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Women's Hockey October 8, 2014

Ninth-Ranked Clarkson Visits Providence for Two-Game Series

Clarkson's Captain Shannon MacAulay will lead the Golden Knights against Providence this Saturday and Sunday - photo by Jim Meagher
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After a season-opening weekend split in North Country action against its archrival, the Clarkson University Women's Hockey team takes to the road to battle Providence College on Saturday and Sunday in Rhode Island.  The Golden Knights, guided by seventh-year head coach Matt Desrosiers and first-year assistants Megan Duggan and Britni Smith, will face off against the Friars at Schneider Arena on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. and on Sunday at 3:00 p.m.

Clarkson is coming off a pair of close games against St. Lawrence in a home-and-home series last weekend. The Knights saw a four-game winning streak against the Saints snapped on Friday as St. Lawrence won 5-3, with an empty-netter,  on its home ice in Canton. The Green and Gold came back on Saturday to gain a 2-1 victory before the largest crowd (2,506) ever at Cheel Arena during NCAA Banner Day.
  
•Clarkson was 12-1-1 in road games last year and went 3-0 against Hockey East competition, defeating Providence (5-1, 4-0) and Boston College (3-1) in Potsdam en route to the NCAA Title.
•Junior defender Erin Ambrose, a Top 10 Patty Kazmaier Award finalist and a 2014  first-team All-America, is Clarkson's top returning scorer.  Ambrose tallied the game-winner while on the power play with 1:16 reamin in Saturday's  2-1 victory over SLU. She led Division I in scoring from the blueline last year with 50 points (7 more than any other defender in the country) and was second  among all players in the nation for assists per game with 35.
•Clarkson's captain, junior Shannon MacAulay scored two goals against the Saints on Friday and helped to set up the winning score on Saturday. She leads the team in scoring with three points (2-1).
•Freshman Brielle Bellerive tallied two assists last Friday and classmate  AmandaTitus scored the opening goal in Saturday's win.
•Freshman Goaltender Shea Tiley earned ECAC Hockey weekly Honor Roll mention after a strong start to her collegiate career. She came in off the bench in Friday's game and made 12 saves on 13 shots and followed with 20 stops in Saturday's one-goal win. Tiley holds a .941 save percentage and a 1.34 GAA.
•Clarkson has a three-game winning streak against the Friars and leads the all-time series 5-1-1. The Knights outscored the Friars 9-1 in two games last year.
•The Knights return 14 letterwinners who played key roles in the championship-winning season and have brought in six newcomers to help replace the loss of the graduated veterans.
•Erin Ambrose along with classmates Renata Fast and Shannon MacAulay joined Erica Howe '14 and Jamie Lee Rattray '14 as participants at Canada's National  Women's Team Fall Festival lin late September.
•Providence was shut out in two games at ninth-ranked Mercyhurst last weekend, fallling to the Lakers 3-0 and 2-0 in Erie, PA. Providence defeated the Montreal Stars 4-1 in an exhibition game at Schneider on September 27.
•Clarkson will look to overcome the graduation loss of the talented seven-member Class of 2014, which featured the NCAA Player of the Year, three 100-point scorers, a combined 551 (214-337) career points and the program's all-time winningest goaltender. 
•Shannon MacAulay will serve as Clarkson's captain in 2014-15, while classmates Erin Ambrose, Renata Fast and Olivia Howe will act as assistant captains.
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