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Women's Hockey Plays Host to Harvard and Dartmouth This Weekend
January 07, 2010 | Women's Ice Hockey
GAMETIME: Friday, Jan. 8 at 3 p.m.
RECORDS: Princeton (8-9-2, 6-4-2 ECAC); Harvard (8-3-2, 6-3-0 ECAC)
SERIES HISTORY: Harvard leads 36-27-2 overall and is 15-14-1 at Princeton
LAST MEETING: Princeton won 2-1 on Nov. 14, 2009 in Cambridge
STREAK: Princeton has won the last two meetings
Game 20: Dartmouth at Princeton
GAMETIMES: Saturday, Jan. 9 at 3 p.m.
RECORDS: Princeton (8-9-2, 6-4-2 ECAC); Dartmouth (6-6-2, 4-4-1 ECAC)
SERIES HISTORY: Princeton leads 35-27-4 overall and is 18-9-4 at home
LAST MEETING: Dartmouth won 4-1 on Nov. 13, 2009 at home
STREAK: Dartmouth won the last meeting
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PRINCETON (1/7/10) - The Princeton women's hockey team resumes league play this weekend with a pair of afternoon games against ECAC and Ivy League foes Harvard and Dartmouth at Hobey Baker Rink. Princeton plays on Friday and Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m.
Princeton skated three times in the last week and came away with a 1-1-1 record. Princeton started last weekend by earning three of four points from travel-partner Quinnipiac with a 2-2 tie on the road and a 1-0 shutout at home. The Tigers momentum though was stopped on Tuesday afternoon when ninth-ranked Northeastern put a clamp on the Tiger offense in a 4-0 shutout.
Princeton resumed play after the Holiday Break last Thursday with a 2-2 tie at Quinnipiac, as the Tigers had to plat catch up in the third period. Charissa Stadnyk's first goal of the season put Princeton on the scoreboard early in the third period and Melanie Wallace knotted the game at 2-2 with less than two minutes remaining in regulation as the home-and-home series started with a tie.
Two days later the teams played another even contest for two periods before Princeton converted on a chance in the third period to earn the 1-0 triumph. Danielle DiCesare got the game-winning goal as she redirected a centering pass into the Bobcat net to tie Heather Landry for the team lead with eight goals this season.
Princeton played again three days later on Tuesday afternoon against Northeastern, but ran into a hot goaltender in Northeastern's Leah Sulyma, who stopped all 52 shots she faced to keep Princeton off the scoreboard. The Huskies got an early goal with a two-man advantage and never looked back in handing the Tigers the loss.
Princeton's three points against Quinnipiac helped the Tigers leap over the Bobcats in the standings into third place with 14 points. The Tigers are just two points out of a first-place tie with Clarkson and Cornell, but both teams have games in hand over Princeton, which will even out during Princeton's final exam break. The Tigers lie a point ahead of fourth-place Quinnipiac and two up on fifth-place Harvard. Rensselaer, St. Lawrence and Dartmouth currently complete the ECAC's top- eight positions.
Princeton opens the weekend on Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. against Harvard. The Tigers trails the all-time series with Harvard 27-36-2 but have won the last two games in the series, including a 2-1 overtime win in Cambridge in mid-November in which Landry scored both goals and Rachel Weber made 25 saves. Both wins came on the road. Princeton is 14-15-1 versus Harvard at home and is winless in its last three home games against the Crimson.
Harvard is 8-2-3 overall and 6-3-0 in the ECAC entering the weekend. The Crimson began the season with two wins in their first five games, but has not lost since Princeton dropped it to 2-3 on Nov. 14. Harvard is 6-0-2 since, but hasn't played since a 2-1 win over Connecticut on Dec. 8. Harvard has three one-goal wins and a tie in its last four games.
The Tigers complete the weekend on Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. against Dartmouth. Princeton leads its all-time series with Dartmouth 35-27-4 and is 18-9-4 in the series at home. Dartmouth took the first meeting of this season with a 4-1 win at home in early November. Laura Martindale had Princeton's lone goal in the loss. The Tigers have dropped their last three home games to Dartmouth.
Dartmouth is currently 6-6-2 overall and 4-4-1 in the ECAC. The Big Green has strung together back-to-back wins only once this season but also has not lost back-to-back games. Dartmouth visited Connecticut last weekend for a two-game series and dropped the opener 3-2, and then tied the finale 3-3.