Dartmouth Field Hockey Drops Season Finale to Cornell

Saturday, November 7

Hanover, N.H.

12:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

Cornell

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Dartmouth Field Hockey Drops Season Finale to Cornell

11/7/2009 2:00:00 PM | Field Hockey

By: Dartmouth

Box Score

HANOVER, N.H. - The Dartmouth field hockey team outshot Cornell 15-4, but couldn't capitalize on the advantage as the Big Green fell to the Big Red, 1-0, on Senior Day at Chase Field.

Dartmouth (9-8, 4-3 Ivy) got two saves from sophomore goalkeeper Meagan Vakiener (Port Murray, N.J.) and failed to score for the fifth time this season.

Cornell (10-5, 4-3 Ivy) moved into a tie with the Big Green in the Ivy standings at third overall with the win today. Senior Katie Kirnan gave the Big Red a big win with an unassisted goal in the second half to put Cornell up for good. Sophomore Alex Botte got the start in net and was impressive with seven saves, including a couple of game-savers on Dartmouth penalty corners.

There was little action in the first half as Dartmouth led in shots at 5-2, while Cornell had two penalty corner opportunities come its way, but failed to score. The Big Green went without a penalty corner in the opening half.

In the second half, the game started to pick up a bit for the Big Green. Dartmouth was awarded five penalty corners, but couldn't capitalize on them.

Kirnan scored the game-winner just 1:46 into the second half on a broken down play in the Dartmouth circle. Cornell was driving into the circle and miss played the ball, but Kirnan was able to recover and fired a shot that surprised Vakiener and hit the back of the net for the 1-0 lead.

Down the stretch Dartmouth pressured the Big Red with multiple corner opportunities. Sophomore Kelly Hood (Berlin, N.H.) became the primary option, but Botte swatted away any chance that Hood gave the Big Green.

Dartmouth finishes the season with nine wins, the most since 2005 and for the second straight year the Big Green finished third in the league with a 4-3 record.

Dartmouth also honored its lone senior prior to the game as Chelsea Dodds (Hanover, N.H.) started in her final game as a member of the Big Green. Dodds played in 35 career games for Dartmouth and registered four goals, all of which came on penalty strokes.