ITHACA, N.Y. — The #7 women's hockey team will make its final road trip of the regular season this weekend when it heads to Yale on Friday night and then to Brown on Saturday afternoon.

The Big Red enters the weekend with a chance to lock up the Ivy League title if it gets a win against Yale or ties the Bulldogs and beats the Bears. It would be Cornell's first Ivy League title since the 2012-13 season – when it shared the honor with Harvard – and the first outright title since the 2011-12 season. The team will also be looking to extend to double-digit unbeaten streaks, as the Big Red hasn't lost to Yale in the past 16 games and hasn't dropped a game against Brown in the past 19. 

GAME #26: #7 CORNELL BIG RED at YALE BULLDOGS
TIME: 6 p.m.
DATE: Friday, Feb. 10, 2017
PLACE: Ingalls Rink — New Haven, Conn.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: YaleBulldogs.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
 
 
GAME #27: 37 CORNELL BIG RED at BROWN BEARS
TIME: 3 p.m.
DATE: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017
PLACE: Meehan Auditorium — Providence, R.I.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: BrownBears.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
 
RECORDS: Cornell 16-6-3 (12-3-3 ECAC Hockey), Yale 10-12-3 (8-9-1 ECAC Hockey), Brown 5-20-0 (3-15-0 ECAC Hockey) *
 
*records do not include Friday's games
 
GAME NOTES: Cornell

About the Big Red
• Cornell got its third four-point conference weekend of the season last time out with wins over Union (5-1) on Friday and Rensselaer (3-2) on Saturday. Senior Hanna Bunton and sophomore Micah Hart each tallied four points on the weekend with two goals and two assists. Senior Kaitlin Doering scored the game-winner against Union – her fourth game-winning goal in the past 10 games – while sophomore Diana Buckley secured the win against RPI. Freshman Kristin O'Neill potted her fifth short-handed goal of the season in the win over Union.
• The Big Red earned three points on Jan. 27 and 28 with a 1-0 win over Dartmouth and a 2-2 overtime tie with Harvard.
• On Jan. 20, Cornell took down #3 Clarkson on the strength of a career-high 29 saves from sophomore Marlène Boissonnault and goals from classmates Micah Hart and Pippy Gerace.
• Senior Hanna Bunton leads the team in points (9-14—23) while O'Neill leads the team in goals and is second in points (11-9—20). 
• Senior Paula Voorheis has posted a .944 save percentage and a 1.57 goals against average, which rank fourth and seventh, respectively, in the nation. Boissonnault's 1.54 goals against average ranks her fourth in the nation while her .926 save percentage is 15th overall. 

About Yale
• The Bulldogs traveled to Princeton on Friday and got a huge 3-1 win over the Tigers before traveling to Quinnipiac on Saturday and losing 4-1.
• Before the loss to the Bobcats, Yale and ticked off five-straight ECAC Hockey wins over Dartmouth (3-0), Harvard (3-2), Brown (2-1, 4-2) and then Princeton to move into seventh overall in the conference standings.
• Krista Yip-Chuck and Eden Murray are tied for the team lead in points (8-18—26) while Phoebe Staenz leads the Bulldogs in goals and is second in points (14-9—23).
• Tera Hofmann has seen the majority of the time in net for the Bulldogs, posting a 6-9-3 record on the back of a .921 save percentage and a 2.48 goals against average. 

The Series with Yale
• The Big Red extended its unbeaten streak against the Bulldogs to 16 games with a 4-2 win on Nov.12 that saw four different players find the net, including freshman Grace Graham with her first career goal and sophomores Diana Buckley and Pippy Gerace with their firsts of the season.
• Cornell holds the 56-12-1 edge in the all-time series against Yale, with the 55th win on Feb. 13, 2016 doubling as head coach Doug Derraugh's 200th career win. 

About Brown
• The Bears dropped games to Quinnipiac (9-0) and Princeton (6-1) this past weekend and are now winless in the last four conference games, with the last ECAC victory coming in a 1-0 win against Dartmouth on Jan. 21. 
• Sam Donovan leads Brown in scoring (8-7—15) while Bridget Carey (5-7—12), Sena Hanson (3-8—11), and Leah Olson (3-7—10) have all hit double-digit points. 
• In goal, Monica Elvin has gone 4-14-0 for the Bears, posting a .902 save percentage and a 3.81 goals against average. 

