Sat., Cornell (9-5, 3-3 Ivy) at Dartmouth (9-7, 4-2 Ivy), 12 p.m.
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HANOVER, N.H. - The Dartmouth field hockey team will be up first for Big Green athletics on Saturday with a 12 p.m. start at Chase Field for Senior Day, kicking off a busy day on campus.

The field hockey team will be hosting a food drive on Saturday at Chase Field. Fans are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to the game and Dartmouth will donate them to the Upper Valley Haven. Also senior Chelsea Dodds (Hanover, N.H.) will be honored prior to the game as it will be her final game in a Big Green uniform.

Dartmouth (9-7, 4-2 Ivy) will look to capture its 10th victory of the year, which will be the most wins for the Big Green since 11 in 2002. The team is also in the hunt for its fifth Ivy League win of the year and currently sits in third place overall with a 4-2 mark. Dartmouth is has won three in a row with conference wins over Columbia and Harvard, while also downing regional-rival UMass last week.

Sophomore Kelly Hood (Berlin, N.H.) leads the Big Green with a school record 42 points. She set the record last Saturday at Harvard with a one score in the 5-3 win. Hood earned Ivy League Co-Player of the Week and also Dartmouth Female Athlete of the Week for her effort. She sits with 17 goals, which one behind Kim Jenkin ’02 for the most in a season. Jenkin set the mark back in 1999. Freshman Samantha McPherson (Ventura, Calif.) also came up big for the Big Green this past week with two goals against UMass and a score at Harvard, which earned her Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week honors on Tuesday.

Junior Rebecca Sobel (Larchmont, N.Y.) continues to be a force on the field with nine goals and seven assists for 25 points, while both junior co-captain Virginia Peisch (Koenigstein, Germany) and junior Kelly McHenry (Williamsburg, Va.) have racked up the assists with 15 apiece. Peisch, just like Hood, is one assist away from tying an all-time record here at Dartmouth. She has 31 career assists and is one away from Lauren Scopaz ’00, who had 32 in her career. Recently in net, the Big Green has had two netminders. Freshman Jenna Stearns (Thornton, N.H.) has won the last three for Dartmouth and sophomore Meagan Vakiener (Port Murray, N.J.) started all games prior to being sidelined with an injury.

Cornell (9-5, 3-3 Ivy) comes to Hanover after a disappointing 10-1 loss to Princeton last Saturday and with a win over Dartmouth the Big Red would pull even with the Big Green in the Ivy standings.

Catie De Stio is tops in all three offensive categories with 28 points on 10 goals and eight assists. Kelley Kantarian is the only other player with double-digit points with 13 on the season. She has six goals and a single assist. In goal, Melanie Jue has appeared in 12 games and has an impressive 1.27 goals against average and a 7-4-0 record, while Alex Botte has seen time in seven games and has recorded a 4.57 goals against average and a 2-1 record.

The Big Green holds a commanding lead in the all-time series with Cornell, going 20-9-1. The teams first met in 1979, a 0-0 tie, and Dartmouth won the next five meetings before Cornell snapped its losing streak in 1985 with a 1-0 victory. From then, the series was even until 1998 when the Big Green began an eight-game winning-streak against the Big Red. Cornell ended the Big Green’s run in 2006 and won again in 2007 and 2008 to win three-straight for the first time in the history of the series.