HAMILTON – Junior goaltender Julia Vandyk (Cambridge, Ontario) tied the Colgate record with her 35th career win Saturday to lift the No. 5/5 Raiders past Quinnipiac 4-1 at the Class of 1965 Arena.
Veteran performers Jessie Eldridge (Barrie, Ontario), Bailey Larson (Sycamore, Ill.), Annika Zalewski (New Hartford, N.Y.) and Shae Labbe (Calgary, Alberta) all found the net to provide Colgate’s scoring punch. The Raider quartet tallied in successive fashion during a 12-minute stretch of the second and third periods.
Colgate completed a weekend ECAC Hockey sweep with victories over nemesis programs Princeton and Quinnipiac. Coming into Friday’s play, Princeton carried a six-game winning streak over the Raiders and Quinnipiac was 11-1-1 against Colgate since November 2010.
But Colgate improved to 8-0-0 at home and sits in a four-way tie for first place in the early ECAC Hockey standings at 3-1-0.
31885Vandyk’s victory ties the junior with Rebecca Lahar ’05 for most goalie wins in program history. Saturday was Vandyk’s 54th game as a Raider. Her career record improves at 35-13-5.
Bottom Line
• Colgate 4, Quinnipiac 1
Won-Lost Records
• Colgate is now 9-1-0 overall and 3-1-0 in ECAC Hockey.
• Quinnipiac drops 5-6-0 and 1-3-0.
Scoring Recap
• After 30 scoreless minutes, Eldridge broke the deadlock with her seventh goal of the season. That ties her with Malia Schneider (Millarville, Alberta) for the team lead. Assists went to Olivia Zafuto (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) and Labbe.
• Larson scored just 50 seconds later, her fourth of the season. Megan Sullivan (Toronto) and Breanne Wilson-Bennett (Markham, Ontario) assisted on the play.
• With less than a minute remaining in the second period, Zalewski scored her second goal of the season on assists from Livia Altmann (Arosa, Switzerland) and Shelby Perry (Elginburg, Ontario).
31886• Colgate made it 4-0 in the third period when Labbe scored her fifth of the season on Schneider’s assist.
• Quinnipiac put its only goal of the game past Vandyk with Kenzie Prater’s power-play tally at 4:34 of the third.
Facts & Figures
• Saturday marked Greg Fargo’s 300th game as a head coach covering 10 seasons. Fargo went 85-23-5 in four year at Division III Elmira and is now 81-89-17 in his sixth season with the Raiders.
• This year’s 9-1-0 start has Fargo 53-21-10 (.690) over his last three seasons.
• Labbe posted the Raiders’ only multipoint game, her third of the season. She registered one goal and one assist.
• Eldridge with her goal moved into a tie for 11th in program history with 76 career points. The junior has 29 goals and 47 assists.
• Of Colgate’s six goals for the weekend, five were scored by either seniors or juniors.
• Schneider stretched her point streak to nine games with her third-period assist. After failing to score in her collegiate debut Oct. 6 against St. Cloud State, Schneider has seven goals and four assists.
From the Source
31887• Colgate head coach Greg Fargo: (On his team leaders) “For the most part they’ve been fantastic. We challenged our veterans after yesterday to bring it to another level and to start the game the right way, and they did that. We played well in the first period – didn’t score, but had a lot of great looks. That carried us right into the second where we were able to take advantage of some of the opportunities we got. I’m really pleased with the effort from the team and by our upperclassmen leading the way tonight.”
(On knocking off Princeton and Quinnipiac) “You know this weekend on the schedule you’re going to get back to back tough games from both Princeton and Quinnipiac. Coming into this season, before we started playing games, we talked about these being some really important games in league play. To know that we can play well against these two teams gives us a lot of confidence moving forward, and we’re just going to continue to get better. It’s a good step in the right direction, taking care of business this weekend. But we want to keep getting better as the year goes on.”
Gate Grab Bag
• Attendance at the Class of 1965 Arena was 313.
Up Next
• Colgate returns to the road next weekend at New Hampshire.
• The Wildcats are 6-1-3 and could move into the top-10 rankings after a tie and win this weekend at Vermont.
• Start time Friday from the Whittemore Center is 2 p.m., with UNH Wildcat Productions carrying the livestream.
