Weekend Update: Cornell Takes Share of Lead

ALBANY, N.Y. - In the featured game Friday evening the Cornell women’s hockey team flexed its muscle to post a three-goal home win over Quinnipiac, 4-1. With the win the Big Red now has a share of the league lead with the Bobcats. Five other games were on tap in league play last evening resulting in no surprises with the higher ranked team in the league standings coming out on top by at least two goals in each contest.

Clarkson 5 at Yale 2
*Sophomore Carly Mercer ran her point-scoring streak to six straight games with a career-high four points on two goals and two assists to lead the Golden Knights to victory.
*The Golden Knights have won their last fourth ECAC Hockey games, outscoring their league opponents 22-4.
*Senior goalie Genny Ladiges made 40 saves, the third time this season she has made 40 or more saves in a game for Yale.
*Yale did not get a shot on goal for more than nine minutes at the start of the second, and after the Bulldogs did put one on Erica Howe Clarkson took it right back down to the other end of the ice and scored.

At No. 3/3 Cornell 4, Quinnipiac 1
*The Big Red has now claimed five consecutive contests against the Bobcats and swept this year's regular-season series.
*Quinnipiac got the game off to a lightning-fast start, scoring just 21 seconds into the first period. First-line center Kelly Babstock got a pass on the left side of the net from linemate Kate Wheeler and then returned the puck to Wheeler for a wide open goal.
*Quinnipiac held Cornell to just 1-for-7 on its power-play chances. The Bobcats were 0-for-5 on its extra skater opportunities.
*Lauriane Rougeau, Emily Fulton, and Laura Fortino each recorded two helpers on the evening for the Big Red.

At Dartmouth 4, Rensselaer 2
*Despite falling behind 1-0 in the first period for the fifth time in the last six games, Dartmouth came back to beat RPI.
*Dartmouth took 34 shots in the game, including 19 in the second, with the Engineers only taking 16 in the contest.
*The Big Green are on a two-game winning streak, and are unbeaten in their last six games.
*Camille Dumais had a goal and two assists to lead the Big Green to the conference win.

No. 10/10 Harvard 2 at Union 0
*With Alisa Baumgartner’s insurance goal in her first game this season, every Harvard position player has now registered at least a point this season.
*Harvard goalie Laura Bellamy needed just 15 saves to record her second shutout of the season and second against a conference opponent.

Princeton 5 at Colgate 3
*Five different players scored as the Tigers extended their unbeaten streak to five games.
*Senior Rachel Weber made 24 saves in her eighth win of the season, as the Tigers improve to 8-9-4 overall and remain in third place in the league with a 7-6-2 mark.
*Kimberly Sass stopped 27 for the Raiders who drop to 8-13-1 overall and 3-7-1 in the league. The Tigers were 1-for-3 on the power-play and 3-for-4 on the penalty kill, as they outshot Colgate 32-27.

St. Lawrence 3 at Brown 0
*Carmen MacDonald turned in a 22-save shutout performance to lift the Saints to their sixth straight victory.
*The Saints owned a 34-22 advantage in shots on goal and finished 2-for-4 on the power-play.  Meanwhile, Brown falls to 5-6-6 (2-5-3) and was 0-for-4 with the extra skater.

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