Team Notes: Raiders Take to Ice
HAMILTON, N.Y. – The Colgate women’s ice hockey
team will play its first exhibition game of the season this
Saturday when it hosts the Bluewater Hawks at Starr Rink. The game
is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
The Raiders, who were picked to finish ninth in ECAC Hockey in the
Preseason Poll, completed their 2009-10 season with an overall
record of 12-20-4 and finished eighth with a 8-10-4 mark in
conference play. The team’s season ended in the ECAC Hockey
Quarterfinals to the eventual national runner-up Cornell.
Colgate returns two of its top-five point scorers from last
season. Sophomore forwardBrittany Phillips (Lauder, Man.) had
20 points off 11 goals and nine assists, and junior
forward Jessi Waters (Menlo Park, Calif.) finished with
16 points off two goals and 14 assists.
The Raiders also return two veteran goaltenders in
senior Lisa Plenderleith (Ajax, Ont.) and
junior Kimberly Sass (East Amherst, N.Y.). Plenderleith led
the team in wins last season with 10, while Sass was named the ECAC
Goaltender of the Year in 2008-09.
Colgate will host the Ottawa Jr. Senators on Saturday, Oct. 2 at 4
p.m. in its final exhibition game of the season, before it opens
the 2010-11 season at home against Boston College on Oct. 8 at 7
p.m.
