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Women's Ice Hockey
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12/31/2010 12:36:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey
Saturday: Connecticut (7-10-1, 4-4-1 HE) at Dartmouth (6-5-0, 5-3-0)
Location: Hanover, N.H.
Date: Saturday, Jan. 1, 4 p.m.
Series Record: Dartmouth leads 10-3-3
Sunday: Connecticut (7-10-1, 4-4-1 HE) at Dartmouth (6-5-0, 5-3-0)
Location: Hanover, N.H.
Date: Sunday, Jan. 2, 2 p.m.
Series Record: Dartmouth leads 10-3-3
SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
Dartmouth
started the season winning six of seven, but have struggled of late. The squad
has a 6-5-0 record overall and a 5-3-0 mark in the ECAC. The Big Green are tied
for third in the conference with 10 points. Cornell leads the league with 16
points.
Multiple skaters have tallied points for Dartmouth, with sophomore Sasha Nanji leading the way. Nanji leads the team with 13 points on eight goals and five assists. Sophomore Camille Dumais is second on the team in points with 11. She has three goals and eight assists. Senior Amanda Trunzo is third in points with 10 on six goals and four assists. Junior Kelly Foley has five goals and three assists for eight points. Sophomore Sally Komarek is second on the team in assists with six. She also has a goal for seven total points. Lauren Kelly leads the freshman class with six points on one goal and five assists. Junior Reagan Fischer also has six points on two goals and four assists. Overall, the squad has had 14 players who have recorded a point, and had 10 players record a goal and an assist.
In net, freshman Lindsay Holdcroft has seen a majority of the action, starting seven games. She has played 421:04 minutes, made 119 saves, has a 2.85 goals against average, a 4-3-0 record and a .856 save percentage. Sophomore Whitney Woodcox has started four games, totaling 238:59 minutes. She has made 64 saves, has a 2.51 goals against average, a 2-2-0 record and a .865 save percentage.
The team is averaging 2.91 goals per game, while giving up 2.82 goals per game. The offense has been aggressive, taking 30.5 shots per game. On the power play, the Big Green have scored goals on 10 of their 56 chances or 17.7 percent of the time. On the penalty kill, Dartmouth has allowed goals five out of the 40 chances.
NATIONAL LEADER
Defenseman
Sasha Nanji is a main reason why the Big Green have won six games this season,
and the numbers she is putting up are some of the best in the country. The
sophomore leads the nation in points per game by a defenseman. She is averaging
1.18 points per game on eight goals and five assists in 11 contests. The next
closest skater is Cornell's Laura Fortino who is averaging 1.07 points per
game.
CONFERENCE LEADERS
Through eight games of its conference
season, the Dartmouth team has a variety of skaters near the top of the league
statistical leaders. Sasha Nanji is representing the Big Green the most. The
sophomore is second in the conference in goals with seven, second in points
with 11 and leads the league in defensive scoring (11 points). In assists,
Camille Dumais is in a three-way tie for second with six.
OUTSIDE THE ECAC
Dartmouth is 1-2 outside of the conference on the season. The team defeated Providence at home, but lost at Boston College and New Hampshire. All of the Big Green's non-conference games are against Hockey East teams this season. The team has three non-conference games left with two at home against Connecticut and one on the road at Vermont.
EXTENDED BREAK
The Big Green have had a long stretch without competitive games, since the loss at UNH. Dartmouth played at the Wildcats on Dec. 11 and have gone 19 days without playing a game. It is the longest stretch of the season in which the squad goes without playing a contest. The team was scheduled to play at Vermont on Dec. 29, but weather issues postponed the game until Jan. 18.
SCOUTING THE HUSKIES
Connecticut enters the new year with a 7-10-1 record and a 4-4-1 mark in Hockey East play. The Huskies are 2-2 in their last four games, with an 11-0 win against Sacred Heart, a 4-0 loss to Boston University, a 5-1 loss at Providence and a 1-0 win at Union. UConn started the season 1-7-1, but have won six of its last nine games. Against Union, Brittany Murphy scored the game-winning goal in the first period.
Freshman Taylor Gross leads the team in scoring with 14 points. She has a team-leading 10 goals and four assists. Senior Jennifer Chaisson is second on the team with 12 points on three goals and nine assists. Sophomore Kelly Horan is the only other skater with double-digit points. She has 10 points on four goals and six assists.
In net, junior Alexandra Garcia has seen a majority of the action. She has played in 16 games, starting 15, has played 904:45 minutes, made 462 saves, has a .917 save percentage, a 2.79 goals against average and a 5-9-1 record. She also has two shutouts.
SERIES HISTORY
The two contests will mark the 17th and 18th time the two squads have met on the ice. Dartmouth leads the all-time series, 10-3-3. The first meeting between the two schools took place on March 3, 1978 at Thompson Arena. The Huskies earned the victory and it remains the only time UConn has defeated the Big Green in Hanover. From 1979 until 2003, Dartmouth won 10 out of the 11 games the teams played. In the four games since, the Big Green are 0-2-2. In last season's two meetings, UConn won 3-2 on January 2, and the teams tied 3-3 on January 3. Both games were played at UConn.