Ten different players registered a point as fourth-ranked Middlebury (6-2-1, 4-1) scored four first-period goals on its way to a 6-2 win over Wesleyan (4-5, 1-4). The two teams will go at it again on Saturday with game two of the NESCAC series set to face-off at 3:00 p.m.

Wesleyan took a 1-0 lead 7:12 into the game with the sixth of the year from Jordan Schildhaus. Gathering the puck from behind her own goal, Schildhaus carried the puck the length of the ice, going around several defenders before finding the back of the net.

Middlebury answered just over two minutes later when Elizabeth Wulf picked off a pass and scored on the doorstep to knot the game at 1-1.

The Panthers later scored twice in less than a minute, the first one coming on the power play. Janka Hlinka's shot from the point was tipped by Katie Mandigo and saved, before Allie Aiello knocked it home at 13:51. Hlinka gave her team a 3-1 lead when she took a feed from behind the net by Jessica Young and scored with a one-timer.

The Panthers struck again with just 27 seconds left in the period when Kelly Sherman finished off a scramble in front to give her team a 4-1 advantage after 20 minutes.

Mandigo made it a 5-1 game midway through the second period, finishing off her own rebound after her first two attempts had been saved. Cara Jankowski answered for the Cardinals at 13:12, as her shot found its way through traffic to cut the deficit to 5-2.

Maddie Winslow netted the only goal in the third, scoring on a rebound at the 13:27 mark on the power play after Carly Watson's initial shot from the point was stopped.

Middlebury finished with a 25-16 shots advantage in the game as Annabelle Jones made 14 saves to pick up the win. Laura Corcoran stopped 19 shots between the pipes for Wesleyan.