Box Score Third-year defenceman Autumn Garnham scored two goals and added one assist in leading the University of Toronto Varsity Blues women's hockey team to a 4-2 win over the Brock Badgers on Saturday night (Jan. 23) in St. Catharines, Ont.

With the win, the Blues improve to 6-2-4-3, while the Badgers drop to 5-1-9-1 in the OUA standings.

The Badgers opened the scoring 7:37 into the game with a goal off the stick of Laura Neu. The Blues bounced back though, scoring two goals 21 seconds apart towards the end of the opening frame. Veteran forward Sonja Weidenfelder scored on the powerplay with 1:44 to go in the first period and rookie Kiyono Cox notched her second goal of the season to give U of T the 2-1 lead after 20 minutes of action.

Garnham notched her first of the game 3:08 into the second period, and after Brock added an early marker in the third period, Garnham added an insurance marker less than two minutes later to secure the victory.

Rookie netminder Valencia Yordanov posted 22 saves in the win.

The Varsity Blues are back in action next Friday, January 29 as they host the Western Mustangs at Varsity Arena. The following night, the Blues will take on the Windsor Lancers in their ninth annual Think Pink, #BleedBlue game. Game time on both nights is set for 7:30 p.m. 

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