Orange Host Engineers Saturday

SYRACUSE (8-16-1, 7-4-1 CHA) vs. RPI (0-26-1, 0-16 ECAC)
Syracuse, N.Y. | Tennity Ice Pavilion
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Syracuse continues its four game home stretch Saturday when it welcomes Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to Tennity Ice Pavilion. Game time is set for 3 p.m. and the contest will be streamed on Cuse.tv. Fans are encouraged to wear pink to the game in support of breast cancer awareness month. Those fighting breast cancer will be recognized during the first intermission.

Last Time Out

The Orange split a home series with CHA foe Penn State last weekend. 'Cuse was shutout 1-0 in game one, but came back to win the second contest 3-1. Syracuse's goals came from Victoria Klimek, Kelli Rowswell, and Savannah Rennie.

Record Watch
An ensemble of Orange are approaching the 50-point milestone, and senior goalie Ady Cohen is nearing a career-best 10 wins in a season:
                - Cohen: 9 wins
                - Kelli Rowswell: 49 points
                - Emma Polaski 43 points
                - Abby Moloughney : 41 points
                - Jessica DiGirolamo: 49 points

Series History
Syracuse holds the all-time advantage heading into the weekend with a record of 5-3-1. Their last matchup came in January of last year with RPI winning 2-1 in Troy, N.Y.

Scouting the Engineers
- RPI is still looking for its first win on the season.
- Blake Orosz leads the team (4-2-6) and is one of three players with at least four points.
- Ena Nystrom leads the team in the cage. She has started 18 of 27 games for a .917 winning percentage and 3.45 GAA.

Syracuse Rankings
- The Orange rank 15th in the nation in scoring offense, averaging three goals per game.
- Two of Syracuse's top-three most productive skaters are defenders in senior captain Lindsay Eastwood (6-12-18) and junior Jessica DiGirolamo (7-10-17). Those two and Mae Batherson (3-12-15) make up three of the top four scoring defensemen in the CHA. The trio combines for 16 goals and 50 points.
- Batherson ranks top-30 in the NCAA and third in the CHA in points per game among freshmen. Anna Leschyshyn (5-6-11) ranks third in the CHA.
- With 14, Abby Moloughney is tied for seventh in the conference in total assists.
- Syracuse boasts two of the CHA's top-three most productive freshmen in Batherson and Leschyshyn. Madison Beishuizen (2-7-9), and Brynn Koocher (5-3-8) rank sixth and 10th, respectively.

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Players Mentioned

Mae Batherson

Madison Beishuizen

Ady Cohen

Jessica DiGirolamo

Lindsay Eastwood

Victoria Klimek

Brynn Koocher

Anna Leschyshyn

Abby Moloughney

Emma Polaski

Savannah Rennie

Kelli Rowswell

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