Women’s hockey returns home to face ECAC foes Colgate and Cornell

The No. 8 Harvard women’s hockey team faced, and failed, its first test of the season last Saturday, dropping a 4-2 decision on the road at then-No. 5 St. Lawrence. Now it’s back to quizzes for the Crimson.

Harvard (3-1-0, 3-1-0 ECAC) hosts a pair of traditionally soft conference foes at Bright Hockey Center this weekend. First up is Colgate (2-6-1, 2-0-0) at 7 p.m. tomorrow night. The Raiders, to their credit, knocked off league rivals Brown and Yale two weeks ago and pushed No. 2 Mercyhurst in a pair of non-conference tilts last weekend. The puck drops at 4 p.m. on Saturday, as the Crimson meets Cornell (1-4-1, 1-1-0). The Big Red’s leading scorer, with six points in six games, is freshman Rebecca Flewelling.

Harvard, by contrast, features the two top scorers in the country in senior co-captain Julie Chu (4-11-15) and sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt (8-6-14). Sophomore goalie Brittany Martin is second nationally with a 1.09 goals-against average.

—THE CRIMSON STAFF