Weekend Preview: Home Sweet Home
Weekend Features 10 of 13 Non-League Games at Home Rinks; Princeton, Quinnipiac Open League Play
ALBANY, N.Y. -- League members look to take advantage of
the comforts of home this weekend as 10 of 13 non-league
regular-season contests will be played at ECAC Hockey facilities.
In addition, Quinnipiac and Princeton open League play Sunday at
Baker Rink.
Highlighting the weekend is Princeton's season-opening game versus
No. 7 Boston College Friday and Sunday's match-up versus
Quinnipiac; and Colgate and St. Lawrence playing host to the Hockey
East duo of Connecticut and Providence.
Cornell and Rensselaer, like Colgate and St. Lawrence, host a pair
of games versus Hockey East foes as the Big Red take on undefeated
Vermont, while the Engineers host Maine. Union, under first-year
head coach Claudia Asano, seeks its first wins of the season as it
travels to Wayne State, while Clarkson takes to the road to face
Robert Morris.
Harvard, No. 6 in the latest national poll, hosts McGill in two
exhibition games Friday and Saturday; Yale hosts McGill at Ingalls
Rink Sunday to commence its 2007-08 campaign.
Princeton opens its campaign against Boston College for the second
consecutive season. In 2006-07, Princeton battled Boston College to
a 2-2 overtime time October 20 at Boston College. Coach Jeff
Kampersal's Tigers' squad features 12 upperclassmen--five seniors
and seven juniors.
Quinnipiac, like Princeton, seeks to jump to the top of the League
standings in the first game of the League campaign. The Bobcats
sports a 1-1 overall record having defeated Northeastern before
dropping a 4-2 decision to nationally ranked Boston College.
Colgate, which dropped a pair of hard-fought decisions to No. 7
Boston College and No. 3 New Hampshire last weekend, seeks to enter
the win column versus Providence and Connecticut. Colgate will rely
heavily on the goaltending tandem of Elayna Hamashuk and Lisa
Plenderleith this weekend. The duo allowed only four goals on 66
shots versus Boston College and New Hampshire.
St. Lawrence, which returns to its first action since splitting a
weekend series with No. 3 New Hampshire October 5-6, looks to make
it two straight victories when they fact Connecticut Friday. The
Saints host Providence Saturday. Saints' all-Americans Sabrina
Harbec and Annie Guay have figured in the scoring on all five
Saints' goals this season, but look to break through in the goals
column against the Hockey East duo.
Clarkson, which has not lost in four games thus far, seeks to keep
the streak intact as it takes to the road for the first time this
season. The Golden Knights, who have outscored opponents by an
average margin of 6-to-1, are led by offensively by Genevieve
Lavoie and Britney Selina.
Rensselaer, which is fresh off a home weekend sweep of North
Dakota, looks for similar results versus visiting Maine; Cornell
opens its campaign against 4-0 Vermont at Lynah Rink.
