/) became the women's hockey all-time leading scorer while second year defender
Brooklyn Sarnovsky (Courtice/) netted her first career goal in the black and gold.
The Warriors got past the Laurentian Voyageurs 3-2 in a shootout to pick up their seventh win of the season and improve to 5-2-3-0. Their 19 points have them in a tie for fifth with Nipissing who they battle on Sunday in their final game of 2017.
Down 1-0 into the second period, Waterloo evened the score as
Maryn Caragata (Etobicoke/) tallied her fourth of the season. On the goal,
Rachel Marriott (Waterloo/) earned her 81st career point, making her the all-time leading scorer in the history of women's hockey.
Stephanie Digness (Aldergrove/) picked up the second helper on Waterloo's equalizing tally.
Just seven minutes later it was another career moment as Sarnovsky netter a point shot for her first goal as a Warriors. Sarno's tally put the Warriors up 2-1 into the third.
Just 19 seconds into the third Laurentian tied the game up off the stick of Jessica Staats.
Stephanie Sluys (Clinton/) made several big saves in the dying minutes sending the game into overtime.
After the extra frames solved nothing the game went into a shootout with
Maryn Caragata (Etobicoke/) and
Sarah Rettinger (Kitchener/) giving their team a 2-0 lead.
Laurentian got one back before Sluys cut down the angle on the final shooter to give her squad the 3-2 shootout victory. Sluys was solid making 32 stops in the win while Laurentian's goalie Karen Collins was as busy with 34 stops in a strong losing effort.
Waterloo will close out the calendar year on Sunday, December 3 against Nipissing. Puck drop is set for 2:30pm.