The Series with Brown
• Senior Hanna Bunton netted her second career hat trick and Marlène Boissonnault earned her first career shutout in Cornell's 4-0 win over Brown back on Nov. 11. 
• The win extended Cornell's unbeaten streak against Brown to 19 games and moved its lead in the all-time series to 48-34-9.

About Head Coach Doug Derraugh '91
• Now in his 12th season directing the Cornell women's hockey program in 2016-17, Doug Derraugh amassed a 202-126-28 record in his first 11 seasons as the head coach of the Big Red, with his 200th win coming in the form of a 4-2 win last year against Yale. 
• Cornell has made the ECAC Hockey Tournament each of the last nine seasons, won the tournament four of the last seven years and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in five of those seasons. 
• Derraugh guided the Big Red to the national title game in his fifth season and back-to-back-to-back NCAA Frozen Four appearances in 2010, 2011 and 2012. 
• He led the team to five consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time in program history in 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-2014.

Truly Special Teams
• Cornell is one of three teams in the NCAA that has yet to give up multiple power-play goals in game this season, joining Wisconsin and North Dakota  in that category.
• Colgate and Boston College are the only two teams to net multiple power-play goals against Cornell since the beginning of the 2015-16 season.
• The Big Red penalty-kill unit had a 19-straight penalty-kill streak snapped in the first period against Syracuse on Jan. 10 while goaltender Marlène Boissonnault killed off 21-straight penalties in six games.

Doering Finding the Net
• After notching just three points on one goal and two assists during the first 14 games of the season, co-captain Kaitlin Doering has scored seven goals and assisted on three others in the 11 contests since the winter break and has also potted four game-winners during that span.
• The senior scored in four-straight games - which is a career long goal-streak - in those 11 games. 
• With a goal and an assist against Syracuse on Jan. 10, Doering earned her fourth career multi-point game and her first in 30 games – something she repeated with a goal and an assist against Union on Feb.3. 

No Sophomore Slumps Here
• The five members of Cornell's Class of 2019 have all set career-highs this season.
• Forwards Diana Buckley (5-4—9), Pippy Gerace (5-6—11) and Lenka Serdar (2-6—8) have all hit career highs in points while co-captain Micah Hart has recorded five goals compared to just one a year ago and leads all sophomore defensemen in the nation in  power-play goals (5).
• In goal,Marlène Boissonnault is 9-1-1 and has a 1.54 goals against average and a .926 save percentage – after going 5-1-0 and putting up a 3.02 and .882 last year in those categories – and also earned the first and second shutouts of her career.

Spreading the Wealth
• With senior goaltender Paula Voorheis earning her first career point on Jan. 10 with an assist against Syracuse, 18 of the 19 players on the Big Red roster have tallied at least a point this season.
• That 95 percent of Cornell's roster has a point ties the team with Wisconsin for the highest percentage of a roster earning points in the NCAA.

O'Neill Sets Record
• Against St. Lawrence on Jan. 21, freshman Kristin O'Neill set a program record for short-handed goals in a season with four and then added to that with her fifth of the year against Union on Feb. 3.
• O'Neill, who leads the nation in man-down goals, is the first freshman to notch five short-handed goals in a season since Monique Lamoreux recorded five during her 2008-09 freshman season at Minnesota. 

The Fastest Finish
• Senior Hanna Bunton's goal just 10 seconds into overtime on Jan. 14 against Quinnipiac not only secured Cornell two points but also marked the fastest overtime goal – men's or women's – across all levels of NCAA hockey so far this season.
• Bunton's 10 second tally is also tied for the fastest goal in NCAA Division I women's hockey in the past six seasons, matching Brianna Decker's score 10 seconds in overtime for Wisconsin on Nov. 10, 2010.

The Tallest of Teams
• The Big Red roster has an average height of 5'6.5", making it the tallest in the NCAA with Lindenwood coming in a close second at 5'6.4".
• Cornell's two-member junior class has an average height of 5'11.5", making it both the tallest junior class of any team in the NCAA and the tallest class overall as it stands 2.5 inches over the next closest average in Ohio State's junior class.

Don't Fall Behind the Big Red
• Cornell is 10-0-1 this season when leading after one period and 12-0-2 when leading after two periods.
• The team has scored first in 15 games this season, going 13-1-1 in those contests. 

Brilliant Bourbonnais
• Cornell is 9-0-1 when freshman Jaime Bourbonnais notches a point and 7-0-0 when she has an assist. 
• The defenseman has had two multi-point games this season and is currently tied for fourth on the team in points with 12 (4-8—12) and sits tied for eight overall in the nationa amongst freshman blueliners. 

