No. 15 Women's Hockey Plays Home-and-Home with Yale this Weekend

Saturday, November 16

New Haven, Conn.

2 p.m.

Brown University

Yale

Photo by: Ashton Daniel Robertson

No. 15 Women's Hockey Plays Home-and-Home with Yale this Weekend

11/15/2024 1:41:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – No. 15 Brown women's hockey makes the trip to New Haven on Saturday for a matchup at Yale before hosting the Bulldogs on Sunday.

The game at Yale will begin at 2 p.m., while puck drop in Providence will be at 3 p.m. Both games will be streamed on ESPN+.

SKATE SHAVINGS
• Brown suffered its first defeats of the season, falling in overtime to No. 5 Colgate and by one to No. 11 Cornell.
• Brown is now ranked No. 15 in both the USCHO.com poll and the USA Hockey/The Rink Live poll. Brown is ranked in the USA Hockey poll for the first time since the 2005-06 season. Brown made the USCHO poll since the 2006-07 season.

SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS
• Yale enters the weekend with a 3-3-1 overall record and 2-3-1 mark in ECAC play
• The Bulldogs lost to both Colgate and Cornell last weekend.
• Yale has just one power play goal on the season, the fewest of any team in the nation.
• Anna Bargman is tied for the team lead in both points (6) and goals (3)

INSIDE THE SERIES
• Brown has dropped the last five meetings with the Bulldogs with the last win being a 4-1 victory at home back on Jan. 28, 2022.
• The last time Brown has won in New Haven was on Jan. 4, 2012 when the Bears took home a 4-1 win.
• The series between Yale and Brown has been a tale of two halves with Yale owning the recent half. Brown won 55 of the first 58 meetings between the two schools (1976-2004) but since 2006 the skate has been on tbe other foot as Yale holds a 27-6-2 record against the Bears.

BROWN IN THE POLLS
• Brown was ranked 15th in the Oct. 28th USCHO Women's Hockey rankings. It is the first time since Oct. 23, 2006 that the Bears have appeared in the poll.
• Brown was ranked No. 14 in both the USCHO and USA Hockey polls the week of No.v 4th.
• It is the first time since the final poll of the 2005-06 season that Brown has been ranked in the USA Hockey poll.
• Brown has remained in both polls sitting 15th for the week of Nov. 11.

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.

FINDING THE NETMINDING
• Brown will have to replace its mainstay between the pipes from a season ago as Kaley Doyle finished her Brown career last season.
• Doyle played 29 of Brown's 32 games last season and finished with a 2.25 goals against average.
• Rory Edwards is the lone returning goaltender on Brown's roster and had just three appearances before this season.
• Brown also has freshmen Anya Zupkofska on the roster. Zupkofska played in Brown's 6-0 win over McGill in an exhibition to start the season.

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.
• Brown has scored a goal in all eight games to start the season. It is the longest streak to start a season since Brown went 13 games in the 2014-15 campaign.

WEEKLY HONORS
• Senior defensewoman Cameron Sikich was named ECAC Defender of the Week after her performance in two games against Franklin Pierce (Oct. 22).
• Sikich finished the two-game series with three goals and two assists.
• Senior defensewoman Cameron Sikich was named ECAC Defender of the Week for the second time this season after tallying three assists in the wins over Dartmouth and Harvard (Nov. 5).

STRONG START FOR THE BEARS
• Brown started 6-0-0 in a season for the first time since the 1992-93 season. That season the Bears won their first eight games of the season on route to a 15-8-1 mark.

COLLEGIATE FIRSTS
• Plenty of Bears have recorded collegiate firsts this season:
Monique Lyons
            Assist - vs. Franklin Pierce (10/18/24)
            Goal - vs Quinnipiac (10/25/24)
Emma Yates
            Assist - vs. Franklin Pierce (10/18/24)
Ella Muralt
            Goal - vs. Franklin Pierce (10/18/24)
            Assist - at Franklin Pierce (10/19/24)
Avery Saba
            Goal - vs. Franklin Pierce (10/18/24)
Olivia Fantino
            Goal - at Franklin Pierce (10/19/24)
            Assist - at Franklin Pierce (10/19/24)
Anya Zupkofska
            Win - at Franklin Pierce (10/19/24)
Abby Hancock
            Goal - at Harvard (11/2/24)

KEEPING THE NET LOCKED DOWN
• Rory Edwards has stepped up for Brown in net, holding a 5-1-0 record and allowing just one goal in four of her first six outings.
• The last time Brown allowed one goal or less in four of five games was when the Bears did so in four-straight games from Nov. 6 to Nov. 19 of 2010.
• Katie Jamieson was in the net for the Bears during that streak.
• Overall, Brown only allowed one goal in five of the first six games this season. The Bears have not had a stretch like that since Nov. 19 to Dec. 4 of 2004.

FANTINO'S FOUR POINTS
• Olivia Fantino had an impressive start to her college career with four points in Brown's win over Franklin Pierce. The four points are the most since Janice Yang against St. Lawrence Nov. 1, 2014.

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