Dartmouth Heads to City of Brotherly Love to Play Penn Saturday

GAME 10
Dartmouth Big Green (4-5, 0-2 Ivy) vs.
Penn Quakers (8-1, 2-0 Ivy)
Date: Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015 – 12 p.m.
Location: Philadelphia, Pa. – Ellen Vagelos Field
All-Time Series: Penn, 20-16-3
Last Time: Oct. 4, 2014 – W, 5-3 (Hanover)

SATURDAY'S GAME
The Dartmouth field hockey team wraps up its three-game road trip with a Saturday matinee at Penn's Ellen Vagelos Field.

LAST TIME OUT
The Big Green earned a weekend split in the Ocean State with a Sunday afternoon victory at Providence. That 5-3 win came just 24 hours after a nail-biting 2-1 defeat across town at Brown in the first Ivy League road game of the 2015 season. The non-conference win helped Dartmouth pull to within a game of .500 at 4-5 overall this fall, while the loss to the Bears dropped the team to 0-2 in league games.

SCOUTING THE QUAKERS
Penn is steamrolling any and all comers right now. After dropping a 4-3 contest to Liberty back on Sept. 4 in the season opener, the Quakers have won eight straight, including two against Ivy opponents. To say Alexa Hoover is the early-season favorite for the Ivy League Player of the Year might be an understatement as the sophomore has already amassed 20 goals and 44 points through just nine games. She has four of her team's game winners and been named the conference player of the week three times already. The next closest players in terms of goals and points amongst Ivy League teams are both not even halfway to Hoover's current totals.

AGAINST PENN
These two squads played last season in Hanover with the home team coming away with the 5-3 win. After Dartmouth took a 4-0 lead into the intermission, Penn responded with the first three markers of the second half. A late goal from the Big Green staved off the Quaker comeback bid as Dartmouth earned the two-goal triumph.

TWO-FER
The duo of Julia Donald and Rebecca Hu combined for four goals against the Friars on Sunday as each netted a pair in the win. For Hu, it was her second and third tallies of the weekend, while also the first two-goal game of her career. Donald now leads the team with eight markers this season following her second multi-goal affair of the fall (a hat trick vs. Sacred Heart on Sept. 18).

DOUBLING UP
The last time the Green had multiple players with a pair of goals each in a single game was actually last year against Penn. In that contest, former player Ali Savage '15 and Anna Rowthorn-Apel '18 each registered two goals in the opening-half offensive explosion.

HELPING OUT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
For senior co-captain, Eliza Becker, helping out a teammate is nothing new. However, the level at which she has been picking up assists this season has been remarkable. Becker's three assists on Sunday were not only a career high; they were just two shy of her career total of five coming into the season. As it stands now, Becker has eight assists, good for second in the Ivy League behind only Penn's Elizabeth Hitti.

SPLITSKI
Dartmouth split a weekend for the first time since the start of the season when it fell in OT to UMass Lowell, 3-2, only to rebound 48 hours later with a 4-2 win against New Hampshire.

GETTING ON THE SCORE SHEET
Junior Joanne Nazareth was the third Dartmouth player to score at the expense of the Friars last weekend. For the Wilton, Connecticut, native, the goal marked her first of the fall and the first since last Oct. 18 against Yale.

FOLLOW ALONG
Saturday's game will be streamed live and in HD on the Ivy League Digital Network for subscribers to the service. Fans can also follow the action by clicking the live stats link provided by DartmouthSports.com or following the team's official Twitter account (@DartmouthFH) for in-game updates.

WHAT'S NEXT?
Dartmouth will have little time to rest as it returns home to take on Maine Tuesday afternoon in Hanover at 3 p.m. The Big Green will then head back out on the road to New Haven to play Yale next Saturday afternoon.

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