POTSDAM, N.Y. — The #7 women's hockey team will take on #3 Clarkson today in the ECAC Hockey Championship game at 2 p.m. at Cheel Arena. It is the seventh appearance in the tournament final for the Cornell program and the third time that the Big Red will battle the Golden Knights for the title. The game will be available for streaming in both the United States and Canada. 

Cornell topped #4 St. Lawrence last night, 3-1, in the semifinal round to reach today's game. Senior goaltender Paula Voorheis made 31 saves while a trio of rookies - Kristin O'Neill, Amy Curlew and Paige Lewis - found the back of the net for the Big Red. Clarkson downed Princeton, 4-0, in the other semifinal to advance.

ECAC Hockey Championship Game
TIME: 2 p.m.
DATE: Sunday, March 5
PLACE: Cheel Arena — Potsdam, N.Y.
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN 3 | BoxCast (available in Canada)
LIVE STATS: ECACHockey.com
LIVE UPDATES: @CUBigRedGameDay
RECORDS: Cornell 20-7-5 (13-4-5 ECAC Hockey), Clarkson 28-4-5 (19-1-2 ECAC Hockey)
 
GAME NOTES: Cornell

About the Big Red
• Cornell topped second-seeded St. Lawrence, 3-1, in the semifinal round yesterday to advance to the championship game.
• The Big Red got three goals from the Class of 2020 as Kristin O'Neill, Amy Curlew and Paige Lewis all found the net - with O'Neill and Curlew converting on the power-play - while senior Paula Voorheis had a 31-save performance.
• Third-seeded Cornell took on sixth-seeded Colgate last weekend in the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals and swept the series with a 2-1 win on Friday and 1-0 win on Saturday.
• Friday's game - the third consecutive 2-1 affair between the teams – saw freshman Kristin O'Neill convert a game-winning penalty-shot with 4:24 to play.
• Senior Paula Voorheis made 29 saves the next day to earn her ninth career shutout and Curlew scored on a second period power-play to give the Big Red the win.
• Senior Hanna Bunton is first on the team in points (10-18—28) while O'Neill is second (14-12—26) and has a team-leading 14 goals.
• Voorheis has the nation's third-best save percentage (.943) and the eighth best goals against average (1.62) while sophomore Marlene Boissonnault is fourth overall in goals against average (1.52) and 19th in save percentage (.925) and her 10-1-2 record, which includes an eight-game unbeaten streak, ranks her second in the nation (.846).

About Clarkson
• Clarkson topped Princeton, 4-0, in yesterday's first semifinal game to reach the final.
• The top-seeded Golden Knights swept Rensselaer (4-1, 5-2) in the quarterfinal round to host the championship weekend.
• Clarkson finished the regular ECAC slate with a 19-1-2 record, with the only blemish coming in a 2-1 loss to Cornell on Jan. 20.
• Cayley Mercer - the ECAC Player of the Year - leads Clarkson with 57 points on 26 goals and 31 assists.

The Series with Clarkson
• The Big Red went 1-1-0 against the Knights during the regular season.
• Cornell handed Clarkson its lone conference loss of the season and snapped the Golden Knight's 18-game unbeaten streak with a 2-1 win on Jan. 20. Sophomores Micah Hart and Pippy Gerace tallied the goals for the Big Red, with Gerace netting the game-winner with 1:16 left on the clock in the third period. Fellow sophomore Marlene Boissonnault made a career-high 29 saves for the win, which was also the program's 550th overall.
• When the teams met on Feb.  18 in the final game of the regular season, Cornell jumped out to a 3-1 lead and eventually took Clarkson to overtime, only to have Cayley Mercer pot the game-winner less than a minute in.
• Cornell holds an all-time series lead of 24-16-4. 

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.

We've Been Here Before
• This is the third time that Cornell and Clarkson have met in the ECAC Hockey Championship game.
• In 2010, Cornell topped Clarkson, 4-3, in an overtime tilt at Lynah Rink.
• The teams also met in 2014, with Cornell edging Clarkson, 1-0, at Cheel Arena. 
• The Big Red and Golden Knights have met on two other occasions  in the ECAC Hockey playoffs.
• Cornell upset host Clarkson, 3-1, in the 2015 semifinal round and Clarkson swept Cornell in the 2016 quarterfinal round (2-0, 5-2).

Best of the Big Red Against Clarkson
• Twelve of Cornell's 17 skaters have at least one career point against Clarkson.
• Senior Kaitlin Doering has seven career points against Clarkson on two goals and five assists while classmate Hanna Bunton has two goals and four assist for six points.
•Junior Sarah Knee has three points on three assists while classmate Erin O'Connor has one goal and one assist - as does Brianna Veerman.
• Sophomores Micah Hart and Pippy Gerace, along with freshmen Grace Graham and Amy Curlew, each have one goal while sophomore Lenka Serdar and freshman Jaime Bourbonnais each have two helpers and freshman Kristin O'Neill has one.
• Senior Paula Voorheis is  2-5-2 in her career against the Knights while sophomore Marlene Boissonnault is 1-0-0.

