The Cornell women's ice hockey hosts Dartmouth and #9 Harvard for a weekend of Ivy League play.
Dartmouth
• The Big Green started its season right off with an ECAC Hockey game against Harvard (10/25). Beginning with the 7-4 loss against the Crimson, Dartmouth went 4-7-2 in the first half of the season. In double overtime, the Big Green beat Brown 3-2 (11/2). A two-game series against non-conference opponent RIT brought a 1-1 weekend on Nov. 15-16. Similarly, Dartmouth split Thanksgiving weekend with Maine. In both split weekends, the Big Green lost on Friday and won on Saturday. Dartmouth closed 2019 with a win against Franklin Pierce on Dec. 13. Since the start of 2020, the Big Green beat Rensselaer (1/3), tied Union (1/4), and lost to #7 Princeton (1/10) and Quinnipiac (1/11).
• Freshman forward CC Bowlby and sophomore forward Gabby Billing lead the team with 13 points each. Bowlby has seven goals and six assists while Billing has five goals and eight assists.
• The first-year is the team's leader in goals with her most recent score being the lone goal against Quinnipiac (1/11).
• The second-year player leads the team in assists. She has had three multi-point games on the season. Her most recent game with points was against Union (1/4). She scored two goals in the 3-3 tie.
• Billing and Bowlby are currently tied for 94th in the nation in points per game (.76), while Bowlby is 60th in goals per game (.41) and Billing is tied for 94th in assists per game (.47).
• Bowlby's .76 points per game ranks 13th in the nation among freshman. Fellow classmate Catherine Trevors follows in 25th with .59 points per game.
• Sophomore Lotti Odnoga leads the defense with .50 points per game (1-7-8) which is good for 46th among all defenders in the nation.
• Freshman Hannah Humphreys leads the goalies with 15 starts for 941:55. With 370 saves and 45 goals against, Humphreys has a .892 save percentage and a 2.87 goals against average. Her goals against average is 32nd in the nation and her save percentage is 44th.
• As a team, the Big Green is 31st in the nation in scoring offense (2.06), 28th in scoring defense (3.00) and 30th in scoring margin (-0.94).
• Dartmouth's power-play team ranks 25th in the nation (14.3%) and the penalty kill team is 26th with a 82.1% kill rate.
The Series
• The Big Green has the slight 42-38-7 edge in the series that dates back to the 1978-79 season, but the Big Red has dominated the series in recent years.
• Cornell currently owns an eight-game win streak in the series and is unbeaten in 14 of the last 15 games with a mark of 13-1-1.
• Last year, the Big Red closed the season with two shutouts against Dartmouth. On Oct. 27, 2018, Cornell earned its first shutout of the season with a 4-0 victory. Seniors
Kristin O'Neill,
Jaime Bourbonnais and
Micah Zandee-Hart scored the first three goals, while
Pippy Gerace '19 sealed the win with a fourth tally. O'Neill led the team with three points in the game. On Jan. 18, 2019, seniors
Paige Lewis and
Jaime Bourbonnais each scored a goal, as well as
Lenka Serdar '19, to aid in the 3-0 win. • Sophomore
Gillis Frechette led with two points on two assists against the Big Green.
2019-20 Dartmouth Women's Ice Hockey Head Coach
Head Coach: Laura Schuler (Northeastern '94)
Record at Dartmouth: 17-51-6
Overall Record: 17-51-6
2019-20 Dartmouth Women's Ice Hockey Information
2018-19 Record: 5-21-3
Home / Away: 4-9-2 / 1-12-1
2018-2019 ECAC Hockey Record / Finish: 4-16-2 / 10th
Dartmouth Women's Ice Hockey Historical Information
First Year of Women's Ice Hockey: 1977-78
Overall All-Time Record: 645-443-72
Overall ECAC Hockey Record: 356-245-49
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 8 (last in 2011)
Frozen Four Appearances: 4 (last in 2005)
NCAA Titles: 0
Harvard
• Harvard is ranked #9 by both the USCHO.com and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine.
