Women's Hockey | 11/2/2016 10:21:00 AM
ROCHESTER, NY — The RIT women's hockey team (1-9-0, 0-2-0 College Hockey America) will play a home-and-home series with nationally-ranked Colgate University (8-0-1, 3-0-0 ECAC) on Nov. 4-5. Friday's game will be played at the Gene Polisseni Center at 6:05 p.m., followed by a 3 p.m. puck drop at the new Class of 1965 Arena in Hamilton on Saturday.
RIT is coming off its first weekend of league play, in which the Tigers fell to Penn State, 2-0 on Thursday, Oct. 27 and 5-0 the following day. Thursday's game was played at historic Ritter Arena on campus. It was the first game played in that rink since March 1, 2014. Freshman goalie Terra Lantiegne made 35 saves in Thursday's contest.
Colgate, the No. 6 team in the USCHO.com Division I national poll, enters the weekend with an 8-0-1 record. Last weekend, the Raiders swept a pair of road games at fellow ECAC foes Union, 2-0 on Friday, and Rensselaer, 4-1 Saturday. Most recently, Colgate rallied to top Cornell, 2-1 Tuesday night.
The Raiders are out-scoring their opponents, 30-12 in 2016-17. Jessie Eldridge leads the team in scoring with 15 points on four goals and 11 assists. Annika Zalewski and Bailey Larson also have four goals apiece. In net, Julia Vandyk has played in seven games, with a 7-0-1 record, 1.12 goals against average and a .953 save percentage.
RIT leads the all-time series between the two schools, 14-7-1, although Colgate has won five of six meetings since RIT moved to Division I in 2012-13, including both meetings last season.
Colgate won both meetings between the two schools last season, 3-2 and 3-1. In the opener,
Reagan Rust (Southaven, MS/Moon Area) and
Carly Payerl (Kitchener, Ontario/Resurrection Catholic) scored for the Tigers, while
Brooke Stoddart (Elmvale, Ontario/Elmvale) made 32 saves. Ashlynne Rando made 23 saves for Colgate. In the second game,
Victoria Pitawanakwat (Manitowaning, Ontario/Sudbury Wolves) scored for RIT, while Bailey Larson had a goal an assist for the Raiders. Stoddart once again made 32 saves, while Julia Vandyk stopped 32 shots for Colgate.
Video and
live stats will be available for Friday's game. Saturday's game in Hamilton will also have
video and
live stats.
After this weekend, the Tigers will return to conference play at the Gene Polisseni Center, as RIT hosts Robert Morris for a two-game weekend series on Friday, Nov. 11 at 6:05 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 12 at 2:05 p.m.
