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With last weekend’s sweep of Northeastern University, the University of Maine women’s hockey team will look to continue their recent success against Quinnipiac on Saturday and Sunday.
The two-game set against the Bobcats will be the Black Bears last game until Jan. 1, when they will take on Yale University at Alfond Arena.
“By beating Northeastern twice over the weekend, it gets us back in the middle of the pack in the conference,” said head coach Guy Perron. “This weekend is certainly another big weekend for us and we have a lot of things on our minds academically and then we will take care of Quinnipiac.”
Outside of seeing the Black Bears go from the bottom of the conference standings to third place, the team also saw its overall record improve. Going into the weekend, the Black Bears will take the ice with an overall record of 6-5-2. The sweep against Northeastern was the team’s second of the year and their first since Wayne State in early November.
As for Quinnipiac, they will take on the Black Bears with a record of 3-11-1. In their last game, the Bobcats were defeated 6-3, by the University of North Dakota. The Bobcats have suffered a loss in their last six games with one of those losses coming against a 7-4 defeat to Hockey East rival Boston College
During their road trip to Boston, the Black Bears not only outscored the Wildcats 6-3, but the also led in shots taking 93 shots on net compared to Northeastern’s 37. Besides getting back in the conference hunt, the Black Bears once again received honors from the Hockey East office on Monday. Sophomores Rachel Gettings and Sonia Corriveau were named to the Hockey East Honor Roll for their performances over the weekend. Gettings stopped 34 shots over the weekend, while Corriveau scored two goals including the overtime-winner in Maine’s 3-2 win.
“The weekend was pretty good for us because now we are third and we’re just going home and then we get to have a break,” said Corriveau who has made the honor roll multiple times this season. “I was just skating and I had the puck and I think we went into a 3-on-1 and shot the puck in the top corner and was surprised it went in.”
After a two-week winter break, the team will start off the new year by playing the Bulldogs. Then after a two-game set with Sacred Heart University at home, the Black Bears will jump right into the thick of things with will play six consecutive road games. Four of those games will come against conference foes Providence College and Hockey East leaders – the University of New Hampshire.
“Its important to keep our workouts going into the break,” said defenseman and co-captain Emily Stevens. “That means eating right and doing the right stuff off the ice and most people may not get the chance to get on the ice and that means making your runs everyday and just making sure to remember a lot of little things.”
