Keep an eye on this team. February could get interesting.

Weekend Action: Speaking of the ECAC, Colby and Bowdoin motor into town this weekend. Neither team expects to provide that much of a challenge, but stranger things have happened.

"Both of them are young teams with many freshmen," junior Stacey Kellogg said. "Last year, Bowdoin was tough, but we won 4-3. Colby is definitely not up to our level, though." Harvard won that match last year, 9-1.

It's not ironclad, however: the Crimson (2-4-1 overall, 1-3-1 ECAC) has run into this situation before, most notably at St. Lawrence (a 7-4 loss).

"We should have come out on top at that one, but sometimes we defeat ourselves," Leitzes said. "At Dartmouth, too, we were up 2-0 and we ended up in a 2-2 tie. We should have pulled that one out."

Harvard is coming off of a 4-3 overtime loss to Brown.

Solid: Ten games into the season, the skating lines are fairly etched in stone.

The first line: center co-captain Joey Alissi (4-4-8), wings freshman A.J. Mleczko (8-7-15) and sophomore Stacey Kellogg (4-5-9).

The second line: junior center Diana Clark (0-2-2), wings sophomore Megan Hall (2-1-3) and freshman Christa Calagione (2-1-3).

The third line: sophomore center Jennifer Duval (0-1-1), wings freshman Kate Schutt (0-0-0) and sophomore Ellen Frump (0-0-0).

The defensive pairings: co-captain Francie Walton (1-5-6) and freshman Colleen Malek (0-0-0), juniors Holly Leitzes (2-5-7) and Winkie Mleczko (1-1-2), freshman Alexis Boyle (0-0-0) and Lauren Turner (0-0-0).

In goal: junior Erin Villiotte (2.50 GAA, .891 save percentage). Freshman Whitney Smith is the backup.

Around the League: Princeton forward Sophie Caronello was named the Ivy League's Player of the Week after she scored two goals and added an assist in the Tigers' 4-3 win over the Crimson. Brown's Kate King picked up Rookie of the Week with three points of her own (two goals, one assist) against Yale.

Incidentally, King and Harvard's A.J. Mleczko are tied for the ECAC scoring lead, each player with three goals and four assists in league play.

Brown and Harvard dominate the scoring charts: of the 11 top-scoring players, eight go to Brown and three (Mleczko, Leitzes and Kellogg) go to Harvard.