ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell freshman Laura Fortino was named the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week for the second straight week, the league office announced on Monday. Fortino has now helped the Big Red to back-to-back three-point weekends after Cornell earned a tie at Colgate on Friday and a win against the Raiders on Saturday.

Fortino picked up five points last weekend to lift the Big Red to a 3-3 tie and a 6-0 victory against the Raiders. She had a pair of assists in the tie on Friday, then scored two power-play goals and added an assist in the Big Red's win on Saturday. Fortino also tallied the game-winner against the Raiders.

Fortino was one of three Cornell players to miss three games at the beginning of the month to represent Canada at the MLP Cup in Ravensburg, Germany. After helping Team Canada to the gold medal, she has returned to her Cornell squad and produced nine points in four games, scoring multiple points in each game. She has four goals and five assists over that span, with all four goals coming on the power play.

For the season, Fortino has seven goals and 10 assists for 17 points in 18 games to rank third on the roster in scoring. She is also ranked first in the nation in points per game among defensemen (0.94) and is the fifth highest-scoring rookie in the nation.

Fortino and her Cornell teammates are currently in second place in the ECAC Hockey standings, one point behind first-place Clarkson and four points clear of third-place Harvard. The Big Red also is atop the Ivy League standings, three points clear of second-place Princeton with three games remaining, in search of its first Ivy title since 1999.

The Big Red returns to action this weekend when it travels to the North Country for a showdown against St. Lawrence and league-leading Clarkson. The Big Red handed Clarkson its only league defeat of the season when the two teams first met on Nov. 13, while St. Lawrence is the only league team to have beaten the Big Red this season, doing so on Nov. 14.