ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The RIT women's hockey team will host No. 10 Penn State for a pair of College Hockey America games at the Gene Polisseni Center Friday and Saturday (Feb. 17-18).
RIT will honor seniors
Jaymee Nolan and
Hana Solinger and graduate student
Amy Dobson before Saturday's game.
RIT enters the weekend 0-4-1 in its last five games including a sweep at Lindenwood last weekend. The Tigers are fifth in the CHA averaging 1.60 goals per game and fourth allowing 3.20 goals per contest. RIT is 19th in Division I and second in the league averaging 7:06 penalty minutes per game. RIT is second in the CHA averaging 15.07 blocked shots, third converting 14.4 percent (13-of-88) of its power play chances and stopped its opponents power play 79.0 (79-of-100) percent of the time.
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Dobson and junior forwad
Lindsay Maloney lead the Tigers with 13 points on six goals and seven assists. Sophomore forward
Athena Vasdani is second on the team with 12 points (5g, 7a), while sophomore forward
Kylie Aquaro is fourth with 11 points and leads the Tigers with 10 assists.
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Sophomore defensewoman
Kyla Bear is fourth in the league with 54 blocked shots, while sophomore forward McCormick is tied for fifth with 49, Dobson is eighth with 47 blocks and junior defensewoman
Bailey Kehl is ninth with 46 blocks. Maloney is third in the league with 288 face-off wins, while McCormick is ninth with 169. First-year forward
Lexi Sung is seventh in the CHA winning .536 of her face offs and 10th in the league winning 188 face-offs.
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The Tigers are seventh in Division I and first in the CHA with 978 team saves, averaging 32.60 saves per contest. Coe enters the weekend second in the CHA averaging 28.65 saves per game and is third with a 2.99 goals against average and a .914 save percentage.
Penn State enters the final weekend of the regular season 5-0-0 in its last five games, including a sweep at Syracuse last weekend by scores of 4-1 and 7-0. First-year forward
Tessa Janecke tallied a goal and an assist, while senior defensewoman
Izzy Heminger had two assists in the Nittany Lions 4-1 win, Friday. Junior goalie
Josie Bothun made 18 saves in net to earn the win.
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Junior forward
Olivia Wallin scored two goals and senior forward
Courtney Correia tallied a goal and two assists in Penn State's 7-0 win, Friday. Junior forward
Kiara Zanon and sophomore forward
Mya Vaslet each had a goal and an assist, while Bothun made 19 saves in net.
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Penn State is sixth in Division I and first in the CHA with 114 goals, averaging 3.56 goals per contest. The Nittany Lions are the top defensive team in the CHA allowing 2.03 goals per game. Penn State is eighth in Division I and first in the league converting 21-of-98 (21.4%) on the power play and sixth in the nation and first in the league killing off 99-of-108 (89.8%) of its penalties.
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Zanon leads Penn State and the CHA in scoring with 45 points. She is fourth in Division I averaging 0.72 goals per game and 11th averaging 1.41 points per game. Zanon leads the league with 23 goals and is first in the league with five short-handed goals. Janecke is second on the team and the league with 36 points and is tied for second in the CHA with 18 assists. Wallin, Correia and
Eleri MacKay are tied for third on the team with 27 points apiece.
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Bothun enters the weekend first in the CHA and 15th in Division I with a 1.93 goals against average. and an .891 save percentage. She is tied for first in the league with a .919 save percentage.