{"id":24760,"date":"2002-10-01T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2002-10-01T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/10\/01\/niagara-mercyhurst-womens-cha-favorites\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:29","slug":"niagara-mercyhurst-womens-cha-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2002\/10\/01\/niagara-mercyhurst-womens-cha-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara, Mercyhurst Women’s CHA Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"
Niagara, coming off a third-place finish at last year’s NCAA Championship, and Mercyhurst were selected as co-favorites in the first-ever CHA Women’s preseason coaches poll.<\/p>\n
Both teams received two first-place and one second-place vote (coaches did not vote on their own team) for eight points. Findlay and Wayne State tied for third with four points each.<\/p>\n
Niagara finished the 2001-02 campaign with a 26-8-2 record but lost 10 players to graduation.<\/p>\n
Mercyhurst won regular-season titles in the Great Lakes Women’s Hockey Association the last two seasons and was 24-8-1 a year ago.<\/p>\n
Findlay, 8-24-2 last season, and Wayne State, 6-23-2 a year ago, have already started their 2002-03 campaigns with exhibition games. Both teams faced Windsor at home over the weekend. The Oilers were 9-4 winners Saturday night while the Warriors downed the Lancers 6-1 Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Mercyhurst gets underway this weekend, hosting Bemidji State on Friday and Saturday nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Niagara, coming off a third-place finish at last year’s NCAA Championship, and Mercyhurst were selected as co-favorites in the first-ever CHA Women’s preseason coaches poll. Both teams received two first-place and one second-place vote (coaches did not vote on their own team) for eight points. Findlay and Wayne State tied for third with four points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n