Women’s Hockey Starts Four Game Homestand this Friday

Friday, January 21

Providence, R.I.

6:00 PM

Brown University

Cornell

Photo by: David Silverman Photography

Women’s Hockey Starts Four Game Homestand this Friday

1/20/2022 5:35:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown women's hockey team will return to home ice this weekend to kick off a four-game homestand, beginning with ECAC foes Cornell on Friday at 6 p.m., and No. 6 Colgate on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Both games will be streamed live on ESPN+, with an international stream available through Stretch Internet. Admission is free and all spectators will have to adhere to a mask requirement.

The Bears will be meeting both Colgate and Cornell for the second time this season. The Brown and Cornell skated to a 3-3 tie back on Nov. 6 when the Big Red was receiving votes in the national polls.

SCOUTING BROWN (2-14-2, 2-8-1 ECAC)

The Bears will reload this weekend after competing with 13 healthy skaters last Friday at Harvard.
Brown controlled the pace of play early, scoring first for the fourth time in its last six games. Brown also held the 10th-ranked Crimson to just four shots over the final 20 minutes.
Sophomore Maya Mangiafico picked up her third assist of the season and now has six points.
Senior forward Shay Maloney leads the team with 10 points, and has registered at least one point in three of the last five games.
Sophomore Cassidy Piersiak picked up her fifth assist of the season of the season at Harvard, moving her into a tie for the team lead in that category.

SCOUTING CORNELL (6-7-1, 4-4-1 ECAC)

The Big Red enter this weekend following a 10-day layoff and riding a two-game winning streak, blanking Dartmouth 5-0 on Jan. 8 and taking down Penn State 6-1 on the road on Jan. 11.
Cornell picked up a win over a ranked team on Nov. 20 when they earned a 2-0 win over No. 10 Princeton.
The Big Red are even in scoring margin, scoring and allowing 2.5 goals per contest, while converting on 15.9 percent of their power plays.
Junior forward Gillis Frechette leads the team with 16 points (6g, 10a).
Izzy Daniel leads the squad with 12 assists and a plus/minus of plus-10.
Lily Delianedis holds a team-leading eight goals and ranks third with 14 points.

SCOUTING COLGATE (17-4-1, 7-2-1 ECAC)

Ranked No. 6 in both national polls for the sixth straight week, Colgate has won four games in a row, including consecutive 2-1 wins over Boston College and No. 3 Minnesota at the Smashville NCAA Showcase in Nashville in late December.
The Raiders will play at No. 10 Yale for a big top 10 showdown on Friday before heading up Interstate 95 to Providence on Saturday.
Danielle Serdachny leads the way with 34 points, which ranks tied for sixth in the nation. Her 23 assists are tied for third-most nationally. Both categories lead the ECAC.
Kalty Kaltounkova is tied for eighth nationally in both assists (18) and points (32).
Kaltounkova and Dara Greig are tied for the team lead with 14 goals apiece.
Kayla Osborne and Hannah Murphy lead Raiders between the pipes, with Osborne boasting a 10-3-1 record and a 2.00 GAA and .906 save percentage. Murphy has made eight starts, going 7-1 with a 1.75 GAA.

UP NEXT
Brown will play a midweek game coming up on Tuesday against Union at Meehan Auditorium at 6 p.m.

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