Team Notes: Colgate Hosts No. 10 Cornell in Important Matchup
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The following article appeared February 16 on the Colgate Web site.
With five regular-season games remaining on the 2009-2010 slate,
Colgate is still in the midst of jockeying for position for
possibly a first-round bye in the ECAC Hockey tournament. After
last weekend’s two-game split with sixth-ranked Yale and
Brown as well as some out of town help, the Raiders head into the
137th edition of Colgate versus Cornell in fifth place, only one
point behind St. Lawrence and Rensselaer. However, the Raiders are
only three points from being in seventh as well. Entering
tonight’s contest, both Colgate and Cornell each have a
league game in hand against the field. Either Colgate vaults into
fourth with a victory, or Cornell ties Yale for the top spot of the
standings. Of course, a tie would put Colgate in a three-way logjam
in fourth and Big Red in second by a point. Needless to say, lots
can happen in the final stretch drive. Now that Colgate has posted
its first winning season against the Ancient Eight since the
2004-05 campaign, the Raiders will turn their heads to attempting
to snap an eight-game winless skid versus their arch rival. This is
the only Division I men’s game being played on the evening.
The game will be broadcasted over Time Warner Cable Sports out of
Syracuse.
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 281-265-64
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, former Colgate President, Rebecca S. Chopp, announced the
creation of the Donald F. Vaughan Endowed Coaching Chair for
Men’s Hockey.
THIS DATE IN COLGATE HISTORY
Colgate is 6-7-0 in games played on the 16th.
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