CHA Women’s Preview:RMU vs Mercyhurst (Feb 29-Mar 1)

The Lady Colonials (12-19-1) are facing off this weekend in a home-at-home series against #7 Mercyhurst (22-7-3), starting tonight. RMU is 0-12 all-time versus the Lady Lakers.

Some Quick Hits:
-5-12 this season on the road
-7-7-1 this season at the Island Sports Center
-outscored opponents 48-39 at home

The Watcher’s eye:
Watching Mercyhurst gives you a chance to see two of the best players to come into women’s hockey out of Canada:Meghan Agosta and Valerie Chouinard. Agosta is currently 4th in the Nation in points (59) and she leads her team in goals (36) and is second in assists (23). Chouinard has posted 43 points on the season tallying 13 goals and 30 assists.

This series has always been dominated by Mercyhurst, but the Lady Colonials have made serious strides in their season as well as the program. It is not hard to say that the Lady Colonials could come away with a huge upset in Erie or at home this weekend, especially with the strong performances against #10 Wayne State two weekends ago.

If you look at the box score from the games early on in the season, especially the games against Mercyhurst, the Lady Colonials were having a hard time getting shots on goal, which ultimately lead to being defeated. Lately however, the Lady Colonials have been a force around the net, not only getting more shots on goal, but limiting their opponents shots. In the win at Wayne State, RMU out shot the Warriors 29-27, winning 2-1, but in the loss the next night (1-2) they were out shot 23-17.

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CHA Men’s Preview:Robert Morris at Niagara (Feb 29-Mar 1)

With the season winding down, the Colonials have two weekend sets of games left on their plate, coming up first, the Niagara Purple Eagles on Friday and Saturday. The Colonials are 2-2 this season against Niagara, with one win on the road. This season the Colonials are 4-2-2 in CHA conference road games, but only 3-4 in non-conference games.

I the two wins versus Niagara, the Colonials have out shot the Purple Eagles in a total of, 151-108 abut have been outscored in a total of, 13-16 in the four games so far this season. It’s great to look at the numbers and see that RMU is skating toe-to-toe with one of the top teams in the nation, but good team or not, you have to put those shots in the net. RMU has been playing well of late, this series is a spirited rivalry and I look forward to hearing the games on the radio and seeing some hard fought hockey.

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RMUColonials.com Press Release

It’s Business Time!

The CHA Tournament is coming up on March 7th & 8th (Women’s Tournament) and March 14th through the 16th (Men’s Tournament) at Niagara University and here is the information about the games.

Men’s Tournament
The Men’s Tournament will be held from March 14th through the 16th at Niagara University. Here is the makeup of the games for the men, starting on the 14th – #4 Seed vs #5 Seed at 7pm. March 15th – #1 Seed vs Winner of #4/#5 game at 2pm and the second game that day is the #2 Seed vs #3 Seed at 7pm. The Championship Game can be seen on CSTV March 16th at 2pm.

Men’s Ticket Order Form found here

Women’s Tournament
The Women’s Tournament will be held from March 7th through March 8th. The games are determined based on who Niagara will play, since they are the home team, they will have the prime spot of a 7pm game on the first day. The first game will be at 3pm. The Championship game will be at 7pm on the 8th.

The games could possibly be Robert Morris vs Wayne State in the first game (#4 Seed vs #1 Seed) and the second game of Mercyhurst vs Niagara (#2 Seed vs #3 Seed). If Wayne State and Mercyhurst sweep their weekend series’ this weekend, Wayne State holds the tie breaker against Mercyhurst for the #1 Seed.

Women’s Ticket Order Form found here

We are hoping to send out a crew from RMU-TV to tape the Men’s Tournament for a re-broadcast in the Moon Township Area.

Check back to Centre Ice for complete tournament coverage soon!

Update: Future of the CHA

I recently emailed members of the CHA conference, specifically the CHA assistant commissioner, Jeff Weiss and I was told that there is no new news for the CHA and that they do not expect to know anything about the CHA’s future until the CHA year-end meetings in April.

Hopefully good news is to come.

The Bigger they are, the harder they fall: WSU tops #7 Mercyhurst

The Wayne State Lady Warriors defeated Mercyhurst this weekend in a spirited battle for a 3-2 win in overtime.

