Women’s Hockey Opens Season with Home-And-Home Series Versus Holy Cross

Friday, October 19

Providence, RI

6:00 PM

Brown University

Holy Cross

Women’s Hockey Opens Season with Home-And-Home Series Versus Holy Cross

10/17/2018 12:52:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

Game Notes

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown women's hockey team will open the 2018-19 campaign with a home-and-home series against Holy Cross on Friday, Oct. 19 and Saturday, Oct. 20. Brown will host the first game at Meehan Auditorium on Friday at 6:00 p.m. while Holy Cross will entertain the Bears on Saturday at the Hart Center for a 7:00 p.m. puck drop. It will be the first-ever meeting between the two teams.

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SCOUTING THE CRUSADERS
Holy Cross looks for its first win of the season, entering the weekend with a 0-3-2 record. The Crusaders open the year with six-straight home games before hosting Brown on Saturday, Oct. 20. Holy Cross has two 1-1 overtime ties on the season, one at RIT on Oct. 6 and the second at Rensselaer on Oct. 12. Amanda Kewer leads the team in points with three on the year with two goals and one assist. Goaltending duties have been split this season with Julia Pelletier recording three starts and Jada Brenon contributing two. Brenon leads the squad in goals-against average (2.88) and save percentage (.929). The Crusaders have struggled on special teams and are 0-for-15 on the power play this season.

BROWN TALKING POINTS
Carisa Wahlig enters her first season as the head coach of the Bears in 2018-19. Wahlig came to College Hill after leading the Lake Forest College women's hockey program for 13 seasons, where she was the school's all-time winningest coach with a 201-101-39 record (135-65-32 NCHA).

Brown returns four of its top six scorers from last season, which include junior Sena Hanson (8-7-15), sophomore Kaitijane Blumberg (6-6-12), senior Cara Najjar (1-11-12) and senior Bridget Carey (4-3-7). Brown also return the bulk of its defense in senior Abby Niewchas, Najjar and senior Leah Olson, who missed all but one game last season due to injury. Junior Calla Isaac saw most of the action in goal last year with 18 starts while sophomore Lauren Rippy appeared in eight games in her rookie campaign. The duo will be joined by freshman Hayley Kliczko. Freshmen Shay Maloney and Jacquie Tam look to make an impact right away along with fellow rookies Mel Anderson, Lizzy Gross, Vivian Lu and Tina Paolillo.

THE CAPTAINS
Seniors Bridget Carey and Abby Niewchas will suit up as the Bears' captains for the 2018-19 season while sophomore Abby Nearis will join the two seniors as an assistant captain.

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Video of all home contests and all Ivy League games, home and away, will be broadcast live on ESPN+. Fans can subscribe and view games by purchasing a monthly package for $4.99 or a yearly package for $49.99.

NEXT UP
Brown will host UConn on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at Meehan Auditorium for its third non-conference game. Puck drop is set for 6:00 p.m. on ESPN+.