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The No. 10 University of Toronto Varsity Blues women's hockey team fell 4-2 to the York Lions on Friday night (Jan. 10) at Varsity Arena.

With the loss, the Blues drop to 11-4-1, but remain in third place in the OUA standings. The Lions improve to 4-11-1 and move into a tie 12th place with the Brock Badgers.

The Lions opened the scoring midway through the first when Mariah Krancevich (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) banged home her own rebound on the powerplay, but the Blues bounced right back with a rebound goal from Courtney Brind'Amour-McClure (Waterdown, Ont.).

The Blues went ahead early in the second period when a centering puck went off the skate of Arden Cowley and into the net. York battled back late in the frame as Kristen Barbara jammed the puck into the side of the net. The Lions killed off a late 5-on-3 and the score remained deadlocked at 2-2 heading into the final frame.

York went ahead early in the third period when Krancevich received a pass to split the defencemen and slid the puck five hole for her second of the game.

The Blues had powerplay chances in the dying minutes of the third, but to no avail as the Lions added an empty-netter with 24 seconds to go to seal the win.

Blues netminder Nicole Kesteris made 23 saves, while Meghan Lee had 38 saves in the win.

The Varsity Blues return to action tomorrow night when they travel to take on the Ryerson Rams at Mattamy Athletic Centre. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.

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