Check out the Press Release on the game

The CHA Standings look like this:

                         Conference Only                                    Pts  GP  Record  Win%  GF- GA  1 Mercyhurst        15  10  7- 2- 1 .750  42- 16* Wayne State       15  10  7- 2- 1 .750  34- 233 Niagara            6  10  3- 7- 0 .300  17- 374 Robert Morris      4  10  2- 8- 0 .200  17- 34

(source: collegehockeystats.net)

The Warriors now have three players at the top of the Conference points standings:

Point Scoring:                                     GP     PPG    G- A- P1   Melissa Boal       Wayne State      JR F       28    2.25   31-32-63*   Sam Poyton         Wayne State      JR F       30    2.10   35-28-633   Lindsay DiPietro   Wayne State      JR F       30    2.03   16-45-61

(source: collegehockeystats.net)

Here are the rankings as of 2/25/08:

Rank	School	W-L	Points	Prev
1	Harvard (10)	25-1-0	145	1
2	UNH (5)	28-3-1	135	2
3	UMD	27-4-1	124	3
4	Minnesota	25-5-4	98	4
5	Wisconsin	24-7-3	88	5
6	St. Lawrence	25-8-1	85	6
7	Mercyhurst	22-7-3	50	7
8	UConn	22-5-5	49	8
9	Clarkson	22-7-5	27	9
10	Dartmouth	16-7-6	17	10

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: Wayne State 6, Providence 1
(source: CSTV)

Neither seen nor heard: Captain Kristen Miles

For the last three games, team captain Kristen Miles has been a healthy scratch. On November 3rd, when RMU played Sacred Heart at home, Coach Handrahan told our production crew that it was a “coach’s decision” as to why Miles was scratched, as well as alluding to her not practicing hard enough during the week.

Prior to Kristen sitting out these last three games, between the dates of December 30th and February 15th (her last 10 games), Miles has 6 points (5 goals and 1 assist) and has averaged 2.9 shots a game.

Kristen’s last game, the win at #10 Wayne State on February 15th, she had no shots on goal, she only won 6 of her 18 face-offs, but she did not commit a penalty.

Hopefully we can hear back soon from Coach Handrahan on Kristen’s status, whether it is an injury or a coaches decision.

Neither seen nor heard: Captain Kristen Miles

For the last three games, team captain Kristen Miles has been a healthy scratch. On November 3rd, when RMU played Sacred Heart at home, Coach Handrahan told our production crew that it was a “coach’s decision” as to why Miles was scratched, as well as alluding to her not practicing hard enough during the week.

Prior to Kristen sitting out these last three games, between the dates of December 30th and February 15th (her last 10 games), Miles has 6 points (5 goals and 1 assist) and has averaged 2.9 shots a game.

Kristen’s last game, the win at #10 Wayne State on February 15th, she had no shots on goal, she only won 6 of her 18 face-offs, but she did not commit a penalty.

Hopefully we can hear back soon from Coach Handrahan on Kristen’s status, whether it is an injury or a coaches decision.

Hobey Baker Tracker

Maybe this will light a fire under someone’s ass…cough cough..(Cruthers). The latest top 3 and potential “outsiders looking in,” on InsideCollegeHockey.com, came out last tuesday, and Ryan Cruthers of RMU has dropped from their list. Ryan hasn’t gone cold, but it seems to be that other players have been heating up for their teams in the final stretch of the season.

If Robert Morris looks to make an impact going into the CHA tournament, they need to look to Ryan Cruthers’ stick to heat up on the offensive zone. Shots, shots and more shots Ryan…non-alcoholic preferably.

Check it out here: Hobey Tracker

*credit the photo to rmucolonials.com

USCHO/CSTV College Hockey Poll: Feb 18

Here is what the Poll looks like right now, but let’s remember, Michigan got crushed once this past weekend to Michigan State, but this did win last night.

Look who is still sitting at no.20….damn Purple Eagles

	Team	(First Place Votes)	Record	Points	Last Poll
1	Michigan	(48)	25- 3-4	998	1
2	North Dakota	( 2)	19- 8-2	952	3
3	New Hampshire		19- 7-2	876	4
4	Colorado College		21- 8-1	843	5
5	Miami		25- 6-1	828	2
6	Michigan State		20- 8-5	715	8
7	Boston College		16- 7-7	685	7
8	Denver		19-10-1	663	6
9	Notre Dame		21-10-3	557	9
10	Wisconsin		14-12-6	504	10
11	Minnesota State		16-11-4	484	13
12	Clarkson		17-10-3	469	11
13	Minnesota-Duluth		12-10-6	424	12
14	Northeastern		14-11-3	259	15
14	Providence		13-11-4	259	14
16	St. Cloud State		14-13-3	255	19
17	Princeton		15-10-0	251	17
18	Mass.-Lowell		13-11-4	139	18
19	Quinnipiac		17- 9-4	116	16
20	Niagara		16- 8-4	62	20

Others Receiving Votes: Minnesota 48, Michigan Tech 24, Harvard 16, Massachusetts 11, Army 10, Ferris State 10, Cornell 8, Boston University 7, Union 7, Nebraska-Omaha 6, Bemidji State 4, Air Force 2, Bowling Green 2, Colgate 2, RIT 2, Yale 2

Source: USCHO.com

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