No. 21 Discipline Hockey on the Highway for Two Huge Ten Video games

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – No. 21 Rutgers subject hockey is on the highway this weekend for a pair of residence video games. Rutgers will play at Indiana (3 p.m. Friday) and No. 3 Iowa (1 p.m. on Sunday). Each video games might be dwell streamed on B1G+ and have dwell stats obtainable by way of Statbroadcast.

By 10 video games, RU has performed eight at residence and 7 in opposition to ranked foes. The again half of the common season schedule will characteristic seven video games, with 4 of these on the highway and 5 of them in opposition to ranked foes. Indiana represents the lone remaining Huge Ten foe on the schedule to not be ranked. The Scarlet Knights’ 4 Huge Ten opponents remaining after Indiana are ranked this week within the top-6 nationally (No. 3 Iowa, No. 2 Northwestern, No. 4 Maryland and No. 6 Penn State), along with a nonconference matchup with present No. 13 Syracuse.

The Scarlet Knights stand at 6-4 total and 2-1 in Huge Ten play. Relationship again to final season, RU is 7-1 of their previous eight video games in opposition to Huge Ten foes. The Scarlet Knights have received six of their previous eight video games total following an 0-2 begin to this season, which incorporates three ranked wins.

The Scarlet Knights are led in factors by two Netherlands natives with eight: Marique Dieudonne (three objectives, two assists) and Iris Langejans (two objectives, 4 assists). Seven completely different gamers have a number of objectives on the season for RU, with Lucy Bannatyne, Guillermina Causarano, Rachel Houston, Bridy Molyneaux and Indy van Ek all with a pair as effectively.

Beginning goalkeeper Sophia Howard has a 1.78 goals-against-average and .721 save proportion, setting a career-high in saves for the second time this season with 11 stops versus Michigan. Again Puck Winter is fifth nationally and second within the Huge Ten with three defensive saves.

After graduating 10 seniors from final 12 months’s first ever Huge Ten Match successful squad, together with eight starters, RU has a brand new look to the lineup this 12 months. For the reason that opening weekend, RU has established a standard beginning lineup previously eight video games. The Scarlet Knights have used Iris Langejans, Puck Winter, Elise Pettisani and Isabella Mancini at again, Guillermina Causarano, Vicky Jure and Lucy Bannatyne at midfield, and Marique Dieudonne, Bridy Molyneaux and Rachel Houston at ahead.

Amongst that group of 11 starters, 4 of them (Winter, Pettisani, Jure and Dieudonne) entered the season with zero profession collegiate video games performed. Mancini and Howard, two of the workforce’s captains alongside Causarano, had mixed for simply 5 profession begins coming into the 12 months.

At 2-1, RU stands in fourth place amongst Huge Ten groups. Iowa is one in every of three remaining undefeated groups, with Indiana at 0-1. 

Rutgers is 10-2-1 all-time in opposition to the Hoosiers and have received six straight in opposition to IU, relationship again to 2018. That features a victory within the Huge Ten Match Quarterfinals final season, the 100^th victory of head coach Meredith Civico‘s head teaching profession.

Rutgers is 3-9-1 all-time in opposition to Iowa, with a three-game successful streak from 2016-2018 representing the height of the sequence. The Hawkeyes had been one in every of simply two Huge Ten groups and 4 groups total to defeat RU final season because the Scarlet Knights went 19-4 and 6-2 in league video games. Civico shared Huge Ten Coach of the Yr honors with Iowa’s Lisa Cellucci following the Covid-adjusted spring season of 2021.

Indiana enters the matchup with a 7-4 total report and are 4-2 at residence. IU is 0-3 versus ranked groups so far.

Indiana leads the nation with 9 defensive saves, with captain Sydney Keld’s 9 pacing the nation. Jemima Cookson has a team-best six objectives and 13 factors, whereas Keld is second with 4 objectives and 10 factors.

Iowa enters the weekend at 8-1 total and 2-0 in league play, with a sport Friday as they will host a top-10 foe in Maryland. Following a 3-2 time beyond regulation loss to No. 2 UNC on opening weekend, the Hawkeyes are on a six-game successful streak.

Iowa is within the top-five nationally in assists, goals-against-average, objectives per sport, factors per sport, scoring margin and shutouts. In aim, Grace McGuire has a 0.80 GAA that’s second nationally. Alex Wesneski is fourth nationally with 1.11 objectives per sport. The pair earned Huge Ten Participant of the Week awards this week, with their performances in an enormous weekend for Iowa. The Hawkeyes toppled then-No. 1 Northwestern, 2-0, and outscored Ball State 6-1. Wesneski had three objectives within the two video games and McGuire had eight saves and a shutout of the Wildcats. Lieve Schalk is eighth nationally in assists.