The Big Red in the Championship Game
• Cornell has played in six ECAC Hockey Championship games (2010-15) and won four titles (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014). 
•  The Big Red is 1-1 in title games at Cheel Arena, topping the host Golden Knights, 1-0, in 2014 but falling to Harvard, 7-3, in 2015.

Ivy League Champions
• Cornell clinched the program's 13th Ivy League title with a 5-1 win over Brown on Feb. 11 - by way of its 7-0-3 record and 17 Ivy points.
• It's the first title for Cornell since the 2012-13 season, when it shared it with Harvard, and the first outright title since the 2011-12 season.
• Cornell is the first team to finish the Ivy League slate without a loss since 2009-10, when that Cornell squad also went 8-0-2 for the title. 

Awards Season
• For the seventh time in program history, Cornell swept the major Ivy League awards and also placed six players on All-Ivy squads.
• Senior Hanna Bunton was named the Player of the Year while freshman Kristin O'Neill was tabbed as the Rookie of the Year and Doug Derraugh was named the Coach of the Year.
• Bunton and sophomore Micah Hart were unanimous first-team selections while O'Neill and the goaltending tandem of senior Paula Voorheis and sophomore Marlene Boissonnault were second-team selections and freshman Jaime Bourbonnais earned honorable mention. 
• Derraugh was named the ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year.
• Hart was named first-team All-ECAC while Bunton earned a spot on the third-team and O'Neill and Bourbonnais were given all-rookie team nods.
• Voorheis was named the ECAC Hockey Mandi Schwartz Student-Athlete of the Year.

No Such Thing As A Sophomore Slump
• The five members of Cornell's Class of 2019 have all set career-highs this season.
• Forwards Diana Buckley (7-6—13), Pippy Gerace (5-6—11) and Lenka Serdar (2-10—12) have all hit career highs in points while co-captain Micah Hart has recorded five goals compared to just one a year ago and is second in the nation amongst blueliners in  power-play goals (5).
• In goal, Marlene Boissonnault is 10-1-2 and has a 1.52 goals against average and a .925 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.

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 nine goals and assisted on five others in the last 18 contests while also potting four game-winners during that span.
• The senior scored in four-straight games, which is a career long goal-streak, in those 18 games and her season total of 10 goals is a career high. 
• 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. 

Don't Fall Behind the Big Red
• Cornell is 12-1-2 this season when leading after one period and 15-0-2 when leading after two periods.
• The team has scored first in 20 games this season, going 16-2-2 in those contests. 

Brilliant Bourbonnais
• Cornell is 10-0-3 when freshman Jaime Bourbonnais notches a point and 8-0-1 when she has an assist. 
• She has had two multi-point games this season.
• The defenseman is currently tied for fourth on the team in points with 15 (5-10—15).

The Kids Are Alright
• The Class of 2020, which makes up 37 percent of the roster, has notched 39 percent of Cornell's 203 points this season.
• Of the team's 81 goals, 37 have come from a rookie class that has also put up 79 of the team's 201 points and 42 of the team's 122 assists. 

O'Neill Sets Program 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 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 class (Ohio State's junior class).

Power-Play Prowess 
• On Feb. 18 against Clarkson, Cornell scored three-straight power-play goals in the first period and then finished the game 3-of-7 on the man-advantage. 
• 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 the Big Red went 3-of-7 on the power-play.
• Sophomore Pippy Gerace tallied the third score against both Providence and Vermont.  

Balancing Act
• Cornell had13 different players earn at least one point in its Jan. 10, 7-2 win over Syracuse, marking the first time since an Oct. 28, 2011 9-0 win over Yale that the team had at least 13 different players contribute to the scoresheet. 
• Earning her first career point in the game was senior goaltender Paula Voorheis, who tallied an assist on the Big Red's second goal of the game.
• It was the first time that a Cornell goaltender earned a point since Lauren Slebodnick '15 assisted on a goal in the last game of the 2013-14 season, a 3-2 loss to Mercyhurst in the NCAA Quarterfinal.  

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 518 saves this season in her 19 starts. 

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. 
• Senior Sydney Smith played in her 100th career game on Oct. 22 against Mercyhurst. 
• 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. 

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Preseason Honor
• Sophomore defenseman Micah Hart was named to the preseason All-ECAC team. 
• Cornell last had a representative on the preseason all-conference team prior to the 2014-15 season when both Jill Saulnier and Brianne Jenner were selected.