Box Score

PRINCETON, N.J. - Sasha Sherry recorded a hat trick to lead Princeton to a 4-2 win over visiting Rensselaer in the regular season home finale. The win improves Princeton to 14-12-1 overall and 11-8-1 in the ECAC. The Tigers will head into the final regular season weekend, which includes games at Brown and at Yale, in fifth place with 23 points.

The top four teams will host a playoff series, which means Princeton will need some help in getting a return date at Baker Rink in two weeks. The Tigers are one point behind travel partner Quinnipiac, which will play Yale Friday night and Brown Saturday. Princeton could also catch third-place Dartmouth, which leads the Tigers by three points, but will host top-ranked Cornell and a Colgate team playing in desperation for a postseason spot.

Sherry scored the first goal of the game and both of the last two to lead the Tigers to the weekend sweep, which began with a 3-1 win over Union Friday night. Her blueline blast, a theme for the night, off a pass from Laura Martindale, gave the Tigers a lead 7:25 into the game.

Rensselaer scored four minutes later on the power play, but Princeton's Caroline Park gave the Tigers a lead heading into intermission with a shot that beat Sonja van der Bliek with 43 seconds remaining in the period. Before the first intermission, Princeton did take an interference penalty, and Rensselaer capitalized 52 seconds into the second period with the 11th goal from Taylor Horton.

The rest of the game belonged to Sherry and the Tiger defense. Sherry scored on two more blueline slapshots, including the game winner at the 4:20 mark of the second period, and Rachel Weber pitched a shutout over the final 39 minutes to clinch her 12th win of the season.