Clarkson Travels to New England for ECAC Hockey Weekend

Freshman Shea Tiley posted her third shutout of the season in Tuesday's 5-0 win over St. Lawrence - photo by Jim Meagher

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After successfully opening the ECAC Hockey campaign on Tuesday the Clarkson University Women's Hockey team will look to build upon its current overall three-game winning streak as it travels to New England for a pair of conference games this weekend.

Ranked ninth in the country, the Golden Knights, guided by seventh-year head coach Matt Desrosiers and first-year assistants Meghan Duggan and Britni Smith, play Brown in Providence, RI on Friday at 7:00 p.m. and then take on Yale in New Haven, CT Saturday afternoon with a 4:00 p.m. faceoff.

Led by junior captain Shannon MacAulay (Mt. Herbert, PEI) and assistant captains, juniors Erin Ambrose (Keswick, ONT), Renata Fast (Burlington, ONT) and Olivia Howe (Moose Jaw, SASK), the 2014 NCAA National Champions own a 6-3 overall record and have outscored their opponents 34-15 through the first nine games.

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At Cheel Arena on Tuesday, Clarkson gained its fourth shutout of the young season with a 5-0 victory over archrival St. Lawrence to begin defense of its ECAC Hockey Regular Season title. MacAulay tallied the Knights' second hat trick of the season with her first-career three goal effort. Classmate Cayley Mercer (Exeter, ONT) posted one goal and three assists. Freshman goaltender Shea Tiley (Own Sound, ONT) made 19 saves to record her third shutout.

Mercer paces a Clarkson offense that is ranked sixth in the nation, averaging 3.78 goals per game. She has a seven-game point-scoring streak and leads the Green and Gold with 16 points on seven goals and nine assists. Sophomore Genevieve Bannon (Candiac, QUE), named ECAC Player of the Week after her eight-point (3-5) effort in last weekend's sweep of Syracuse (9-0, 4-1), and MacAulay both have 15 points (7-8). Ambrose, a 2014 All-American, and freshman Savannah Harmon (Downers Grove, IL), who was selected as ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week, lead the scoring from the blueline with two goals and four assists each.

The Knights' power play, with a team-high two goals each from Mercer, MacAulay and Howe, is ranked third in the nation, clicking at 32% (8-25).

Tiley is listed among the top 10 goaltenders in the NCAA with a .938 save percentage and a 1.28 goals against average.

Clarkson owns a 14-4-3 all-time record against Brown and is currently working on a 14-game (12-0-2) unbeaten streak against the Bears. Against Yale, the Knights lead their series 14-5-1 and are unbeaten in the last seven games (6-0-1) against the Bulldogs.

Picked to finish 12th in the ECAC Hockey Preseason Coaches' Poll, Brown owns a 0-2 record after opening the season last weekend against RIT at Meehan Auditorium. The Bears dropped their first game on Friday, falling 4-1 and came up short against the Tigers on Saturday, losing 5-2.

Yale is slated to finish 7th in the league by the conference coaches. The Bulldogs opened the 2014-15 campaign with a sweep of Providence College in a home-and-home series. Yale skated past the Friars 6-2 in Rhode Island last Friday and then posted a 5-2 win at Ingalls Rink on Saturday. The Bulldogs host St. Lawrence on Friday prior to hosting the Knights.

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