Team Notes: Dartmouth Looks to End Three-Game Skid
HANOVER, N.H. — At sixth-ranked Boston College on November 24, Dartmouth suffered its third straight loss in a 4-2 Eagles’ victory. Boston College held the lead the entire contest, including scoring three goals in the first period. Senior Amanda Trunzo (Andover, Minn.) and junior Reagan Fischer(Irma, Alta.) scored the Big Green’s two goals.
SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
Dartmouth has had its ups and downs this season and currently has
a 6-4-0 record overall and a 5-3-0 mark in the ECAC. Against UNH,
Dartmouth is looking to end a three-game losing streak. The Big
Green are tied for third in the league with 10 points. Cornell
leads the conference with 16 points.
Multiple skaters have tallied points for Dartmouth, with sophomore Sasha Nanji(Markham, Ont.) leading the way. Nanji leads the team with 13 points on eight goals and five assists. Sophomore Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Que.) is second on the team in points with 11. She has three goals and eight assists. Trunzo is third in points with 10 on six goals and four assists. Junior Kelly Foley(Boston, Mass.) has five goals and three assists for eight points. SophomoreSally Komarek (Minneapolis, Minn.) is second on the team in assists with six. She also has a goal for seven total points. Lauren Kelly (Milton, Ont.) leads the freshmen class with six points on one goal and five assists. Fischer also has six points on two goals and four assists. Overall, the squad has had 14 players who have recorded a point, and had 10 players record a goal and an assist.
In net, freshman Lindsay Holdcroft (Pittsburgh, Pa.) has seen a majority of the action, starting seven games. She has played 421:04 minutes, made 119 saves, has a 2.85 goals against average, a 4-3-0 record and a .856 save percentage. Sophomore Whitney Woodcox (Oshawa, Ont.) has started three games, totaling 180:02 minutes. She has made 48 saves, has a 3.00 goals against average, a 2-1-0 record and a .842 save percentage.
The team is averaging 3.20 goals per game, while giving up 3.00 goals per game. The offense has been aggressive, taking 30.7 shots per game. On the power play, the Big Green have scored goals on 10 of their 50 chances or 20 percent of the time. On the penalty kill, Dartmouth has allowed goals five out of the 34 chances.
NATIONAL LEADER
In her sophomore campaign, defenseman Sasha Nanji has put herself above all the
other defensive players in the nation. In points per game by a
defenseman, Nanji leads the nation at 1.30 ppg. She’s reached
the total with eight goals and five assists in 10 games played. The
next closest competitor is Laura Fortino of Cornell. Fortino is
averaging 1.07 ppg on 15 points in 14 games.
CONFERENCE LEADERS
Through eight games of its conference season, the Dartmouth team
has a variety of skaters near the top of the league statistical
leaders. Sasha
Nanji is representing the Big Green the most. The
sophomore is second in the conference in goals with seven, second
in points with 11 and leads the league in defensive scoring (11
points). In assists, Camille
Dumais is in a three-way tie for second with
six.
OUTSIDE THE ECAC
The Big Green are 1-1-0 out of conference this season after their
loss at Boston College. Last year, the squad was 3-2-1 out of
conference. All of the non-conference games last year were against
Hockey East foes. The game against New Hampshire continues a
stretch of five consecutive non-league games.
EXTENDED BREAK
The Big Green are in the midst of one of their longest stretches
of the season without playing a game. When the team hits the ice at
New Hampshire it will be the first game in 16 days for Dartmouth.
After the contest at UNH, the Big Green will take another extended
break (17 days) before playing at Vermont on December 29. In total,
the team will play one game over the span of 33 days.
NOVEMBER
The Big Green went 4-4 in the Thanksgiving month. Dartmouth played
at Princeton and Quinnipiac on November 12 and 13. The Big Green
earned back-to-back overtime victories in large part due to
defenseman Sasha Nanji. The
sophomore recorded her first career hat trick at Princeton in a 3-2
victory. She scored all three Big Green goals, including the all
important game winner, 2:11 into the first overtime. The next night
at Quinnipiac, Nanji struck again with a game-winning goal a minute
into the first overtime.
On November 16, the team returned home after four straight games on the road and defeated Providence, 3-2. Three different players scored for the Big Green.
Dartmouth next played a home-and-home series against Harvard, with the Crimson winning both games. At Harvard on November 19, the Crimson scored five goals in a 5-3 win. Nanji scored one of the Big Green’s three goals. The next night, November 20, the Big Green held a 2-1 lead at the end of the second period, but Harvard scored two goals in the third to win, 3-2.
At sixth-ranked Boston College on November 24, Dartmouth suffered its third straight loss in a 4-2 Eagles’ victory. Boston College held the lead the entire contest, including scoring three goals in the first period.
SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
New Hampshire enters the game with an 8-10-0 record overall and a
2-7-0 mark in Hockey East play. The Wildcats have played a season
full of highs and lows. After going 1-2 in its first three games,
UNH strung together seven straight victories to improve to 8-2.
Since then, New Hampshire has lost eight consecutive contests,
including seven in its conference.
Freshman Arielle O’Neill leads the team in scoring with 11 points. She has scored seven goals and has four assists. Two players are tied for second on the team with 10 points. Sophomore Kristina Lavoie has six goals and four assists, and senior Courtney Birchard has four goals and six assists. Sophomore Kristine Horn leads the team in assists with seven. She also has scored two goals.
In net, two different players have played over 250 minutes. Junior Lindsey Minton has seen the majority of the action, starting 13 games. She has played 780:20 minutes, has 289 saves, a .926 save percentage, a 1.07 goals against average and a 6-7-0 record. Senior Kayley Herman has started five games. She has played 296:20 minutes, has 112 saves, an .882 save percentage, a 3.04 goals against average and a 2-3-0 record.
The Wildcats are averaging 1.78 goals per game, but are giving up 2.22 to opponents. The squad averages 25.2 shots per game with opponents taking 24.5. On the power play, UNH has only converted five of 62 chances or 8.1 percent of the time. On the penalty kill, New Hampshire has only allowed eight goals in 91 chances.
SERIES HISTORY
When the Big Green travel to New Hampshire it will mark the 49th
meeting between the two programs. The Wildcats lead the all-time
series, 33-12-3. The teams first met on January 21, 1978 at
Thompson Arena. UNH won the first contest, 8-3, and earned
victories in the first 14 games between the two squads. Dartmouth
finally picked up a win at home on January 29, 1992. Of late, New
Hampshire has controlled the series, winning five of the last seven
games. The Big Green’s last win against the Wildcats was in
2007, and the last time they won at UNH was in 2005.
