Maroon News

Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: Sports

EYES ON THE PRIZE: Despite losing to Princeton, the Raiders are in prime position to grab a top-four seed in the ECACHL.

After a disappointing 0-5-1 start to its season, Colgate notched its first two wins of the year at home against Brown and Yale. Looking to build upon those exciting home victories, the Raiders continued their ECAC conference play with away games against Quinnipiac and Princeton, followed by home games against non-conference Wayne State.

The Raiders looked to start their road conference schedule strong with a game in Hamden, Connecticut against the Quinnipiac Bobcats, who struck early when sophomore forward Brianna Burton dropped the puck to junior defender Trudy Reyns. She than slipped the puck past junior goalie Elayna Hamashuk just under two minutes into the game to give the Bobcats an early lead. The Raiders answered back nine minutes later on a power play when junior co-captain Elin Brown took a pass from classmate Kiira Dosdall and jammed it past Quinnipiac first-year goalie Tia Wishart. Junior forward Sam Hunt scored the only even strength goal of the game four minutes into the second period, with assistance coming from Brown and first-year forward Hannah Milan. The Raiders extended their lead to 3-1 when sophomore forward Katie Stewart scored her first goal of the year on a power play. The Bobcats tried to mount a comeback, getting an unassisted goal from Antoinette Maldonado, but 3-2 was the closest they would get. The Raiders extended their lead in the second period with a power play goal from sophomore forward Bety Rotenberg, her first of the year, and a third period power play goal by Hunt, her fourth. The 5-2 victory was the third-in-a-row for the Raiders and the first of the year from Hamashuk, who made 25 of 27 saves in the win.

The next game featured the suddenly hot Raiders and the always dangerous Princeton Tigers. Despite outshooting the Raiders 14-6 in the first period, the Tigers were only able to get a 1-0 lead when Annie Greenwood pushed Katherine Dineen's rebound past Raiders first-year goalie Lisa Plenderleith. Midway through the second period, the Tigers' Julie Flynn scored a goal to give Princeton a 2-0 lead. The third period was full of back-and-forth action. However, the Tigers struck again, this time by a shorthanded breakaway goal by Brittany Salmon, to make the lead, 3-0 with ten minutes remaining. The Raiders were unable to find the back of net, leading to their first ECAC loss of the year and their sixth overall.

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