Dartmouth Field Hockey Drops Ivy Game at Yale

Saturday, October 17

New Haven, Conn.

12:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

Yale

Dartmouth Field Hockey Drops Ivy Game at Yale

10/17/2009 2:45:00 PM | Field Hockey

By: Dartmouth

Box Score

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Dartmouth field hockey team fell behind 4-1 in the early stages of the second half against Yale and didn't recover as the Bulldogs came away with the 5-2 win in a battle of second-place teams.

Junior co-captain Virginia Peisch (Koenigstein, Germany) and sophomore Kelly Hood (Berlin, N.H.) were the Big Green goal scorers and the two also assisted on each other's tally. Sophomore Meagan Vakiener (Port Murray, N.J.) took the loss making only three saves between the pipes.

Yale (7-5, 3-1 Ivy) got two goals and an assists from Ashley McCauley, while Mia Rosati, Erin Carter and Marissa Waldemore also tallied goals in the contest. Charlotte Goins got the start in net and earned her second win of the season turning aside 11 saves.

The Bulldogs wasted no time getting on the board as Yale went on top 8:34 into the game on Rosati's only tally of the game.

Dartmouth (6-7, 2-2 Ivy) fired back to tie the score at 1-1. Peisch netted her third goal of the season coming on a penalty corner with the assist going to Hood, who found Peisch on a set play for the Big Green.

Yale then took control with three unanswered goals late in the first half and into the second. With 3:36 left in the first half, Erin Carter gave Yale the 2-1 lead, a lead they would not give up. She was credited with her sixth goal of the year and it came unassisted. McCauley added to the lead in the final minute of play in the half with the first of her two on the afternoon to make it 3-1 at the half.

About six minutes into the second frame, Yale got its largest lead at 4-1 on a goal by Waldemore on a penalty corner with the assist going to Julia Weiser. The teams went scoreless for the next 20 minutes before Hood cut the lead to 4-2 with her team best 12th tally of the year with the assist awarded to Peisch.

That was the closest the Big Green would get as McCauley got her second goal of the game with 7:05 remaining to give the Bulldogs a 5-2 win.

Dartmouth outshot Yale 26-19 and had a huge advantage in penalty corners with 18 opportunities to only eight by the Bulldogs.

The Big Green will back in Hanover this coming Saturday as Dartmouth hosts Columbia on Homecoming for a 12 p.m. start.