Captain Karell Emard scored two goals and assisted on a third as St. Lawrence University's women's hockey team won its second straight NCAA Division I hockey game with a 4-1 victory over the University of Connecticut at Appleton Arena Saturday afternoon.

The Saints, now 2-0-0, dominated play, outshooting the Huskies, 0-2-1, 28-18, but Connecticut goaltender Nicole Paniccia kept her team in the game and UConn made it interesting with a power play goal with just under seven minutes to play to cut the Saint lead to 3-1.

Emard sealed the Saint win when she intercepted a UConn pass just outside the Huskie blue line and skated in to put the puck into the empty net with 1:27 to play as Connecticut had pulled its goalie for an extra attacker with just over two minutes to play.

"It was a pretty solid performance across the board for the first two periods," said Saint coach Chris Wells. "I thought we lost a little focus in the third period, and we took a time out to try to get back on track. We created a lot of good scoring chances and I thought we did a very good job on the penalty kill early."

The Saints outshot Connecticut 4-2 on the Huskies first three power plays, scoring one shorthanded goal and nearly getting another.

St. Lawrence controlled the game from the start and took the early lead when junior defenseman Brooke Fernandez took a shot from the top of the left faceoff circle which beat Paniccia inside the far post. Kelly Sabatine and Emard assisted on the goal which came at the 16:17 mark of the first period.

Emard made it a 2-0 game when she stole the puck behind the Connecticut goal with the Saints skating down a player. She stepped out from behind the net and wrapped the puck around the post before Paniccia could cover the side for her first of the year shorthanded at 11:02. Sophomore Rylee Smith then made it a 3-0 Saint lead with her third of the year at 12:18, putting away a rebound of a Sabatine shot with Vanessa Emond also assisting.

Connecticut denied sophomore Caitlyn Lahonen's shutout bid at 13:26 of the third period as junior defender Maude Blain scored her first of the season just two seconds into a power play as her shot off a faceoff win by Rachel Farrel in the Saint end beat Lahonen along the ice.

The Saints finished with a 32-19 edge in shots on goal for the game with five of the 19 Connecticut shots and the lone Husky goal coming on the power play.

The Saints won their second straight in the series with UConn and are now 10-3-1 all-time in a series which started in 2003. SLU takes on Providence College at 1 p.m. at Appleton Arena on Sunday.