ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The RIT women's hockey team hosts No. 6 Penn State for a pair of Atlantic Hockey America games on Friday and Saturday (Nov. 21-22). Friday's game at the Gene Polisseni Center begins at 6:05 p.m. and Saturday's game will start at 3:05 p.m.
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LAST TIME OUT:
RIT split a pair of games at Mercyhurst last weekend, losing 1-0 on Friday followed by a 1-0 win the following day. Senior goalie
Sophia Bellina made 36 saves in Friday's loss.
Bellina made a career-high 46 saves in Saturday's win. It is Bellina's second shut out of the season and fourth of her career. First year defender
Riley Gramlich scored the game-winning goal at 8:11 of the third period off assists from sophomore forwards
Brac Kelley and
Kailey Favro.
ABOUT RIT:
RIT enters the weekend third in the Atlantic Hockey America standings with a 4-4-0 conference record and 13 points. RIT is one point behind Mercyhurst in second place, and three points ahead of Syracuse and Lindenwood who are tied for third with 10 points.
The Tigers average 2.6 goals per game and allow 1.9 goals per contest. The Tigers are 17-of-55 (30.9%) on the power play and 44-of-51 (86.1%) on the penalty kill. RIT has won 471-of-894 (52.7%) of its faceoffs and blocked 224 shots.
RIT features seven players with three or more goals and eight players with seven or more points. Junior forward
Addie Alvarez leads the team with 12 points on a team-high seven goals and five assists. Rulle and junior defender
Emma Pickering are tied for second on the team with 11 points apiece. Rulle is second on the team with six goals, while Pickering leads the Tigers with nine assists. Sophomore forward
Kailey Favro (2g, 8a) is fourth on the team with 10 points.
Pickering leads the team with 39 blocked shots and Gramlich is second with 23 blocks. Sophomore defender
Madison Buziak is third with 21 blocked shots and first year defender
Laura Dyke is fourth with 20 blocks.
Bellina is 6-7 with a 1.90 goals-against average and a .939 save percentage. Sophomore
Brenna McNamara is 2-1 with a 1.22 goals-against average and a .947 save percentage.
ABOUT PENN STATE:
Penn State enters this weekend atop the Atlantic Hockey America standings with 10-0-0 conference record and 30 points. The Nittany Lions swept a pair of games against Syracuse last weekend, winning 7-0 and 11-2. Sophomore forward
Grace Outwater, senior forward
Tessa Janecke and first year defender
Danica Maynard each scored a goal and an assist in Friday's win and senior defender
Kendall Butze had two assists. Senior goalie
Katie DeSa made 14 saves in net for the Nittany Lions.
Senior forward
Katelyn Roberts tallied two goals and two assists in Saturday's victory. Senior forward
Maddy Christian and first year forward
Mikah Keller each scored two goals and Butze handed out three assists. Sophomore forward
McKenna Walsh finished with a goal and two assists and DeSa made 12 saves in goal.
Penn State enters the weekend first in Atlantic Hockey averaging 5.29 goals per game and first allowing 0.71 goals per contest. The Nittany Lions are first in the AHA converting 17-of-50 (34.0 percent) of their power play chances and first killing off 44-of-48 (91.7%) of their penalties. Penn State has won 506-of-826 face offs (61.3%) and seventh averaging 7.14 blocked shots per game.
Janecke leads Penn State and Atlantic Hockey with 20 points. She is tied for third in the AHA with nine goals and third in the league with 11 assists. Outwater is second on the team and AHA with 18 points and leads the league with 12 goals. Maynard is third on the team with 17 points and is tied with Butze for first in the AHA with 13 assists.
Butze leads the team with 14 blocked shots. Grace Tullock is second on the team with 13 blocks and Sophie Morrow is third with 12 blocked shots.
DeSa is 12-0-0 on the season. She leads the AHA with a 0.84 goals-against average and is first in the league with a .944 save percentage. She has a league-best six shutouts and is tenth in the AHA averaging 14.0 saves per game.
