Fischer Scores Game-Winning Goal with 25 Seconds Left in Overtime

Friday, January 20

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

COLGATE

Fischer Scores Game-Winning Goal with 25 Seconds Left in Overtime

1/20/2012 10:32:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. — With only 25 seconds left in overtime, senior Reagan Fischer (Irma, Alberta) netted the game-winning goal to give the 10th-ranked Dartmouth women's hockey team a 4-3 win over Colgate on Friday at Thompson Arena.

Junior Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Quebec) brought the puck down the left side of the ice opposite the benches with under a minute remaining. She circled behind the Raiders' net and flipped the puck over the sprawled Colgate goaltender, Kimberly Sass. Senior Jenna Hobeika (Alpine, N.J.) knocked the puck down in front of the crease, and Fischer batted it in as Sass dove to make the save. The victory moved Dartmouth to 12-5-2 overall and 8-3-2 in ECAC Hockey. The loss dropped the Raiders to 8-15-1 and 3-9-1 in the conference

The Big Green swarmed Fischer on the ice after a game Dartmouth should have won easily. The team dominated in the statistical categories, taking 47 shots compared to 17 for Colgate. The Big Green won 45 of the 61 faceoffs and committed only two penalties to the Raiders' eight. Dartmouth finished 1-for-8 on the power play, while the Raiders went 1-for-2.

Dartmouth had a 3-0 lead 4:29 into the second period, but Colgate never gave up and eventually tied the game with seven minutes left in the third. After a Dartmouth shot was saved by Sass, the Raiders went hard on the counter attack with Brittany Phillips driving down the left side. She cut to the center of the ice just past the Big Green blue line and took a shot at the goal. Big Green goaltender Lindsay Holdcroft (Pittsburgh, Pa.) blocked the puck back out to the left, but Jenna Klynstra was right there to slam home the rebound. It was Klynstra's second goal of the game and the fourth of the season.

The teams each had opportunities once the score was tied, including each gaining a power-play chance, but were not able to find the net in regulation. Sass finished the game with 43 saves and the Colgate defense blocked 22 shots. Holdcroft made 14 saves in her ninth victory of the season.

Not only did Fischer end the game, but she also started off the scoring for the Big Green early in the first. With Dartmouth on the power play, senior Kelly Foley (South Boston, Mass.) left the puck for Dumais on the near side in the Colgate zone. Dumais sent a pass to the front of the crease and Fischer quickly redirected the puck into the left side of the net, 7:20 into the opening stanza.

The Big Green scored their second goal seven minutes later when freshman Karlee Odland (Vauxhall, Alberta) knocked in a Dumais rebound. Dartmouth stretched the lead to 3-0, 4:29 into the second, on junior Margaux Sharp's (Carleton Place, Ontario) second goal of the season. Sharp took a slapshot in front of the Dartmouth bench that deflected off a Colgate skate and past a sliding Sass.

Fischer and Dumais each finished the game with three points. Fischer tallied two goals and an assist and Dumais had three helpers. It marked the fourth straight win for the Big Green and the team is unbeaten in its last eight games.

Dartmouth hosts third-ranked Cornell on Saturday at 4 p.m. The Big Green won 5-4 in Ithaca earlier this season.