• The Crimson began ECAC Hockey play right away against Dartmouth on Oct. 25 with a 7-4 win. Harvard continued with four more wins against Brown (11/1), Yale (11/2), #7 Princeton (11/8) and Quinnipiac (11/9) before entering play outside of the league. In its four non-conference games, the Crimson fell to Boston University (11/19), New Hampshire (11/23), #2 Wisconsin (11/29) and #1 Minnesota (11/30) to close November. Harvard closed 2019 with three wins against Yale (12/6), Brown (12/7) and #9 Boston College (12/31).
• Since the beginning of 2020, Harvard is 2-1-1 with wins against Union (1/3) and Rensselaer (1/4), a loss to Quinnipiac (1/10), and a tie against #7 Princeton (1/11). The Crimson is 9-1-1 in ECAC Hockey games and 10-5-1 overall.
• Sophomore forward Dominique Petrie leads the team with 26 points on 12 goals and 14 assists. 22 of her points were notched in her seven multi-point games. Most recently, Petrie scored two goals in the 3-3 tie against Princeton (1/11).
• Petrie is ninth in the nation in points per game (1.62) and in goals per game (.75), and 14th in assists per game (.88).
• Sophomore forward Kristin Della Rovere follows with 20 points on 13 goals and seven assists.
• Della Rovere has collected a points in 12 of the 16 games she has played, with six multi-point games. She most recently assisted two goals against Princeton (1/11). She leads the team with four game-winning goals.
• Della Rovere is ranked fourth in the nation in goals per game (.81) and tied for 22nd in the nation in points per game (1.25).
• Outside of the team's top two point-leaders, the Crimson has five more student-athletes in the nation's top-100 for points per game, two more for goals per game, and a total of five for assists per game.
• Senior defender Ali Pepper leads the Crimson defense in points (12). She currently sits in 21st-place with .75 assists per game in the nation.
• Sophomore Lindsay Reed leads the goalies with 13 starts for 785:01 in goal. With 414 saves and 37 goals against, Reed has a .918 save percentage and 2.83 goals against average. The 2019 Second Team All-ECAC Hockey's goals against average ranks 31st in the country while her save percentage is good for 21st.
• As a team, the Crimson is seventh in the nation in scoring offense (3.56), 22nd in scoring defense (2.56) and 11th in scoring margin (1.00).
• Harvard's power-play team ranks eighth in the nation (20.0%) and the penalty kill team is 26th with a 79.2% kill rate.
The Series
• Harvard leads the overall series 56-31-6, which dates back to the 1981-82 season.
• The Big Red enjoyed success in recent years with a seven-game unbeaten streak against the Crimson with four wins and two ties.
• Last year, the Big Red won both games in the series. On Oct. 26, 2018, Cornell went two-for-two on the power play for the first two goals of the game. Seniors
Grace Graham and
Jaime Bourbonnais each earned a goal before fellow classmate
Paige Lewis sunk a puck in the net for the game-winning third goal in the 3-2 win. On Jan. 19, 2019, the Big Red took down the Crimson in a 6-0 shutout. Junior
Maddie Mills earned her first career hat trick while senior
Grace Graham,
Lenka Serdar '19 and
Pippy Gerace '19 contributed the other three goals.
2019-20 Harvard Women's Ice Hockey Head Coach
Head Coach: Katey Stone (New Hampshire '89)
Record at Harvard: 486-244-54
Overall Record: 486-244-54
2019-20 Harvard Women's Ice Hockey Information
2018-19 Record: 12-15-5
Home / Away: 8-7-0 / 4-8-5
2018-2019 ECAC Hockey Record / Finish: 9-9-4 / 7th
Harvard Women's Ice Hockey Historical Information
First Year of Women's Ice Hockey: 1978-79
Overall All-Time Record: 688-402-70
Overall ECAC Hockey Record: 399-194-51
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 11 (last in 2015)
Frozen Four Appearances: 6 (last in 2015)
NCAA Titles: 0