Team Notes: Cornell Faces Colgate in Home-and-Home Series

The following article appeared January 21 on the Cornell Web site.

The Cornell women's hockey team will face off against Central New York rival Colgate in a home-and-home series this weekend. The Big Red and the Raiders will play on Friday in a 3 p.m. game at Starr Rink in Hamilton before the scene shifts to Cornell's Lynah Rink on Saturday, also starting at 3 p.m. Friday's game closes out a season-long five-game road swing for the Big Red women.

ABOUT THE BIG RED
Cornell returned to ECAC Hockey play last weekend with a win and a tie on the road to remain tied with Clarkson atop the league standings. Cornell claimed a come-from-behind 4-4 tie at Harvard on Friday to open the weekend, with Karlee Overguard's game-tying goal coming with four seconds left in regulation. The Big Red then scored a 3-1 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday behind three points from Chelsea Karpenko. Despite the three-point weekend, Cornell has dropped out of the top 10 in both national polls, receiving votes in both the USA Today/USA Hockey poll and the USCHO.com poll. Karpenko picked up five points on the weekend to move her into a tie with Catherine White for the team lead of 18 (10-8--18). White has a team best 13 assists to go along with five goals. Also scoring in double figures on the year are freshmen defensemen Laura Fortino (5-7--12) and Lauriane Rougeau (3-8--11). In goal, Amanda Mazzotta has played all but one game, posting a .912 save percentage and a 1.77goals-against average with five shutouts. Cornell has the nation's top penalty-killing unit, allowing just two goals in 67 opponents' power play chances (97.0 percent). The Big Red also has a potent power play, converting on 16-of-75 chances (21.3 percent) to rank fifth in the nation.

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 46-79-12, 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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