Women's Hockey Team Set for Home-and-Home with No. 8 Quinnipiac

Friday, November 12

Princeton, N.J.

6:00 PM

Princeton University

Quinnipiac

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Maggie Connors (22) has a team-best five goals in four games this season.

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Women's Hockey Team Set for Home-and-Home with No. 8 Quinnipiac

November 10, 2021 | Women's Ice Hockey

For the first time on the new season, Princeton will have the chance for a top-10 win when it has two such opportunities with a visit from No. 8 Quinnipiac on Friday before the back half of the home-and-home on Saturday in Connecticut.

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Last these teams met, it was an ECAC Hockey quarterfinal at Baker Rink that went to three games and ended on a Sarah Fillier double-overtime goal that sent Princeton to the ECAC Hockey semifinals on the way to the tournament title. Fillier is now with Team Canada's Olympic centralization camp ahead of the Olympic roster announcement expected in December.

Princeton has won 11 of the last 14 against the Bobcats overall. Quinnipiac took the middle game of that three-game ECAC Hockey tournament series in 2020 at Baker Rink, and in Connecticut, Princeeton has won the last two since the Bobcats' last home win over Princeton on Dec. 9, 2017.

While junior Maggie Connors is the only Tiger back this season who has had a 10-goal season for the Tigers, other scorers have emerged over the season's first four games. Among the eight players who have scored a goal over the season's first four games, four are freshmen in Mia Coene, Dominique Cormier, Ellie Marcovsky and Sarah Paul. Connors, who leads the team with five goals, is closing in on 100 career points, entering the weekend with 96. Senior Rachel McQuigge started the first three games in goal and takes a 1.00 GAA into the weekend.

With Quinnipiac at 10-0-2 overall, Friday's game will be a battle of unbeaten teams, and with Princeton and Quinnipiac as ECAC Hockey travel partners, the teams have faced the same four opponents over Princeton's first two weeks of the season. Princeton's four wins over Yale, Brown, RPI and Union have come by a combined 13-5, while Quinnipiac's four wins in those games have come by a combined 11-5.

Fourteen Bobcats have scored goals over the team's first 12 games this season, with junior Alexa Hoskin as the team's leader at seven goals. Classmate Sadie Peart is the team's points leader, at 15. Grad student Corinne Schroeder (5-0-1, 0.66) and senior Logan Angers (5-0-1, 1.66) have split most of the minutes in goal this season for Quinnipiac.

Following the weekend, the Tigers will head to Central New York for another weekend's worth of chances for big wins, heading to current No. 5-ranked Colgate on Nov. 19 and then Cornell on Nov. 20 for the teams' first meeting since the 2020 ECAC Hockey tournament final that Princeton won in overtime, 3-2.