November 10, 2009

Team Notes: Colgate Gears Up for Brown and Yale

The following article appeared November 10 on the Colgate Web site.

 

After posting an impressive opening ECAC Hockey weekend with a pair of victories, Colgate will take to the road to play Brown (0-2-1), Friday evening at Meehan Auditorium and then travel to New Haven to play #11 Yale (1-1-1), Saturday. Both games are set for a 7 p.m. start. The Raiders will be looking to move to 4-0 in league play for the first time since the 1998-99 campaign and stretch its winning streak from three to possibly five. Colgate will also be in search of duplicating the feat of the 2005-06 squad, which posted a weekend sweep on the road at Brown and Yale. Last weekend, Colgate posted its first ever weekend sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth.

MEET THE HEAD COACH: Don Vaughan is in his 17th year at the helm of the Colgate Raiders. The 1984 graduate of St. Lawrence enters the campaign as the program’s all-time winningest coach with a 273-255-62 mark. On February 16, 2008, he became the all-time winningest coach with his 252nd victory as Colgate blanked Union 8-0. On November 11, 2007, the President of Colgate, Rebecca S. Chopp, announced the creation of the Donald F. Vaughan Endowed Coaching Chair for Men’s Hockey.

BROWN IN BRIEF: The Bears are off to a 0-2-1 start. Brown has already gone into overtime twice this season, falling to Princeton 1-0 in the season-opener and posting a 3-3 draw with Union. The Bears are coached by Brendan Whittet, who returns to his alma mater after spending 11 years as an assistant at Dartmouth. Harry Zolnierczyk (1-1-2), Jack Maclellan (0-2-2) are Brown's top point producers at this stage, while Mike Clemente (0-2-1, 2.27, .924 save%) mans the cage.

Complete article can be accessed via the Colgate Web site by clicking here.