Women 2011-12 Main Thread

[Ben]

Anyone else get to see the domination at Union today? Minus six players and after a monthlong layoff, this team looks pretty good. Players like Hompe, Ogilvie and Barley-Maloney got in on the action. Union's not great by any stretch, but still pretty encouraging. RPI should be tougher tomorrow.

It's a good way to re-start after the long layoff, but Union was the worst team in the ECAC last year.

A couple of notes:
-Last night was Coach Derraugh's 100th win behind the Cornell bench
-Kaitlyn Pippy got on the ice for the last ten minutes, made three saves and allowed no goals in her first collegiate appearance
-Barley-Maloney scored her first goal for the Red
-Dartmouth knocked off Q 3-2 and Princeton beat Harvard 3-0 -- good for us in the ECAC, mixed news for the Pairwise (Harvard and Dartmouth were both TUCs coming into this week)
-Wisconsin and Minnesota tied 3-3 after OT, BC beat Clarkson 3-2, and Mercyhurst won 8-4 at Syracuse

[Weder]

Wondering if this Twitter post is a hint about future Big Red players ...

[marty]

In Troy up 3-0 going into the third. They locked down RPI in the second. Only 6 + goalie on the bench for .Cornell

I met Jim Knowlton, the RPI AD, during the third period in Troy.  He was impressed that the women were so strong with the short bench.  He is a classy guy.

[mattj711]

Wondering if this Twitter post is a hint about future Big Red players ...

I heard that one of the players mentioned has committed to Cornell, and I was hoping the other one was also headed to Cornell. That is definitely a good sign!!

[jts15]

In Troy up 3-0 going into the third. They locked down RPI in the second. Only 6 + goalie on the bench for .Cornell

I met Jim Knowlton, the RPI AD, during the third period in Troy.  He was impressed that the women were so strong with the short bench.  He is a classy guy.

I was impressed as well.  We sat right behind the bench and you could see the ladies coming off the ice were gassed in the 3rd period.  I knew they were missing players but did not expect that short of a bench.  Great job this weekend!

[Ben]

Starting vs. Colgate:

Saulnier, White, Johnston, Fortino, Rougeau, Slebodnick

2nd line: Campbell, Jenner, Karpenko

3rd: Fulton, Ogilvie, B-M

4th: Cook, Hompe, Leck

Young is listed with Gagliardi in the d-pairings.

Coach Derraugh just keeps mixing things up.

[Ben]

1-0, Johnston. Easy shot into a half-empty net. Not sure what the Colgate goaltender was doing.

[Ben]

Couple of PP chances come to nothing, then Fortino got drilled behind our cage and had to go off. Down to four defensemen.

[Ben]

Johnston makes it 2-0, four minutes left in the first.

[Ben]

2-0 end 1st. Comfortable, but the injury to Fortino is concerning.

[Ben]

2-0 end 2nd. Killed off a minute of 5x3 and a couple of PPs. Fortino came back out and was taking shifts, so she's probably okay. The intensity seems to have dropped off a bit since the sledging at the end of the first.

[Al DeFlorio]

2-0 end of two

[Ben]

Rougeau makes it 3-0 during the eleventy billionth 5x3 of the game.

[dag14]

3-0 the final

[Ben]

4-1 win over Q after going a goal down in the first period moves us top of the league, tied on points with Q after beating them twice and with four games in hand over them.