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Women's Hockey New England Bound to Face Dartmouth and Harvard
November 12, 2009 | Women's Ice Hockey
GAMETIME: Friday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m.
RECORDS: Princeton (4-1-1, 3-0-1 ECAC); Dartmouth (1-2-1, 1-2-1 ECAC)
RANKINGS: Princeton (Poll: 10/9); Dartmouth (Poll: RV/RV)
SERIES RECORD: Princeton leads 35-26-4, is 15-15 in Hanover
LAST MEETING: Princeton won 4-1 on Jan. 3, 2009 in Hanover
STREAK: Princeton won the last meeting.
MULTIMEDIA: Livestats | Live Video (Dartmouth)
Game 8: Princeton at Harvard
GAMETIME: Saturday, Nov. 14 at 4 p.m.
RECORDS: Princeton (4-1-1, 3-0-1 ECAC); Harvard (2-2-0, 2-2-0 ECAC)
RANKINGS: Princeton (Poll: 10/9); Brown (Poll: RV/8)
SERIES RECORD: Harvard leads 36-26-2, is 20-11-1 at home
LAST MEETING: Princeton won 1-0 on Jan. 2, 2009 in Cambridge
STREAK: Princeton won the last meeting
MULTIMEDIA: Livestats | Live Video (Harvard)
PRINCETON (11/11/09) - The Princeton women's hockey team returns to the road this weekend for its second-straight league weekend against ECAC and Ivy League opponents. The Tigers visit Dartmouth on Friday and Harvard on Saturday.
Princeton ran its unbeaten streak to five games last weekend with a pair of shutout wins. After a loss in its season opener at Vermont, the Tigers are 4-0-1 since and blanked both Yale and Brown on the road last weekend.
Princeton's sweep vaulted the Tigers into both national polls. Princeton holds down the ninth spot in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll and the 10th spot in the USCHO.com Poll. It is the first weekend in the Top 10 for the Tigers, who have previously received votes in both polls.
The Tigers enter their weekend in New England not having allowed an opponent to score over the last eight periods played. Last weekend, Princeton put together back-to-back shutouts, winning 4-0 at Yale and 5-0 at Brown. Freshman goaltender Cassie Seguin earned both wins in goal making 38 saves between the two games for the first two wins and shutouts of her collegiate career. Her performances helped her claim the ECAC's Goalie and Rookie of the Week Awards.
On Friday at Yale, senior Melanie Wallace put the Tigers ahead 2:15 in the game and Princeton never looked back in the win. Wallace and sophomore Julie Johnson would finish the game with a goal and an assist each, while senior Julie Flynn chipped in a pair of assists as well.
A day later, the Tigers struck 14 seconds into the game when sophomore Heather Landry gave the Tigers a lead they wouldn't relinquish. Sophomore Paula Romanchuk and junior Sasha Sherry each had a goal and an assist in the win, while sophomore Danielle DiCesare, Princeton's leading scorer with 11 points this season, added two assists.
View highlights from last weekend's wins below.
With its wins, the Tigers currently sit in a third-place tie in the ECAC Hockey standings with travel-partner Quinnipiac. Only two teams in the league remain undefeated as Clarkson is atop the standings at 5-0 and Cornell is second at 4-0. Both Princeton and Quinnipiac are 3-0-1. This weekend's opponents are fifth and seventh in the standings as Harvard is fifth at 2-2 and Dartmouth seventh at 1-2-1.
Princeton opens the weekend on Friday night at Dartmouth. The Tigers lead the all-time series with Dartmouth 35-26-4 and the series is deadlocked 15-15 in Hanover. Princeton snapped a five-game winless streak against Dartmouth last season when it topped the Big Green 4-1 in Hanover in early January to split the season series. Seven Tigers tallied a single point in the win. Dartmouth won the first meeting 3-2 in Princeton in late October. Landry scored both Princeton goals in the loss.
Dartmouth is 1-2-1 both overall and in the ECAC entering the weekend. The Big Green lost at Cornell and tied at Colgate in their opening weekend, then topped St. Lawrence and fell to Clarkson at home last weekend. Amanda Trunzo and Sarah Parsons are tied for the team lead with five points entering the weekend.
On Saturday Princeton travels to Harvard to complete the weekend. Princeton is 26-36-2 all-time against Harvard and is 11-20-1 in games played in Cambridge. The Tigers snapped a five-game losing skid to Harvard with a win on the road last January as Landry scored the lone Princeton goal in a 1-0 win. It was Princeton's first win at Harvard since November of 1996. Harvard took the meeting at Baker Rink 6-4 in early November.
Harvard has split its two weekends of play thus far, winning at Colgate and losing at Cornell, then falling to Clarkson and defeating St. Lawrence. The Crimson are currently led by Katharine Chute and Kaitlin Spurling's four points..