Women's Hockey Closes Regular Season Road Games in New York

Game 25
Friday, Feb. 13: Dartmouth (11-11-2, 7-9-2 ECAC Hockey) vs. Colgate (7-22-1, 4-13-1 ECAC Hockey)
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Hamilton, N.Y. – Starr Rink
All-Time Series: Dartmouth leads, 32-6-3

Game 26
Saturday, Feb. 14: Dartmouth vs. No. 9/10 Cornell (14-8-3, 12-4-2 ECAC Hockey)
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Ithaca, N.Y. – James Lynah Rink
All-Time Series: Dartmouth leads, 41-30-7

THIS WEEKEND
On its final road trip of the 2014-15 regular season, the Dartmouth women's hockey team will face Colgate at 7 p.m. on Friday and Cornell at 4 p.m. the next day.

LAST TIME OUT
The Big Green opened last weekend with a 4-3 win over Brown. Karlee Odland led the team with two assists, while seven different Dartmouth players ended the night with a point apiece. The home team had a three-goal lead halfway through the second period, with goals being scored by Samantha Zeiss, Brooke Ahbe and Emma Korbs, but the Bears scored twice in 1:16 to close the gap. At 5:12 in the third period, Laura Stacey tacked on the Big Green's fourth of the game and, although Brown added one more goal, the game ended in a Dartmouth victory. The following day, after tying the score twice, the Green fell to Yale by a score of 6-2. Lindsey Allen tied the score at one at 16:52 and, after another Bulldog goal, Kennedy Ottenbreit knotted things up at two at 7:34 in the third period. Yale then went on to score four goals in the span of seven and a half minutes to shut the game down.

SCOUTING THE RAIDERS
In the five games since Dartmouth hosted Colgate on Jan. 24, the Raiders have gone 1-3-1, winning against Rensselaer (4-2) and tying Union (2-2) the weekend after traveling to Hanover before falling to Cornell (3-2), Princeton (4-1) and Quinnipiac (2-0), the last two losses occurring on the road this past weekend. Lauren Wildfang was the lone Colgate player to end the weekend with a point. Megan Sullivan leads the team with eight goals and seven assists for 15 points.

LAST TIME AGAINST COLGATE
Despite outshooting the opponent and controlling a lot of the action, Dartmouth was shutout by the Raiders, 2-0, in Thompson Arena on Jan. 24. Miriam Drubel got the visitors on the board at 5:47 in the second period, shooting from directly outside the net and forcing the puck behind Robyn Chemago's legs, and the game was put further out of the Big Green's reach when Kayla Haus found the back of the net 44 seconds into the third.

SCOUTING THE BIG RED
Cornell's four-game winning streak was cut short on Saturday following a 3-2 loss to Princeton on the road. The night before, the Big Red defeated Quinnipiac by a score of 4-3 when Hanna Bunton backhanded a rebound past netminder Chelsea Laden with 40.7 seconds remaining in overtime. Brianne Jenner leads both the team and the conference in assists (27) and points (40). Her 13 markers have her tied for eighth.

LAST TIME AGAINST CORNELL
Stacey scored Dartmouth's only goal in the 2-1 loss to Cornell on Jan. 23, finding the back of the net at 13:02 in the final period following passes from Ottenbreit and fellow sophomore Eleni Tebano. A backhand by Jess Brown at 18:24 in the second broke the scoreless tie and gave the visitors a one-goal lead heading into the third stanza. Cornell wasted little time netting another, scoring its second of the night at 6:18 in the third at the hands of Sydney Smith.

ECAC HOCKEY STANDINGS
Everything changed in the conference standings after last weekend. Sitting in first with 29 points is Harvard, who went 2-0 following a 6-1 win over Yale and a 7-1 defeat of Brown. Right behind the Crimson are Clarkson and Quinnipiac, who are tied for second with 28 points. After Dartmouth defeated Brown and Yale fell to Harvard on Friday, the Big Green briefly sat in seventh by itself while the Bulldogs dipped to eighth, but Saturday's game tied the two teams, once again, with 16 points.

HUDAK & CO.
Having been with the Big Green women's hockey team since the 2003-04 season, Mark Hudak has compiled a record of 216-121-30 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 Odland, and alternate captains Morgan Illikainen and Catherine Berghuis. This is the first time since the 2010-11 season that just one player is wearing the 'C'. So far in the 2014-15 season, Odland leads with seven goals and nine assists for 16 points. Illikainen has netted four goals and seven assists and Berghuis has two goals and six helpers of her own.

LEADING THE WAY
There is now a three-way tie for first on the team with 22 points between Allen, Ottenbreit and Stacey, who have played together on the first line for the majority of the 24 games so far this season, accruing 47 total points. Allen has a team-leading 16 goals (which also ties her for third in the ECAC Hockey conference) and six assists, Ottenbreit has netted 10 goals and 12 helpers, and Stacey has scored nine goals and 13 assists, which is also first among the Big Green.

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 has netted one goal, Horton has tallied one assist and Noronha has four helpers. Ahbe leads the group with four goals and one assist, scoring Dartmouth's second goal in the 4-3 win against Brown

AND IN NET…
Chemago wrapped up the weekend with a total of 49 saves, stopping 26 shots against Brown and 23 against Yale. In her 1441:40 minutes in net, the sophomore has made 571 saves while allowing 61 goals. She has a 2.54 goals against average and a .903 save percentage.

WHAT'S NEXT FOR DARTMOUTH?
Dartmouth will host its final games of 2014-15 next Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21-22, taking on Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

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