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Women's Hockey Returns Home to Face Dartmouth and Harvard
November 11, 2010 | Women's Ice Hockey
GAMETIME: Friday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.
RECORDS: PU (3-4-0, 3-2-0 ECAC); DC (3-1-0, 3-1-0 ECAC)
SERIES RECORD: DC leads 36-27-4, trails 15-16 at PU
LAST MEETING: PU won 4-3 on Jan. 9, 2010
STREAK: 1 Princeton win
LINKS: Livestats | Live Video
GAME 9: #10 Harvard at Princeton
GAMETIME: Saturday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m.
RECORDS: PU (3-4-0, 3-2-0 ECAC); HU (2-1-1, 2-1-1 ECAC)
SERIES RECORD: HU leads 38-27-3, trails 12-22-1 at PU
LAST MEETING: HU won 4-1 on Feb. 27, 2010
STREAK: 2 Harvard wins
**Skate with the Tigers following the game
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PRINCETON (11/10/10) - The Princeton women's hockey team returns home to Hobey Baker Rink this weekend to host a pair of games against ECAC and Ivy rivals Dartmouth and 10th-ranked Harvard. Princeton enters the weekend off last weekend's sweep at Rensselaer and Union.
Princeton will host the first of two Skate with the Tigers afternoons following the Harvard game. Fans are encouraged to bring along their skates and meet, mingle and skate with the players following the game. The second event will take place following Princeton's game against Rensselaer on Feb. 12, 2011.
The Tigers earned a pair of one-goal wins on the road last weekend to improve to 3-4-0 overall and 3-2-0 in the ECAC. Princeton edged Rensselaer 2-1 on Friday, building a 2-0 lead in the second period and then holding off an Engineer comeback attempt. On Saturday Princeton fell behind early as Union scored twice in the game's first five minutes, but Princeton rallied to even the score late and win in overtime.
Sally Butler had a hand in three of Princeton's five goals, scoring both game winners and assisting on the Tigers' first goal at Union. Her performance earned her the ECAC Hockey MLX Skates Rookie of the Week award. Corey Stearns also had two goals and an assist on the weekend with all three points coming in the Union game. She scored Princeton's first two goals, one on the power play and one with the extra attacker, and then had the assist on Butler's game winner.
Denna Laing, Olivia Mucha and Sasha Sherry also had multiple points over the weekend. Laing scored Princeton's first goal at RPI and assisted on its second. Mucha had assists on both goals at RPI and Sherry had assists on Princeton's first two goals at Union. Sherry had 19 shots on goal in the Union win.
Princeton's three wins have the Tigers currently tied for second in the ECAC Hockey standings, although the 12 league teams range from two to five league games played at this early point in the season. Cornell sits atop the standings with eight points, two ahead of Princeton and Dartmouth in second. Harvard hits fourth, a point behind the second-place tie.
This weekend the Tigers two of their longest rivals in Dartmouth and Harvard. The weekend opens on Saturday night when the Big Green visit Baker Rink. Dartmouth is currently 3-1-0 overall with all four games being played in the league. Dartmouth swept its opening weekend from Brown and Yale at home and split last weekend, winning at Colgate and losing at Cornel. Princeton and Dartmouth have split their league meetings in each of the last two seasons.
Princeton completes the weekend on Saturday against Harvard. The Crimson has played an identical schedule to Dartmouth and have wins over Brown and Colgate and a loss to Cornell. The only difference was Harvard's season-opening 3-3 tie with Yale. Harvard and Princeton met four times a season ago. Princeton took three of four points in the regular season with an overtime win in Cambridge and a tie in Princeton, but Harvard swept Princeton in the ECAC quarterfinals at home to end Princeton's season.
Princeton begins a four-game road stretch next weekend when it travels to Central New York to face Cornell and Colgate.