ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The RIT women's hockey team hits the road for a pair of non-conference games at No. 14 Vermont this weekend.
 
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LAST TIME OUT
RIT lost a pair of non-conference games at UConn, last weekend, falling 3-0 on Friday and 3-2 on Saturday. Sophomore goalie Sarah Coe made 32 stops in Friday's 3-0 loss, and 26 on Saturday.
 
Graduate student forward Amy Dobson tied the game at 1-1 on her goal late in the second period, Saturday. Sophomore forward Athena Vasdani tied the game at 2-2 on her power play goal early in the third period. Sophomore blue-liner Addie Carr recorded an assist for her first collegiate point.

ABOUT RIT
RIT enters this weekend fourth in the CHA averaging 1.00 goals per game and third defensively, allowing 3.00 goals per game. The Tigers are second in the league averaging 34.5 shots on goal per game and is second in the league winning 54.6 percent of their face-offs.
 
Dobson leads the league averaging 7.5 shots per game, while junior forward Emma Roland is tied for third averaging 5.0 shots per game. Junior forward Lindsay Maloney leads the CHA winning 30-of-52 face-offs.
 
IN COE WE TRUST
Coe enters the weekend tops in the CHA averaging 29.0 saves per game, and is fifth in the league with a 3.03 goals against average and a .906 save percentage.

Friday was the 21st time in Coe's career she has recorded 30 or more saves in a game. She holds the highest career percentage of 30+ (72.4 percent) save games among active CHA goaltenders. Coe set RIT single-season records in saves with 879, 28 games played and 1,412 minutes last played.
 
ABOUT VERMONT
No. 14 Vermont begins its 2022-23 season this weekend. Vermont was ranked in the DCU/USCHO preseason poll for the first time in program history, starting the season ranked 13th. The Catamounts were picked to finish second in the Hockey East Preseason Poll after finishing 22-11-3 last season.
 
Vermont defeated the University of Ottawa 6-0 in an exhibition game last Saturday. Lara Beecher scored a pair of goals for the Catamounts, while Maddy Skelton had three assists. Evelyn Blais-Savoie scored a goal and added an assist. Jessie McPherson got the win in net, making eight saves.
 
RIT v. VERMONT
RIT is 8-5-5 all-time versus Vermont. The Tigers went 0-1-1 against the Catamounts in 2019, losing 3-1 the first game, while tying 4-4 in game two.
 
GAME CHANGING VOTE
A proposal was passed last January at the NCAA Convention during the Division III Business meeting which will allow RIT to offer scholarships to its Division I men's and women's hockey student-athletes. Multi-divisional intercollegiate athletics programs like RIT, which sponsors 22 Division III teams along with two Division I hockey teams, were previously not allowed to apply all Division I legislation to its Division I teams, including the inability to award athletic grant-in-aid to its players based on a 2004 bylaw. However, with the vote overwhelmingly passing by a 388-18-39 margin, the Tigers will be on the same footing as the rest of its peers across the country with a full 18 scholarships available to each hockey team.