Power-Play Prowess 
• Against Providence on Jan. 7, Cornell's final three goals came on the power-play and the Big Red finished the game 3-of-7 on the man-advantage. 
•  The only other game on record in program history in which Cornell scored three-straight power-play goals came last year in a 4-0 win over Vermont and in both instances, sophomore Pippy Gerace tallied the third goal. 

The Kids Are Alright
• The Class of 2020, which makes up 37 percent of the roster, has notched 37 percent of Cornell's 155 points this season.
•  Of the team's 62 goals, 24 have come from a rookie class that has also put up 57 of the team's 155 points and 33 of the team's 93 assists. 
• Kristin O'Neill is the first freshman to notch 10 goals in a season since Taylor Woods hit that mark during the 2012-13 season. 

Freshmen Finesse
• When Kristin O'Neill scored her first goal of the game against Quinnipiac on Jan. 14, she was assisted on the goal by classmates Amy Curlew and Jaime Bourbonnais.
• It marked the first and only time this season that the Big Red had a goal and both assists all earned by rookies.

Paula2K
• With her 21st save of the game on Jan. 21 against St. Lawrence, senior Paula Voorheis became the second goaltender in program history to reach 2,000 career saves.
• Alanna Hayes sits in first place all-time in program history with 2,381.
• Voorheis made a total of 822 saves during the 2014-15 season, which is tops in single-season history, and has made 373 this season in her 14 starts. 

Eyes on the Ivy
• Cornell enters the weekend in first place in the Ivy League standings with a 6-0-2 record.
• A win over Yale would give Cornell its first Ivy title since 2012-13 – when it shared the honor with Harvard – and the first outright title since the 2011-12 season. 

Points at a Premium
• Cornell enters the weekend in third place in the conference with 27 points on a 12-3-3 record.
• The team remains four points back of second-place St. Lawrence (15-2-1) and five back from first-place Clarkson (15-1-2).
• Princeton and Quinnipiac are currently tied for fourth place, just three points back from the Big Red with 24 points each (11-5-2). 
• The top four teams in the conference will host the best-of-three quarterfinal series in the final weekend of February.

Weekly Honors
• Micah Hart earned her first career ECAC Hockey Player of the Week award on Feb. 7 after scoring two goals and notching two assists in wins over Union and RPI.
• The co-captain is the first defenseman in the league this season to win the weekly award and the first Cornell sophomore since Brianne Jenner during the 2011-12 season.
• Hanna Bunton was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week for Jan. 16 for her heroic two-goal weekend in the Big Red's tie with Princeton and an overtime win over Quinnipiac.
• Bunton scored with 1:02 left on the clock to force overtime against the Tigers on Jan. 13 and then potted a goal just 10 seconds into overtime the next day against the Bobcats.
• The senior also earned the honor for the week of Nov. 14 after she notched her second career hat trick in the 4-0 win over the Bears and then assisted on two goals, including the game-winner, in a 4-2 win over the Bulldogs.

Century Club
• A trio of Big Red players eclipsed the 100 career games played mark in the first nine games of the 2016-17 season. 
• In the second game of the season against Mercyhurst on Oct. 22, senior Sydney Smith played in her 100th career game in the Cornellian red and white. 
• Senior co-captain Kaitlin Doering skated in her 100th career game on Oct. 29 against Union. 
• Senior forward Hanna Bunton played her 100th career game on Nov. 19 against Princeton. 
• Alyssa Gagliardi '13 holds the all-time record for career games played in program history with 138. 

Meet the Captains
• Senior Kaitlin Doering and sophomore Micah Hart will be serving as Cornell's captains for the 2016-17 season. 
• Doering is coming off a 2015-16 season in which she set a career high with 18 points on seven goals and 11 assists. 
• Hart led all Big Red defensemen last year with 18 points on one goal and 17 assists, finished the season with six multi-point outings and was second on the team with 56 blocked shots. 
• Hart is just the fourth sophomore to don a letter in program history and the second to serve as a captain. 

Up Next
• Cornell will close out the regular season at Lynah Rink next weekend when #3 St. Lawrence visits on Friday, Feb. 17 and #4 Clarkson on Saturday, Feb. 18.
• The game against Clarkson will also be recognized as Senior Day for co-captain Kaitlin Doering, Hanna Bunton, Sydney Smith and Paula Voorheis.