2005-06 SEASON in REVIEW
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Lindsay Williams serves as Clarkson's captain for the third consecutive year in 2005-06. 2005-06 SEASON in REVIEW ith a couple of favorable bounces of the puck in playoffs and took the eventual ECACHL Tourna- Wlate February and early March, a very good season for ment Champions to the limit. After falling 1-0 in game the Clarkson Women’s Hockey team could have turned 1 of the best-of-three game series, Clarkson downed into an amazing run for the emerging Division I team. Harvard 2-1 in overtime in game 2 before the Crimson In only its third year as an NCAA program, Clarkson, once again edged the Knights, 2-1 in double overtime guided by head coach Rick Seeley and assistant coaches of the deciding third game on March 5. Shannon Smith and Laura Hays, made great strides Juniors, captain Lindsay Williams and assistant cap- in establishing itself as one of the premier teams in the tains Christine Bailkowski, Emma Madigan and Ashley nation during the 2005-06 campaign. Shaidle led a young Clarkson squad, without any seniors Ranked among the Top 10 teams in the country through- on the roster, which gained the respect from every team it out the majority of the season, Clarkson skated to a 22- faced for its disciplined, hard-working style of play. 14-1 overall record and finished in a three-way tie for The first ever all-star for Clarkson, Kira Hurley third place in the ECACHL with a 12-8 conference mark. backboned the Knights in goal during their breakout season The Knights came within a second of clinching a coveted and earned numerous accolades in the process, including home-ice berth in the playoffs before Harvard rallied back second-team All-America and the ECACHL Goaltender of to edged the Green and Gold 3-2 in overtime at Cheel Arena the Year. Hurley anchored one of the stingiest defenses in in the final game of the regular season on February 25. the country and posted an NCAA-high 10 shutouts. She Clarkson faced off again against the Crimson the following boasted a .937 save percentage and a 1.29 goals against week in Cambridge, Mass. during the first round of the league average en route to a 21-12-1 record. Game #1 (October 7, 2005) - Att: 75 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Game #2 (October 8, 2005) - Att: 101 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Game #3 (October 14, 2005) - Att: 378 Gutterson Fieldhouse, Burlington, VT Gutterson Fieldhouse, Burlington, VT Cheel Arena, Potsdam, NY Final Score: CLARKSON 3 - Vermont 1 Final Score: CLARKSON 2 - Vermont 0 Final Score: Mercyhurst 2 - Clarkson 1 Jessica Cloutier scored twice in the season- Freshman Micheleen Devine scored her first With two goals in a span of just 2:36, Mercyhurst debut as the Golden Knights beat former ECACHL career goal, which turned out to be the game- College ended Clarkson's modest two-game win- foe Vermont 3-1 on the road to start their third winner, as Clarkson, behind 17 saves from Kira ning streak to open the season as the Golden season. The Catamounts enjoyed a 1-0 lead for Hurley, shut out Vermont for the fourth time in Knights dropped their home-opener to the the first time in the past four meetings against their past five meetings. Though Clarkson domi- eighth-ranked Lakers at Cheel Arena. After a Clarkson with the first goal of the game at 14:44 nated play in the opening period with a 13-7 shot scoreless first period, Clarkson struck first as of the opening period. The advantage was advantage, the Golden Knights didn’t score until freshman Marie-Jo Gaudet tallied her first col- shortlived, however, as Cloutier scored the fifth the second period when Devine came through legiate goal, unassisted at 2:38 of the middle frame. goal of her career with an unassisted marker at with an unassisted marker at 10:46. Ashley Clarkson held the lead for the next 11 minutes 16:23 in the first period. Clarkson began to take Shaidle picked up an insurance goal late in the before a penalty ended the Knights’ advantage. control in the second period with a 12-9 advan- stanza with Brooke Beazer and Marie-Jo The Lakers scored one minute into their power- tage in shots, leading to what would prove to be Gaudet assisting. play to tie the game at 13:10. Mercyhurst didn’t the game-winning goal from Melissa Marshall wait much longer as the Lakers scored their sec- at 12:30 of the period. Meghan Park assisted Score by Periods ond goal just two and a half minutes later at 15:56. on the game-winning goal. The Knights added a CLARKSON (2-0-0) 0 2 0 x — 2 Kira Hurley finished with 27 saves for Clarkson. third goal in the final period with Cloutier scor- Vermont (0-2-0) 0 0 0 x — 0 ing her second goal at 13:42, a power-play Score by Periods marker, with the assist going to Katie Morrison. 1st: No scoring Mercyhurst (2-1-0) 0 2 0 x — 2 Kira Hurley made 25 saves. 