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Cornell, Dartmouth and Harvard Advance to ECAC Women's Hockey Tournament Semifinals
Photo courtesy of Dartmouth Athletic Communications
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Ivy League comprises three of the four teams teams remaining in the 2011 ECAC Women's Hockey Tournament as top-seeded Cornell hosts Quinipiac in one semifinal and second-seeded Harvard hosts third-seeded Dartmouth in the other semifinal on Thursday, March 3.
The semifinal winners will meet for the tournament championship on Saturday, March 5 in a game that will televised live in HD on the NHL Network.
Cornell, which captured its second-straight Ivy League and ECAC Hockey regular-season titles this season, swept Rensselaer in the best-of-three quarterfinals as did Harvard over seventh-seeded St. Lawrence. Dartmouth had to rebound from a loss in its first quarterfinal game with sixth-seeded Clarkson to win games two and three to advance.
The 2011 championship marks the second-straight year of the format change for the semifinals and championship game to conducted on the campuses of the highest remaining seeds.
2011 ECAC WOMEN'S ICE HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
QUARTERFINALS (Best-of-three)
Friday, February 25 - Sunday February 27
No. 8 RENSSELAER at No. 1 CORNELL
Cornell 3 vs. Rensselaer 2 (ot)
Cornell 6 vs. Rensselaer 1
(Cornell wins series)
No. 7 ST. LAWRENCE at No. 2 HARVARD
Harvard 6 vs. St. Lawrence 1
Harvard 8 vs. St. Lawrence 3
(Harvard wins series)
No. 6 CLARKSON at No. 3 DARTMOUTH
Clarkson 4 vs. Dartmouth 1
Dartmouth 4 vs. Clarkson 2
Dartmouth 4 vs. Clarkson 3 (ot)
(Dartmouth wins series)
No. 5 QUINNIPIAC at No. 4 PRINCETON
Quinnipiac 2 vs. Princeton 1
Quinnipiac 2 vs. Princeton 0
(Quinnipiac wins series)
SEMIFINALS
Thursday, March 3
No. 5 Quinnipiac at No. 1 Cornell, 7 pm
No. 3 Dartmouth at No. 2 Harvard, 7 pm
CHAMPIONSHIP
Saturday, March 5
On the campus of the highest remaining seed, 3 pm [NHL Network]
