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Holy CrossHoly Cross (0-3-1)Women’s vs. Team China Hockey Wednesday, Oct. 18 7:05 p.m. • Hart Center Rink at the Luth Athletic Complex GAMEDAY QUICK FACTS HOLY CROSS TO HOST TEAM CHINA • The Holy Cross women’s hockey team will host Team China Live stats: GoHolyCross.com in an exhibition game on Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 7:05 p.m. @HCrossWHockey RECAPPING DARTMOUTH & NEW HAMPSHIRE • The Crusaders played an exhibition game Friday, Oct. 13 against Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H and lost 3-2 in overtime. • Maeve Reilly and Danielle Doherty found the back of the net for the Crusaders. • On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Crusaders played their first official 2017-2018 SCHEDULE & RESULTS road game against the New Hampshire Wildcats. The Crusad- ers fell 9-1. DATE OPPONENT . TIME / SCORE • Holy Cross’ Amanda Kewer scored for Holy Cross in the first Sept . 24 LAURENTIAN (EXH) . W 7-0 period. Sept . 30 NEPEAN . W 5-2 Oct . 6 RIT . T 2-2 (OT) • Tessie Salatas posted 28 saves for the Crusaders in 60 Oct . 7 RIT . L . 3-2. minutes of play. Oct . 13 at Dartmouth . L 3-2 (OT) Oct . 14 at New Hampshire . L 9-1 Oct . 18 CHINESE NATIONAL TEAM . 7:05 p .m . SCOUTING TEAM CHINA Oct. 20 at Frankline Pierce ...................7:00 p.m. • The Chinese National team has been members of the Inter- Oct . 25 FRANKLIN PIERCE . 7:05 p .m . national Ice Hockey Federation since July 25, 1963. Nov. 3 at St. Michael’s .....................7:00 p.m. Nov. 4 at St. Michael’s .....................7:05 p.m. • There are 294 female hockey players for China Hockey. Nov . 11 SACRED HEART . 2:05 p .m . • St. Anselm faced Team China on Oct. 11 and lost 8-2. Nov . 12 SACRED HEART . 2:05 p .m . • Xin Fang, Jessica Wong and Melanie Jue all scored two Nov. 17 at Harvard..........................6:05 p.m. goals for Team China. Nov . 18 HARVARD . 2:05 .mp . Nov. 24 at Dartmouth. .. .6:00 p.m. • Yuqing Wang recorded 12 saves in the net for Team China. Dec. 8 at Saint Anselm. .. ..7:00 p.m. • Team China is coached by Digit Murphy, who assisted by Rob Jan . 5 POST . .7:05 . p m. Morgan, Sunny Sun and Dan Dan. Jan . 6 POST . .2:05 . p .m . Jan . 13 SAINT ANSELM . 2:05 . p .m . Jan . 19 SAINT MICHAEL’S . 2:05 p .m . HOLY CROSS RETURNEES Jan . 20 SAINT MICHAEL’S . .2:05 p .m . • Fifteen skaters return for the Crusaders in the 2017-18 Jan. 26 at Sacred Heart .....................7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 at Sacred Heart ....................4:00 p.m. season. Feb. 2 at Post .............................8:45 p.m. • Three goalies also return for Holy Cross. Feb. 3 at Post ............................12:45 p.m. • Kara Violette led the team in points (19-16-35) last season. Feb . 9 FRANKLIN PIERCE . 7:05 p .m . Feb. 10 at Franklin Pierce ....................4:00 p.m. • Four of the team’s top five points leaders return. Feb . 16 SAINT ANSELM . 7:05 p .m . • Tessie Salatas played 917:29 minutes between the pipes for Feb. 17 at Saint Anselm......................3:00 p.m. the Crusaders, holding a .928 save percentage in 2016-17 Feb. 23 Open Tournament Semifinals and enters her senior season. Feb. 24 Open Tournament Championship Home games, listed in BOLD CAPS FRESH FACES • Head coach Peter Van Buskirk adds six to the roster for the All times listed are Eastern Time 2017-18 season - two defensemen, three forwards and one goalie. • Allison Attea and Antonia Matzka will join the defensive core. • Katie MacCuaig, Grace Peluso and Mackenzie Griffith join GoHolyCross.com the Crusader offense. games and made 127 saves recording a .927 save percent- • Julia Pelletier joins the Crusaders as a goalie. age. CRUSADER CAPTAINS NEW ADDITIONS TO THE CRUSADER STAFF • Senior Kara Violette continues at the helm of the Crusader • The team welcomes new associate head coach Katie Lacha- leadership, serving as captain for the second consecutive pelle. She came to Holy Cross after nine seasons working as season. Junior Tori