Two weeks of the Division III women’s hockey season are already in the books for some schools and once again RIT is off to a fast start in 2011-12. The Tigers unofficially won the East/West Hockey Classic for the second straight year, besting Manhattanville and Norwich and then kept rolling this past weekend with two … Read more
The D-III women’s season opens up with a bang in just under an hour as No. 8 Manhattanville and No. 2 R.I.T. collide in the first game of the 2011 East/West Hockey Classic at Norwich’s Kreitzberg Arena. But before I get to the picks for this weekend’s matchups, it’s time to publicly announce that the … Read more
The 2011 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey National Champion Norwich University Cadets will be featured on national television Saturday April 30. The Cadets’ memorable run to their first national championship in just the program’s fourth season was one of the stories chosen to feature in CBS Sports’ annual NCAA Championships Winter Highlights show which … Read more
Let’s see how far we’ve come….. On Oct. 29, 2010 RIT and Norwich met at Kreitzberg Arena to open up each other’s respective seasons at Norwich’s inaugural East/West Hockey Classic. Little did we know at the the time that the Tigers’ 3-1 victory would be a prequel to the eventual 2011 NCAA Division III Women’s … Read more
The American Hockey Coaches Association has released its five finalists for the 2011 Laura Hurd Award, given annually to the Division III Women’s Player of the Year. The award was named after former Elmira College ’05 standout and NCAA Division III career points leader Laura Hurd, who passed away in an automobile accident a year after graduating … Read more
Six days later, all seems right in the world. After the NCAA selection show last Monday set the D-III women’s hockey world off with how everything ended up shaking out, one week later we’re in the exact scenario we expected would happen and rightfully did happen. Today, the NCAA announced that RIT and the Frank Ritter Memorial … Read more
The American Hockey Coaches Association 2011 All-American Teams will be announced next Thursday at the NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championship banquet the night before the semifinals. The 2011 Laura Hurd Award winner, given to the Division III National Player of the Year, will also be announced that night. With the addition of St. Scholastica and … Read more
Okay…so there has been a lot of discussion and wondering about how Norwich received the bye into the semifinals of the 2011 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championships. Personally, I wasn’t even quite sure the Cadets were going to make the tournament after Sunday’s 4-2 loss to Manhattanville in the ECAC East championship game. I thought … Read more
Although the Oswego State Lakers’ breakout season ended last Saturday in a heart-breaking 2-1 double overtime loss to Neumann, the Hockumentary video blog that senior goaltender Emi Williams has been producing all year is back! The series is now up to eight episodes as two new installments have been added from the second semester. For … Read more
The Playoff Push Postseason hockey got underway this past weekend and as always there were a couple of upsets; including one top-10 team and perennial powerhouse going down. After making three straight trips to the frozen four, the Elmira College Soaring Eagles had their playoff dreams abruptly halted at home in the ECAC West Play-In … Read more
Four out of the five conferences have wrapped up their regular season schedules and every single one of those leagues had a different regular season champion than they did last year. Wis. River Falls completed its undefeated regular season with a 22-0-3 mark to claim the NCHA crown. The Falcons are just the second team in … Read more
The Oswego State hockey team’s goal heading into the 2010-2011 season was a breakout season. On Saturday, the Lakers got their crowning acheivement victory in the five-year history of the program when they stunned top-ranked and undefeated RIT 2-1 to not only hand the Tigers their first loss of the season, but also stop them … Read more
RIT Keeps Roaring Along RIT is now just three games away from undefeated regular season as the Tigers picked up their first ever win at the Murray Athletic Center on Friday with a 3-1 win over Elmira College. Kolbee McCrea wasted little time in giving RIT the lead as the freshman forward put the Tigers up … Read more
We now have one month left in the 2010-2011 regular season and the conference playoff pictures are starting to shake out. In the ECAC East, Norwich has a five-point lead over Manhattanville and looks to have home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs locked up for the first time in program history after the Valiants were swept … Read more
Manhattanville @ St. Anselm The Valiants need a win to keep pace with Norwich in the race for the ECAC East regular season title. St. Anselm is 9-1 in its last 10 games with the lone loss coming to two-time defending national champion Amherst. Manhattanville is still trying to make up ground on Norwich after … Read more
Last week I titled my blog post, “Fit to be tied.” Fitting, the weekend after I make that post, RIT and Plattsburgh; in one of the most anticipated showdowns of the season, tied not only once, but both of their games. The two schools played before a sold out electric-atmosphere at the Frank Ritter Memorial … Read more
Plattsburgh @ RIT The matchup of the weekend and maybe the matchup of the year between two titans of the ECAC West. Even though the Tigers have been rolling along this season, I like the fact that Plattsburgh has faced some stiffer competition as of late and I think that propels the Cardinals to a 3-2 victory … Read more
Three of the top programs in D-III women’s hockey will be gearing up to play for a cause over the next two weekends. Top-ranked RIT will host No. 4 Plattsburgh State for a pair of ECAC West games that are being dubbed “Black Out Heart Disease” weekend. The Tigers will be wearing special-edition black jerseys that are … Read more
Fit To Be Tied (or split) It’s amazing to me how many of the top teams tied actual games over the past weekend or tied a season series. Norwich ended up garnering a season series split with Plattsburgh with a 3-1 win over the Cardinals on Wednesday at the Ronald B. Stafford Ice Arena. The … Read more
Well I turned out to be correct on the night and day results for Adrian. The only problem was, Adrian didn’t take a game like I thought they might be able to do against top-ranked RIT. Instead, the Tigers (15-0-0) rolled into Michigan and downed the Bulldogs by scores of 4-2 and 8-0. However, to my … Read more