Women’s Hockey Returns To Lynah For Visits From Ivy Foes
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell women’s hockey team returns from a four-week hiatus to start a busy stretch of five games over eight days when it hosts Dartmouth at 3 p.m. Saturday and Harvard at 3 p.m. Sunday in a pair of ECAC Hockey and Ivy League tilts at Lynah Rink.
Game Information:
Dartmouth at Cornell
SITE: Lynah Rink — Ithaca, N.Y.
DATE: 3 p.m. Saturday, January 8
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
Cornell game notes (PDF)
#10 Harvard at Cornell
SITE: Lynah Rink — Ithaca, N.Y.
DATE: 3 p.m. Sunday, January 9
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
Cornell game notes (PDF)
How To Watch:
• Featuring play-by-play from Grady Whittenburg, the games will be broadcast on ESPN+ in the U.S. (with an option for international viewers also available through Stretch Internet).
Big Red Rewind:
• Cornell returns from its annual midseason break at 4-7-1 after a pair of losses on the road to Northeastern, which has now won eight straight and hasn’t lost in regulation time since Oct. 9. Gillis Frechette — a Boston-area native — scored the Big Red’s goal on the power play in Saturday’s 3-1 affair a day after goaltender Deanna Fraser made 42 saves in her collegiate debut behind a 4-2 setback.
• Gabbie Rud and Lily Delianedis scored the Big Red goals in the first game before the Huskies for three unanswered goals. Izzy Daniel had assists in both games.
• The Big Red closed out the ECAC Hockey portion of its fall schedule with a home split of a pair of shutouts. Cornell came up on the short end of the first one — a 4-0 decision against Quinnipiac on Nov. 19 — before rebounding with a 2-0 victory over Princeton the next day in a rematch of the 2020 ECAC Hockey championship game.
• Lindsay Browning made 37 saves against the Tigers to post her third shutout of the season and the 15th of her collegiate career.
Milestone Watch:
• Doug Derraugh ’91 enters this weekend’s games with 299 career victories in his 15-plus seasons behind the Big Red bench as the Everett Family Head Coach of Women’s Hockey. He is looking to become the 11th active head coach in NCAA Division I women’s hockey to reach the 300-win plateau.
By The Numbers:
• Junior Gillis Frechette (#11, 5-7–12, plus-2) leads the team in scoring and is tied for the team lead in goals with sophomore Lily Delianedis (#21, 5-5–10). Those two have recently been deployed on the same line as junior Izzy Daniel (#12, 1-10–11, team-best plus-4), the team’s leader in assists.
• Freshman Rory Guilday (#5, 2-5–7) leads the team’s blueliners in scoring. She typically plays alongside sophomore Ashley Messier (#8, 1-2–3, team-high 34 blocked shots), giving the Big Red a defensive pairing that features international experience from both the U.S. and Canada.
• Graduate student Lindsay Browning (#29, 4-6-1, 2.40, .914, 3 SO) — who, in 2020, became the program’s first goaltender to earn All-America — returns to anchor the team. As the first goaltender to serve as the team’s sole captain, Browning’s three shutouts are currently tied for the most among all ECAC Hockey goaltenders.
Back To Work:
• More than half of the Big Red’s roster is new to college hockey this year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancelation of the team’s 2020-21 season.
• Among the incumbents for this year, only nine have played more than 10 collegiate games and the entire group accounted for 33 goals of the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons — 24 of which came from junior forward Gillis Frechette.
About Dartmouth:
• The Big Green have won four straight games since its last league action to even its record at 8-8. The first three wins came before the semester break against NEWHA foes Franklin Pierce (Dec. 7) and Post (Dec. 10-11), then CC Bowlby (#13, 3-6–9) scored in overtime on Sunday to secure a 4-3 win over visiting New Hampshire. She was subsequently named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week.
• Sydney Herrington (#4, 5-6–11), Catherine Trevors (#22, 5-6–11, team-high plus-6) and Laura Fuoco (#8, 4-7–11) share the team lead in scoring.
• Maggie Emerson (#35, 7-7, 2.78, .901, SO) has started 14 of the team’s 16 games in goal.
The Series With Dartmouth:
• The Big Green holds a 43-40-7 lead over the Big Red in the all-time series after a 4-3 victory on Oct. 30 in Hanover.
• Gillis Frechette opened the scoring four minutes into the game, then both Athena Song and Rory Guilday scored goals to tie the score in the second and third periods, respectively. The Big Green generated the winner on the power play with 10:10 left.
• The loss halted Cornell’s 11-game winning streak in the series in which Dartmouth had only scored seven goals.
• Cornell has won the last five meetings between the teams at Lynah Rink, the most recent of which ended in a 5-1 victory for the Big Red on Jan. 17, 2020. Gillis Frechette scored twice and Cornell limited Dartmouth to just nine shots on goal.
About Harvard:
• The Crimson held steady at 10th in the DCU/USCHO poll despite being swept at home by eighth-ranked Minn. Duluth last weekend, 5-2 and 4-3. Those were Harvard’s first games since ended the fall semester with four straight victories.
• Becca Gilmore (#18, 9-9–18) leads the team in scoring, three points clear of Dominique Petrie (#14, 7-8–15, plus-9, team-high 87 shots on goal).
• Harvard is the nation’s top faceoff team (60.9%), led by a 72.2% success rate from Taze Thompson (#19, 4-5–9).
• Three of the Crimson’s five goaltenders have started at least three games, led by Becky Dutton (#35, 4-2, 1.99, .918, SO).
The Series With Harvard:
• Saturday’s game marks the 95th meeting between Cornell and Harvard, dating back to the first clash on Jan. 12, 1982.
• The Big Red trails in the series, 31-57-6, after have a five-game winning streak between the teams snapped by a 4-1 setback on Oct. 29 in Boston.
• Kaitlin Jockims scored her first collegiate goal on the power play during the first period for Cornell, but the Crimson got the winner midway through the second before padding the score with two empty-netters. Lindsay Browning made 34 saves.
• Harvard has been blanked in its last two visits to Lynah Rink, both coming during the 2019-20 season. The most recent was a 4-0 decision in the 2020 ECAC Hockey tournament semifinals that featured a 25-save clean sheet from Browning.
Up Next:
• Cornell continues its busy stretch with a non-league game at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11 at Penn State before pivoting back to Ithaca for two more ECAC Hockey games — Friday, Jan. 14 vs. Clarkson and Saturday, Jan. 15 vs. St. Lawrence.
