HAMILTON  — Four multi-point scorers for the Raiders were highlighted by sophomore Emma Pais' two goals and fifth-year Kristýna Kaltounková's 200th career point in a 4-1 win over Rensselaer. Junior defender Casey Borgiel added her first two-tally game as a Raider in the victory that serves as first-year head coach Stefan Decosse's first ECAC Hockey win.

"Anytime you get a win in the ECAC you feel good," Decosse said. "It's a competitive league and it's nice to get the outcome that our process deserved. I'm just super thrilled for Kalty. She's such an incredible teammate and leader. Every day in practice she competes and raises the level of our team on a daily basis, and she has earned the right to call herself a 200-point player in the NCAA."

"It's such a big honor and personal achievement, but I don't know if it fully reflects all the people that helped me get here," Kaltounková said. "My teammates past and present, all of my coaches, my family back home and everyone who supports me deserves that recognition, too, because I wouldn't be able to do this without them."

HOW IT HAPPENED

• First-year forward Addison Spitz knocked in her second goal of the season and first-career ECAC score 10 minutes into the first period. 
• Pais scored her first goal of the evening on a Colgate power play to open the middle stanza when junior forward Elyssa Biederma threaded a no-look pass from the point to the stick of Pais, allowing the sophomore to beat RPI's netminder near-post from the left faceoff circle.
• After outshooting the Engineers 23-13 through two periods, an own-goal from the Raiders with under a minute to play in the frame halted the home side's momentum. 
• Pais was not fazed, however, depositing a puck from Kaltounková into the back of the net to reassert a two-goal advantage early in the third.
• Biederman tacked on an insurance score with three minutes remaining in the contest, deflecting a shot from sophomore defender Avery Pickering just over the goalie's blocker. 

GAME NOTES

• Senior netminder Hannah Murphy contributed 19 saves in the win, stopping .950 percent of shots faced.
• Pais stretched her point-streak to a team-high eight games, scoring 12 points in the span dating back to a 3-2 win against Minnesota Duluth on Oct. 5. 
• Biederman also boasts an impressive seven-game scoring streak, racking up 12 points in her past seven outings.
• Junior forward Sarah Roger assisted on Spitz's first-period score, collecting her third point of the campaign and setting a new season-high for points. 
• Junior forward and assistant captain Sara Stewart also tallied an assist in the win and has quietly strung together a five game point streak where she has amassed seven tallies.
• Kaltounková becomes just the second Raider in program history to cross the 200-career point threshold. She cements herself as Colgate's second-highest scorer of all time, trailing Danielle Serdachny '23 who ended her career with 239 tallies. 
• Colgate kicked off ECAC play with a win for the fifth-straight season. The last time the Raiders dropped their league-opener came in 2019 with a 1-0 loss to Princeton.

UP NEXT
The Raiders (8-3, 1-0 ECAC) host the Garnet Chargers of Union (5-6, 3-0 ECAC) for a 3 p.m. game tomorrow in the Class of 1965 Arena.