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February 25, 2015 | Women's Ice Hockey
Falling Just Short of Ivy Crown by 2-1 Loss to Yale, PU Women's Hockey Turns Focus to ECACH Playoffs
Bill Alden, Town Topics (2/25/15)
While the Princeton University women's hockey team has consistently made the ECAC Hockey playoffs, it hasn't been in the chase for the Ivy League title in years.
Coming into this season, Cornell and Harvard were seen as the leading contenders for the Ivy crown. Over the last seven years, the Crimson have won three league crowns while the Big Red have four as the six Ivy teams in the ECACH (Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown besides Princeton, Harvard, and Cornell) wage their annual battle on a second front.
But as Princeton headed into its final weekend of regular season action with games at Brown last Friday and at Yale a day later, the Tigers were on the verge of their first Ivy crown since 2006. Princeton stood at 6-1-1 in Ivy action with Harvard having ended up 8-2, meaning that the Tigers held destiny in their hands as two wins would clinch the title.
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