Hockey Game Central

HAMILTON, N.Y. (11/18/10) – The Colgate women's ice hockey team will resume league play when it hosts ECAC Hockey opponents Quinnipiac and Princeton this weekend. The Raiders will first play the Bobcats on Friday, Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. before facing the Tigers on Saturday, Nov. 20 at 3 p.m., both at Starr Rink.

The team will be hosting its annual food drive for the Hamilton Food Cupboard on Friday's game against Quinnipiac. Fans who bring two non-perishable food items to the game will receive one free general admission ticket.

Colgate (4-8, 1-3 ECAC) is coming off a 1-1 weekend, splitting a two-game set with Niagara. The Raiders lost the first game 2-1 on Friday and then came back to win the second game 4-1. Sophomore Brittany Phillips (Lauder, Man.) scored a goal in both games while senior Jessi Waters (Menlo Park, Calif.), and freshmen Rachel Walsh (Calgary, Alta.) and Jocelyn Simpson (Shorewood, Ill.), scored a goal each for the Raiders in the second game.

SOPHOMORE TRIO
The top-three point leaders for Colgate are all sophomores. Phillips leads the team with nine points off four goals and five assists while classmates Jenna Klynstra (Edmonton, Alta.) and Jordan Brickner (Lake Forest, Ill.) have seven points apiece. Klynstra has a team-high five goals and two assists and Brickner, who leads the team in assists, has one goal and six assists.

ECAC PRESEASON POLL
The Raiders were picked to finish ninth in the ECAC preseason poll that was released on Sept. 16. The defending regular-season and tournament champion Cornell, was picked to finish first with a total of 121 points and 11 first-place votes. Following the Big Red were Clarkson (105, one first-place vote), Harvard (103), Quinnipiac (79), St. Lawrence (77), and Princeton (73), with Rensselaer (70) and Dartmouth (52) rounding off the top eight spots. Colgate (43) along with Yale (34), Brown (24) and Union (11) were the four teams picked to miss out on this season's tournament.

THE SERIES
Colgate leads the all-time series with Quinnipiac 14-2-3. The Raiders' only two losses were a 3-2 setback in 2008 and a 2-1 loss last season. Colgate has gone 0-2 in the last two meetings with the Bobcats at home and now has a 5-2-1 record against Quinnipiac at Starr Rink.

Princeton leads the all-time series with the Raiders, owning a 16-5-2 record. Colgate's only four wins were twice in the 2006, once in 2008 and most recently last season when the Raiders defeated Princeton 4-3 at Starr Rink.

SCOUTING QUINNIPIAC
The Bobcats (8-5-1, 3-4 ECAC) are coming off a 4-3 overtime loss to Dartmouth on Saturday and a 4-1 win over No. 10 Harvard on Friday. The team, which received votes in this week's national poll, will play Colgate for the second time this season, having lost the first game to the Raiders 2-1 in overtime on Oct. 30 in Hamden, Conn.

Quinnipiac is led by freshmen Kelly Babstock and Erica Uden Johansson as well as junior Kate Wheeler. Babstock, who was named the ECAC Rookie of the Week after recording back-to-back hat tricks last weekend, leads the team with 27 points off 13 goals and 14 assists. Following her are Johansson and Wheeler who have 12 points apiece off six goals and six assists each.

SCOUTING PRINCETON
The Tigers (3-3-1, 3-5-1 ECAC) are coming off a 2-2 overtime tie with No. 10 Harvard on Saturday and a 3-2 loss to Dartmouth on Friday. This will also be the second meeting between the two teams this season with Princeton winning the first game with Colgate 2-0 on Oct. 29 in Princeton, N.J.

The team is led by freshman Sally Butler and sophomore Corey Stearns. Both Butler and Stearns have five points each off of three goals and two assists apiece.