Women's Hockey | 10/6/2015 1:17:00 PM
ROCHESTER, NY – The RIT women's hockey team takes on non-conference foe Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of the ECAC in a pair of contests from the Gene Polisseni Center this weekend. The Tigers and Engineers faceoff at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9 and conclude the weekend series at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10.
It is double feature weekend at RIT. Any fan that buys a ticket in person from the Gene Polisseni Center box office on Friday receives a free ticket to Saturday's game.
RIT (1-1-0) opened the 2015-16 regular season with a weekend split against Minnesota State last Friday and Saturday. On Friday, down 1-0 in the third period, the Tigers scored two goals, including the game winner by
Lindsay Stenason (Oakville, Ontario/Appleby Collegiate) with 21 seconds left in regulation.
Cassie Clayton (Pickering, Ontario/PEAC School) scored the tying goal, for RIT's first goal of the season.
Brooke Stoddart (Elmvale, Ontario/Elmvale) picked up the win, stopping 26 out of 27 shots. On Saturday, the Tigers fell to the Mavericks, 4-2. Down 3-0,
Mallory Rushton (Amherst, Nova Scotia/New Hampton Prep) scored on the power play and
Jess Paton (Woodstock, Ontario/Waterloo K-W Rangers) netted a shorthanded goal to bring RIT back in it, before Minnesota State regained its two-goal lead late in the third.
First year forward
Kendall Cornine (Kinnelon, NJ/Morristown Beard) was named the College Hockey America Rookie of the Week on Monday after recording two assists in the two games last weekend.
Rensselaer (0-2-0) started the season with two losses last weekend, falling to No. 6 North Dakota by scores of 4-3 and 4-1. Alexa Gruschow leads the team in scoring with three points on a goal and two assists. Four different players have scored a goal in the two games this season. Freshman goaltender Lovisa Selander has had both starts in net, and is third in the ECAC with 75 saves, for a save percentage of .915. Last season, the Engineers finished with a record of 7-23-4 (5-16-1 in the ECAC).
RIT is 14-7-4 all-time against RPI. Last season, the two teams met on Nov. 28-29. The Tigers fell in the opener, 4-1, before responding the next day with a 3-0 shutout victory.
Celeste Brown (Great Falls, MT/National Sports Academy) scored a pair of goals in the 3-0 win, while
Marissa Maugeri (Ajax, Ontario/Durham West Lightning) also added a goal, and
Jetta Rackleff (Bend, OR/Summit) stopped all 20 shots in the shutout. The two teams were previously rivals in the ECAC East conference before Rensselaer made the move up to Division I in 2005.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for RIT staff, faculty, and alumni, and $3 for youth. RIT students receive free admission (one ticket limit per valid RIT ID). Tickets are available at the Gene Polisseni Center and Gordon Field House Box Offices, by calling (585) 475-4121 or by visiting
www.rithockey.com.
Video and
live stats will available for Friday and Saturday's game. Both games will also be broadcasted over the airwaves on WITR 89.7 FM and be available
online.
