Girls’s Hockey begins 2026 with two video games at Delaware

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The RIT girls’s hockey crew returns to motion with a pair of video games at Delaware on Thursday and Friday (Jan. 8-9). Both video games might be performed on the Fred Rust Ice Arena with Thursday’s sport starting at 6:00 p.m. and Friday dealing with off at 2:00 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT:

RIT swept a pair of video games towards Delaware on December 5-6, successful 5-2 on Friday adopted by a 4-2 win the next day. Junior defender Emma Pickering and sophomore ahead Brac Kelley every scored two targets in Friday’s win over the Fighting Blue Hens. Sophomore ahead Kailey Favro had two assists and sophomore ahead Zoe Ziotas completed with a aim and an help. Senior goalie Sophia Bellina made 11 saves in internet.  

 

Saturday, junior ahead Addie Alvarez had a aim and an help, whereas Favro and Pickering every had two assists. Bellina made 15 saves to earn the win.  

 

ABOUT RIT:

RIT enters the weekend third within the Atlantic Hockey America standings with a 7-7-0 convention file and 22 factors. RIT is 4 factors behind Mercyhurst in second place, and one level forward of Robert Morris who’s fourth with 21 factors.

 

The Tigers common 2.9 targets per sport and permit 2.4 targets per contest. The Tigers are 27-of-79 (34.2%) on the ability play and 65-of-79 (82.3%) on the penalty kill. RIT has received 625-of-1,243 (50.3%) of its faceoffs and blocked 319 pictures.

 

RIT options six gamers with six or extra targets and eight gamers with 10 or extra factors. Alvarez leads the crew with 22 factors and eight assists. Pickering is second on the crew with 21 factors and is tied with Alvarez for first on the crew with 14 assists. Favro is third on the crew with 15 factors and is second with 13 assists. Kelley (7g, 6a), first 12 months ahead Tilli Keranen (7g, 6a) and junior ahead Linda Rulle (7g, 6a) are tied for fourth on the crew with 13 factors apiece.

 

Pickering leads the crew with 64 blocked pictures. First 12 months defender Laura Dyke is second with 30 blocks and first 12 months defender Riley Gramlich is third with 29 blocked pictures. Rulle and sophomore defender Madison Buziak are tied for fourth with 28 blocks every.

 

Bellina is 9-10 with a 2.43 goals-against common and a .921 save proportion. Sophomore Brenna McNamara is 2-1 with a 1.32 goals-against common and a .948 save proportion.

ABOUT DELAWARE:

Delaware enters the weekend seventh within the Atlantic Hockey America standings with a 1-13-0 convention file and 5 factors. The Blue Hens misplaced a pair of convention video games at Syracuse final weekend, shedding 3-1 on Friday and 4-0 the next day. Graduate pupil ahead Kaitlin Finnegan scored a aim and first 12 months goalie Charlotte Payne made 36 saves in Friday’s loss. Junior goalie Mattie Robitzer made 37 saves, Saturday.

 

Delaware enters the weekend seventh in Atlantic Hockey averaging 1.00 aim per sport and seventh permitting 3.95 targets per contest. The Blue Hens are seventh within the AHA changing 4-of-79 (.051 %) of their energy play probabilities and fourth killing off 53-of-67 (79.1%) of their penalties. Delaware has received 520-of-1,291 face offs (40.3%) and leads the AHA averaging 24.23 blocked pictures per sport.  

 

Finnegan leads Delaware with 9 factors on six targets and three assists. First 12 months ahead Katelynn Charlton is second on the crew with seven factors on 4 targets and three assists, whereas senior defender Tiana McIntyre is third with six factors and lead Delaware with 4 assists. First 12 months ahead Meera Smith is fourth on the crew with 5 factors (3g, 2a).

 

First 12 months defender Lexie Lonask leads the AHA with 93 blocked pictures. Bailey Gray is fourth within the league with 57 blocks and Finnegan is fifth with 52 blocked pictures.

 

Payne is 2-9-0 with a 3.58 goals-against common and a .917 save proportion. She is second within the league averaging 39.58 saves per sport. Robitzer has a 3.97 GAA and a .916 save proportion and leads the AHA averaging 40.55 saves per contest.

 

RIT VS. DELAWARE:

RIT swept a pair of video games towards Delaware, successful 5-2 on Dec. 5 and 4-2 the next day.