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Four Ivy Teams Move On to ECAC Men's Hockey Tournament Quarterfinals
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Harvard was the lone Ivy League team to survive the first-round series of the 2011 ECAC Men's Hockey Championship, upsetting seventh-seeded Clarkson on the road. The Crimson joins No. 2 Yale, No. 3 Dartmouth and No. 4 Cornell in the best-of-three quarterfinal round March 11-13.
Harvard travels to New Haven, Conn., to take on three-time defending Ivy champion Yale while Dartmouth hosts 11th-seeded St. Lawrence, which upset No. 6 Princeton, and Cornell welcomes fifth-seeded Colgate. Every game in all four quarterfinal series begin at 7 p.m.
Princeton won 4-1 in the first game of the best-of-three first-round series with St. Lawrence but the Saints bounced back with consecutive one-goal wins at upend the sixth-seeded Tigers. Brown, the tournament's No. 9 seed, was held scoreless in back-to-back 4-0 losses to eighth-seeded Quinnipiac.
2011 ECAC MEN'S ICE HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
FIRST ROUND (Best-of-three)
Friday, March 4 - Sunday, March 6
No. 11 ST. LAWRENCE at No. 6 PRINCETON
Princeton 4, St. Lawrence 1
St. Lawrence 3, Princeton 2
St. Lawrence 2, Princeton 1
(St. Lawrence wins series)
No. 10 HARVARD at No. 7 CLARKSON
Harvard 2, Clarkson 1
Harvard 6, Clarkson 4
(Harvard wins series)
No. 9 BROWN at No. 8 QUINNIPIAC
Quinnipiac 4, Brown 0
Quinnipiac 4, Brown 0
(Quinnipiac wins series)
QUARTERFINALS (Best-of-three)
Friday, March 11 - Sunday, March 13
No. 8 Quinnipiac at No. 1 Union
No. 10 Harvard at No. 2 Yale
No. 11 St. Lawrence at No. 3 Dartmouth
No. 5 Colgate at No. 4 Cornell
SEMIFINALS
Friday, March 18
Semifinal No. 1, 4:30 pm [CBS Sports Network]
Semifinal No. 2, 7:30 pm [CBS Sports Network]
Saturday, March 19
Third-Place Game, 4:30 pm
Championship Game, 7:30 pm [CBS Sports Network]
