Field Hockey Welcomes Yale Saturday; Heads to UMass Lowell Sunday

GAME 12
Dartmouth Big Green (4-7, 2-1) vs.
Yale Bulldogs (2-9, 0-3)
Date: Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014 – 12 p.m.
Location: Hanover, N.H. – Chase AstroTurf Field
All-Time Series: Dartmouth, 23-16-2
Last Time: Oct. 19, 2013 – L, 4-3

GAME 13
Dartmouth Big Green (4-7*) vs.
UMass Lowell River Hawks (4-9*)
Date: Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014 – 1 p.m.
Location: Lowell, Mass. – Cushing Field
All-Time Series: Dartmouth, 7-0
Last Time: Oct. 11, 2013 – W, 2-0
*- Does not reflect games played prior to Sunday's meeting

UPCOMING GAMES
The Dartmouth field hockey team welcomes Yale to Hanover for a Saturday matchup at Chase Field before taking on UMass Lowell on the road Sunday afternoon. Game time against the Bulldogs is set for noon and kicks off the slate of homecoming games taking place on campus Saturday. The game in Lowell will begin at 1 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT
Dartmouth salvaged the weekend's pair of games with a 5-4 overtime win on Monday afternoon against Holy Cross. A last-second goal from freshman Anna Ewasechko and another OT tally from Ali Savage helped the Big Green escape a Crusaders team looking for a win in Hanover for the first time since 2008.

JUST ONE MORE WIN!
With just one more win, Amy Fowler will become the all-time winningest head coach in Dartmouth field hockey history. The Savage goal in OT against Holy Cross gave Fowler 126 career victories on the Big Green sideline, tying her with Mary Corrigan (1975-92/126-111) atop the program's leaderboard for coaching wins.

SCOUTING YALE
The Bulldogs come to the Upper Valley at the bottom of the Ivy League standings. Yale has managed just two wins in 11 outings this season and is 0-3 against the Ancient Eight thus far. Freshman Carol Middough has a team-leading three goals and six points this season, while only seven players total have registered a point in 2014. Senior Heather Schlesler has played every minute in goal and boasts a 2.69 save percentage with an Ivy-League leading 91 total saves.

ALL-TIME AGAINST THE BULLDOGS
Dartmouth holds a seven-game lead against Yale in the all-time series between the two programs dating back to the 1983 season. However, the balance of power has shifted in recent years toward the Bulldogs as they have won eight of the last 10. In the most recent game between the two last fall in New Haven, the home team came away with a 4-3 win as the Bulldogs' Nicole Wells scored with 25 seconds left in regulation to break a 3-3 tie and give her team the one-goal victory.

SCOUTING UMASS LOWELL
The River Hawks play Maine Friday at home, so their 4-9 record will change prior to Sunday's tilt with the Green. As it stands now, Bianca Jones leads UML with 18 points and nine goals. No other player has more than two goals or seven points this fall as Jones has been the focal point of the offense, accounting for half of the team's total markers. Kelsey Federico has been the goalie of record in all 13 games, posting a 2.53 goals against average and a .709 save percentage in the process.

AGAINST THE RIVER HAWKS
Dartmouth has never lost to UML in seven all-time meetings. The Green pushed the record to 7-0 last season in Hanover with a 2-0 win on Oct. 11, 2013. Eliza Becker and Maggie Scanlon accounted for Dartmouth's two goals in the victory.

AGAINST THE IVIES
After a loss at No. 20 Princeton to open league play, Dartmouth looks to stay unbeaten in Ivy play following wins against Brown (6-2) and Penn (5-3) at home. Yale is the third of four home games against conference opponents this season with a Nov. 1 contest against Harvard the lone remaining Ivy League game at Chase Field in 2014.

IN OT…
In Fowler's 15 seasons, this is only the fifth time that her team has won two OT games in a single campaign. The Big Green also managed two extra-session victories in 2011, 2009, 2005 and 2000. Savage has both goals in the overtimes this year, becoming the first Dartmouth player since Lauren Welsh in 2000 to score two OT winners in the same season. Welsh did so on consecutive days at home vs. Brown (9/16) and Maine (9/17).

A FIRST!
Against Holy Cross, junior Clare Detrick-Yee scored the first goal of her collegiate career. Detrick-Yee found the back of the cage on a corner play in the 16th minute of action.

ANOTHER STROKE!
Anna Rowthorn-Apel scored her third penalty stroke of the season on Monday. Her tally in the 42nd minute was actually the first of three straight penalty stroke goals in the game as Holy Cross connected in the 43rd minute and again in the 62nd.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
Following these two games, the Big Green will head to New York for an Oct. 26 meeting with Columbia at 12 p.m.

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