They might as well change their name to "Frozen."

The Penn State Lady Icers swept their highly anticipated weekend doubleheader at the University at Buffalo, defeating the Freeze 5-2 Saturday evening and 3-1 on Sunday afternoon at the Pepsi Center.

Coming into the weekend, the Lady Icers and coach Jeremy Sharpe expected four things: physical hockey, big games from the frontline, better teamwork, and a rowdy home Buffalo crowd. All were checked off the list.

The Lady Icers' frontline of center Katie King and forwards Alex McVicker and Lauren Shaw, currently 1-2-3 in the latest American Collegiate Hockey Association scoresheet, enjoyed a huge weekend. King notched three goals and three assists, McVicker garnered two goals and two assists, and Shaw chipped in with a goal. That equates to 11 points in two games for a trio the Lady Icers will count on heavily come playoff time.

"It's a great line of scorers that really came together," Sharpe said of the play of his frontline in both games.

Excellence was not contained merely to that threesome, however. After warming up during the past two weekends after a long winter break, the team was looking forward to fewer individuals playing and more team jelling. It achieved that over the weekend.

As evidence, five different Lady Icers registered goals and four connected on assists. Defender Stephanie Feyock led the support with four assists, including three in Saturday's action.

More importantly, however, was team play as a whole.

With a balanced attack and a strong passing and defensive game as their foundation, the Lady Icers were satisfied.

"I think it went great," said forward Faryn Shapiro, who scored a goal on Saturday.

"It was the first time all year we had a really consistent effort, and we had two really strong games against a quality opponent."

All this was despite a hostile environment in Buffalo. These two ACHA rivals have quickly developed an enmity for one another, as was evident this past weekend by a spirited crowd rinkside and rough play on the ice.

Both games were littered with hard penalties, hits, and other forms of brutality not normally seen in Lady Icer games.

"Everything was exactly what we expected," Sharpe said.

"It was a little physical, a little chippy, and was all about playing real hard."

With the Freeze traveling to campus this weekend to complete a home-and-home set, the team is expecting more of such feistiness.