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Postseason Dominance

W. hockey crushes Cornell to advance to the ECAC semifinals

Junior goaltender Jessica Ruddock made nine saves for the shutout, Harvard’s school-record tenth of the season.

Harvard 13, Cornell 1

The Crimson started the scoring just 1:32 after the opening whistle and showed no mercy for the rest of the evening in a 13-1 victory.

Junior Lauren McAuliffe, back on the second line, scored on a one-timer off a two-on-one setup from Ingram to give Harvard the quick 1-0 lead.

“They came out of the blocks really fast and kept on getting better and better,” Stone said. “Everyone was contributing.”

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Chu led all scorers with two goals and six assists.

Ruggiero tied a school single-game record with five goals and also added two assists. It was her second five-goal game this season. The first came against Wayne State in January.

Botterill turned in a seven-point effort of her own with two goals and five assists, finishing the game with 326 career points and, in the process, passing Michigan State’s Tom Ross as the all-time scoring leader in Division I hockey, men’s or women’s. She tied and broke the record in the final minutes of the second period, scoring a goal before adding an assist.

The event passed with little fanfare, as Botterill had already broken several other career scoring records in previous weeks. In the past, Stone has felt that announcements for individual milestones have taken too much focus away from the team.

Cornell scored its lone goal in the second period in a scramble in front of the net. Harvard outshot Cornell 59-3 in the first two periods and 72-10 for the game.

—Staff writer David R. De Remer can be reached at remer@fas.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer David A. Weinfeld can be reached at weinfeld@fas.harvard.edu.

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