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Princeton University
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Union
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No. 8 Women's Hockey Clinches Home Ice with Win Over Union
February 20, 2016 | Women's Ice Hockey
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PRINCETON, N.J. (2/20/16) - The No. 8 Princeton women's hockey team has clinched home ice for the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals after a 4-2 win over Union on Senior Day.
The Tigers earned the No. 3 seed in the eight-team tournament, and will host the No. 6 seed St. Lawrence next weekend in a best-of-three series.It marks the first time Princeton has had home ice since 2010-11.
"It's awesome," Princeton head coach Jeff Kampersal said. "I think they worked hard all season and deserve home ice. We'll show up and play hard."
"We have to provide our own structure and play our game and focuse on our habits and that's what we'll do against St. Lawrence.
Princeton took a 4-0 lead with four different goal scorers, three of which were defenders, before Union scored twice in the third period.
Junior Audrey Potts tallied the lone goal of the first period with help from Keiko DeClerck and Karen MacDonald. The speed on Potts gave her an advantage on the two defenders as she picked up a banked puck and struck first at 10:37.
@AudreyPotts9 scores with help from @keikodeclerck and @KarenKlm2 to give Princeton a 1-0 lead pic.twitter.com/ddxOj8jWWp
— Princeton WHockey (@PWIH) February 20, 2016
Junior defender Kelsey Koelzer tallied her 16th goal of the season midway through the second with a one-timer.
@khockeyk11 one-timer makes it 2-0 pic.twitter.com/7myYZCL7h9
— Princeton WHockey (@PWIH) February 20, 2016
Sophomore Emily Achterkirch collected her first goal of the season after an attempted wrap around was pushed to her at the high point.
@Emily_Achte_23 with her 1st goal of the season. It's 3-0 Tigers pic.twitter.com/7Lh7PjloUD
— Princeton WHockey (@PWIH) February 20, 2016
Freshman Kimiko Marinacci nothced her third of the season with Molly Contini earning her second assist of the night.
@KimikoMarinacci with the final Tiger tally pic.twitter.com/GKFMewsnoj
— Princeton WHockey (@PWIH) February 20, 2016
Tomaselli picked up a pass from Alli Devins in the neutral zone and skated in for Union's first goal at 8:00 of the third. Jamie Smith buried a rebound on a Courtney Turner chance at 15:16 for the second tally.
Senior Kimberly Newell made 19 saves, while Melissa Black stopped 50 for Union as shots stood 54-21 in Princeton's favor.