Seahawks host Plymouth State in ECAC East quarterfinals

Summary: Salve Regina University women's ice hockey hosts Plymouth State in the ECAC Women's East quarterfinals.

Match-up: Salve Regina Seahawks (15-6-4; 10-5-1 ECAC Women's East) versus Plymouth State (5-18-2; 3-11-2 ECAC Women's East)

Series edge: Salve Regina leads the all time series 10-0.

Last Seahawk win in series: Salve Regina defeated the Panthers 4-3 on Jan. 25, 2014.

Game date, time and site: Sat., Feb. 22, 2014; 7 p.m. @ St. George's Ice Arena

Video: http://bit.ly/19N2czw (Salve Regina women's ice hockey on Ustream.tv)

• Salve Regina and Plymouth State have faced each other 10 times in the series and the Seahawks have won every previous meeting. 
• Earlier this season, Salve Regina held off the Panthers in the only other meeting between to the two teams this season to win 4-3 in Plymouth, N.H. 
• Freshman Amanda Cronin registered a pair of points while junior Sarah Markey scored what turned out to be the game-winner 45 seconds into the third period on a power play that carried over from the previous period. 
• Plymouth State is the fifth different opponent in the last five seasons for the Seahawks in the first round of the ECAC Women's East tournament. 

• Salve Regina landed three players on the ECAC Women's East All-Conference teams. 
• Sophomore Danielle Phalon earned a spot on All-Conference second team as a forward while freshman Amanda Cronin and Colleen Marcik were named to the All-Rookie team. 
• Phalon leads the team and is fifth in the league is scoring with 28 points (11g, 17a) and needs just five points and assists to tie the single-season marks at Salve Regina. 
• Cronin started every game of her freshman campaign on defense for the Seahawks and has 14 points (5g, 9a) on the year. Cronin is sixth in the league in defensemen scoring and fifth in freshman scoring. 
• Marcik has an impressive 2.15 goals against average and a .924 save percentage in her first year tending the net for Salve Regina. Marcik comes into the tournament with the best GAA and save percentage of any first year goalie in the league. 
• Senior goalie Ali Ponte was the only All-Conference honoree for Plymouth State.

• The Seahawks are 1-1 all time on Feb. 22. 
• Both times before, the Seahawks faced off against St. Michael's.
• On Feb. 22, 2004, Salve Regina defeated St. Michaels 3-2 in Middletown, R.I. 

• Monika Borkowski (c), Shannon Coleman (a), and Taylor Shepherd (c) share the captains' duties for 2013-14. It is the first season as captain for each of the three.

• Salve Regina head coach Michael Cox enters his eighth season as the winningest coach in the history of the program (87-86-15; .503).
• His teams have made the ECAC Women's East playoffs all seven seasons with Cox at the helm.
• Since the 2007-2008 season, Salve Regina has reached double-figure victory totals each year.

• Salve Regina ranks fifth in the 2013-14 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Women's East preseason coaches' poll (94 points).
• Only two Division III schools are picked higher: (1) Norwich and (3) Manhattanville
• The Seahawks finished the regular season with an 11-7-0 mark in conference play and earned their fourth straight first-round home playoff game (coincidentally, against a different opponent each year).

• Salve Regina added women's ice hockey to its varsity lineup in 2000-01.
• The Seahawks' 5-1 win against Nichols on February 18, 2013, at Burrillville, R.I., was the 100th in the history of the program.

• Head coach Michael Cox notched his 100th career victory at the helm of Salve Regina with the Seahawks 8-2 win over Nichols on Senior Day (Feb. 16)
• Cox is 100-90-19 all time at Salve Regina. 

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