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Passing the midway point of its eight-game road swing, the Wayne State University women's hockey team (2-4-0) travels to Colgate University (2-2-0) for a weekend series. The puck drops at 7:00 p.m. ET on Friday and 2:00 p.m. ET on Saturday at Starr Rink in Hamilton, N.Y.

The Warriors were swept by scores of 7-2 and 4-1 last week at sixth-ranked Boston University. The Raiders, who will host WSU in their third consecutive home weekend to start the 2010-11 season, defeated Connecticut 5-3 on Friday before losing 2-1 in overtime to 10th-ranked Providence the next day.

After two weeks off from competition following the Colgate series, Wayne State will open conference play Nov. 12-13 at Robert Morris. Subsequently, WSU will have two straight home series including Skate for the Cure Weekend, Nov. 19-20 against Mercyhurst.


BEHIND THE BENCH
Jim Fetter is 111-106-22 in his eighth season at the helm of the WSU women's hockey program. He is a three-time College Hockey America (CHA) Coach of the Year and was named Women's Division I Coach of the Year by the American Hockey Coaches Association in 2008.

Scott Wiley has a career record of 118-136-29 in his ninth season at Colgate.


THROUGH THE YEARS
Wayne State holds a slim 11-10-0 lead in the all-time series against Colgate dating back to WSU's inaugural 1999-2000 season. After playing a single game in November 1999, a 2-1 Colgate win, the two teams split all nine subsequent weekend series until the Warriors swept the Raiders last October, including a 1-0 overtime result.


IN THE POLLS
Wayne State was predicted to finish in fifth place by the CHA head coaches in the 2010-11 preseason poll, while Colgate was picked ninth in the ECAC Hockey preseason coaches' poll.


SCOUTING COLGATE
Including a pair of 7-1 exhibition victories at the start of the season, the Raiders have played all six of their games at Starr Rink. By the end of the 2010 calendar year, Colgate will have played on the road only three times.

Colgate has regular-season victories over New Hampshire, a 1-0 overtime win on Oct. 9, and Connecticut last Friday. This weekend will mark Colgate's first two-game series against the same opponent this year.

Freshman forward Jocelyn Simpson leads the Raiders with four points this season. Scoring for the team is well distributed, as Simpson is one of seven players with a goal. Twelve (12) players have recorded at least one point through four games.

Senior Lisa Plenderleith and junior Kimberly Sass have evenly split the goaltending duties. Sass was between the pipes for both victories and has a 1.48 goals-against average with a .951 save percentage.


LAST TIME OUT
Boston University's Marie-Philip Poulin scored four goals as the sixth-ranked Terriers defeated the Wayne State Warriors, 7-2, on Friday night at Walter Brown Arena.

Poulin tallied two of her goals, including a short-handed marker, in the opening period as Boston University went into the first intermission with a 4-1 lead.

Catherine Ward finished with three assists and Jill Cardella had a pair of helpers. Jenn Wakefield and Tara Watchorn each scored a goal and added an assist.

Scoring for WSU were Lauren Ragen, who notched her second of the season in the first period, and Alyssa Baldin, who also scored her second goal of the campaign midway through the contest.

In the series finale, the Warriors established a 1-0 lead before surrendering four unanswered goals. Julie Ingratta scored her fifth of the season at 15:03 of the first period, but BU lit the lamp three times in the second.

Wakefield tallied the game-winner, and Jenelle Kohanchuk scored an insurance goal as part of a two-point performance.


BRIAN EARNS CHA AWARD
Junior Delayne Brian was selected as the CHA Goaltender of the Week for the second straight week after the Boston University trip. Brian, who has started all six games this season, totaled a career-best 75 saves in the series. She stopped 40 shots on Saturday, two shy of her single game career-high.

Brian also received the conference honor after her performance on the trip to Minnesota two weeks ago. She finished the weekend with a 0.50 goals-against average and a .985 save percentage, stopping 65 of the 66 shots she faced against St. Cloud State and Minnesota.


WARRIORS MOVING UP RANKS
Ingratta, who scored the first goal of Saturday's game at BU, has done so four times in her career, most by any active player and tied for 11th-most in school history. She has opened the scoring in three games this season.

Baldin's goal on Friday was the 20th of her career, moving her into a tie for ninth all-time at WSU. She matched the career totals of former Warriors Kim Spaulding (2000-04) and Laura Monk (2004-07). Baldin also ranks 13th in career points (41), sixth in power-play goals (8) and ninth in power-play points (17), and is the top active player in all categories.

Brian passed Tina Thibideau (2001-05) for third on the all-time minutes played list (2661:12). Brian has 22 victories and needs three more to surpass Anna VanderMarliere (2000-04) for second place.


ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Wayne State is in the midst of an eight-game road trip, the longest for the Warriors since taking an eight-game trip in the second half of the 2006-07 season. Wayne State went 6-10-2 away from Detroit a year ago.


WSU VS. ECAC
In 102 games, Wayne State has a 37-52-13 record (.426) against teams from ECAC Hockey. Including its sweep at Colgate, WSU went 2-3-1 against ECAC squads a year ago.

Colgate is one of two ECAC Hockey opponents on Wayne State's schedule this season. The Warriors will host Quinnipiac on Jan. 21-22 at the City Sports Center.


LOOKING AHEAD
When the Warriors return from their road trip, they will play back-to-back home series against Mercyhurst (Nov. 19-20) and Minnesota State (Nov. 26-27). The series against the Lakers will be Skate for the Cure Weekend, raising money and awareness for breast cancer research and treatment.

Wayne State will then travel to Syracuse (Dec. 3-4) and, following a break for exams and holidays, will close out the 2010 calendar year with a Dec. 30-31 series at Ohio State.


WARRIOR NOTES
• Ingratta is tied for fourth in the conference with five goals. She is one shy of her total from her rookie campaign last year.

• Freshman goaltender Lisa Marshall made her collegiate debut Friday at Boston University. She played 7:53 in relief and made one save.

• Wayne State is 24-41-8 all-time in the month of October.