ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The RIT women's hockey team hosts No. 7 Penn State for a pair of Atlantic Hockey America games this weekend. Friday's game beings at 6:00 p.m. and Saturday's game starts at 2:00 p.m.
 
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LAST TIME OUT
RIT lost a pair of non-conference games against No. 4 Northeastern, losing 5-0 on Friday and 8-1 the following day. First year goalie Oceanne Thiffault made a career-high 35 saves in Friday's loss.
 
Saturday, junior forward Ireland Stein scored a goal. Thiffault made 26 saves and sophomore goalie Thalia Vasseur made 13 saves in relief.
 
ABOUT RIT:
RIT enters the weekend averaging 1.9 goals per game while allowing 4.9 goals per contest. The Tigers are 4-for-32 (12.5%) on the power play and killed off 25-of-31 (80.6%) penalties. RIT is 250-of-525 (47.6%) on face-offs and have blocked 139 shots.
 
Junior forward Zoe Ziotas leads RIT with nine points and seven goals. She leads the Tigers with two short-handed goals. Junior forward Brac Kelley and sophomore forward Kailey Favro are tied for second with six points apiece. Kelley has three goals and three assists, while Favro leads the Tigers with five assists. Stein (2g, 3a) and senior forward Linda Rulle (1g, 4a) are tied for fourth on the team with five points. Senior forward Addie Alvarez is fifth on the team with four points on two goals and two assists.
 
Junior defender Madison Buziak leads RIT with 18 blocked shots. Alvarez is second on the team with 16 blocked shots and Rulle and sophomore defender Riley Gramlich are tied for third with 15 blocks apiece.
 
McNamara is 1-3 with a 5.17 goals-against average and an .828 save percentage. Thiffault is 1-5 with a 4.28 goals-against average and an .868 save percentage while Vasseur has an .818 save percentage and a 5.98 goal-against average.

ABOUT PENN STATE:
Penn State, ranked seventh in this week's USCHO poll, enters the weekend with a 7-3-0 record and is atop the AHA standings with a 5-1-0 conference record. The Nittany Lions swept a pair of non-conference games at St. Lawrence last weekend, winning 3-1 on Friday and 2-1 in overtime the following day.
 
Penn State scored three straight goals to come back to win 3-1, Friday. Junior forward Abby Stonehouse scored two goals while first year forward Sofia Ismael had two assists. First year goalie Morgan Stickney made 21 saves in net for the Nittany Lions.
 
Outwater scored 4:28 into overtime in Saturday's win. First year defender Megan Hosman tallied a goal and an assist and Stickney made 19 saves for Penn State.
 
Penn State enters this weekend first in the AHA averaging 3.22 goals per game and second allowing 2.0 goals per contest. The Nittany Lions leads the league converting 7-of-33 (21.2%) on the power play and are third killing off 29-of-35 (82.9%) penalties. Penn State is second in the AHA winning 53.7 percent of its faceoffs and seventh blocking 11.11 shots per game.
 
Ismael leads Penn State and is tied for first in Atlantic Hockey with 12 points. She is tied for second in the league with six goals and tied for fifth with six assists. Stonehouse is second on the team with 10 points and is tied for second in the league with seven assists. Sophomore defender Sophie Morrow is third on the team with nine points and leads the team with eight assists. Outwater (7g, 1a), sophomore forward Mikah Keller (2g, 6a) and First year forward Kylie Amelkovich (4g, 4a) are tied for fourth on the team with eight points apiece.
 
Stickney is 4-1-0 this season and is third in the AHA with a 2.08 goals-against average and sixth with a .912 save percentage. Sophomore goalie Maddy Campbell is 3-2-0 this season. She is second in the league with a 1.88 goals-against average and fourth with a .918 save percentage.
 
 RIT vs. PENN STATE:
Penn State is 42-20-7 all-time against RIT. RIT went 1-3-0 against the Nittany Lions last season. The Tigers defeated Penn State 3-2 in OT last February. Sophomore forward Cassandra Barnes scored the game-winning goal 3:42 into overtime and McNamara made 34 saves in net.