Big Green Score Eight Goals in Win at UNH

Sunday, December 11

Durham, N.H.

2:00 PM

Dartmouth College

New Hampshire

12/11/2011 4:11:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

DURHAM, N.H. — The Dartmouth women's hockey team played its only game in the month of December on Sunday at New Hampshire, and it was a wild one. The contest had 13 goals, including seven in the first period, a penalty shot, a hat trick by UNH's Jenna Lascelle and three power-play goals for the Big Green. Dartmouth used three goals in the final period to secure an 8-5 victory. The win improved the Big Green to 6-5-1 overall and the loss dropped the Wildcats to 6-12-3.

Dartmouth entered the third period with a 5-4 lead, and tallied three more to achieve the victory. The Big Green extended their lead to 6-4 on senior Brittany Mills's (Winchester, Mass.) first career goal. Mills converted a rebound off of a shot from senior Erica Dobos (Bethel Park, Pa.). UNH cut the deficit to 6-5 at 14:27 when Kristina Lavoie stole the puck behind the Big Green net, and beat Holdcroft with a low shot.

The Big Green came back with a goal 66 seconds later to reestablish a two-goal lead of 7-5. Senior Kelly Foley (South Boston, Mass.) led a 3-on-1 rush down the left wing and centered a pass to senior Reagan Fischer (Irma, Alberta), who lifted a shot into the upper-right corner. It marked Fischer's second goal of the season.

Foley added an empty net goal with 27 seconds left in the stanza, which marked her second goal of the game and her third point.

Lascelle started the scoring in the contest by giving UNH a 1-0 lead at 4:10 of the first period. Lascelle gained possession in the neutral zone, advanced down the slot and wristed a shot inside left post.

Senior Jenna Hobeika (Alpine, N.J.) put Dartmouth on the board when she found a rebound on the right post and flipped the puck high into the net to tie the score, 1-1. The Big Green went in front, 2-1, when junior Sasha Nanji (Markham, Ontario) intercepted a pass at the left point and struck a low, hard pass toward the far post that senior Erica Dobos (Bethel Park, Pa.) redirected into the net.

New Hampshire regained the lead, 3-2, with goals at 14:41 and 16:32. The Big Green responded with two goals, 56 seconds apart, late in the first to reclaim the lead at 4-3. Junior Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Quebec) gained possession in the left circle and left the puck for Dobos, who charged the near post to score the visitor's third power-play goal of the game at 18:25. Foley gave the team the lead heading into the first intermission when she intercepted a pass at the high slot and fired a screened shot inside the right post.

In the second period, UNH was awarded a penalty shot following a flurry of shots followed by Hobeika illegally covering the puck in the crease. Lascelle, taking the penalty shot, skated down the slot, deked both left and right before finally pulling the puck left and firing a backhander into the goal to earn a hat trick and tie the score, 4-4, at 4:38. Dartmouth once again took the lead, 5-4, at 8:07 when Nanji converted junior Sally Komarek's (Minneapolis, Minn.) pass into a goal.

The Big Green had five players score multiple points with three players recording three points. Foley had two goals and one assist, Nanji had one goal and two assists and Dobos had two goals and one assist. It marked the first points of the season for Dobos. Sophomore Lauren Kelly (Milton, Ontario) also recorded her first point of the season with an assist.

The win improved Dartmouth to 5-1-1 on the road, including being unbeaten in its last six games and a five-game winning streak. The team also avenged a previous loss to the Wildcats at home, 5-4, in overtime on Nov. 6.

Dartmouth is in a similar situation to the one it found itself in last season. After losing to New Hampshire on Dec. 11, 2010, the Big Green had a 6-6 record overall before winning eight of 11 games in January.

Dartmouth will not play a game the rest of December and return to action at home on Jan. 3 against Vermont at 3 p.m.