The Cranston/East Greenwich Thunderbirds Co-op was overpowered by the Warwick/Chariho Titans Co-op 10-3 during a Division I Girls Hockey duel at Thayer Arena on Saturday night.

Ayla Paley, a sophomore forward, led the Titans with four goals, while teammate Elizabeth Cavanagh, a senior defenseman and captain, registered a hat trick.

All three of the Thunderbirds’ tallies came from Mia Schenenga, a senior center.

Hailey Davis, a senior captain, made 33 saves in net for Cranston, while Warwick sophomore goaltender Emily Tullie recorded 15 stops.

Warwick drew a 1-0 advantage at 1:28 of the opening period when sophomore forward Georgia Geld scored on a rebound shot following assists from Cavanagh and Paley.

Schenenga knotted the score at 1, two-and-a-half minutes later, when she fired a wrister past Tullie after an assist from Jeremi Morrison, a senior captain.

Cranston grabbed a 2-1 advantage at 6:20 of the first frame just after Schenenga skated in front of the net and slipped a backhanded shot past Tullie behind an assist from Sarah Walsh, a freshman.

Nevertheless, at 8:32 of the period, the Titans evened the score at 2 when Cavanagh launched a wrister past Davis. Paley and Hayley Clem had the assists on that tally.

“We were actually doing well in the first period,” Cranston head coach Matt Davis said. “We’re just a very young inexperienced team. Mia’s my powerhouse and the time just killed us at the end. Our legs got tired and our girls were trying to play catch up.”

In the second period, however, Paley scored all four of her goals and gave the Titans a 6-2 lead.

Warwick upped its margin to 7-2, two minutes and forty-two seconds into the third frame, when Cavanagh scored a breakaway goal after assists from Paley and Mary Centracchio, a senior goaltender and defenseman.

At 8:42 of the final frame, Schenenga inched Cranston within 7-3 after the senior rocketed a shot into the right side of the net. That tally went unassisted.

Notwithstanding, Warwick upped its buffer to 8-3 just as Cavanagh recorded her third goal, twenty-one seconds later, following passes from Paley and Feld.

Thirteen seconds after that, Brianna Limoges, a junior forward, registered a tally behind assists from freshman Aliya Rose and junior Aubrey Gatti, and that put the Titans on top 9-3.

Lastly, at 13:48 of the frame, Centracchio lit the lamp following an assist from Nadia McFarlane, a sophomore, which gave Warwick the 10-3 win. 

The previous night, the Thunderbirds were shutout 9-0 by the Titans in Game 1 of the home-and-home series.

The Cranston head coach felt his team stepped up its intensity in Game 2.

“We had a little bit more energy tonight,” Davis said. “Hailey (Davis) gave us an awesome game in net again. She saw 30 something shots. The girls are working as hard as they can. I’ve got probably about 15 to 17 girls that have never skated before that are learning this year. So, that takes a lot of guts to come out here, put on skates, and play a varsity sport against these other varsity teams. So, I give all the girls a lot of credit. I’m very proud of all of them.”

Cranston falls to 0-8 on the season with the defeat. The Thunderbirds play next on Saturday at 7:30 pm at home against the Smithfield/Coventry/Moses Brown Co-op.