Cornell & Harvard Begin New Year Ranked in National Poll
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Coming off the holiday break Cornell and Harvard
each earned spots in the most recent USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine
poll, released Tuesday, January 3.
Cornell, 10-2-0, which has been idle since December 3, is ranked
No. 3 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll earning 152 points.
The Big Red's first taste of hockey in the new year will come this
Friday afternoon at Union College in Schenectady at 3 p.m. Cornell
finishes its two-game ECAC Hockey road trip against Rensselaer on
Saturday at 3 p.m. before returning home to host Colgate on Jan.
10.
Cornell has six players competing in the Meco Cup in Fussen,
Germany, with the Canadian National Team's Under-22 squad. Their
tournament starts Tuesday morning against host Germany. In two
exhibitions against Slovakia last week, senior Catherine White
scored three goals and an assist, senior Chelsea Karpenko added
another goal and senior goalie Amanda Mazzotta had a shutout.
Forwards Jillian Saulnier and Jessica Campbell had two assists
each.
Harvard, winners of three straight games, climbed one spot to the
No. 8 position in the newly released USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine
poll earning 37 points. The Crimson welcome in the new year by
traveling to Storrs, CT to face UConn in a non-conference match-up
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 7 p.m. Since 2009-10, Harvard is 7-3-1 against
Hockey East schools. In the last five games of the
Harvard-Connecticut series, the home team has captured the victory
in every contest.
Click here to access complete USA Today/USA Hockey
Magazine Poll
About the Poll:
The 15th annual USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women’s College
Hockey Poll is conducted each week in conjunction with the American
Hockey Coaches Association. The poll includes input from coaches
and journalists representing each of the four NCAA Division I ice
hockey conferences, as well as composite votes from officers of the
AHCA and USA Hockey Magazine, the most widely distributed hockey
magazine in the world.
