2023-24 Worcester State University Women's Ice Hockey News
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Puumala Named New England Hockey Writers Association DIII Women's All-Star
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We are Inspired: A Look at Women's History
March 14, 2024While February is the shortest month of the calendar year, many significant events are celebrated within its days. This year the Chinese Lunar New Year has landed in February while the entire month is focused on celebrating Black History Month; celebrating Black achievement and giving visibility to the people and organizations creating change. For those who love and support one of America's most popular sports, the Super Bowl takes place in February along with National Girls and Women in Sports Day. The month of February wraps up the winter sports season and brings in the Spring. March sees the infamous March Madness Tournament and all the iconic memories that have come from that, but even more vital is March is Women’s History Month, which is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history. This pivotal month actually just started as an annual weekly celebration, but with the continued support and recognition of the importance of Women in Society, the Week quickly grew to encompass the entire month.
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Puumala, Hatton and Kelley Lead ECHA Conference Honors
March 01, 2024Worcester, MA- Worcester State University graduate-student forward, Katie Puumala (Framingham, MA) earned Player of the Year honors after amassing a league best, twenty-one points on eleven goals and ten assists in ECHA play. Puumala led the ECHA in both goals and points on the 2023-24 season, including the game tying goal in Sunday’s Championship victory over Rivier University.
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Lancers Make it Three in a Row for ECHA Champions, Defeating Rivier in OT
February 25, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (12-13-1, 9-2-1) looks to complete the three peat sweep of the ECHA tournament in the conference’s final season of action before the teams move to the MASCAC for the 2024-25 season. The Lancers have won the previous two championships, defeating the Anna Maria AMCATs 2-1 in the inaugural season and 3-2 last year. This championship will see the Lancers square up with a new contender after Rivier (12-10-3, 6-4-2) defeated the AMCATs in overtime on Friday night in a 1-0 battle.
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Lancers Claim Third Trip to the Ship with Victory over Trailblazers
February 23, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (11-13-1, 9-2-1) begin their bid for their third straight ECHA title, this year opening up tournament play by taking on 4th seeded MCLA (5-18-1, 1-10-1), who are the new additions to the conference this year. In the final year of the ECHA conference, the Lancers look to claim the bragging rights as the lone champions of the conference, before all the teams move to the newly created MASCAC Women’s Ice Hockey conference next year.
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Czerniawski Named ECHA Goalie of the Week
February 20, 2024Worcester, MA- In the final ECHA Players of the Week, Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey’s Kelsey Czerniawski (Chicopee, MA) claims the ECHA Goalie of the Week honor.
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Lancers Complete Weekend Sweep of Amcats to Close Out Regular Season
February 17, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Lancers (10-13-1, 8-2-1) headed across town to Buffone rink tonight to take on the Anna Maria AMCATS (8-12-4, 5-4-2) in the final game of the ECHA regular season. Worcester State clinched the first seed in the tournament with their 2-0 victory over Anna Maria last night, and look to put the exclamation on the season with a sweep in the final weekend of the regular season.
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Senior Night Success as Lancers Grab Top Spot with Win over Amcats
February 16, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Lancers (9-13-1, 7-2-1 MASCAC) faced off against the Anna Maria AMCATS (8-11-4, 5-3-2 MASCAC) for the teams Senior Night. The night honored seniors Layna Pereiro (Chicago, IL), Ellen Cook (Beckett, MA), Amy MacGlashing (Marlborough, MA), Sydney Vautour (Hamilton, MA) and Anya Laxton (Holbrook, NY) for their impressive contribution to the program.
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Wozniak and Hatton Named ECHA Players of the Week
February 13, 2024Worcester, MA- After a dominant week by the Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team, two players were selected as ECHA Players of the Week. Graduate student Cassidhe Wozniak (Turner Falls, MA) was named Player of the Week and first year Fiona Hatton (Homer, AK) was tabbed as the Rookie of the Week in the Lancers 2-0 week that saw them scoring 16 goals.
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Lancers Sweep Trailblazers in Weekend Series
February 10, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester Women’s Ice Hockey team (8-13-1, 6-2-1) returned home to face off again against MCLA (4-16-1, 0-8-1), after defeating the Trailblazers 7-0 in North Adams last night. Worcester is looking to seal up the ECHA top seed in the final three games of action, and a win against MCLA is pivotal to their success.
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Lancers Blank Trailblazers in 7-0 Victory
February 09, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (7-13-1, 5-2-1) heads out to North Adams tonight to play the first of an away-home series with the MCLA Trailblazers (4-15-1, 0-7-1). Worcester claimed the first two victories of the season over the Trailblazers in their inaugural season in the ECHA conference, and look to grab win number three to help solidify their conference standings.
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Puumala and Gaspar Named ECHA Co-Players of the Week
February 06, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team placed two on this week’s ECHA weekly honors. Sophomore Lea Gaspar (Chelmsford, MA) and graduate student Katie Puumala (Framingham, MA) were tabbed as co-players of the week for the ECHA after a dominating 7-0 performance against conference opponent Rivier University.
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Lancers Rebound For Win in Second Game of Set Versus Rivier
February 03, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey (6-13-1, 4-2-1) returned to action this evening to face off against the Rivier Raiders (8-8-3, 3-2-2) after a heartbreaking last second loss in their ECHA matchup game with the Raiders last night, who stole a win off the Lancers. Worcester looks to even the score tonight in the fourth and final regular season matchup with the Raiders as each team looks to snag the top spot in the ECHA tournament set to begin in a few weeks.