2nd: CU-Devine-1; 10:46 CLARKSON (2-1-0) 0 1 0 x — 1 CU-Shaidle-1 (Beazer, Gaudet); 17:58 Score by Periods ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 3rd: No scoring ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 1st: No scoring CLARKSON (1-0-0) 1 1 1 x — 3 Penalties: Clarkson 8/16, Vermont 7/14 2nd: CU-Gaudet-1; 2:38 Vermont (0-1-0) 1 0 0 x — 1 Power Plays: Clarkson 0-7, Vermont 0-8 MC-Chouinard-2 (Bonello, Jones), ppg; 13:10 Svs: CU (Hurley - 60:00) 7-4-6 =17 MC-Shirley-2 (Erickson, Fraser); 15:56 1st: VER-Williams-1 (Worzella, Hudspeth); 14:44 VER (Siegl - 58:59) 13-6-6 =25 3rd: No scoring CU-Cloutier-1; 16:23 Penalties: Clarkson 6/12, Mercyhurst 5/10 2nd: CU-Marshall-1 (Park); 12:30 Power Plays: Clarkson 0-5, Mercyhurst 1-6 3rd: CU-Cloutier-2 (Morrison), ppg; 13:42 Svs: CU (Hurley - 59:13) 8-10-9 =27 Penalties: Clarkson 3/6, Vermont 5/10 MC (Hosier - 60:00) 4-3-5 =12 Power Plays: Clarkson 1-5, Vermont 0-3 Svs: CU (Hurley - 60:00) 8-9-8 =25 VER (Siegl - 58:59) 4-11-12 =27 Micheleen Devine highlighted a brilliant offensive outing in the ECACHL-opening win over Union (10/29) with two goals and three assists. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Game #4 (October 14, 2005) - Att: 329 Game #5 (October 21, 2005) - Att: 171 Game #7 (October 29, 2005) - Att: 105 Cheel Arena, Potsdam, NY City Sports Arena, Detroit, MI Messa Rink, Schenectady, NY Final Score: Mercyhurst 6 - Clarkson 0 Final Score: CLARKSON 2 - Wayne State 0 Final Score: CLARKSON 8 - Union 0 After proving a worthy adversary in a one-goal Christine Bailkowski scored her first goal of Micheleen Devine highlighted a brilliant of- game on Friday, Clarkson struggled against eighth- the season and 12th of her career on a pass from fensive outing in the ECACHL-opening win over ranked Mercyhurst in game two of their weekend Katie Morrison just 95 seconds into the game Union with two goals and three assists. Melissa series on Saturday. The Lakers jumped on for all the scoring the Golden Knights would need Marshall chipped in one goal and two assists, Clarkson early with a 12-1 shot advantage through in their weekend series opener at Wayne State. while Jessica Cloutier and freshman Kelsey the first 20 minutes with three of those on-goal Kira Hurley was strong in goal for Clarkson, Fletcher added a goal and an assist each. Kira attempts making it past Knights’ goaltender Kira stopping all 17 shots by the Warriors for her Hurley made 10 saves in the shutout. Chris- Hurley. A goalie change by Clarkson after the second shutout of the season and the ninth of her tina Valesente and Amanda Dittmer notched first period did little to end the Lakers domi- career. Andrea Maluta added an unassisted in- their first goals of the season. nance as they out shot the Knights 11-4 in the surance goal midway through the third as the Green second stanza and 11-3 in the third period while and Gold snapped a three-game winless skid Score by Periods putting three more goals on the scoreboard. Hurley against Wayne State. CLARKSON (4-2-1, 1-0-0) 2 4 2 x — 8 made nine saves in the opening 20 minutes and Union (0-3-0, 0-1-0) 0 0 0 x — 0 Stephanie Hansen closed out the final two pe- Score by Periods riods by making 19 saves and allowing three goals. CLARKSON (3-2-0) 1 0 1 x — 2 1st: CU-Marshall-2 (Cloutier); 10:32 Wayne State (0-4-1) 0 0 0 x — 0 CU-Fletcher-1 (Devine, Marshall); 12:43 Score by Periods 2nd: CU-Devine-2; 2:43 Mercyhurst (3-1-0) 3 1 2 x — 6 1st: CU-Bailkowski-1 (Morrison); 1:35 CU-Valesente-1 (Marshall, Devine); 8:35 CLARKSON (2-2-0) 0 0 0 x — 0 2nd: No scoring CU-Cloutier-3 (Devine, Morrison), ppg; 11:01 3rd: CU-Maluta-1; 11:17 CU-Devine-3, shg; 17:49 1st: MC-Unruh-1 (Chouinard, Jones); 11:11 Penalties: Clarkson 3/6, Wayne State 4/8 3rd: CU-Dittmer-1 (Fletcher); 18:51 MC-Chouinard-3 (Jones, Unruh); 14:55 Power Plays: Clarkson 0-4, Wayne State 0-3 CU-Shaidle-3 (McKenney, Bailkowski), MC-Colizza-1 (Kurth, Lansing); 16:14 Svs: CU (Hurley - 60:00) 4-7-6 =17 ppg; 19:56 2nd: MC-Pendeleton-1 (Nugent); 12:55 WS (Turcotte - 59:09) 8-8-8 =24 Penalties: Clarkson 2/4, Union 5/10 3rd: MC-Shirley-3 (Erickson); 8:37 Power Plays: Clarkson 2-5, Union 0-2 MC-Colizza-1 (Law, Bourneau); 16:34 Game #6 (October 22, 2005) - Att: 81 Svs: CU (Hurley - 60:00) 3-5-2 =10 Penalties: Clarkson 4/8, Mercyhurst 3/6 City Sports Arena, Detroit, MI UN (Zirbel - 60:00) 15-8-18 =41 Power Plays: Clarkson 0-3, Mercyhurst 0-4 Final Score: CLARKSON 1 - Wayne State 1ot Svs: CU (Hurley - 20:00) 9-x-x =9 Game #8 (October 30, 2005) - Att: 97 CU (Hansen - 40:00) x-10-9 =19 Despite an overwhelming offensive effort where Messa Rink, Schenectady, NY MC (Hosier - 50:33) 1-4-1 =6 the Green and Gold enjoyed a 35-14 shot ad- Final Score: CLARKSON 8 - Union 0 MC (Drennen - 9:27) x-x-2 =2 vantage, Clarkson had to battle from behind to gain the tie.