No. 10 Women's Hockey Ties Clarkson in ECAC Hockey Opener

Friday, October 28

Potsdam, N.Y.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Clarkson

No. 10 Women's Hockey Ties Clarkson in ECAC Hockey Opener

10/28/2011 11:07:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

POTSDAM, N.Y. — The 10th-ranked Dartmouth women's hockey team tied Clarkson on Friday, 2-2. It marked the first tie for the Big Green since Jan. 3, 2010 when they tied at Connecticut, 3-3. The Big Green are now 0-1-1 overall and 0-0-1 in the ECAC. Clarkson is now 4-1-4 overall and 0-0-1 in the conference.

For the second consecutive game, Dartmouth jumped out to a two-goal lead. After a scoreless first period, junior Jenna Hobeika (Alpine, N.H.) redirected a shot from the point by junior Margaux Sharp (Carleton Place, Ontario) at 10:39 for the game's first goal. It marked Hobeika's first goal of the season and Sharp's second assist.

With .6 of a second remaining in the stanza, junior Sasha Nanji (Markham, Ontario) connected off assists from senior Reagan Fischer (Irma, Alberta) and junior Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Quebec) to give Dartmouth a two-goal lead through 40 minutes. It marked Nanji's first goal of the year and the second assist for Fischer and Dumais.

In the third period, Clarkson put pressure on the Big Green from the opening faceoff. Just 76 seconds into the third, freshman Christine Lambert found the puck in front during a scramble and poked in her third goal of the season.

With regulation time winding down, Clarkson pulled goaltender Erica Howe for the extra skater, and the moved paid off with the tying goal. With 62 seconds remaining in regulation, junior Danielle Skirrow took a pass out of the corner by sophomore Jamie Lee Rattray and slipped in her fourth goal of the season to make it a 2-2 game.

Neither team could find the net in the overtime period. The Golden Knights fired two shots on goal, but sophomore Lindsay Holdcroft (Pittsburgh, Pa.) saved both. The Big Green took only one shot and Howe made the save.

Holdcroft recorded 31 saves for the second consecutive game. Dartmouth was 0-for-6 on the power play, while Clarkson went 0-for-2.

The Big Green plays at St. Lawrence on Saturday at 4 p.m.