Team Notes: Tigers Open Season at Baker
PRINCETON, N.J. (10/20/11) - The Princeton women's hockey team
gets the winter season started when it opens the 2011-12 season
this weekend. The Tigers host Northeastern on Friday, Oct. 21 at 7
p.m., and Niagara on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 3 p.m.
Both games will be Web streamed on GoPrincetonTigers.tv for
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away games this season.
Princeton posted a 16-14-1 record one year ago and finished fourth
in the league with a 13-8-1 mark. The Tigers lost three seniors and
returns 82 percent of their point production while bringing in four
freshmen. Sophomore Olivia Mucha is coming off an impressive
freshman campaign as the team's leading scorer with 21 points on
nine goals and 12 assists. Classmates Sally Butler and Denna Laing
had 10 points apiece. Netminder Rachel Weber is back for her senior
year. Weber started in all but eight games last year and recorded a
1.77 goals against average and a .931 save percentage. Princeton
played a pair of two-period scrimmages last weekend in New Haven.
The Tigers topped Yale 1-0 and Brown 3-2.
Northeastern holds a 26-11-2 record in the all-time series and is
11-5-1 when playing at Baker Rink. The Huskies won a 2-1 game last
October on their ice. Princeton's last win in the series was a 6-2
game in Dec. 2004. Princeton is seeking its first win in the series
with Niagara. The Purple Eagles are unbeaten at 4-0-2 but this will
be the first time the teams are meeting in 10 years.
Northeastern enters the weekend with a perfect 4-0 record. The
Huskies won all four games at home, against Syracuse, Colgate,
Union and Quinnipiac by a 15-4 combined score. Junior Casey Pickett
has scored one third of her team's goals, five total and adds one
assist for six points. Freshman Kendall Coyne has six points with a
team-high four assists and two goals. Senior Florence Schelling has
played in goal in three games and has a 1.00 GAA and a .962 save
percentage, averaging 18 saves per game.
Niagara is 2-5 on the season and will play at Yale on Friday night.
The team dropped a pair of games to both New Hampshire and Boston
University, swept Rennselaer in a set and fell to St. Lawrence on
Tuesday, 6-3. Junior Jenna Hendrikx has eight points in seven
games, while sophomore Jessica Hitchcock and junior Kelsey Welch
have six points each. Sophomore Sarah Moses has played six games in
goal and has a 4.27 GAA and an .848. Freshman Abby Ryplanski has
played over 80 minutes in goal and has made 28 saves on 32
shots.