Messina has also been named captain an assistant coach at Boston University from 2008-2017. alongside Violette. • Michaela Tosone also joins the staff as the new director of • Junior Sam Girard has been named assistant captain for the operations. Tosone graduated from UMass Amherst where she Crusaders. was a member of the women’s hockey team. TRANSITION TO HOCKEY EAST • The Crusaders will be transistioning from the Division III NEHC into the Division I Women’s Hockey East Conference next year, for the 2018-19 season. • This season, Holy Cross will compete against Hockey East opponent, New Hampshire. In addition, the Crusaders will face Harvard and Dartmouth, who are members of the ECAC. • The Crusaders will also have a mix of matches against Franklin Pierce, Sacred Heart, Post, Saint Michael’s and St. Anselm. • Holy Cross will also host an exhibition game against Team China Oct. 18. IN GOAL FOR THE CRUSADERS • Holy Cross returns three goalies, two of which are dual-sport athletes. • Senior goaltender Tessie Salatas enters the 2017-18 season having played 30 games, amassing 1743:21 minutes of play. She has made 544 saves and faced 589 shots for a career save percentage of .924 and 1.55 goals against average. She has an overall record of 25-4-0. • As a junior, Salatas played in 16 games and went 11-4-0 during the 2016-17 season. • Junior Alex Barnes also returns for the Crusaders. Barnes went 4-0-0 last season recording a .922 save percentage. • Also returning in goal for the Crusaders is sophomore Marcia LaPlante. During the 2016-17 season, LaPlante played in eight CRUSADERS TALE OF THE TAPE TEAM CHINA 2017-18 Stats Stats Against St. Anselm 1 .7 Goals Per Game 8 .0 4 .7 Goals Allowed Per Game 2 .0 26 .3 Shots Per Game 42 3 .7 Penalties Per Game 6 22 .2% Power Play 75% 72 .2%* Penalty Kill GoHolyCross.com Holy Cross Game Results (as of Oct 17, 2017) All games Date Opponent Score Shots Overall Conf Time Att. Goalie of record Oct 06 RIT T o t 2-2 28/26 0-0-1 0-0-0 2:00 312 Julia Pelletier Oct 07 RIT L 2-3 29/31 0-1-1 0-0-0 1:48 239 Tessie Salatas Oct 14 at New Hampshire L 1-9 22/37 0-2-1 0-0-0 2:04 217 Tessie Salatas Team Record W-L-T Attendance Dates Total Avg. Overall: 0-2-1 Total: 3 768 256 Conference: 0-0-0 Home: 2 551 276 Home: 0-1-1 Away: 1 217 217 Away: 0-1-0 Neutral: 0 0 0 Neutral: 0-0-0 Overtime: 0-0-1 GoHolyCross.com 2017-18 Women’s Ice Hockey Statistics Holy Cross Combined Team Statistics (as of Oct 17, 2017) All games Date Opponent Score Att. Record: Overall Home Away Neutral Oct 06 RIT T o t 2-2 312 ALL GAMES 0-2-1 0-1-1 0-1-0 0-0-0 Oct 07 RIT L 2-3 239 CONFERENCE 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 Oct 14 at New Hampshire L 1-9 217 NON-CONFERENCE 0-2-1 0-1-1 0-1-0 0-0-0 TEAM STATISTICS HCW OPP SHOT STATISTICS ## Player gp g a pts sh sh% pen-min pp sh Goals-Shot attempts 5-79 14-94 24 Maeve Reilly 3 2 0 2 12 . 1 6 7 0-0 1 0 Shot pct. .0 6 3 .1 4 9 10 Amanda Kewer 3 1 1 2 6 . 1 6 7 1-2 0 0 G o a ls / G a m e 1.7 4.7 21 Julie Matthias 3 1 1 2 9 . 1 1 1 1-2 1 0 S h o t s / G a m e 26.3 31.3 6 Katie MacCuaig 3 1 0 1 8 . 1 2 5 1-2 0 0 POWER PLAYS 12 Danielle Doherty 3 0 1 1 11 . 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 Goals-Power Plays 2-9 3-11 Conversion Percent . 2 2 2 . 2 7 3 5 Hannah Gillis 3 0 1 1 2 . 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 Shot Attempts 15 15 9 Tori Messina 3 0 1 1 3 . 0 0 0 3-6 0 0 Shot Percent . 1 3 3 . 2 0 0 16 Kara Violette 3 0 1 1 8 . 0 0 0 2-4 0 0 GOAL BREAKDOWN 20 Victoria Young 3 0 1 1 1 . 0 0 0 1-2 0 0 Power Play 2 3 14 Allison Attea 2 0 0 0 1 . 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 S h o r t - h a n d e d 0 0 30 Alex Barnes 1 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 Empty net 0 0 8 Maeve Christ 1 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 P e n a lt y 0 0 U n a s s is t e d 1 0 4 Jackie Gellner 3 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 1-2 0 0 O v e r t im e 0 0 19 Sam Girard 1 0 0 0 3 . 0 0 0 1-2 0 0 S h o o t o u t 0 0 11 Kelsey Goostrey 3 0 0 0 3 .