Dartmouth Field Hockey Knocks Off UMass in Overtime

Wednesday, September 20

Hanover, N.H.

6:00 PM

Dartmouth College

UMass

Dartmouth Field Hockey Knocks Off UMass in Overtime

9/20/2006 1:00:00 AM | Field Hockey

By: Dartmouth

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HANOVER, N.H. – Lizzie Bildner (Manchester, Mass.) led the Dartmouth field hockey team to a thrilling, 5-4, overtime victory against the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday night at Scully-Fahey Field to record there first win of the season.

After 15 minutes of scoreless play the Minutewomen struck first as Amy Novak found a streaking Kara Murphy who one-timed a shot into the lower right corner of the cage.

Not two minutes later the Big Green took advantage of a corner as Stef Miller (South Plainfield, N.J.) stopped a Megan Strout (St. Louis, Mo.) ball at the top of the circle where Whitney Waugh (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.) struck a shot past Minutewomen goaltender Becky Letourneau to even the score at one a piece.

UMass answered right back just three minutes later when Lauren Gillespie broke free from the Dartmouth defense and beat Big Green net minder Ashley Heist (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) to put the Minutewomen back on top 2-1.

The Big Green came out in the second half fired up, as Bildner found herself on a breakaway where she slotted the ball past Letourneau to pull the momentum back towards the Green.

UMass' Cher King took the lead back for her squad though, when she struck a shot from the top of the circle and beat Heist to the lower right hand corner.

In the 49th minute Dartmouth's' Katy Hagy (Bedford, N.H.) tallied up her first point of the season as she evened the score picking up a loose ball in front of the cage and tipping it past a stretched out Letourneau.

In the latter part of the second half the Big Green took their first lead of the game when Bildner netted her second of the night off a pass from in front of the net by Hagy.

But in the winding minutes of regulation the Minutewomen capitalized on their ninth corner of the match as Gillespie found the back of the net for the second time to send the game into extra time.

The Big Green ended regulation out shooting UMass 16-13.

Right off the overtime draw the Big Green pushed up field toward the UMass cage. It took just 28 seconds for Bildner to maneuver around two UMass defenders and rifle a shot past Letourneau to put the Big Green in the winning column. This goal was Bildners' first collegiate hat trick, and sixth goal of the season.

The Big Green takes to the field again on Sunday, Sept. 24, when they travel to Boston College. Game time is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.