No. 15 Women's Hockey Hits the Road at Dartmouth and Harvard

Friday, November 1

Hanover, N.H.

3 p.m.

Brown University

Dartmouth

Photo by: Lydia Vigneau

No. 15 Women's Hockey Hits the Road at Dartmouth and Harvard

10/31/2024 1:30:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – No. 15 Brown women's hockey makes its first ECAC road trip of the season as the Bears will head to Dartmouth and Harvard over the weekend.

Brown will take on Dartmouth at 3 p.m. with the game being broadcast on NESN and streamed on ESPN+. The game against Harvard will also start at 3 p.m. and will be streamed on ESPN+.

Listen to head coach Melanie Ruzzi talk about the Bears' 4-0 start on the PodKaz here.

Game Links
Dartmouth – Watch | Live Stats
Harvard – Watch | Live Stats

SKATE SHAVINGS
• Brown hits the road for the first ECAC trip of the season as the Bears head to Dartmouth and Harvard. The Bears take on the Big Green on Friday at 3 p.m. and the Crimson on Saturday at 3 p.m. Both games will be streamed on ESPN+.
• Brown had a stellar weekend to start ECAC play as the Bears beat No. 9/9 Quinnipiac in overtime, 2-1, and beat No. 11/13 Princeton 4-3. It was the first time that Brown has swept a weekend against Quinnipiac and Princeton since Jan. 30 & 31, 2009.
• Brown is 4-0-0 through the first four games of a season since the 1992-93 season. Brown was 3-0-1 for the first four games of the 2022-23 season.

SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
• Dartmouth is 0-4-0 this season with two losses at No. 12 Penn State and road losses at Rensselaer and Union to start ECAC play.
• The matchup with Brown will be the home opener for Dartmouth and will be shown on NESN
• Dartmouth has managed just three goals over their four games to start the year. Each goal has been scored by a different play with Kenzie Bachelor, Mia Buonarosa and Cally Dixon all finding in the net.
• Michaela Hesova has been in goal for all four games this season and has a GAA of 2.51 and save percentage of .927.

INSIDE THE SERIES
• Brown tied Dartmouth 3-3 last season in the meeting in Hanover. The Bears earned a 7-1 win in Providence in the first meeting between the two teams a season ago.
• The last time Brown lost at Thompson arena was back in 2019 when the Bears fell 3-2 in overtime. Brown is 1-0-2 at Dartmouth in the three meetings since.

SCOUTING THE CRIMSON
• Harvard is 1-2-0 on the year and began its season with a 1-0 win against No. 8 UConn at home.
• The Crimson were shutout in two 3-0 decisions to start ECAC play at Union and RPI last weekend. Harvard will host Yale on Friday before taking on Brown on Saturday.
• Jenna MacDonald has the lone goal of the season for the Crimson. Mia Biotti and Kaley MacDonald each have an assist.
• Emily Davison has started two games for the Crimson and holds a 1-1-0 record with a 1.50 GAA and .948 save percentage.

INSIDE THE SERIES
• Brown is on a four-game win streak against Harvard including the last two meetings in Cambridge. The Bears won last year's meeting 3-1 as Jade Iginla had a hat trick in the win for Brown.
• Harvard had taken the previous four contests before Brown's win streak. Three of the last 10 meetings have gone to overtime between the two teams.

BROWN IN THE POLLS
• Brown was ranked 15th in the most recent USCHO Women's Hockey rankings. It is the first time since Oct. 23, 2006 that the Bears have appeared in the poll.

CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
• Junior Jade Iginla will wear the 'C' for the Bears this season after earning the captain vote by her teammates.
• Iginla led Brown in scoring with 27 points and 16 goals in her sophomore year. This comes after scoring 17 goals and totaling 23 points as a freshman.
• Iginla was also selected to participate on the Canadian National Women's Development Team this summer.

DONNING THE 'A'
• Three Bears were named assistant captains this season. India McDadi, Cameron Sikich and Anna Shelden all earned the honor from their teammates.

RETURNING FIREPOWER
• Brown boasts and impressive group of returners as Brown returns 87% (53-61 goals) of its goal scoring from a season-ago.
• The top-five goal scorers from last year are back, led by Iginla (16) and McDadi (9). They are followed by Margot Norehad (7), Sam Broz (6) and Ava DeCoste (5).
• The Bears also return their top-six point scorers from a season ago. Added to the top-five in goal scoring plus assists is Cameron Sikich who finished with 10 assists last campaign.

LIGHTING THE LAMP
• Brown's offense came to play in the first two games of the season as the Bears scored 14 total goals in the wins over Franklin Pierce.
• The eight goals in the first game were the most since Brown scored 10 goals in a win at Sacred Heart on Dec. 7, 2011.
• The 14 goals are tied for the most in a two-game stretch with Dec. 7, 2011 and Jan. 4 2011 when the Bears scored 10 against Sacred Heart and four against Yale.
• The last time Brown scored six or more goals in back-to-back games came in the 2016-17 season when the scored six and seven goals in games against Sacred Heart.

WEEKLY HONORS
• Senior defender Cameron Sikich was named ECAC Defender of the Week after her performance in two games against Franklin Pierce.
• Sikich finished the two-game series with three goals and two assists.
• It was the first ECAC weekly honor for Sikich in her career.

STRONG START FOR THE BEARS
• Brown started 4-0-0 in a season for the first time since the 1992-93 season. That season the Bears won their first eight games of the season en route to a 15-8-1 mark.
• Brown went unbeaten in its first four games of the 2022-23 season, when the Bears started 3-0-1. Brown's longest unbeaten streak to start a year is 14 games as the Bears went 12-0-2 in the 1994-95 season.

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