Team Notes: Princeton Makes Trip to Quinnipiac
PRINCETON - The Princeton women's hockey team will play its third game in five nights when it visits travel-partner Quinnipiac on Tuesday night. Princeton is 1-3 overall and 1-1 in ECAC Hockey.
The Tigers enter Tuesday's contest off a weekend split in its ECAC opening series. Princeton blanked Colgate to open the league slate on Friday behind the first career goals from freshmen Sally Butler and Denna Laing and a 23-save performance from sophomore goaltender Cassie Seguin. A day later the Tigers fell to second-ranked Cornell 5-1 after falling behind early. Junior Paula Romanchuk scored her second goal of the season in the loss.
The split moved Princeton to 1-3-0 overall and 1-1-0 in the ECAC. Princeton was one of four teams to split its season-opening series and is tied for fifth in the league standings with Colgate, Rensselaer and St. Lawrence. Clarkson, Cornell and Dartmouth all swept their season-opening weekends.
Princeton's Tuesday night opponent Quinnipiac was swept in its opening weekend at the hands of both Cornell and Colgate. The Bobcats opened the season with five-straight wins but are 0-3-1 in their last four games with a loss at Maine and tie with Boston College prior to its league weekend. Over the weekend the Bobcats fell 5-1 to Cornell and then were edged by Colgate 2-1 in overtime.
Princeton is 9-0-2 all-time against Quinnipiac and took three of four points from the Bobcats last season, skating to a 2-2 tie at Quinnipiac and 1-0 Princeton win at home. On the road Charissa Standyk and Melanie Wallace scored third period goals as Princeton rallied from a two-goal deficit for the tie. In the home win, Danielle DiCesare scored six minutes into the third period and Seguin made 15 saves to lead Princeton to the win.
Tuesday night's game begins a three-game stretch of games away from home for the Tigers. Princeton travels to Rensselaer and Union next weekend.
