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2008 CIS Womens Hockey ChampionshipsUNIVERSITYSPORTCAFRANAIS CONTACT US HOMEMarch 19 2009 PRINT THIS STORYCIS championship (Game 1 Pool B) No 2 Hawks fly past GeeGees ANTIGONISH NS (CIS) Lauren Barch tallied a goal and three assists and Kaley Powers scored twice as the No 2seeded Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks used six unanswered goals to defeat the No 6 Ottawa GeeGees 61 in the opening game of the 2009 CIS womens hockey championship Thursday afternoon at St Francis Xavier Universitys Keating Millennium CentreChampionship website wwwuniversitysportcaechampionshipswhockey2009 With the win OUA champion Laurier (10) takes the early lead in Pool B while QSSF finalist Ottawa (01) will need a lopsided victory against the No 4 Moncton Aigles Bleues (00) Friday at 4 pm Atlantic in order to keep its goldmedal hopes alive Laurier enjoys a day off on Friday before taking on Moncton Saturday at 4 pm in the third and final Pool B roundrobin duelIt looked early on as if Ottawa could pull off the upset against the perennial contender Hawks winners of six straight OUA titles and CIS finalists three of the past four years including a 20 loss to McGill in the 2008 national final and a 41 win over Alberta in 2005 for the lone CIS title in team historySamantha DeLenardo (Keswick Ont) opened the scoring just two minutes and five seconds into the contest The rookie centre beat thirdyear goaltender Liz Knox (Stouffville Ont) with a wrist shot from the left circle to give the GeeGees a 10 lead they would take well into the second periodStill down by one past the midway point of the middle stanza despite a decisive advantage in shots on net the Hawks finally broke the ice and broke the game wide open with three goals before the second intermissionPowers got things going at the 1230 mark when she converted a twoonnone The sophomore forward from Kingston Ont finally sent the puck past fifthyear netminder Jessika Audet (Chatham NB) on Lauriers 18th shot of the gameHeather Fortuna (Kitchener Ont) also a sophomore forward doubled the Hawks lead three minutes later during a power play and Powers gave Laurier all the confidence it needed going into the third period when she scored her second of the day with 36 seconds left before the horn forcing the puck past Audet from the goalmouthThe Hawks had outshot their rivals 2510 after 40 minutes including a 154 advantage in the second frameI wasnt a happy camper at the end of the first period said Laurier head coach Rick Osborne We needed to do something early in the second to get the momentum changedAny hopes of an Ottawa comeback evaporated 611 into the third when secondteam allCanadian forward Andrea Ironside (Collingwood Ont) made it a 41 affair with a snapshot of a partial breakaway Thirdyear defender Stephanie Crarey ma...