Team Notes: Dartmouth Returns Home to Host RPI and Union

HANOVER, N.H. — Playing at historic Fenway Park, the team used a late goal by junior Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Quebec) to upend Providence, 3-2. Dumais took a pass from senior Kelly Foley (South Boston, Mass.) and was stuffed on her first attempt, but flipped the second shot over the goaltender’s skate for the game-winner.

It was the third point of the day for Dumais, who also assisted on two goals. Junior Sasha Nanji (Markham, Ontario) and freshman Karlee Odland (Vauxhall, Alberta) scored the other two.

SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
The Dartmouth women’s hockey team enters the weekend with a 9-5-2 record overall, a 5-3-2 ECAC Hockey mark and are 2-1-1 in the Ivy League. This weekend, the team looks to improve on its 2-4-0 record at Thompson Arena. Last weekend, the team got back into ECAC Hockey play for the first time since Nov. 30.

Through 16 games, Dartmouth has had 17 players record a point, 12 skaters with multiple points and nine players with at least one goal and one assist. Dumais leads the team with 18 points on seven goals and a team-best 11 assists. Foley is second with 17 points on a team-high 11 goals and six assists. Senior Reagan Fischer (Irma, Alberta) ranks third with four goals and nine assists for 13 points. Nanji leads the Big Green defensemen with five goals and seven assists for 12 points. Senior Jenna Hobeika (Alpine, N.J.) is fifth with nine points on five goals and four assists. Juniors Sally Komarek (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Margaux Sharp (Carleton Place, Ontario) are tied for sixth with seven points. Komarek has three goals and four assists, and Sharp has one goal and six assists. Morgan Illikainen (Grand Rapids, Minn.) leads all freshmen with five points on five assists.

Sophomore Lindsay Holdcroft (Pittsburgh, Pa.) has played all but three games for Dartmouth. She has 319 saves, a .922 save percentage, a 2.06 goals against average, a 7-4-2 record and two shutouts in 786:13 minutes.

The Big Green are averaging 2.88 goals per game, while allowing 2.38 goals against. The squad takes 28.4 shots per game and commits 4.10 penalties per game. Dartmouth is 12-for-82 on the power play, converting 14.6 percent of the time, and is 54-for-62 on the penalty kill at 87.1 percent.
    
FIRST GOAL AT FIRST BASE
Odland recorded her first collegiate goal on Tuesday in just her fourth career game after missing the first half of the season due to injury. Her first score came at Fenway Park and at the time gave the Big Green a 2-1 lead midway through the third period. With her tally, each Dartmouth freshman skater has recorded at least one point this season.

100 IN STYLE
For senior Moira Scanlon (Chicago, Ill.) the game at Fenway won’t just be remembered because of the novelty of the event, but also because she skated in her 100th game for the Big Green in her career. She became the 73rd player in the history of the program to reach the century mark.

Fellow senior Erica Dobos (Bethel Park, Pa.) also reached the 100 plateau against Northeastern on Nov. 26. Foley gets the chance to play in her 100th contest against RPI. Hobeika also has an opportunity to get to triple digits this year as she has played in 87 games. 

ROAD WARRIORS
The Big Green have been almost unbeatable away from Thompson Arena this season. The victory against Providence was the first neutral-site game of the season  and improved Dartmouth to 7-1-2 away from Thompson, including unbeaten in its last nine games. The team last lost on the road in the first game of the season at fourth-ranked Boston College on Oct. 23. 

PAYS TO SHOOT MORE
The offense forced the action against Providence and outshot the Friars, 31-20. It marked the seventh time this season the Big Green have outshot opponents. In all seven games, Dartmouth is unbeaten and has earned the victory in six of the contests. When the opponent takes more shots, the Big Green are 3-3-1.

NATIONAL RANKINGS
After not receiving any votes for almost a month, Dartmouth once again received votes in the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. The Big Green received six votes with five teams receiving votes outside of the top 10.

For the first time this season, someone other than Wisconsin topped the poll with Minnesota grabbing the top spot after the Gophers beat the Badgers last weekend. Cornell is the highest-ranked ECAC Hockey team in third. Despite an 0-1-1 weekend, Harvard held on to the 10th spot.

The Big Green earned 17 votes in the USA Hockey/ESPN the Magazine Poll, just missing out on the top 10. Harvard is in 10th with 31 votes.

TIES & OVERTIME
The Big Green earned their second tie of the season on Saturday against Princeton. Dartmouth also skated to a 2-2 tie at Clarkson on Oct. 28. With each of their ties coming on the road, the Big Green have not had a tie at Thompson Arena since hosting Clarkson on Feb. 20, 2009. That game ended with the score knotted at four.

