No. 8 Harvard Opens Season With Trip to Colgate, Cornell
The No. 8 Harvard women's hockey team opens the 2009-10
season by visiting Colgate and Cornell this weekend.
Photo courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications.
Live Statistics at Colgate
Live Video at Colgate (with subscription)
Live Statistics at Cornell
Live Video at Cornell (with subscription)
Complete Game Notes (PDF)
The Particulars
For the second consecutive season, the eighth-ranked Harvard
women’s hockey team opens the year on the road. The Crimson
will face Colgate Friday and Cornell Saturday in ECAC Hockey
contests. Harvard has won the last two ECAC Hockey regular-season
titles.
Last season, the Crimson posted a 19-10-3 overall record, going
16-4-2 in ECAC Hockey en route to its second straight ECAC Hockey
regular-season title. The Crimson also went 8-2 in Ivy League
games, clinching its second consecutive Ancient Eight crown.
Follow From Home
GoCrimson.com will provide live
statistics for this weekend’s games at Colgate and
Cornell, all home games and most road contests this season.
Friday’s game at Colgate will be available via a subscription
at GoColgateRaiders.com, while Saturday’s
contest will have video with a subscription at CornellBigRed.com.
Series History
Harvard owns a 3-0-1 record against Colgate in its last four games,
dating back to 2007-08. Overall, the Crimson has a 14-1-2 advantage
in the all-time series, which dates back to 1978-79. The teams last
met at Colgate on Feb. 14, 2009, a 2-1 win for Harvard. In that
contest, Jenny Brine ’09 and Sarah Wilson ’09 each
scored a goal, while Christina Kessler made 25 saves in net.
Saturday’s game will be the 60th in the series between Ivy
League rivals Harvard and Cornell. The Crimson boasts a 50-17-2
lead in the series, and has won the last 10 games between the
schools. Harvard defeated Cornell, 3-0, and 4-0, in the ECAC Hockey
quarterfinal series last year at Bright Hockey Center Feb.
27-28.
Last Time Out
Co-captain Kathryn Farni scored a shorthanded goal and assisted on
three other Harvard tallies, as the eighth-ranked Crimson defeated
McGill, 4-1, in an exhbition contest Saturday afternoon at Bright
Hockey Center. Kate Buesser notched two goals, while Katharine
Chute added the fourth Harvard score. Between the pipes, Christina
Kessler picked up the victory, making 22 saves.
Harvard Coach Katey Stone
Katey Stone is in her 16th season as Harvard’s head coach,
and she brings a 319-136-22 record into Friday’s game. Stone,
who ranks second all-time in Division I victories, has led Harvard
to all seven of its NCAA tournament appearances. Stone is also the
active leader in victories among Division I women’s hockey
coaches.
Rank And File
Harvard is ranked No. 8 in this week’s USA Today/USA Hockey
Magazine poll and No. 9 in the USCHO.com/CSTV poll. The Crimson is
one of only two teams ranked in the top 10 who has not played a
game yet.
Crimson Captains
Leading the Crimson will be two senior captains: Cori Bassett
(Anchorage, Alaska) and Kathryn Farni (Minnetonka, Minn.).
Preseason Prognostications
The ECAC Hockey coaches picked Harvard second in their preseason
poll and voted senior goaltender Christina Kessler to the preseason
all-conference team for the second straight season.
Team (first-place votes) Points
1. St. Lawrence (3) 107
2. Harvard (3) 103
3. Dartmouth (5) 93
4. Princeton 89
5. Clarkson (1) 85
6. Rensselaer 74
7. Cornell 68
8. Colgate 52
9. Quinnipiac 37
10. Yale 34
11. Brown 24
12. Union 11
New Faces
Seven freshmen will don the crimson, black and white this season.
The class of 2013 is comprised of goaltender Laura Bellamy (Duluth,
Minn.), Margaret Chute (Wayzata, Minn.), Jillian Dempsey (Winthrop,
Mass.), Hilary Hayssen (Orono, Minn.), Josephine Pucci (Pearl
River, N.Y.), Kelsey Romatoski (Woodbury, Minn.) and Kaitlin
Spurling (Byfield, Mass.)
