Box Score The University of Toronto Varsity Blues women's hockey team fell 3-1 to the visiting Guelph Gryphons Sunday January 26 at Varsity Arena.

The loss snaps the Blues four game winning streak and allows Guelph to vault past them for third place in the OUA standings. The Blues now sit fourth with 31 points on the season.

Taylor Day registered Toronto's lone goal. It was the Ilderton, Ont. native's 11^th goal of the season, which leads the team in that category. Third-year winger Sonja Weidenfelder (Toronto) picked up the only assist on Day's tally.

Blues goaltender Nicole Kesteris (Aurora, Ont.) made 22 saves. She came into the game with a CIS-leading .950 save percentage.

The Blues came out strong, outshooting the Gryphons 12-7 in the first period. However, several defensive miscues opened the door for Guelph who scored all three goals on breakaways.

The Gryphons opened the scoring on a harmless-seeming play when Cara Sayles split the Blues defenseman and raced in on the Gryphons first breakaway of the night, beating Kesteris on a forehand-backhand move.

Averi Nooren then increased the lead to 2-0, stealing the puck at her own blue line, and breaking in alone before roofing the puck over Kesteris' glovehand.

The Blues would respond just 15 seconds later, on Day's 11^th goal of the season. The sophomore standout stole the puck on the forecheck and threw it to the front of the net where it pin-balled off multiple bodies and snuck past Gryphons goaltender Stephanie Nehring to cut the lead to 2-1.

The two teams continued to trade chances in the second, with Kesteris making several saves to keep her team in it until OUA-leading goal scorer Jessica Pinkerton finally broke through for the Gryphons.

With seven minutes gone in the period, Pinkerton received a breakaway pass and fought off a Blues defender to beat Kesteris and restore the two goal lead.

The Blues pressed hard to even the score in the third period, firing a game-high 13 shots in the final frame to give them 31 shots in total, but Nehring hung on to give the Gryphons a 3-1 win.

The Blues will return to action this Friday January 31 when they travel to Windsor to take on the Lancers. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.