It’s all Babstock

National leader in goals and points leads Bobcats to weekend split

Kelly Babstock averaged a goal per period in two conference games over the weekend at the TD Bank Sports Center, giving her the national lead in goals and points. However her stellar individual performance was only good enough for one team win.

The freshman forward’s hat trick against Harvard (2-2-2, 2-2-2 ECAC) Friday – plus junior forward Chelsea Illchuk’s first goal of the season – gave the Bobcats (8-5-1, 3-4 ECAC) a 4-1 victory. Babstock chimed in with another hat trick against Dartmouth (5-1, 5-1 ECAC) Saturday, but the Big Green’s leading goal-scorer Sasha Nanji delivered a game-winner on a power play 1:04 into overtime for a 4-3 win.

Seeley offered plenty of respect for Nanji, who had beaten Princeton in identical fashion Friday night – an overtime game-winner, on a power play, on a slap shot from the blue line.

“She’s a player,” Seeley said of Nanji. “Part of our game plan was not to give her any room – even on the power play. When you give her a clear shot on the power play, bad things happen.”

The Bobcats received votes in the latest U.S. College Hockey Online poll, but have not cracked the top 10 this season. This weekend they will face Colgate and No. 2 Cornell, two teams the Bobcats lost to at home on Halloween weekend.