Team Notes: Cornell Seeks Home Ice

The following article appeared February 10 on the Cornell Web site.

The Cornell women's hockey team takes to the road for the final time in the regular season for 2009-10, seeking to secure home ice for the first round of the ECAC Hockey playoffs. The Big Red will look to do so while also trying to claim its first outright Ivy League crown since the 1999 season when it faces Brown and Yale this weekend.

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 48-80-15, but has taken the Big Red to double-digit win totals in each of the last three seasons for the first time since Cornell had six straight double-digit win totals from 1995-96 through 2000-01. He has also guided the Big Red to its third straight berth in the ECAC Hockey playoffs. Derraugh is assisted by Danielle Biloudeau, in her fourth season, and Edith Zimmering, in her first year with the Big Red.

ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell posted back-to-back shutouts for the first time on the season last year when it blanked Quinnipiac and Princeton at Lynah Rink for a three-point weekend. Cornell and Quinnipiac skated to a scoreless tie before the Big Red routed Princeton, 6-0, to clinch a share of the Ivy League title. Sophomore Chelsea Karpenko scored a pair of goals against the Tigers while classmate Catherine White added three assists in the contest. Amanda Mazzotta was stellar on the weekend, stopping all 35 shots she faced in the two games. For the season, White leads the Big Red with 27 points on seven goals and 20 assists, while Karpenko has a team-best 12 goals to go along with nine assists for 21 points. In goal, Mazzotta has played all but one game in between the pipes, posting a 1.60 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage. The Big Red has been exceptional on special teams, convering on 22-of-103 power-play chances this season (21.4 percent) while allowing only three power play goals (84-of-87 successful kills) for a 96.6 percent success rate.

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