Team Notes: Dartmouth Rings in New Year Hosting Vermont
HANOVER, N.H. —In the victory at New
Hampshire on Dec. 12, the Big Green had five players score a goal,
two with multiple goals, 10 score a point and five with multiple
points. Seniors Kelly
Foley (South Boston, Mass.) and Erica
Dobos (Bethel Park, Pa.) each led the way with two goals
and one assist.
SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
The Dartmouth women’s hockey team has a 6-5-1 record
overall, a 4-3-1 ECAC Hockey mark and are 2-1-0 in the Ivy League
entering 2012. The Big Green hasn’t played since it won at
New Hampshire on Dec. 11, 8-5.
The team is in seventh place in the ECAC with nine points in eight games. Out of the six teams ahead of Dartmouth in the league only Harvard and Cornell have played eight-or-less conference contests. The other four teams have either played 10 or 12 games. Quinnipiac leads the league with 19 points in 12 games, Clarkson is in second with 13 points in 10 games and Cornell and Harvard are tied for third with 12 points.
Through 12 games, Dartmouth has had 14 players record a point, 11 skaters with multiple points and nine players with at least one goal and one assist. Foley leads the team with 15 points on a team-best 10 goals and five assists. Junior Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Que.) is second with four goals and seven assists for 11 points. Senior Reagan Fischer (Irma, Alberta) is the other Dartmouth skater with at least 10 points. She has two goals and a team-leading eight assists for 10 points. Junior Sasha Nanji (Markham, Ontario) leads the Big Green defensemen with four goals and five assists for nine points. Senior Jenna Hobeika (Alpine, N.J.) and junior Sally Komarek (Minneapolis, Minn.) are tied for fifth on the team with six points. Each player has three goals and three assists for six points. Morgan Illikainen (Grand Rapids, Minn.) leads all freshmen with five points on five assists.
Sophomore Lindsay Holdcroft (Pittsburgh, Pa.) has played all but two games for Dartmouth. She has 246 saves, a .921 save percentage, a 2.10 goals against average, a 5-4-1 record and two shutouts in 601:13 minutes.
The Big Green are averaging 2.75 goals per game, while allowing 2.50 goals against. The squad takes 26.3 shots per game and commits 3.80 penalties per game. Dartmouth is 9-for-56 on the power play, converting 16.1 percent of the time, and is 37-for-42 on the penalty kill at 88.1 percent.
FROZEN FENWAY
The Big Green will be making a trip to Boston on Jan. 10 to do
what few teams have done, play hockey at Fenway Park.Providence
will host Dartmouth at 3 p.m. as part of Sun Life’s Frozen
Fenway 2012.
The Dartmouth-Providence game will be the only women’s
college hockey game played there this season and one of six college
contests. Their game on the 10th will be the only contest played
that day, and tickets are available by phone at 877-REDSOX9 or
online at redsox.com/frozenfenway.
POINT STREAKS
With her three points at New Hampshire, Foley now has a point in
four straight games totaling seven points. The last game the
captain played without registering a point was in the 1-0 loss to
Clarkson on Nov. 19.
Foley is the fourth Big Green skater to have a point streak of
three-or-more games. Dumais also had a three-game stretch, Nanji
had a four-contest streak early in the season and Fischer started
the year tallying a point in the Big Green’s first five
games.
CAREER FIRSTS
Senior Brittany
Mills (Winchester, Mass.) scored her first collegiate goal
in the victory at UNH. Mills converted a rebound off of a shot
from Dobos. It marked
Mills’ first point in her 47th career game.
Dobos also had a career night, recording a career high in goals
and points. The two goals bested her previous high of one, which
she had done six times. She also had three points in the contest,
which was a new career high. She previously had two points in three
different games.
ROAD WARRIORS
The Big Green have been almost unbeatable away from Thompson Arena
this season. The win at UNH improved Dartmouth to 5-1-1 on the
road, including unbeaten in its last six games and a five-game
winning streak. The team last loss on the road in the first game of
the season at fourth-ranked Boston College on Oct. 23.
AWAY FROM THE ICE
With exams in early December and then the holidays, the Big Green
did not play many games in the last month. In all, the game against
UNH was the only game for the team in a span of 32 days. With the
game at Providence being moved to Jan. 10, the contest against
Vermont will be the first game since Dec. 11 and the first home
contest since Nov. 30.
DÉJÁ VU
Dartmouth is in a similar situation to the one it found itself in
last season, except one win better. Last year, the team lost to New
Hampshire on Dec. 11, 2010. After the loss, the Big Green had a 6-6
record overall before winning eight of 11 games in January and
eventually reaching the ECAC Tournament Championship and NCAA
Playoffs.
PAYS TO SHOOT MORE
The team took more shots than the Wildcats in the win on Dec. 11.
It marked the third time this season the Big Green have outshot
opponents. In all three games, Dartmouth has won the contests. When
the opponent takes more shots, the Big Green are 3-3-1.
GIVING UP HAT TRICKS
Dartmouth allowed a hat trick to Jenna Lascelle in the 8-5 victory
at New Hampshire. It continued a trend of winning when giving up a
hat trick to an opponent, which started last season. Last year,
Kelly Babstock of Quinnipiac scored three goals against the Big
Green at home on Nov. 13, 2010, but Dartmouth won the game in
overtime, 4-3.
SCOUTING THE CATAMOUNTS
Vermont enters 2012 with a 3-10-6 record overall and are 2-6-2 in
Hockey East. The Catamounts earned back-to-back 2-2 ties at home
against Connecticut in their most recent games on Dec. 3-4. In
Vermont’s last nine games, the squad is 1-6-2, including a
six-game losing streak from Nov. 11-26.
In the game against Connecticut on Dec. 3, junior Emily Walsh scored the Catamounts first goal and sophomore Kellie Dineen netted the second. The next day, the squad was down, 2-0, but senior Chelsea Rapin cut the lead to one and senior Kailey Nash tied the game with a minute left in regulation.
Freshmen Amanda Pelkey and Meghan Huertas are tied for the team lead with 10 points. Pelkey has three goals and seven assists and Huertas has one goal and a team-leading nine assists. Dineen and freshman Krystal Baumann are tied for third with nine points. Dineen has a team-high six goals and three assists and Baumann has four goals and five assists.
In net, sophomore Roxanne Douville has played in 13 of the team’s 19 games, including the last three games. She has 385 saves, a .904 save percentage, a 3.14 goals against average, a 2-6-5 record and one shutout in 782:56 minutes.
Vermont is averaging 1.95 goals per game, while allowing 3.42
goals against. The Catamounts take 24.0 shots per game and commit
5.70 penalties per game. On the power play, the team is
9-for-107 (8.4 percent) and is 80-for-98 (81.6 percent) on the
penalty kill.
SERIES HISTORY
The meeting between the Catamounts and the Big Green will be the
38th meeting between the two schools. Dartmouth has dominated the
series with a 34-3-0 mark, including victories in the last 32
games. Vermont last won against the Big Green on Nov. 24, 1981. The
two teams first met on February 14, 1978 with Vermont winning 4-3
at Thompson Arena. The Catamounts won again in Hanover on Jan. 30,
1979, but it marked the last time Vermont has won at Thompson
Arena. Dartmouth holds a 17-2 mark at home against Vermont. The Big
Green won 5-1 in Burlington last season.
