The Carleton Ravens women’s hockey team fell to a 3-15 record on the season after another winless weekend.
The loss put them out of playoff contention, making it three years in a row they have finished at the basement of the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) conference and missed the postseason.
On Feb. 5, the University of Ottawa (U of O) Gee-Gees bested the Ravens 8-2.
“We know Ottawa is a team we should be beating every game. It’s just disappointing to see us go out with an effort like that,” said Ravens goalie Katelyn Steele. “I think we have the skill level to beat them. We just kind of panic a little bit when we play them, just because of the rivalry. It just puts a little bit of extra tension into it, makes it a harder game to play.”
The Ravens left the first period down 3-0, which tied for their worst defeat against the Gee-Gees this season.
They came out with some momentum in the second period, with Tawnya Guidon scoring off the power play just eight seconds in.
After that, Cindy Laurin scored another squeaker on the power play to make it a game at 3-2.
From there, everything seemed to turn downhill, as the Gee-Gees peppered the Carleton net with shots and a barrage of goals.
“It was hard to watch as we kind of gave up as a whole and didn’t care too much near the end of the game,” Steele said.
“I think we picked it up for the second game for sure and came out as a different team,” Steele said. “The first game was not a good team effort.”
The Ravens hit the road on Super Bowl Sunday to take on the McGill Martlets in their second game of the weekend.
The top-seeded team out of Montreal blanked Carleton 2-0, but Steele said it was a much improved performance on their part.
“It was a good effort. We came out strong and we didn’t give up at all,” she said. “Even when we were done we were pushing to get that goal and I really thought we were going to. We kind of just didn’t get the passes we needed and we ended up on the losing end.”
The Ravens will have a chance for partial redemption as they go up against the Concordia Stingers on Feb. 14, a team they’ve already beaten twice this season.
