Women's Hockey Hits the Road for Vermont on Sunday

Game 12
Sunday, Dec. 14: Dartmouth (4-6-1) vs. Vermont (8-9-1)
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Burlington, Vt. – Gutterson Fieldhouse
All-Time Series: Dartmouth leads, 36-4-0

THIS WEEK
The Big Green will play their first of six consecutive road games on Sunday, Dec. 14, facing Vermont at Gutterson Fieldhouse at 7 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT
No. 1 Boston College pushed its unbeaten streak to 18 with a 6-1 win against Dartmouth on Wednesday night at Thompson Arena. Morgan Illikainen scored the home team's lone goal, finding the back of the net at 4:56 in the second period, with assists going to Laura Stacey and Eleni Tebano. Though suffering the loss, netminder Robyn Chemago turned aside 27 shots. At the other end of the ice, Katie Burt stopped 29 in picking up the win. Shots were 33-30 in favor of the visitors, but the Green held a 15-8 edge in the last 20 minutes as they played to the final horn.

SCOUTING THE CATAMOUNTS
Vermont is currently riding a five-game losing streak. Most recently, the Catamounts suffered a 4-1 loss to Boston University on Dec. 6. The weekend after Thanksgiving, they played Maine twice, falling by a score of 3-0 on Friday and 2-1 the following day. Vermont's last victory was a 5-4 win over Syracuse on Nov. 15. Amanda Pelkey and Dayna Colang lead the team with 17 points apiece, both from eight goals and nine assists.

LAST TIME AGAINST VERMONT
Dartmouth dropped an overtime heartbreaker to Vermont, 1-0, on Dec. 11, 2013 inside Thompson Arena. With just over a minute remaining in the extra stanza, Pelkey took a feed from defenseman Gina Repaci and skated in uncontested on netminder Lindsay Holdcroft. As the Big Green goalie slid to her right, Pelkey flipped a backhand that found the back of the net for the game winner. Pelkey's team-leading 13th marker of the season for the Catamounts was the game's lone goal and snapped a 13-game Dartmouth winning streak versus Vermont.

ECAC HOCKEY STANDINGS
Since no teams competed against conference opponents yet this week, the standingd have not changed. The day after tying Dartmouth last Friday, Quinnipiac suffered its first loss to an ECAC Hockey rival, falling to Harvard, 2-1. Even with the defeat, the Bobcats remain atop the rankings with a record of 6-1-2 and 14 points. Clarkson is close behind with a mark of 6-2-1 for 13 points after falling to Cornell on Friday by a score of 8-3. The Big Green sits in eighth, ahead of Brown, Colgate, RPI and Union.

HUDAK & CO.
Having been with the Big Green women's hockey team since the 2003-04 season, Mark Hudak has compiled a record of 209-115-29 as he continues through his 12th season. His accomplishments with the team include two Ivy League titles, two ECAC Tournament titles, one ECAC regular-season title, six NCAA Tournament appearances and two Frozen Four showings. On the bench, Hudak is joined by associate head coach Holley Tyng, who is in her 10th season with the team, and assistant coach Josh Liegl, who returns to the Big Green coaching staff for his third year.

CAPTAINS
The Green and White are led by captain Karlee Odland, and alternate captains Illikainen and Catherine Berghuis. This is the first time since the 2010-11 season that just one player will wear the 'C'. So far in the 2014-15 season, Odland leads with three goals and three assists for six points. Berghuis has netted one and three helpers, and Illikainen has tallied a pair of goals and assists.

LEADING THE WAY
With her five goals and eight assists, Laura Stacey leads the Big Green with 13 points. The junior has scored at least one point in all but two games this season and had a season-high four points (one goal, three assists) in the 6-2 victory over New Hampshire on Oct. 26. Lindsey Allen is Dartmouth's leading goal scorer with seven markers, while also tallying an assist in the 4-4 tie against Quinnipiac on Dec. 5. She is the only Big Green player so far this season to have scored a hat trick, helping to lead Dartmouth to a 5-1 victory over St. Lawrence on Nov. 8. She and Kennedy Ottenbreit, who has four goals and four assists, are tied for second on the team with eight points.

FRESH FACES
Four freshmen were added to the roster at the start of the season. The talented group consists of forwards Brooke Ahbe, Elena Horton and Morgan Turner, and defenseman Hailey Noronha. Ahbe was selected to the United States U18 National team that won silver at the U18 World Championships in Hungary this past year, while Noronha was a two-time member of the Canada U18 National Team that won gold in Budapest in March. Horton and Turner's teams have both played at the USA National Championships. Since first donning the Green and White uniform in October, Turner and Ahbe have each netted one goal and Horton has tallied one assist. Noronha leads the group with three helpers.

BETWEEN THE PIPES
Against Boston College on Wednesday, starting netminder Robyn Chemago had a total of 27 saves in the loss. So far this season, she has played every minute of Dartmouth's 11 games, saving 263 shots while allowing 32 goals. She has a save percentage of .892 and 2.90 goals against average.

WHAT'S NEXT FOR DARTMOUTH?
The Big Green will have a two-week break before returning to the ice on New Year's Eve, facing Northeastern at historic Matthews Arena at 2 p.m. The Upper Valley squad will briefly return to Hanover before hitting the road for games at Yale and Brown on Jan. 2-3.

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