Morillo records her 100th career point in a 4-2 UOIT victory

OUA Women's Hockey: UOIT defeated Laurentian 4-2

OSHAWA, Ont. – Jill Morillo (Whitby, Ont.) recorded her 100th career point as she led the UOIT women's hockey team to a 4-2 victory over Laurentian on Saturday night.

Morillo scored two second period goals to become the first-ever Ridgeback to reach the milestone mark. The nuclear engineering and management major now has 56 goals and 44 assists in 117 conference games. Her 56 career goals ranks her 12th in OUA all-time goal scoring.

Laurentian would give UOIT trouble in the early stages of Saturday's game as the Voyageurs held a 2-1 advantage and outshot the Ridgebacks 12-8 after 20 minutes.

UOIT would rebound as Morillo's two second period power play goals gave the home team their first lead of the night. In the final frame, Jaclyn Gibson (Cobourg, Ont.) would put the game to rest as she beat Laurentian goaltender Emily Toffoli with five minutes remaining.

Katie Dillon (Whitby, Ont.) scored UOIT's first goal of the night and added an assist to extend her league leading point-scoring streak to eight games. Also recording a goal and an assist for UOIT was Gibson, who moved into sixth place in OUA scoring with 15 points on the year.

UOIT's Sam Forchielli of Hamilton also had a multi-point night as she ended up with two assists in the win. The second year forward has surpassed her point total from last season as she has four goals and five assists in 11 games this year.

Tori Campbell (Lethbridge, Alta.) earned her sixth win of the year in net for UOIT as she stopped 20 of 22 Laurentian shots on net. UOIT held a 34-22 advantage in shots. Campbell has a 1.60 goals against average in nine games this season.

UOIT has won two straight games and sits in fifth place in the OUA standings with a 7-4-0 record. In their first year in OUA women's hockey, Laurentian is tied for ninth place with the Ryerson Rams at 4-7-0.

The Ridgebacks will welcome another new face to the Campus Ice Centre on Sunday afternoon as they host the Nipissing Lakers at 3:30 p.m. Nipissing is 3-8-0 in their inaugural season.

A QUICK LOOK AT THE RIDGEBACKS
Overall Record: 11-5-0
Conference Record: 7-4-0

Next Game: Sun. Nov. 17 vs. Nipissing (3:30 p.m.)

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