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GAME ONE // SATURDAY, MARCH 6 // 5:00 PM GAME 2 // SUNDAY, MARCH 7 // 1:30 PM |
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BOSTON – Suffolk women's hockey is set for a full weekend of action with a home-and-home series with Endicott. The Rams will first travel to the Gulls Saturday, March 6 for a night game at 5 p.m., before playing in the friendly confines of Louis E. Porrazzo Memorial Skating Rink the next day, Sunday, March 7 at 1:30 p.m.
SPECTATOR SECTION
With a strict no spectator policy set for the 2020-21 athletic season, here's how fans can follow Suffolk game-day action.
| GAME 1 - SATURDAY, MARCH 6 | GAME 2 - SUNDAY, MARCH 7 | |||||
| Broadcast | Endicott Stretch | Suffolk Stretch | ||||
| Statistics | Live Stats | Live Stats | ||||
| GoSuffolkRams | GoSuffolKRams | |||||
SOCIAL SAYINGS
Ram Nation has a chance to keep up with all the latest news and notes on Suffolk Athletics, its student-athletes and teams by following the Rams on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Fans are encouraged to use the hashtag #RamNation a behind-the-scene look at Suffolk Athletics.
For an insider look at Suffolk women's hockey, Ram Nation can subscribe to @su_whockey on Instagram and Twitter.
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LAST TIME OUT
For the first time in program history Suffolk women's hockey got out of the gate in the win column as five different Rams found the back of the net to power the blue-and-gold to a 5-3 victory over Nichols Feb. 26 at Louis E. Porrazzo Memorial Skating Rink.
MORE READING: Women's Hockey Starts Strong, Downs Nichols, 5-3
RAMS RUNDOWN
Five Rams – Shana Cote, Cassidy Gruning, Meagan MacNeil, Stephanie Moy and Julia Volpe – scored one goal in the season opener to help Suffolk begin the year 1-0 for the first time in program history. A trio of blue-and-gold skaters have two points on their stat line. Maddy Burton's is off a team-best two helpers, while Gruning's and Volpe's point production is the same with one marker and one handout.
Lily O'Neil was the force in net in game one. In her collegiate debut the freshman goalie turned aside 21 shots to enter the weekend with a .875 save percentage.
GET TO KNOW THE GULLS
Endicott will open its shortened season with Suffolk. The Gulls are coming off a championship campaign in which it raised its second straight CHC banner behind a 16-0 league ledger and 25-2 overall record. Endicott was set to compete against Middlebury in the quarterfinals in the NCAA Division III women's ice hockey tournament, but the season was cut short due to the decision to cancel all NCAA winter and spring championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Statistically speaking, the Gulls lead the nation in power play percentage last season, converting 33 percent of its man-up opportunities. The near 95-goal offense welcomes back one of its leading ladies in Courtney Sullivan. The forward is to the top returner in goals (15) and assists (11). Ashlie Jones (12g, 8a) and Madison Hentosh (10a) were consistent contributors offensively last season for Endicott as well.
In between the posts the Gulls return to goalies in Michaela O'Brien and Bailey Thieben. O'Brien, who saw action in six games, is coming off a 1.13 GAA and .956 save percentage season, while Thieben assembled a 1.00 GAA and .948 save percentage in three contests a year back.
INSIDE THE SERIES
- Suffolk and Endicott will tangle for the first time.
EYES ON THE GAME
RAMS OF THE WEEK
In lieu of the cancelation of the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) 2020-21 winter season, Suffolk Athletics is proud to unveil our "Ram of the Week" Award, which will be presented every Monday to one student-athlete from the teams that competed over the last week, voted by Ram Nation via Twitter poll.
Women's hockey's junior Julia Volpe garnered 40.2 percent of the 82 votes to pick up the first honor after her two-point effort, which included the game-winning goal, in the season debut.
MORE READING: Volpe Wins Vote, Named Inaugural Ram of the Week
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