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Clarkson Hosts Dartmouth in ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals

By: Feb. 25. 2015
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The Knights celebrated a 3-0 win over Dartmouth at Cheel Arena on November 15 - photo by Jim Meagher

Women's Hockey | 2/25/2015 12:44:00 PM

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By finishing the season with wins in seven of its last eight games, the Clarkson University Women's Hockey team was able to surge into a tie with Harvard to finish as ECAC Hockey regular season co-champions. By virtue of their 1-0-1 record against the Crimson, the Golden Knights will be the top seed in the conference championship and will host eighth-seeded Dartmouth in the best two-out-of-three quarterfinals for the second consecutive year at Cheel Arena.

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Guided by seventh-year head coach Matt Desrosiers and first-year assistants Meghan Duggan and Britni Smith, the Golden Knights finished the regular season with a 22-9-3 overall record and 16-4-2 record in ECAC Hockey play. The Green and Gold are ranked 5th/6th in the latest national polls.

•USCHO.com Poll
•USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll

Junior Cayley Mercer (Exeter, ONT) finished the regular season with a team-leading 38 points. Her 20 goals are the most among Golden Knight skaters while her 18 assists are tied for the team-lead. In a five game stretch between January 31st and February 13th, she scored the game-winning goal in four of the five games Clarkson played. In the 15 games Clarkson has played in the 2015 portion of the schedule, Mercer has tallied 15 points, the most among Clarkson players.

Sophomore Genevieve Bannon (Candiac, QUE) has tallied just seven points in 2015, after picking up 23 before the break, but her 30th and most recent point was one of the most important goals of the season. She scored the overtime goal that delivered a Clarkson win against Dartmouth and kept alive Clarkson's chances at repeating as conference champions. Bannon also leads the team in face-offs taken; winning 299 of the 617 she has taken.

Freshman goaltender Shea Tiley (Owen Sound, ONT) had a very strong February. In the last eight games, she has not allowed more than one goal per contest, with Clarkson winning seven of the eight. Amongst ECAC Hockey goaltenders, she ranks first in goals against average at 1.16 and in save percentage at .948.

Junior captain Shannon MacAulay (Mt. Herbert, PEI), junior assistant captain Olivia Howe (Moose Jaw, SASK), and senior Christine Lambert (Thetford Mines, QUE) are the other forwards to collect more than 20 points this season. MacAulay is second on the team in points with 32, on 16 each of goals and assists. She was especially productive in the first half of the season, racking up 26 points in that span. While MacAulay's pace has slowed a bit in the second half, Howe and Lambert have been there to keep the offense humming.  Howe has 26 points this season, 14 of them in 2015, with Lambert finishing with 20 points, 12 of them after the semester break. In Howe's collegiate career, she has scored 26 goals and 24 of them have come in Clarkson wins. Lambert had a career-high three helpers in consecutive wins over Brown and St. Lawrence earlier this season, as well as a power-play goal to tie the Dartmouth game at 1.

Junior assistant captain Erin Ambrose (Keswick, ONT) and freshman Savannah Harmon (Downers Grove, IL) are the top blue-line scorers with 20 points apiece. Junior captain Renata Fast (Burlington, ONT) is not far behind them with 15 points of her own. Ambrose's career points total has continued to stay at 106 as she has missed the past five games through injury. Harmon is tied for fourth in points among ECAC Hockey rookies. Fast picked up an assist on Bannon's game-winning overtime goal against Dartmouth.

Clarkson has won six of their seven games in the month of February, good for a winning percentage of nearly 86%. That percentage is the best for any month this season.

Dartmouth finished the regular season with a 13-13-2 record overall and a 9-11-2 record in ECAC Hockey play. They finished the regular season on a two-game losing streak, which included the 2-1 overtime defeat at the hands of Clarkson. Clarkson now has a nine game winning streak going against the Big Green, including two wins in last season's ECAC Quarterfinals. In six of those nine wins, Clarkson has been able to shut out Dartmouth. The Green and Gold lead the series 13-10-4 overall.  
 
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Players Mentioned

Erin Ambrose

#23 Erin Ambrose

D
5' 5"
Junior
Genevieve Bannon

#9 Genevieve Bannon

F
5' 8"
Sophomore
Renata Fast

#12 Renata Fast

D
5' 7"
Junior
Olivia Howe

#16 Olivia Howe

F
5' 10"
Junior
Christine Lambert

#22 Christine Lambert

F
5' 8"
Senior
Shannon MacAulay

#4 Shannon MacAulay

F
5' 11"
Junior
Cayley Mercer

#18 Cayley Mercer

F
5' 8"
Junior
Savannah Harmon

#14 Savannah Harmon

D
5' 3"
Freshman
Shea Tiley

#35 Shea Tiley

G
5' 10"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Erin Ambrose

#23 Erin Ambrose

5' 5"
Junior
D
Genevieve Bannon

#9 Genevieve Bannon

5' 8"
Sophomore
F
Renata Fast

#12 Renata Fast

5' 7"
Junior
D
Olivia Howe

#16 Olivia Howe

5' 10"
Junior
F
Christine Lambert

#22 Christine Lambert

5' 8"
Senior
F
Shannon MacAulay

#4 Shannon MacAulay

5' 11"
Junior
F
Cayley Mercer

#18 Cayley Mercer

5' 8"
Junior
F
Savannah Harmon

#14 Savannah Harmon

5' 3"
Freshman
D
Shea Tiley

#35 Shea Tiley

5' 10"
Freshman
G