Toupal Leads Dartmouth Past Yale
HANOVER, N.H. - Senior Sarah Toupal (White Bear Lake, Minn.)
posted a career-high four points on two goals and two assists to
lead the Dartmouth women's hockey team to a big 6-3 win over Yale
on Friday night.
Dartmouth (9-12-2, 6-10-1 ECAC, 4-5-0 Ivy) grabbed two important
points in the standings with the win. Senior co-captain Sarah
Parsons (Dover, Mass.) continues to be hotwith another multi-point
game with three points on a goal and two assists. She now has eight
points in her last four games. Freshman Camille Dumais
(Beaconsfield, Que.) scored two goals for the second time this
season, while classmate Sally Komarek (Minneapolis, Minn.) tallied
two assists. Senior netminder Mariel Lacina (London, Ont.) got back
on the winning track with 29 saves to earn her sixth win of the
year.
Yale (9-11-3, 7-8-1, 2-4-1 Ivy) was led by Alyssa Zupon, who
tallied two goals, while Bray Ketchum racked up three assists.
Alyssa Clarke also added a goal and Tara Tomimoto helped with two
assists. The Bulldogs scored all of their goals on the man
advantage. Jackee Snikeris made 39 stops between the pipes in the
loss.
Dartmouth got the scoring started 3:42 into the game as Toupal
netted her third of the season to make it 1-0. She received a pass
from Parsons and flipped an easy backhanded shot that slipped past
Snikeris to give the Big Green the game's first lead.
Yale answered with 10:15 left with a power play goal from Zupon to
tie the score at 1-1. The goal happened 12 seconds into an extra
skater opportunity. Ketchum put a shot on net that was blocked in
front and Zupon collected the puck and hit the open net.
Shots were just about even for the first 20 minutes at 12-11 in
favor of Dartmouth. Each team had one chance on the man advantage,
with Yale capitalizing, while the Big Green failed on its only
opportunity.
In the second period, Dartmouth opened it up with two goals in the
first 3:19 of the frame to get the lead up to 3-1. Toupal got
things started with her second of the night. Komarek won the
face-off in the offensive end and it came out to Toupal. She fired
a shot that went top-shelf on Snikeris for the score, just 51
seconds into the period. Dumais made it 3-1 about two minutes
later. She lost her balance as sophomore Geneva Kliman slid a pass
to her at the right circle. Dumais was able to stay on her feet and
beat Snikeris inside the near post.
The Bulldogs answered once again with another power play goal to
cut the lead to 3-2 with 7:34 remaining. Clarke was able to slip
behind Lacina, who lost sight of the puck, and barely pushed the
puck over the goal line to make it 3-2.
Senior co-captain Jenna Cunningham (Medicine Hat, Alta.) put
Dartmouth back up by two goals with her 16th of the season with the
assist going to Parsons. She was camped out in front and Parsons
connected on a shot that Snikeris couldn't handle and Cunningham
was there for the clean up at 4-2.
Zupon got Yale to within one again on the power play with assists
to Ketchum and Tomimoto. Ketchum fired a shot off the back boards
and Zupon jammed it home at the far post to cut the lead to
4-3.
Parsons increased the lead to 5-3 with an impressive individual
effort. She skated into the zone on a 1-on-3 and moved around on
opponent and then fired a low wrister that beat Snikeris just
inside the far post. Dumais closed out the night for Dartmouth with
her second of the night and eighth of the year coming with 5:31
left and 22 seconds after Parsons.
Dartmouth struggled in both special team areas, going 0-for-5 on
the power play and gave up a season-high three power play goals in
eight chances for the Bulldogs. Both teams racked up the shots on
net as The Big Green held a 45-32 shot advantage on the night.
Pink at the Rink was a success for the Big Green as over 1,000
fans made it to Thompson Arena with many wearing pink to support
the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the fight against cancer.
The Big Green will be back in action tomorrow afternoon as
Dartmouth takes on Brown at 4 p.m. at Thompson Arena. It's Senior
Night for the Big Green and Dartmouth will also be celebrating
National Girls and Women in Sports Day.













