Team Notes: Yale Visits Princeton, Quinnipiac

Photo by Sam Rubin

The following article appeared January 28 on the Yale Web site.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale visits an old rival and a new one this weekend with a road trip to Princeton (Friday, 7:00 p.m., Pay-per-view Video, Live Stats) and Quinnipiac (Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Pay-per-view Video, Live Stats). The Bulldogs are 7-3-1 in their last 11 games against the Tigers, with nine of those games decided by two goals or fewer. The Bulldogs' series with the Bobcats has also been marked by close games, including three overtime affairs in the previous three seasons, though Yale is 10-2-3 overall against its neighbors just North up I-91.

Yale-Princeton
Yale heads back to Baker Rink for the first time since a thrilling 5-3 win over Princeton there a year ago. The Bulldogs let a 3-1 lead slip away as the Tigers' Katherine Dineen finished off a hat trick with a goal 51 seconds into the third period, but three minutes later junior forward Caroline Murphy (Woodstock, Conn.)'s diving short-handed goal gave the Bulldogs the lead again. Murphy then sealed the win with an empty-net goal in the final minute. Shivon Zilis '08 made 40 saves. The Tigers got their revenge at Ingalls Rink a month later, edging Yale 2-1 on a pair of goals by Annie Greenwood. That kept up an interesting trend for the Bulldogs - in the last nine meetings between these teams, the Bulldogs have either scored four or more goals (six times) or one or fewer goals (four times). Yale is 5-3-1 against Princeton in that span. Melanie Wallace leads the Tigers in scoring (5-13-18), while Sasha Sherry is sixth in the country in scoring by a defenseman (6-10-16 in 21 games). Goalie Kristen Young has a .921 save percentage and a 2.20 goals-against average.

Yale-Quinnipiac
These two teams have already met once this year, but that game - a 2-0 Yale win at the Nutmeg Classic - did not count in the ECAC Hockey Standings. The Bulldogs outshot the Bobcats 28-17 and got goals from junior defenseman Alyssa Clarke (Donkin, N.S.) and senior forward Crysti Howser (Wilmette, Ill.), while sophomore goalie Jackee Snikeris (Downingtown, Pa.) made 17 saves. Elyse Cole (9-8-17) leads the Bobcats in scoring, while Tia Wishart leads in save percentage (.922) and goals-against average (2.46).

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