Box Score

HANOVER, NH -- The 10th-ranked Dartmouth women's hockey team got goals from four different skaters to sweep Colgate in the first round of the ECAC Hockey Tournament with a 4-2 win on Saturday afternoon at Thompson Arena.

Sophomore Sarah Parsons (Dover, Mass.) continued her impressive play with a goal and an assist, while freshman Amanda Trunzo (Andover, Minn.) tallied her second goal in as many games and added an assist. Junior Sarah Newnam (Clifton, Va.) gave the Big Green two assists and classmate Carli Clemis (Taber, Atla.) made 34 stops, including 25 in the final two periods, to earn her sixth postseason victory and her 13th of the season.

Junior Shannon Bowman got Dartmouth on the board first with eighth of the season with the assists going to Parsons and Newnam, just three minutes into the game. Newnam fired a shot from the point that Colgate goaltender Lisa Plenderleith stopped, but Bowman was there for the put back and the 1-0 lead.

Dartmouth (18-7-6, 15-5-4 ECAC Hockey) increased its lead to 2-0 as Parsons netted her third in two games with 7:27 remaining in the opening period. Newman sent a cross-ice pass to Parsons who beat her defender to the inside and went top-shelf from the slot, to push the lead to two.

In the second period, Trunzo got into the act with her second goal in the postseason and her 11th of her rookie campaign. Senior captain Nicole Ruta (Pickering, Ont.) took a shot from the point that was tipped nicely by Trunzo and past Plenderleith on the glove side to give Dartmouth a commanding 3-0 advantage. Ruta was credited with one of her two assists on the night.

The fourth and final Dartmouth goal of the night came from senior Carrie Thompson (Shorewood, Minn.) who netted her 12th of the season. Ruta, once again in the mix, found Thompson and she fired a shot that glanced off Plenderleith's glove and into the net.

Colgate's Sam Hunt would single-handedly put the Raiders back into the game with back-to-back tallies in the third period. Her first came 1:33 into the period to cut the lead to 4-1 and her second came with three minutes remaining in the game. But it was too late as the Big Green remained unbeaten in its last 10 games, to advance to the ECAC Hockey semifinals.

Plenderleith made 26 saves for the Raiders, including 21 in the first two periods, while Clemis pushed aside 34 Colgate shots.

The Raiders (12-17-5, 9-11-4 ECAC Hockey) outshot the Big Green, 36-30, in the game and held the advantage in the final two periods. Dartmouth was 1-3 on the power play, while Colgate finished 0-5.

Dartmouth will be in action next Saturday against St. Lawrence in the ECAC Hockey semifinals from the Bright Center at Harvard, with the time to be announced. Stay tuned to DartmouthSports.com to find out when the Big Green will be taking on the Saints next weekend.