Power Play Goals Propel Women's Hockey to Victory

Friday, October 29

Hanover, N.H.

5:00 PM

Dartmouth College

BROWN

Power Play Goals Propel Women's Hockey to Victory

10/29/2010 7:16:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. — Two power play goals pushed the Dartmouth women's hockey team to a 4-2 victory over Brown on Friday night at Thompson Arena. It was the season opener for the Big Green and the second game of the year for the Bears. Dartmouth is now 1-0-0 overall and 1-0-0 in ECAC play and Brown drops to 0-2-0 overall and 0-1-0 in conference play.

Dartmouth thrived in power play situations last year, and it has carried over to the new season. In a 1-1 tie in the second period, Brown committed a penalty to give Dartmouth the man advantage. The squad scored 50 seconds later when sophomore Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Que.) rocketed a shot from the far left side that ricocheted off a defender and into the net. Sasha Nanji (Markham, Ont.) and Sally Komarek (Minneapolis, Minn.) both assisted on the goal.

Brown responded in the third on a 1-on-1 breakaway in which Erica Kromm beat one defender and scored the goal as she was pushed into the net. When play resumed, Dartmouth was down one player because of the penalty. While shorthanded, the Big Green committed a second penalty and then were down two players. The team responded to the adversity by killing the power play and keeping the game tied. After another Brown penalty a couple of minutes later, junior Kelly Foley (Boston, Mass.) scored the game winning goal off and assist by Geneva Kliman (Toronto, Ont.) with 9:35 remaining in the game.

The Big Green added an insurance goal later in the third off the stick of senior captain Katie Horner (Brooklyn Park, Minn.). It marked Horner's first career goal in her 79th game played. Dartmouth opened the scoring in the first period after Nanji fired a shot into a Bear defender, and it bounced into the net. Brown scored its first goal in the second after a nifty pass from Jessica Hoyle allowed Vanessa Welten to slip the puck into the left side of the net.

Dartmouth dominated the game in shots, tallying 36. The Bears didn't have quite the same offensive output with only 14 shots. Brown committed six penalties in the contest compared to the Big Green's three.

The Big Green return to the ice on Saturday against Yale at 7 p.m. at Thompson Arena.