SYRACUSE, N.Y. - In its first game action in three weeks, the Wayne State University women's hockey team (4-6-3, 1-2-0 CHA) shook off any rust it may have had and scored three unanswered goals in the final 30 minutes of a 3-1 victory over Syracuse University (8-7-1, 3-2-0 CHA) on Friday night at the Tennity Ice Pavilion.

Gina Buquet (Lafayette, La./Ohio Flames) and Chelsea Burnett (Ridgeway, Ont./Stoney Creek Sabres) scored 36 seconds apart in the second period, and Veronique Laramee-Paquette (Mont-Tremblant, Que./Les Cheminots) added an insurance goal in the third as the Warriors ended their four-game winless streak against a hot Orange squad which had won eight of its last 10 games.

In her first start since Oct. 30 at Bemidji State, Delayne Brian (Winnipeg, Man./Notre Dame Hounds) stopped 27 of the 28 shots she faced, including 12 in the final period for her third win of the year. She is 5-0-0 in two seasons against Syracuse.

Penalties plagued the Orange all night, as the home team was forced to kill 11 penalties. SU was successful for the most part, but for Buquet's power-play marker at 9:49 of the second period.

That goal erased a 1-0 deficit established when Isabel Menard scored just 13 seconds into the middle period during a 4-on-4 situation. As Katrina Protopapas (Chatham, Ont./Bluewater Hawks) and Jenaya Townsend (Sherwood Park, Alb./Sherwood Park Kings) battled in heavy traffic in front of SU goaltender Lucy Schoedel, Buquet came up with the puck and fired a short wrist shot past Schoedel for her fourth goal of the season.

Moments later, a pass from Jaclyn Stapleton (Westbank, B.C./Pursuit of Excellence) found Lauren Coxon (Kitchener, Ont./Waterloo KW Rangers) in the neutral zone. Coxon skated up and passed the puck along the blue line to Burnett, who skated in and found the back of the net with a backhand from between the faceoff circles at 10:25.

A nice move on a SU defenseman by Laramee-Paquette created space for her to snap a shot off from the left side past Schoedel at the 13:44 mark of the third period. Julie Ingratta (Markham, Ont./North American Hockey Academy) and Jill Szandzik (Warren, Mich./Little Caesars) assisted on the goal.

Shots slightly favored the Orange, 28-25. Schoedel finished with 22 saves, tallying 11 in the final period.

The Warriors and Orange will meet again Saturday at 2:00 p.m. ET.