No. 9 Dartmouth Prepped for Home-and-Home Series with Harvard

Friday: Dartmouth (6-1-0, 5-1-0) at Harvard (2-2-2, 2-2-2)
Location: Cambridge, Mass.
Date: Friday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m.
Series Record: Dartmouth leads 42-34-3
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Saturday: Harvard (2-2-2, 2-2-2) at Dartmouth (6-1-0, 5-1-0)
Location: Hanover, N.H.
Date: Saturday, Nov. 20, 4 p.m.
Series Record: Dartmouth leads 42-34-3

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HANOVER, N.H. — The ninth-ranked Dartmouth women's hockey team competes in a home-and-home series with Harvard this Friday, November 19, and Saturday, November 20.

MATCHUP OF RANKED FOES
In a game featuring two ranked teams, the ninth-ranked Big Green came away with a 3-2 victory over 10th-ranked Providence. Three Dartmouth players scored goals, including sophomore Sasha Nanji with her team-leading seventh goal of the season. The win was the third straight for the team, which ties its season high. Dartmouth won three straight games to start the season.

SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
The Big Green have jumped into first place in the ECAC with a 6-1-0 overall record and a 5-1-0 record in the conference. The squad has 10 total points, barely edging Cornell (6-1-0, 4-0-0) who is currently in second with eight points.

Dartmouth is led by many different scorers, with defenseman Sasha Nanji leading the way. Nanji leads the team with ten points on seven goals and three assists. Senior Amanda Trunzo is tied for second on the team with nine points on five goals and four assists. Sophomore Camille Dumais also has nine points on three goals and six assists. Dumais is tied for the team lead in assists with sophomore Sally Komarek who also has six helpers. She also has one goal for seven total points. Junior Kelly Foley also has seven points on the year with four goals and three assists.

In net, freshman Lindsay Holdcroft has seen a majority of the action, starting five games. She has played 302:11 minutes, made 93 saves, has a 2.58 goals against average, a 4-1-0 record and a .877 save percentage. Sophomore Whitney Woodcox has started in two games, totaling 121 minutes. She has made 28 saves, has a 2.48 goals against average, a 2-0-0 record and a .848 save percentage.

The team is averaging 3.57 goals per game, while only giving up 2.57 goals per game. The offense has been aggressive, taking 32.1 shots per game. On the power play, the Big Green have scored goals on five of their 32 chances or 15.6 percent of the time. On the penalty kill, Dartmouth has allowed goals five out of the 27 chances.

REACHING MILESTONES
Amanda Trunzo reached the elusive 100-point mark this past weekend at Quinnipiac. She scored a goal early in the contest and then assisted on the game-winning goal in overtime for her 100th point. For her career, the senior has 56 goals and 45 assists. She became the 32nd player in the program's history to total 100 points. The last two players to score 100 were Trunzo's frontline teammates, Sarah Parsons '10 and Jenna Cunningham '10, last season. Trunzo is also within shouting distance of putting her name on the career goals scored record book. The forward needs 10 goals to tie for tenth place all-time. She scored 18 goals last season.

CAREER FIRST
Freshman Ali Winkel recorded her first career point on Tuesday against Providence. The forward assisted on Dartmouth's first goal of the game when Sasha Nanji tied the score with 5:32 remaining in the first period. Winkel has started all seven games for the Big Green at the right wing position.

NATIONAL LEADER
After another goal against Providence, Nanji continues to lead the nation in points per game for a defenseman. She is averaging 1.43 points per game, with ten total points on the season. Mercyhurst's Cassea Schols is second in the nation with 1.11 points per game.

NATIONAL RANKINGS
For the first time this season, the Big Green are ranked nationally. Dartmouth is ninth in the uscho.com national poll that was released on Monday. Wisconsin is ranked first (150 points) in the country and have a 9-1 record. Cornell, the only team to beat the Big Green this year, is second with 130 points. In the USA Hockey/ESPN the Magazine National Poll, Dartmouth is ranked 10th, receiving 36 points.

KIDS NIGHT
On Saturday, at home against Harvard it will be Kids Night at Thompson Arena. All kids wearing their youth hockey jersey receive $1 admission. Kids Night continues after the game with the first Kids Conference of the 2010-2011 season. Youth are invited to stick around for a mini press conference with the Big Green immediately following the game to ask the tough questions.

SCOUTING THE CRIMSON
Harvard enters the weekend with a 2-2-2 record overall and a 2-2-2 mark in the conference. It has been an up-and-down season for the Crimson who were ranked eighth nationally in the preseason, but have stumbled out of the gate. Last weekend, Harvard lost at Quinnipiac, 4-1 and tied Princeton, 2-2.

Two players are tied for the team lead in points with four. Senior Liza Ryabkina has three goals and one assist, and senior Katharine Chute also has three goals and an assist. Three players are tied for second with three points. Senior Leanna Coskren has two goals and an assist, senior Kate Buesser has scored one goal and assisted on two and freshman Marissa Gedman has three assists.

In net, Laura Bellamy has started five out of the six contests. In 284:15 minutes, she has 88 saves, allowed 13 goals, has an .871 save percentage, a 2.74 goals against average and a 2-2-1 record.

The squad is averaging 2.17 goals per game, while giving up 2.50. The team takes 33.5 shots and only allows 20.8 shots against.

SERIES HISTORY
Dartmouth and Harvard will play for the 80th and 81st time on Friday and Saturday. The Big Green lead the series, 42-34-3. The squads first met on January 11, 1978 at Harvard. Dartmouth won the contest 9-2, and took three of the first five. The Crimson have controlled the series of late, winning seven of the last eight contests. The Big Green last won at Harvard on January 6, 2009.

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