Princeton University Athletics
Women's Hockey Plays Final Games Before Break
December 12, 2003 | Women's Ice Hockey
Dec. 12, 2003
Princeton, N.J. - The Princeton women's hockey team (7-5-0; 2-3-0 ECAC) returns to the ice with a pair of games on the road at Findlay (6-7-1; 1-4-1 CHA). The two games will be the final two games of 2003 for the Tigers, who have three weeks off until they resume their season in January.
Princeton and Findlay have only met twice with the Tigers winning both games and the Oilers yet to score a goal in the series. Princeton claimed a 7-0 victory in the first meeting on Jan. 23, 2000 in Baker Rink, and followed that up with a 2-0 win in the second meeting on Nov. 3 of last season, also at Baker Rink.
In last season's win, sophomore Heather Jackson posted her first career points as she assisted on junior Becky Stewart's game-winning goal, and then added an insurance goal later in the third period. Senior Megan Van Beusekom earned the shutout that day, stopping all 19 Oiler shots. Princeton enters the game with a 7-5 record, but dropped its last two games last weekend to St. Lawrence. The teams played two hard-fought games, but the Saints got the necessary bounces to earn wins of 2-1 and 3-1. Princeton is 2-3 in league play and is tied for fifth in the standings with Brown.
Findlay is 6-7-1 overall and 1-4-1 in College Hockey America. The Oilers opened the season with consecutive losses at Colgate, then rebounded with sweeps at home against St. Cloud State and at Quinnipiac. Findlay then went 0-4-1 in a five-game stretch that included two losses to Mercyhurst, a loss and a tie at Niagara, and a loss to Bemidji State. Findlay enters the weekend winners of two of its last three after posting a win versus Bemidji State and splitting with Wayne State.
Princeton resumes ECAC play on the weekend of Jan. 9-10 at Colgate and Cornell.
Sophomore forward Sarah Butsch was the subject of a recent feature story written by the ECAC. The story includes journal entries of Butsch's summer trip to to Africa to participate in the Ghana Education Project (GEP) to help the disadvantaged inhabitants of Komenda. The complete story can be found by clicking here.