No. 8 Women's Hockey Edges Brown for Third-Straight Win

Friday, February 6

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

Brown

No. 8 Women's Hockey Edges Brown for Third-Straight Win

2/6/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

Box Score

HANOVER, N.H. ? Senior co-captain Sarah Newnam (Clifton, Va.) finally found a way to get the puck past Brown's Nicole Stock in the third period as the eighth-ranked Dartmouth women's hockey team escaped with a 1-0 win over the Bears on Friday night.

For Dartmouth (15-6-2, 12-3-2 ECAC Hockey, 6-2-0 Ivy), Newnam tallied the lone goal on the power play with the assists going to junior Jenna Cunningham (Medicine Hat, Alta.) and freshman Kelly Foley (Boston, Mass.). Senior netminder Carli Clemis (Taber, Alta.) earned her fifth shutout of the season, which is a career-high. She made 19 saves to record her 11th win of the year.

For Brown (5-17-1, 4-12-0 ECAC, 1-6-0 Ivy), Stock was the story with 48 saves, but what's amazing is that it is still 19 off of her career-high. She made 19 and 20 saves in the second and third periods, respectively.

In a scoreless first period it was all about goaltending. Both Clemis and Stock made a couple of impressive saves to keep each other's skaters off the board. Stock flashed the glove to take a pair of opportunities away from the Big Green. Dartmouth finished with a slim 9-8 advantage in shots and each team failed on a power play chance.

Stock showed up again in the second frame with 19 saves in that period alone. Even though Dartmouth held a 19-4 margin in shots for the period, the Big Green had trouble getting great scoring opportunities. In its one chance on the power play in the period, Dartmouth fired seven shots on Stock, but she was up for the challenge and made the stops to keep her team even with the Big Green.

In the third period, Dartmouth had a couple of great opportunities early on, but Stock kept coming up with the big save. However, with 5:40 left in the final period, Foley circled to puck from the end line over to Cunningham on the power play. She found Newnam open in the high slot and Newnam fired a slap shot that beat Stock to the glove side and top shelf for the win.

Dartmouth dominated on the shot count with 49 to only 19 for the Bears, while the Big Green continued its streak of games with at least one power play goal as Dartmouth went 1-for-3 on the man advantage to make it six-straight games with a man-up goal. The Big Green did a great job staying out of the box as Dartmouth committed just one penalty that came in the first period.

The Big Green will look to make it four in a row tomorrow afternoon as Yale makes its annual stop in Hanover for a 4 p.m. face-off at Thompson Arena.