With the game going into overtime against the Tigers, it marked the fourth time this season the team has skated an extra session. In those games, Dartmouth is 1-1-2. The four overtime contests also tied the amount of overtime games the team played last season. The last time the team played more than four overtime games in a season was during the 2008-09 campaign when it had five.

A LOOK AT THE CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Dartmouth moved up to sixth place in ECAC Hockey with 12 points in 10 games. The Big Green are within two points of third and six points of second. Quinnipiac leads the conference with 20 points in 14 games played. Cornell is second with 18 points in 10 games, and Princeton sits in the third with 14 points in 14 games.

SCOUTING THE ENGINEERS
Rensselaer comes into the weekend with a 5-13-4 record overall and are 2-6-2 in ECAC Hockey. The team is currently 10th in the conference with six points in 10 games. The Engineers have lost three out of their last four games, but earned a split last weekend at home against Colgate and Cornell.

RPI cruised past Colgate on Jan. 6, 4-1. Freshman Eleeza Cox scored the game-winning goal in the second period and added her eighth goal of the season with 1:06 left in the third. Senior Alisa Harrison assisted on both scores. The next night against Cornell, the Big Red shutout RPI, 3-0, behind strong defense, holding the Engineers to only 15 shots on goal.

Harrison and sophomore Jordan Smelker lead the team in points with 16. Harrison has seven goals and nine assists, and Smelker has six goals and a team-leading 10 assists. Cox and senior Jill Vandergrift are tied for third with 11 points. Vandergrift has five goals and six assists, and Cox has a team-best eight goals and three assists.

In net, freshmen Kelly O’Brien and Brianna Piper have split the games this season. O’Brien has played in 13 with Piper seeing action in 12. O’Brien played both games last weekend and has 271 saves, an .889 save percentage, a 2.90 goals against average, a 3-8-1 record and two shutouts in 704:05 minutes.

RPI is averaging 2.09 goals per game, while allowing 3.09 goals against. The Engineers take 24.5 shots per game and commit 4.80 penalties per game. On the power play, the team is 14-for-97 (14.4 percent) and is 84-for-100 (84.0 percent) on the penalty kill.

SERIES HISTORY
Friday will mark the 14th time the Engineers and the Big Green have met on the ice. Dartmouth leads the series, 9-3-1. The two schools first met on October 29, 2006, with the Big Green earning a 5-1 home victory. RPI earned its first two wins in the series in 2010 with a 2-1 victory on Jan. 22 and a 5-2 win on Feb. 13. The teams split last season’s meeting with each team winning on their home ice. 

SCOUTING THE DUTCHWOMEN
Union enters the weekend with a 3-16-3 record overall and are 1-8-1 in ECAC Hockey. The team is currently 11th in the conference with three points in 10 games. The Dutchwomen have lost nine out of their last 11 games, but earned a 2-2 tie at Connecticut on Tuesday.

Last weekend, Union lost two games at home, including a heartbreaker in overtime. The team hosted Cornell on Friday and suffered a 9-1 loss with the Dutchwomen’s lone goal coming from junior Rhianna Kurio. On Saturday against Colgate, the Raiders took a 1-0 lead in the beginning of the third, but Kurio tied the game with 10 minutes to go in the stanza. The contest went to overtime with Colgate scoring a power-play goal three minutes in to secure the victory.

Freshman Bryanne Panchuk leads the team in points with 10 on four goals and six assists. Junior Jeannie Sabourin is second with nine points on four goals and five assists. Kurio and senior Lauren Cromartie are tied for third with eight points. Kurio has six goals and two assists, and Cromartie has three goals and five assists.

In net, the team has used three different goaltenders, hoping to find the hot hand. Senior Kate Gallagher has played in four of the last five games, and has 276 saves, a .942 save percentage, a 1.95 goals against average and a 1-4-3 record in 522:51 minutes.

Union is averaging 1.86 goals per game, while allowing 3.45 goals against. The Dutchwomen take 26.0 shots per game and commit 4.40 penalties per game. On the power play, the team is 9-for-84 (10.7 percent) and is 75-for-91 (82.4 percent) on the penalty kill.

SERIES HISTORY
When Union and Dartmouth meet this weekend it will be the 17th time the two teams have played. The Big Green have won the previous 16. Eight of the 16 victories have been shutouts for the Big Green. The teams first met on Jan. 30 2004, with Dartmouth winning at Union 7-0. The Big Green are 7-0 at home against the Dutchwomen. Dartmouth won both contests last season by a combined score of 9-2.