Dartmouth Suffers First League Loss
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Lawrence (6-4-3, 3-3-1 ECAC) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Dartmouth (3-3-1, 3-1-1 ECAC) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Scoring Summary | |
|---|---|
| 3rd - 08:44 | Brooke Fernandez (St. Lawrence) |
| 3rd - 19:15 | EN - Kelly Sabatine (St. Lawrence) |
| St. Lawrence | Dartmouth |
|---|---|
|
G:
2 Players (#10, #16 - 1)
A: 2 Players (#15, #76 - 1) Sh: Vanessa Emond - 4 Sv: Carmen Macdonald - 38 |
G:
N/A
A: N/A Sh: Kelly Foley - 9 Sv: Lindsay Holdcroft - 16 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | St. Lawrence | Dartmouth |
|---|---|---|
| Power Plays | 0 for 2 | 0 for 2 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 0 | 0 |
| Penalties (min) | 2 (4) | 2 (4) |
| Shots on Goal | 18 | 38 |
| Face Offs Won | 21 | 27 |
HANOVER, N.H. -- The Dartmouth women's hockey team suffered its
first loss in
ECAC Hockey on Friday night at Thompson Arena in a 2-0 loss to St.
Lawrence. Despite
holding a 38-18 advantage in shots, the Big Green could not find
the back of the
net and suffered the tough defeat. With the loss, the Big Green
fell to 3-3-1
overall and 3-1-1 in ECAC Hockey. The Saints improved to 6-4-3 and
3-3-1 in the
conference.
Through the first two periods neither team could find any groove
offensively,
and the two squads went in to the final frame with the game tied,
0-0. It stayed
that away until 8:44 into the third. After receiving up passes from
Karell Émard
and Rylee Smith, Brooke Fernandez found herself at the top of the
left circle
with the puck, and two scrambling Dartmouth defensemen trying to
stop the shot.
Fernandez stopped and fired the puck to the right side of the net
that got through
the defenders and sophomore goaltender Lindsay Holdcroft
(Pittsburgh, Pa.). It
marked the fifth goal of the season for Fernandez, the 10th assist
for Emard and
the eighth assist for Smith.
With time winding down in the third, Dartmouth pulled Holdcroft for
the extra
skater but the St. Lawrence defense held strong. Kelly Sabatine
took the puck
away from junior Sasha Nanji (Markham, Ontario) at center ice, and
skated in undefended
for the easy empty-net goal. It was the sixth goal of the season
for Sabatine.
The Saints kept the game scoreless thanks to fantastic play from
goaltender Carmen
MacDonald. The first-year player stopped 38 shots for her first
shutout of the
season. Senior Kelly Foley (South Boston, Mass.) attempted the most
shots against
MacDonald with nine, but the goaltender was up for the
challenge.
In the first period, both teams let the puck fly with the Big Green
taking 14
shots and St. Lawrence firing eight. Dartmouth kept the
aggressiveness up with
13 shots in the second, while the Saints took just four. In the
third, St. Lawrence
scored on two of its six shots and the Big Green took double-digit
shots for the
third straight period with 11.
It was a relatively clean game for both teams with only four
penalties total in
the contest. Each team received two in the second period, and
neither was able
to score on the ensuing power plays.
Holdcroft made 16 saves in the loss with the Big Green tallying 11
blocked shots.
It marked the first time Dartmouth was shutout at home, since
dropping a 4-0 decision
against Quinnipiac on Feb. 4, 2011.
The Big Green look to turn things around when they host Clarkson on
Saturday at
4 p.m.
