Team Notes: Cornell Tackles North Country Foes at Lynah

The following article appeared November 12 on the Cornell Web site.

Cornell returns to Ithaca, N.Y., this weekend to take on two ECAC Hockey opponents on home ice. The Big Red kicks off the action with a 7 p.m. game against Clarkson on Friday night at Lynah Rink. Cornell will take on St. Lawrence the following afternoon at 4 pm. Live Stats will be available for both games at www.CornellBigRed.com, with live video available through the Cornell Redcast subscription service.

ABOUT THE BIG RED
After a pair of wins on the road over ECAC Hockey opponents Union and Rensselaer, Cornell moved up the USCHO.com poll to its current ranking of #7 in the nation and broke into the USA Hockey/USA Today poll at number 10. Cornell ranks among the top teams in the nation in scoring offense (2.67 per game, 13th) and in scoring defense (2.00, 8th). The Big Red blanked Union on Friday night in a 4-0 win with a pair of goals from Laura Danforth and skated away with a 3-1 victory over Rensselaer on Saturday after scoring a goal each period of play. The second straight four-point weekend increased Cornell’s record to 4-2-0 going into this tough weekend series against perennial powerhouses Clarkson and St. Lawrence. Catherine White leads the team offensively with one goal and six assists for seven points in six games, while Chelsea Karpenko has a team-best three goals. In goal, Amanda Mazzotta has a sparkling 1.85 goals-against average and a .905 save percentage with a pair of shutouts.

HEAD COACH DOUG DERRAUGH
In his fifth season behind the Big Red bench, Doug Derraugh has turned the Cornell women’s hockey program into one of women’s college hockey’s top young programs. Derraugh has a career record of 41-74-9, but has taken the Big Red to a back-to-back double-digit wins in each of the last two seasons, the first time the Big Red has done that since the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 seasons. He has also led Cornell to the ECAC Hockey playoffs in each of the last two years. Derraugh is assisted by Danielle Biloudeau, in her fourth season, and Edith Zimmering, in her first year with the Big Red.

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