Box Score
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Five different players scored a goal as the Cornell women's hockey team earned a share of its first Ivy League title since 1999 with a 6-0 victory over visiting Princeton on Saturday afternoon at Lynah Rink. Chelsea Karpenko led the way with a pair of goals for the Big Red on the afternoon.
Laura Fortino, Karlee Overguard, Lauriane Rougeau and Liz Zorn each added a goal for the Big Red in the contest, while Amanda Mazzotta stopped 21 shots for her second straight shutout. Cornell went 1-for-5 on the power play while holding Princeton scoreless in its only power-play chance on the night.
Princeton goaltender Rachel Weber got the start and stopped 22 of the 26 saves she faced, while Cassie Seguin came on in relief and allowed two goals on eight shots.
Cornell got on the board with Fortino's goal midway through the first period, a power-play tally that was assisted by Rougeau and Catherine White. The period ended, 1-0, but Cornell would score another two goals in the middle part of the second period. First, Karpenko scored with Zorn picking up an assist, and then it was Overguard scoring off assists from Melanie Jue and White.
The Big Red tacked on three more goals in the third to clinch the victory. Karpenko scored two minutes into the period, picking up the puck in front of the Cornell bench and skating in on a breakaway, slotting the puck under Weber to make the score 4-0. Rougeau and Zorn would add to the scoring in the period, with White and Amber Overguard chipping in assists.
With the victory, Cornell is now 6-0-2 in Ivy League play and is tied atop the league standings with Harvard, with both teams having 12 points. Cornell, however, has two games yet to play among league foes, facing Brown and Yale next weekend on the road. Either a win or a tie against either foe would give Cornell the outright league title for the first time since 1999, the eighth sole championship and the ninth overall.
In ECAC Hockey play, the Big Red is three points behind first-place Clarkson, but four points clear of fifth place Quinnipiac and Rensselaer, with the top four teams garnering hosting rights for the first round of the ECAC Hockey playoffs, a feat that the Big Red is seeking to do for the first time this season.
Cornell will travel to Brown and Yale for a pair of games next weekend, opening up with a 7 p.m. contest at Brown on Friday before facing the Bulldogs in a 4 p.m. contest on Saturday in New Haven, Conn.