Big Green Drop Midweek Game to Maine, 4-1

Tuesday, November 10

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

2-2-2

Maine

6-6-0

Maine

Dartmouth

11/10/2015 9:12:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – At its first of three consecutive home games this week, the Dartmouth women's hockey team was defeated by Maine, 4-1, in a midweek non-conference contest inside Thompson Arena.

The Big Green dipped to 2-2-2, while the Black Bears improved to 6-6-0.

Sophomore Morgan Turner scored the home team's lone goal of the day and she and junior Kennedy Ottenbreit ended the night with a point apiece.

“We weren't really sharp tonight,” head coach Mark Hudak said after the game, “and I think it showed in our power play. We need to come back out on Friday executing our game plan a little bit better.”

Dartmouth ended up outshooting Maine, 12-4, in the first period and did not allow the Black Bears to have their first attempt until 11:30, at which point the home team had a 9-1 shot advantage. After that initial shot, the visitors released a barrage of shots, but only three were on goal. At 19:09, Catherine Tufts got past multiple Big Green players to get Maine on the board.

The Black Bears got two ahead at 2:32 in the second with an Audra Richards marker on a breakaway, but Dartmouth cut that lead to one when Turner got her first of the season and just the second goal of her career at 5:48, picking up Ottenbreit's deflected puck and putting it in the left corner of the net.

Maine increased its lead to two once again with an Eve Boissoneault wrister from the top of the circles at 2:49 in the third period. Tufts almost got her second of the game with her shot at 11:15 that hit the right pipe, traveled behind freshman netminder Christie Honor and exited the left side of the cage. Richards made it a 4-1 game with her second tally of the night at 15:54.

The Green outshot the Black Bears, 27-16. Neither team was able to score on the power play, as Maine went 0-for-2 and Dartmouth was 0-for-3. Honor appeared between the pipes for the entire game, making 12 saves in all. Maine's Mariah Fujimagari earned her first win of the season, stopping 26 shots.

Dartmouth will return to Thompson on Friday and Saturday when it hosts Rensselaer and Union in ECAC Hockey contests scheduled for 7 p.m. and 4 p.m., respectively.