ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The RIT women's hockey team will play a pair of Atlantic Hockey America games against Syracuse this weekend. The Tigers will play at the Tennity Ice Pavillion on Friday (Feb. 6) at 6:00 p.m. and at the Gene Polisseni Center on Saturday (Jan. 7) at 3:00 p.m.
 
RIT will honor seniors Sophia Bellina, Jaidan Fahrny, Karly Kolssak and Lexi Sung before Saturday's game.
 
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LAST TIME OUT:
RIT lost a pair of Atlantic Hockey America games Lindenwood, losing 6-2 on Friday and 5-1 the following day. First year forwards Tilli Keranen and Oliva Urbach each scored a goal and senior goalie Sophia Bellina made 32 saves in Friday's loss. Sophomore Zoe Ziotas scored a goal in Saturday's game. Bellina made 20 saves and sophomore Brenna McNamara made six saves in relief.
 
ABOUT RIT:
RIT enters the weekend fourth in the Atlantic Hockey America standings with a 9-11-0 conference record and 29 points. RIT is one point behind Lindenwood in third and one point ahead of Syracuse in fifth.
 
The Tigers average 3.0 goals per game and allow 2.5 goals per contest. The Tigers are 30-of-97 (30.9%) on the power play and 79-of-102 (77.4%) on the penalty kill. RIT has won 827-of-1,663 (49.7%) of its faceoffs and blocked 427 shots.
 
RIT features six players with six or more goals and eight players with 10 or more points. Junior forward Addie Alvarez leads the team with 27 points and 18 assists. Junior defender Emma Pickering is second with 26 points and is tied for the team lead with 11 goals. Sophomore forward Brac Kelley is third on the team in scoring with 20 points and is tied with Pickering for first on the team with 11 goals. Favro is fourth on the team with 19 points (4g, 15a) and first year forward Tilli Keranen is fifth with 16 points (9g, 7a).
 
Pickering leads the team with 76 blocked shots. Dyke is second with 39 blocks. Sophomore defender Madison Buziak and sophomore defender Riley Gramlich is tied for third with 37 blocks each.
 
Bellina is 12-13 with a 2.56 goals-against average and a .915 save percentage, while McNamara is 2-2 with a 1.48 goals-against average and a .949 save percentage.

ABOUT SYRACUSE:
Syracuse enters the weekend fifth in the AHA standings with a 9-9-2 conference record and 28 points. The Orange split a pair of conference games against Lindenwood on Jan. 23-24, winning 2-1 on Friday and losing 4-0 win the following day. Junior forward Nea Tervonen scored 49 seconds into the third period and first year forward Jordan Blouin tallied the game-winner at 8:33 of the third. First year goalie Ava Drabyk finished with 29 saves. She made 30 saves in Saturday's loss.
 
Syracuse enters the weekend sixth in the AHA averaging 1.90 goals per game and fourth allowing 2.63 goals per contest. The Orange are sixth converting 13-of-103 (.126 percent) of their power play chances and fourth killing off 83-of-106 (78.3%) of their penalties. Syracuse is fifth in the league winning 827-of-1,663 face offs (48.0%) and fourth averaging 14.63 blocked shots per game.  
 
First year forward Emma Gnade leads Syracuse in scoring with 17 points, eight goals and nine assists. Junior forward Jackson Kinsler (5g, 8a) and sophomore forward Peyton Armstrong (5g, 8a) are tied for second with 13 points apiece. Blouin (6g, 6a), and Tervonen (6g, 6a) are tied for fourth with 12 points each.
 
Senior defender Sami Gendron leads the team and is tied for fourth in the AHA with 68 blocked shots. Sophomore defender Jessica Cheung is second on the team with 48 blocked shots and sophomore defender Celia Wiegand is third with 47 blocks.
 
Drabyk is 11-13-3 and is third in the AHA with a 2.18 goals-against average, second with a .929 save percentage and fourth averaging 27.59 saves per game.
 
RIT VS. SYRACUSE:
Syracuse is 37-16-4 all-time against RIT. The two teams split a pair of games on Oct. 24-25. Armstrong scored a goal and had three assists to lead the Orange to a 5-2 win in Rochester on Oct. 24. Rulle scored a goal and an assist in RIT's 4-1 win the following day in Syracuse.