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AHA Women’s Weekly Journal (Jan. 22, 2026)

Six of seven AHA programs compete in intra-conference action.

BOSTON - Six Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) programs compete this week, with all three series having an impact on AHA’s standings.

MATCHUPS
Jan. 20 (Tuesday)
  • NO. 4/4 PENN STATE 5 - NO. 12/11 CORNELL 1 - BOX SCORE
Jan. 23/24 (Friday/Saturday)
  • Robert Morris at (RV) Mercyhurst
  • Lindenwood at Syracuse
  • Delaware at No. 4/4 Penn State

AROUND AHA
  • RIT leads the nation with 30 power play goals in 2025-26.
  • Delaware’s seven power play goals since Jan. 1 are the fourth-most in Division I.
  • Mercyhurst junior forward Sofia Nuutinen has netted a power play goal in two straight contests, the longest active streak of its kind in the nation.
  • Syracuse’s Ava Drabyk leads all Division I freshman goaltenders with five shutouts and is tied for the most wins with five.

QUICK HITS
  • Robert Morris sophomore forward Jessica MacKinnon’s eight multi-point games are tied for the third-most in AHA.
  • Delaware freshman blueliner Lexie Lonask leads the nation with 112 blocks, the only skater with more than 100 in 2025-26.
  • Penn State’s trio of Tessa Janecke, Maddy Christian and Grace Outwater have all potted two shorthanded goals this season.
  • Mercyhurst has four players who are on active three-game point streaks heading into the weekend of play.

KAMPERSAL 500
Penn State head coach Jeff Kampersal is on the cusp of making history, just one win away from 500 over his 30 seasons as a Division I bench boss.

Kampersal is slated to become only the fourth active women’s Division I coach with 500+ wins and would join Mercyhurst’s Mike Sisti (606) on the list. Serving as the Nittany Lions’ head coach since 2017-18, Kampersal will become only the fifth head coach in women’s Division I history to reach the milestone.


TIP OF THE HAT
A pair of Lindenwood skaters played an integral role in the Lions’ first sweep on home ice since 2024. Senior Molly Henderson netted her first career hat trick, accounting for all three Lindenwood goals in a 3-2 win over Delaware on Friday, Jan. 16.

In the following game, freshman forward Tatiana Blichova also potted three goals and added a helper in a 6-3 victory to clinch the series sweep of the Blue Hens.

Lindenwood had not seen back-to-back hat tricks since the 2015-16 campaign when forward Shara Jasper did on Oct. 10 and 30, 2015.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Forward: Molly Henderson, SR, Lindenwood (Rockford, Ill.) - 2 GP, 4 PTS (3G-1A) vs. Delaware
Defenseman: Abby Poitras, SO, Mercyhurst (Whitby, Ontario) - 2 GP, 2 PTS (2G) vs. RIT
Goaltender: Magdalena Luggin, SO, Mercyhurst (Vienna, Austria) - 2 GP (2-0-0), 1.98 GAA, .911 SV% vs. RIT
Rookie: Tatiana Blichova, F, Lindenwood (Presov, Slovakia) - 2 GP, 4 PTS (3G-1A) vs. Delaware

BY THE NUMBERS
3 - Robert Morris redshirt sophomore forward Alaina Giampietro is tied for the most multi-goal games in AHA this season with three. In those contests, the Strongsville, Ohio native has tallied eight points (6G-2A).

6 - Penn State senior forward Katelyn Roberts has potted six game-winning goals this season, tied for the most in the nation.

7 - AHA has seen seven hat tricks in 2025-26. Lindenwood is the only program in the conference to do so more than once.

353 - Robert Morris’s MacKinnon leads the nation with 353 faceoff wins.

SCORING LEADERS
*Stats are from all regular-season contests.

GOALS
  1. Tessa Janecke (Penn State) - 17
  2. Grace Outwater (Penn State) - 16
  3. Maddy Christian (Penn State) - 14
  4. Jessica MacKinnon (Robert Morris) - 13

ASSISTS
  1. Tessa Janecke (Penn State) - 20
  2. Julia Schalin (Mercyhurst) - 18
  3. Addie Alvarez (RIT) - 17
  4. Three tied - 16

POINTS
  1. Tessa Janecke (Penn State) - 37
  2. Jessica MacKinnon (Robert Morris) - 28
  3. Grace Outwater (Penn State) - 27
  4. Four tied - 26

GOALTENDING LEADERS
*Min. 33% of team minutes played.

GOALS-AGAINST AVERAGE
  1. Katie DeSa (Penn State) - 1.33
  2. Maggie Hatch (Robert Morris) - 2.08
  3. Ava Drabyk (Syracuse) - 2.15
  4. Magdalena Luggin (Mercyhurst) - 2.37

SAVE PERCENTAGE
  1. Maggie Hatch (Robert Morris) - .932
  2. Katie DeSa (Penn State) - .930
  3. Ava Drabyk (Syracuse) - .930
  4. Magdalena Luggin (Mercyhurst) - .921

SAVES
  1. Ava Drabyk (Syracuse) - 686
  2. Magdalena Luggin (Mercyhurst) - 652
  3. Charlotte Payne (Delaware) - 597
  4. Sophia Bellina (RIT) - 567

ABOUT ATLANTIC HOCKEY AMERICA
Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) is in its second season following the merger between the Atlantic Hockey Association and College Hockey America. The conference fields 10 Division I men's teams and seven women's teams. For more information, visit atlantichockeyamerica.com.

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