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Lancers Drop OT Heartbreaker to Raiders in Return to ECHA Action
February 02, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (6-12-1, 4-1-1) returns to ECHA action tonight at the Fidelity Bank Worcester Ice Center as they host the Rivier Raiders (7-8-3, 2-2-2) in a Friday night showdown. As the Lancers move into the final six game, all conference slates, they are working to snag their third consecutive top seed into the ECHA tournament. In their previous match ups this season the teams walked away with a 2-2 tie and a 7-0 victory for Worcester State.
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196 Lancers named to MASCAC Fall/Winter All-Academic Team
February 01, 2024Westfield, MA — A total of 1,390 student-athletes have been honored by the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference with selection to the league’s Fall/Winter 2023 All-Academic team that was released earlier today by Commissioner Angela Baumann.
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LANCERS FALL TO PILGRIMS 2-0
January 30, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Lancers (6-11-1, 4-1-1 ECHA) faced off against the New England College Pilgrims (5-16, 1-14 GNAC) in a Tuesday afternoon showdown at the Worcester Ice Center. FINAL: NEW ENGLAND 2 | LANCERS 0
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Lancers Comeback Bid Falls Short Versus Golden Bears
January 20, 2024Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (6-10-1, 4-1-1) returned to home ice this evening to take on the Western New England Golden Bears (10-4-2, 7-3-1) in a rematch with Western New England. The Golden Bears were just able to come away with the 2-1 overtime victory in the teams last battle just 14 days ago, and Worcester was aiming to settle the score.
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Worcester State Splits with Knights on PA Trip
January 13, 2024Worcester, MA- After grabbing the win last evening, the Lancers (6-9-1, 4-1-1) were back in action in Pennsylvania looking to make a clean sweep of the trip with another victory over Arcadia University (9-5, 7-3). Worcester grabbed the victory last night 4-3 after Arcadia pulled their goalie down 4-2 in a bid to push the game to overtime.
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Lancers' Women Ice Hockey Grabs First Win of 2024, Downing Knights
January 12, 2024Worcester, MA- After a long haul trek to Pennsylvania, the Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey (5-9-1, 4-1-1) team was set to skate away on the ice as they took on the Arcadia Knights (9-4, 7-3) in the first of their back-to-back game road trip. Worcester, who were coming off a heartbreaker on Tuesday, were primed to grab their first win of 2024 during the weekend.
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Lancers Fall in Comeback Attempt versus Colonels
January 09, 2024Worcester, MA- In a Tuesday night holiday break battle, the Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team traveled to Curry College to face the Colonels as they look for their first win of 2024. The Lancers are coming off an overtime loss just three days ago to the Western New England Golden Bears and are hoping to continue the success they found earlier in the season when they defeated Curry 4-0 on home ice.
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Lancers Fall in OT to Golden Bears
January 06, 2024Worcester, MA- After nearly a month away, the Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey (5-7-1, 4-1-1) team returned to the ice to take on Western New England in a Saturday night battle as the snow built in the sky. This is the first of two meetings this year for the teams as they host an away and home stretch with the Golden Bears.
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MASCAC Women’s Ice Hockey to Become 19th Sponsored Sport
December 20, 2023The MASCAC Council of Presidents and MASCAC Commissioner Angela Baumann are excited to announce the addition of women’s ice hockey as the conference’s 19th sponsored sport.
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Lancers Fall 4-3 to the Pilgrims
December 09, 2023Worcester MA- After a heartbreaking loss in their previous game, Worcester State traveled to New England College for one more non-conference matchup before the winter break.
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Lancers Fall to Wildcats in OT Battle
December 08, 2023Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team (5-5-1, 4-1-1) returns to home ice after over three weeks on the road as they welcome the Johnson and Wales Wildcats (1-10-0, 1-7-0) to the Fidelity Bank Ice Center for a Friday night showdown. The Lancers are looking to rebound from a hard fought loss versus Wesleyan last Sunday in non-conference action on the night.
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Pacific Named ECHA Goaltender of the Week
December 05, 2023Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team has had one selected in this weeks ECHA weekly honors. First year Lana Pacific (Marlboro, MA) was selected as the Goaltender of the Week for the ECHA conference.
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Lancers Downed by Cardinals
December 03, 2023Worcester, MA- The Women’s Ice Hockey (5-4-1, 4-1-1) team made a quick turnaround, jumping back on the ice under 24 hours from last night's conference win over Anna Maria to head down to Connecticut to take on Wesleyan University in a Sunday afternoon battle.
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Lancers Bring Down Amcats in ECHA Battle
December 02, 2023Worcester, MA - The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team took on Anna Maria Saturday night at Buffone Rink in Worcester for a Saturday night conference showdown as they looked to grab a win over Anna Maria who defeated them earlier this season in a 3-2 battle on their home ice.
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Worcester State Drops Battle to Pioneers
November 21, 2023Worcester, MA - The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey team traveled to Utica Tuesday night for a pre-Thanksgiving game. The Lancers are coming off of three game wins going into the game and looked to continue the streak against a top ranked Utica College program.
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Puumala and Hatton Received ECHA Weekly Honors
November 21, 2023Worcester, MA- The Worcester State Women’s Ice Hockey continued their dominance from this past week in the ECHA Awards on Tuesday. Graduate Student Katie Puumala (Framingham, MA) and first year Fiona Hatton (Homer, AK) were each tabbed as players of the week for the conference after dominant performances in leading the Lancers to a 3-0, and 3 key conference victories, on the season. The Lancers claimed two shuts on the week with 7-0 and 6-0 victories over Rivier and MCLA and followed it up with a 6-3 win over the Trailblazers this past Saturday.
