Junior assistant captains Renata Fast (Burlington, ONT) and Olivia Howe (Moose Jaw, SASK) tallied three and four points respectively and the Clarkson University Women's Hockey team defeated Union 6-0 on Saturday afternoon.

Winners of four straight. Clarkson is now 18-8-3 overall and 13-3-2 in ECAC Hockey games, while Union is 4-20-6 overall and just 1-14-3 in ECAC Hockey play.

Junior Cayley Mercer (Exeter, ONT) opened the scoring just nine seconds into the contest. She scored her team-leading 18th goal off a pass from senior Christine Lambert (Thetford Mines, QUE) with Howe also picking up an assist. The Golden Knights would double their lead at 14:45 when freshman Lauren Lefler (Windsor, ONT) scored her first career collegiate goal. Fast would pick up her first assist of the day on the goal and Clarkson would take their 2-0 lead into the first intermission.

Howe would add a power-play goal at 12:00 in the second period off a feed from Fast.

Clarkson would add three goals in less than two minutes in the third period. Mercer picked up her second goal of the game at 11:17 with Howe picking up her second assist and third point of the game. Sixtyone seconds later, Fast scored a goal with freshman Brielle Bellerive (N. Vancouver, BC) and junior captain Shannon MacAulay (Mt. Herbert, PEI) tallying assists on the goal. The scoring would finish at 13:11 when senior Daniella Matteucci (Fruitvale, BC) scored off a pass from Howe with senior Jennifer Shields (Ingersoll, ONT) gaining an assist on the goal.

Clarkson had a huge 41-16 edge in shots. Freshman goaltender Shea Tiley (Owen Sound, ONT) finished with 16 saves to complete her seventh shutout of the year. Clarkson was 1-1 on man-advantage opportunities while killing off the sole Union power play. The win represented the 100th career victory for the players in the class of 2015.

Clarkson will return to Cheel Arena for their final regular-season home games next weekend when they welcome Princeton and Quinnipiac to Potsdam.