Dartmouth Field Hockey Edged by Vermont in Overtime

Wednesday, September 24

Hanover, N.H.

3 p.m.

Dartmouth College

Vermont

Hood Named Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week

Dartmouth Field Hockey Edged by Vermont in Overtime

9/24/2008 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey

By: Dartmouth

Box Score

HANOVER, N.H. ? The Dartmouth field hockey team took a late lead with three unanswered goals, but Vermont forced overtime in the final minutes and edged the Big Green with a 4-3 win in the extra session.

For Vermont (4-4), Maegan Luce tallied the game-winner and added two assists to lead the Catamounts to the non-conference victory. Wendy Carbone chipped in with a goal and an assist as Vermont had four different goal scorers.

For Dartmouth (0-5), freshman Kelly Hood (Berlin, N.H.) posted her first collegiate goal and also recorded an assist, while senior co-captain Ashley Hines (Newburyport, Mass.) and junior Chelsea Dodds (Hanover, N.H.) also put the ball in the net for the Big Green.

Vermont was able to take an early lead, just 31 seconds into the game when Luce drove past the Dartmouth defense and moved past a diving Meagan Vakiener (Port Murray, N.J.). Luce then found Megan Maynard open at the left post and she scored to make 1-0 Catamounts.

Lauren Burke gave Vermont a 2-0 lead midway through the first half as she fired shot from the top of the circle on a penalty corner that beat Vakiener to the right side.

Dartmouth got on the board with five minutes remaining in the first half on Hood's first of the season. She received a nice push pass on the corner from senior co-captain Kristen McCormick (Stoughton, Mass.) and she shoveled a shot past Vermont goalkeeper Kristen Heavens for the score.

In the second half, Hines netted her first of the season to tie the score at two. Hood drove into the middle on a penalty corner and found Hines on her left side and she lifted the ball to the upper right corner for the goal.

The Big Green got its first lead of the game with 12 minutes remaining when Dartmouth was awarded a penalty stroke. Dodds didn't disappoint with a shot that went to the upper right and past Heavens to give the Big Green a 3-2 lead.

Vermont, however, didn't go away as Carbone added her second of the contest with an amazing tip in. On Vermont's fifth corner of the afternoon, Luce fired a pass through the crease and Carbone was able to put her stick waste high as she connected with game-tying goal with three minutes left.

Luce once again came up big for the Catamounts in overtime. She beat the Dartmouth defense on long pass, kept the ball from going out of bounds and sneaked one past Vakiener to give Vermont the 4-3 overtime victory.

Vakiener finished the afternoon with four saves, while Heavens post three of her own.

Dartmouth opens its Ivy League schedule this coming Saturday as the Big Green hosts Brown at 12 p.m. at Chase Field.