Box Score The University of Toronto Varsity Blues women's hockey team fell 3-0 to the visiting Laurier Golden Hawks on Sunday, November 17 at Varsity Arena.

With the loss, the Blues fall to 7-3-1 on the season, and remain fourth in the OUA standings.

Nicole Kesteris was solid despite the loss, making 31 saves and keeping the Blues in the game right to the final buzzer.

The Blues failed to score in the game, but did not lack in chances, including several electrifying rushes from Blues leading scorer Taylor Day (Ilderton, Ont.) in the first period. Twice Day was able to beat a Laurier defender one-on-one and streak in on goal, but was unable to get the puck past Golden Hawks netminder Amanda Smith.

Kesteris faced 14 shots and made a number of spectacular saves in the opening frame. But finally with three minutes remaining in the period and a Blues penalty kill just coming to an end, Candice Styles wristed a shot from the point through traffic that eluded Kesteris and found the back of the net to open the scoring.

The second period saw the Blues fight back and outshoot Laurier 8-5—thanks in part to a string of powerplays—but fail to find a way to beat Smith.

The game headed to the final period with the score still 1-0 in favour of the Hawks, when Courtney Brind'Amour-McClure had one of U of T's best chances of the night. The second-year Waterdown, Ont. Native raced into the Laurier zone, dragged the puck around a helpless defender, and slid the puck across the crease and just wide of a gaping net. Laurier then pounced on the loose puck and skated back up the ice on an odd-man rush. Jessie Hurrell fed the puck across the ice to Jessica Prevette who deked around Kesteris and put the Hawks up 2-0.

Hurrell would add an empty netter with under a minute remaining in the game to cement the victory and give the Hawks forward her second point of the game. Laurier is now 10-2-0 on the season.

The Blues return to action this Friday, November 22 when they travel to York University to take on the Lions. Game time is 7 p.m.

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