Big Green Women's Hockey Falls to Yale, 5-1

Friday, January 2

New Haven, Conn.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

6-7-1, 2-5-1ECAC

Yale

7-6-1, 4-3-0ECAC

Dartmouth

Yale Bulldogs

1/2/2015 8:57:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Dartmouth women's hockey opened 2015 with a loss to Ivy League and ECAC Hockey rival Yale, 5-1, at Ingalls Rink on Friday evening. The Big Green dipped to 6-7-1 and 2-5-1 in conference play, while the Bulldogs improved to 7-6-1 and 4-3-0 in ECAC Hockey action.

Senior Karlee Odland scored Dartmouth's lone goal 10 minutes into the second period, tallying her seventh of the season to move into second on the team.

Yale and Dartmouth each had a number of opportunities for goals early in the first period, but both teams' defense was on point and thwarted many close calls. Three and a half minutes in, junior Catherine Berghuis and sophomore Kennedy Ottenbreit fired at the net seconds apart, but the Bulldogs' goalie Jaimie Leonoff was able to stop both. At 11:02, Hanna Astrom opened scoring with an unassisted short-handed goal, firing into the right side of the cage over sophomore Robyn Chemago's shoulder.

The Big Green put Leonoff to work in the second, taking a handful of point-blank attempts that forced the senior netminder to move quickly. At 5:30, Astrom scored her second marker of the evening, dumping the puck in the right corner from directly outside the net after connecting with Mallory Souliotis and Jackie Raines.

After not being able to solve Leonoff for a period and a half, Odland put Dartmouth on the board following a pass from classmate Samantha Zeiss, crossing in front of the net before tipping it behind the goalie with exactly 10 minutes remaining in the period. Yale got its two-goal edge back at 16:39, a power play tally scored by Taylor Marchin, and further increased its lead at 18:04 with an unassisted goal by Raines.

In the aggressive final stanza, both Ancient Eight programs were held scoreless, although both goalies had to work hard to guard their nets, until the last minute and a half of action. Yale's Kate Martini received a pass from Astrom and buried the puck in the left side of the net.

The Green and White outshot the Bulldogs, 68-45. Leonoff carried her team with 35 saves, while Chemago ended the night with 17.

Dartmouth will end its weekend in Providence on Saturday, facing Brown at 4 p.m.