Balanced Attack Leads Dartmouth
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — The 10th-ranked Dartmouth women's
hockey team earned a 6-0 victory at Yale on Saturday behind the
strong play of senior Kelly Foley (South Boston, Mass.) and junior
Sasha Nanji (Markham, Ontario). The win moved the Big Green to
14-6-2 overall, 10-4-2 in ECAC Hockey and 4-2-0 in the Ivy League.
The Bulldogs fell to 1-22-0 overall, 1-15-0 in the conference and
0-7-0 in the Ancient Eight.
Foley and Nanji each finished the game with two goals and an assist
for three points. Foley scored two of the team's first three goals
with her first coming 1:43 after the opening faceoff. The tally
supplied the Big Green with a one-goal lead heading into the first
intermission after Dartmouth took 17 shots in the opening stanza
and Yale had 10.
Senior Moira Scanlon (Chicago, Ill.) pushed the lead to 2-0, seven
minutes into the second, on her first goal of the season. Junior
Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Quebec) and Nanji had helpers on the
score. Foley picked up her second goal of the game with one second
remaining in the second for her team-leading 14th goal of the
season.
With the Big Green leading 3-0 heading into the third, the team
could have coasted the rest of the way, but instead added three
goals in the final frame. Nanji scored her first goal of the game
with 7:33 left in the game to extend the lead to 4-0. Less than
three minutes later, senior Reagan Fischer (Irma, Alberta) scored a
shorthanded goal for Dartmouth, which marked her ninth goal of the
season. Foley and junior Margaux Sharp (Carleton Place, Ontario)
assisted on the goal.
Nanji scored the final goal of the game with 30 seconds left in the
third for her 10th goal of the season and fourth of the weekend.
The junior had two of the Big Green's three goals on Friday at
Brown. Dartmouth ended the game with five skaters tallying multiple
points. Besides Nanji and Foley with three, Dumais added two
assists, Fischer had a goal and an assist and Sharp had two
assists.
Sophomore Lindsay Holdcroft (Pittsburgh, Pa.) earned her third
shutout of the season and the seventh of her career. She made 28
saves, which put her weekend total to 53 after her 25 saves on
Friday night.
The victory against Yale was the Big Green's sixth in their last
seven games. Dartmouth returns home next weekend when it hosts
Princeton on Friday, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m. and Quinnipiac on Saturday,
Feb. 4, at 4 p.m.












