The women advanced to the frozen four of the NCAA tournament with a triple overtime win over Boston University. The game was a national quarterfinal, with each team’s season, and a chance to go to the Frozen Four, on the line.
The 1980s band Tears for Fears once sang that “everybody wants to rule the world.” The Cornell women’s hockey team will begin its journey to rule the ECACHL this weekend when it hosts Brown on Friday night and Yale on Saturday afternoon. It will be the first ECACHL games of the season for the Red (0-1-1, 0-0-0 ECACHL), who will look to rebound after last weekend’s tie and loss to Niagara.
As potential men’s hockey ticket holders camped out down the hall, the women’s hockey team defeated the Durham Junior West, 4-1, avenging its 2-1 loss to Durham Saturday night.
The Lighting is a youth club team that plays in Ontario’s Provincial Women’s Hockey League, Intermediate AA level — Canada’s best junior league, according to Cornell head coach Doug Derraugh ’91. Durham is comprised of high school sophomores, juniors and seniors.