ITHACA, N.Y. — The Red-White Game has kicked off the Cornell hockey season for years, but the 2011-12 version of the event will be like no other in a variety of ways.
 
Aside from seeing the Big Red men's hockey team for the first time, this season's Red-White Game will also feature the national semifinalist Cornell women's hockey team and a postgame meet-and-greet autograph session with the players, all while raising money for the university's Emergency CARE Fund. Full rosters are listed below.
 
The game is at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15 at Lynah Rink. Admission to the game is free, but donations are suggested upon entry. Raffle tickets will also be available for purchase, with proceeds benefitting the Cornell Hockey Association.
 
Fans are also encouraged to show their support for their favorite players by wearing either red or white, depending on which team their favorite player is on. Whichever team is represented better at the game will receive a point in the men's squad's Red-White team-building challenge. There will even be a Red band and a White band.
 
The Emergency Cornellians Aiding and Responding to Employees (CARE) Fund is a program offering financial assistance to faculty and staff who have experienced a non-recurring sudden or emergency-related financial hardship due to an unforeseen or unavoidable event. Some of the events that fund recipients have endured include house fires and unforeseen medical or funeral expenses, but the devastating floods that hit the area in early September has decimated the fund.
 
“It's driven by donations from anyone in the Cornell community who wants to help out,” said Beth McKinney, director of the Cornell University Wellness Program and chair of the CARE Fund committee. “There have been a lot of employees in need as of late. (As of Oct. 4), we have received 39 flood applications, and we expect more. Right now, the money is going out faster than it's coming in.”
 
Emergency CARE will also be hosting an online auction from Oct. 11-19 and a live auction from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20 at the G10 Biotechnology Building to raise money. There are more than 100 items in all, ranging from private sailing lessons, to cases of wine, to a bowling party package, to a private dinner for six catered by one of the university's chefs. The goal for all of the events is to raise at least $10,000.
 
The game itself will resemble previous versions with regular power-play situations and a shootout at the end of the contest. The men's teams and women's teams will rotate in-game, then area youth hockey players will take the ice during the intermission.
 
MEN'S ROSTERS
Red                                   White
D - Jacob MacDonald        D - Keir Ross
D - Sean Whitney              D - Joakim Ryan
D - Braden Birch               D - Mathieu Brisson
D - Nick D'Agostino           D - Kirill Gotovets
F - John McCarron            F - Rodger Craig
F - Armand de Swardt      F - Erik Axell
F - Cole Bardreau              F - Kevin Cole
F - John Esposito               F - Joel Lowry
F - Madison Dias                F - Greg Miller
F - Sean Collins                  F - Brian Ferlin
F - Philippe Hudon              F - Locke Jillson
G - Omar Kanji                   F - Dustin Mowrey
G - Vincenzo Marozzi       G - Andy Iles

WOMEN'S ROSTERS
Red                                   White
D - Laura Fortino               D - Alyssa Gagliardi
D - Hayleigh Cudmore       D - Lauriane Rougeau
F - Jillian Saulnier              F - Emily Fulton
F - Kendice Ogilvie            F - Catherine White
F - Erin Barley-Maloney     F - Brianne Jenner
F - Olivia Cook                   F - Monika Leck
F - Rebecca Johnson        F - Chelsea Karpenko
(Goalies - Amanda Mazzotta, Lauren Slebodnick, Katelyn Pippy)