Arlan MarttilaECAC jockeying As ECAC Hockey teams try to work out the kinks, squads are fighting to establish position in the standings. No. 4 Quinnipiac has the early jump and is the lone remaining team unbeaten in league play. The Bobcats claimed a key early-season showdown from No. 5 Clarkson on Friday, 1-0. Emma Woods beat … Read more
ECAC jockeying As ECAC Hockey teams try to work out the kinks, squads are fighting to establish position in the standings. No. 4 Quinnipiac has the early jump and is the lone remaining team unbeaten in league play. The Bobcats claimed a key early-season showdown from No. 5 Clarkson on Friday, 1-0. Emma Woods beat … Read more
Minnesota-Duluth got the best of special-teams play and parlayed that into a 2-0 win over visiting Cornell and a series sweep. “I’m extremely proud of our team this weekend,” coach Shannon Miller said. “We played with great discipline, composure, and we were resilient. I thought we were all those things for six periods this weekend, … Read more
MANKATO, Minn. — Three goals from Dani Cameranesi carried Minnesota to a 5-1 win on the road Friday night at Minnesota State. It was the second hat trick of her sophomore season, but in both cases, it wasn’t recognized as such until after the game was over. “We had a really good week of practice,” … Read more
Boston College has spent November ranked as the country’s top team for the first time in the program’s history. Why? There are many reasons, and most of them involve speed and offense. The Eagles’ best-known player is junior forward, captain, and U.S. Olympian Alex Carpenter. Before her Olympic stint last year, Carpenter had a reputation … Read more
Nobody’s perfect The last two teams with perfect records, No. 4 Harvard and No. 10 Dartmouth, journeyed to the North Country, and each went winless on the trip. The Big Green fell twice, 2-1 at St. Lawrence and 3-0 at No. 7 Clarkson. Kennedy Marchment’s second-period goal proved decisive on Friday, after she had earlier … Read more
Nobody’s perfect The last two teams with perfect records, No. 4 Harvard and No. 10 Dartmouth, journeyed to the North Country, and each went winless on the trip. The Big Green fell twice, 2-1 at St. Lawrence and 3-0 at No. 7 Clarkson. Kennedy Marchment’s second-period goal proved decisive on Friday, after she had earlier … Read more
Last week, Megan Rapinoe and Sydney Leroux, a couple of members of the United States women’s soccer national team, appeared on Fox Sports mixed martial arts series, “The Ultimate Fighter.” Rapinoe told a brief anecdote about meeting fans after a game who would say something along the lines of, “Oh yeah, I brought my daughter, … Read more
No lead is safe Of the eight games played on Friday, five teams grabbed multiple-goal leads that didn’t stand up. Brown, St. Cloud State, Providence, and Lindenwood surrendered two-goal leads, while RIT’s three-goal margin didn’t last. No clear trend emerged once the game was tied. The team holding the original lead ultimately won twice and … Read more
No lead is safe Of the eight games played on Friday, five teams grabbed multiple-goal leads that didn’t stand up. Brown, St. Cloud State, Providence, and Lindenwood surrendered two-goal leads, while RIT’s three-goal margin didn’t last. No clear trend emerged once the game was tied. The team holding the original lead ultimately won twice and … Read more
Having entered the November portion of its schedule, Maine sits atop the standings in Hockey East. That may not sound all the impressive, given the Black Bears have played five games and nobody else has played more than four. Vermont has only played one conference game, and along with Boston College, has a perfect record … Read more
No rest for the weary Hockey was played every day but Wednesday over the last week, and five teams took to the ice three times: Princeton, Penn State, St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and Northeastern. The Tigers and Golden Knights won all three. Now a number of teams head into a bye week, while others, particularly in … Read more
No rest for the weary Hockey was played every day but Wednesday over the last week, and five teams took to the ice three times: Princeton, Penn State, St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and Northeastern. The Tigers and Golden Knights won all three. Now a number of teams head into a bye week, while others, particularly in … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — The first goal is always important, especially when it turns out to be the game’s only goal. Ivana Bilic scored at 15:44 of the first period, and that was all Bemidji State needed in a 1-0 win over top-ranked Minnesota Saturday night. “I’m just really proud of our effort again tonight,” Beavers’ coach … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — Bemidji State was 78 seconds away from its first WCHA win of the year. Denied that by a Minnesota power-play goal to tie the score at 2-2, the Beavers took the shootout following a scoreless overtime to garner two league points. “It’s an exciting time for our team, our program,” BSU first-year coach … Read more
For the 2007-08 season, Brian Idalski took over a North Dakota program that had gone winless in the WCHA the previous year. Under Idalski, the team showed some improvement, finishing tied for fifth place in his second year, but its upward climb looked to be a slow one. In the spring of 2009, Grand Forks … Read more
Here come the Ivies Five of the six Ivy League teams got started this weekend, with only No. 4 Harvard still warming up its engine. Their results were mixed. Yale took care of business by winning, 6-2, at Providence and defeating the Friars, 5-2, on home ice. The Bulldogs scored the first five goals in … Read more
Here come the Ivies Five of the six Ivy League teams got started this weekend, with only No. 4 Harvard still warming up its engine. Their results were mixed. Yale took care of business by winning, 6-2, at Providence and defeating the Friars, 5-2, on home ice. The Bulldogs scored the first five goals in … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — Some days are just like this. With five minutes to go in the game, Minnesota had more goals (five) than North Dakota had shots on goal (four). That added up to a 5-0 win for the Gophers (7-0-1, 5-0-1-0 WCHA) in front of 2,496 fans at Ridder Arena. “We skated really hard yesterday, … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — After facing each other 17 times over the previous three seasons, the seniors on North Dakota and Minnesota are getting quite familiar with running into each other on the ice. The Gophers (6-0-1, 4-0-1-0 WCHA) claimed the first encounter of the current campaign, 5-2, with a pair of tallies from Dani Cameranesi and … Read more