OSWEGO, N.Y.- The William Smith College ice hockey team skated to a 1-1 tie with #10/8 Oswego on senior night at the Marano Campus Center. Junior goalie Maggie Salmon finished the game with a career-best 58 stops as the Herons took three out of a possible four points from the Lakers.
 
Oswego (16-7-2, 10-6-2) jumped out to a 1-0 lead at 5:28 of the first period. Eryn Stewart redirected a Victoria Blake shot past Salmon and into the back of the net. Blake and Alyssa Brockmann were credited with assists on the power-play goal.
 
William Smith (7-12-6, 4-9-5) answered back when first-year Kate Klimaszewski fired a one-timer past Mariah Madrigal. Sophomore Jordan Roetzer carried the puck below the goal line and sent a cross-crease pass to Klimaszewski, who lifted the shot over Madrigal's right leg pad. Roetzer and first-year Taylor Morash picked up assists on the goal. The Lakers owned a 17-5 shot advantage in the opening period.
 
Salmon was the story the rest of the way for the Herons. She stopped the final 54 shots she faced, including 19 in the third period where Oswego had a 5-on-3 power play for 1:34 of the final three minutes in the period. One of Salmon's biggest saves of the afternoon came off the stick of Andrea Noss. In the overtime period, Noss fired a wrist shot from the slot that Salmon batted onto the top of the goal with her glove.
 
Klimaszewski had the Herons best opportunity to win the game in the overtime period. She fired a wrist shot from the left faceoff circle that was ticketed for the upper right corner of the net but Madrigral made a shoulder stop to preserve the tie.
 
Salmon finishes her junior campaign with a career best 6-8-4 overall record in goal for William Smith. She made a career-high 656 stops this season, finishing the year with a .951 save percentage and a 1.92 goals against average. She is the first Heron to post a sub-2.00 goals against average in a regular season. 
 
Madrigal stopped 17 of the 18 shots she faced in the Laker goal.
 
Oswego, which entered the weekend with the conference's best power-play percentage, went 1-for-8 on the power play this afternoon and 2-for-15 on the weekend. William Smith finished the game 0-for-2 with the extra skater.
 
The Herons have now concluded their third season as a varsity program. William Smith set program records with 75 assists, 18 power-play goals, and six ties this season. The Heron goalies finished the year with a program best .936 save percentage and 2.26 goals against average.