Dartmouth Heads to Holy Cross For Wednesday Night Game

GAME 14
Dartmouth Big Green (6-7) vs.
Holy Cross Crusaders (7-9)
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 – 6 p.m.
Location: Worcester, Mass. – Hart Turf Field
All-Time Series: Dartmouth, 16-8-0
Last Time: Oct. 13, 2014 – W, 5-4/OT (Hanover)

WEDNESDAY'S GAME
The Dartmouth field hockey team will play Holy Cross in a mid-week, non-conference road game Wednesday night at 6 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT
The Big Green are coming off a 4-2 win against Columbia Sunday afternoon for their second Ivy League win of the season and in as many conference games. Brooke Van Valkenburg scored twice in the first half and Anna Ewasechko registered one goal and three assists in the win.

SCOUTING THE CRUSADERS
Holy Cross comes into Wednesday night's game with a 7-9 overall record after a 3-2 win at Lafayette on Saturday afternoon. That one-goal victory followed a four-game losing streak that includes defeats against Cornell (5-1) and Brown (4-3). Maureen Connolly leads the team across the board with nine goals, six assists and 24 points with Emily Loprete and her eight goals and 17 points ranking second. Megan Inch has played all 1,122 minutes in the cage for the Crusaders, boasting a 2.56 goals against average and a .647 save percentage.

AGAINST HOLY CROSS
Then-freshman Ewasechko tied the game as regulation expired and forced overtime on Oct. 13, 2014 in the last game between these two teams a season ago in Hanover. After Ewasechko's goal sent the teams to the extra session, Ali Savage '15 scored the game winner just 2:04 into OT. Clare Detrick-Yee and Heather Zezzo are two of Dartmouth's other goal scorers from that game who are back to take on Holy Cross again this season. In 24 previous meetings between the programs, the Green and White own a 16-8 edge.

WHAT A DAY!

Ewasechko had her best game in terms of scoring output against the Lions on Sunday. She started by assisting on both of Brooke Van Valkenburg's first-half goals with the pushout on penalty corners. She scored one of her own in the second half and then capped the game with a beautifully placed pass across the top of the circle to a diving Heather Zezzo for the insurance marker late in the contest. In all, she finished with a career-high five points on the goal and three assists.

TWO-FER
For the second time this season, two of Dartmouth's goals in a game came off the stick of Brooke Van Valkenburg when she netted a pair on Sunday afternoon. The Garden City, New York, native also notched two goals in Dartmouth's comeback win against Bryant on Sept. 20, the only other time she had a multi-goal game.

DISHING 'EM OUT
With a pair of assists on the Van Valkenburg markers, senior co-captain Eliza Becker is now alone in second in the Ivy League with 12 assists. The dozen helpers this season are now tied for eighth with Avril Doering (2003) for the most by a Dartmouth player in a single season. Becker's 12 assists are also the most by a Big Green player since Virginia Peisch set a program record with 22 in the 2010 season.

STOPPING STROKES AGAINST THE BEST
Junior goalkeeper Paige Duffy has made two penalty-stroke saves this season against the top-two offensive players in the Ivy League in 2015. Duffy stopped Penn's Alexa Hoover —the probable Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year — two weeks ago, before denying Columbia's Christina Friebott on Sunday in the final minute of the first half. Friebott's 31 points ranks second in the Ivy League only to Hoover's astounding 62 points. However, both have had the chance to build on those figures, but have failed to beat Duffy on the stroke attempt.

FOLLOW ALONG
Holy Cross will have a free video stream for Wednesday night's game for fans to watch the action. Live stats will also be provided with updated figures as the game moves along. Fans can also follow the team's official Twitter account (@DartmouthFH) for live in-game updates.

WHAT'S NEXT?
The Big Green will continue their three-game road swing with a pair this weekend. Dartmouth and Harvard will play Saturday in Cambridge at 1 p.m., before it heads up I-89N to Burlington to take on Vermont in the final non-conference game of the season Sunday at 1 p.m.

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