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            WORCESTER, Mass. -- Senior Jocelyn Kratchmer (Watrous, Sask.) and junior Nicola Garat (Princeton, N.J.) each scored a pair of goals as the Crusaders of the College of the Holy Cross women's ice hockey team finished the regular season with 7-2 victory over the University of Southern Maine Huskies in an ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) Women's East game Sunday afternoon at the Hart Athletic Center.

            The Crusaders finished the season with a 16-9-0 overall record and a 13-5-0 in league play.  The Huskies concluded the season 7-16-1 overall and 5-12-1 in the league.  The Huskies will be the sixth seed in the upcoming ECAC Women's East tournament and face third seeded New England College next weekend.

            Kratchmer scored her 17th and 18th goals of the season in the first and third periods, while Garat lit the lamp for the 16th and 17th time in the second and third periods.  Kratchmer also had an assist.

            Junior Katie Paradis (Rochester, N.H.) and freshman Shannon Cronin (Wakefield, Mass.) had the goals for the Huskies.

            Sophomore Alyssa Ruhland (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Kratchmer gave the Crusaders a 2-0 lead in the first period.  Sophomore Meghan Reynolds (Marion, Mass.) expanded the lead to 3-0 with a power-play goal at 3:30 of the second period before Paradis got the Huskies on the board with a power-play marker of her own at 5:13.

            Holy Cross junior Stacey Hochkins (New Boston, Mich.) scored her team-leading 22nd goal of the season at 16:59, and Garat's first goal made it 5-1 before the end of the second period.

            Garat's second goal came on the power play at 2:45 of the third period.  Cronin tallied an unassisted goal at 6:47.  Kratchmer closed the scoring with her second goal with 7:31 to play.

            USM rookie goalie Jordan Lee (Colorado Springs, Colo.) stopped 25 shots.  Holy Cross employed three goalies, each playing a period.  Junior Carly Dominick-Sobol (Syracuse, N.Y.) had two saves in the first period, senior Monique Gallant (Antigonish, Nova Scotia) was credited with the win after making 14 stops in the middle period, and senior Lindsay Atkinson (Westbank, B.C.) registered eight stops in the third period.

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