Dartmouth Set to Host Ivy Rival Yale Saturday at Noon

GAME 12
Dartmouth Big Green (3-8, 0-3 Ivy) vs.
Yale Bulldogs (4-7, 0-3 Ivy)
Date: Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 – 12 p.m.
Location: Hanover, N.H. – Chase AstroTurf Field
All-Time Series: Dartmouth, 25-16-2
Last Time: Oct. 17, 2015 / W, 3-2 (New Haven)

THIS WEEKEND
Just one game on tap this weekend for the Dartmouth field hockey team as the Big Green play host to Ivy League rival Yale Saturday at Chase AstroTurf Field.

LAST TIME OUT
The Big Green are coming off a 9-2 loss at No. 1 UConn last Sunday afternoon. The Huskies held a 4-0 lead at half and built the advantage to 6-0 before freshman Carmen Braceras scored her sixth of the season in the 45th minute of play. Anna Ewasechko would go on to score the visitors' other tally in the 69th minute to cap the game's 11 goals.

SCOUTING YALE
The Bulldogs make the trip up I-91 a very similar team to the Green and White. Yale is 4-7 overall this fall and, like Dartmouth, is winless in three Ivy League contests to this point. Both teams are on five-game skids and are looking to get out of the bottom of the standings with a win at the expense of the other. Junior Carol Middough leads the team in both goals (5) and points (11), while classmate Kiwi Comizio has the team high in assists (5). Senior Emilie Katz has played all 772 minutes in goal and boasts a 1.90 goals against average and a .772 save percentage.

NEAR THE TOP
Thanks to 11 saves at UConn, freshman goalkeeper Emma Plumb became the first Ivy League goalkeeper and just the fifth nationally to reach 100 saves this season. Her 9.09 saves per game rank fourth in the country, while her .775 save percentage is fifth. This season marks the 22nd time in program history a keeper has reached triple digits in saves. The rookie record for saves in a season is also the program record as Lauren Demski '96 turned aside 176 during her rookie season of 1992.

WHEN SCORING TWO IS A FEAT
A 9-2 loss is something that no team likes, but there is some solace for the Green in knowing that there was no quit against the top-ranked team in the country and to a program that has won two of the last three national championships. With Anna Ewasechko's goal in the final minutes of play, Dartmouth became the first team since Drexel back on Sept. 4 to score more than one goal against the Huskies. UConn had gone nine games without surrendering more than one in an outing, including posting five shutouts and outscoring its opponents, 45-4, prior to its contest with the Big Green.

WHERE TO FIND HER
It's not terribly hard to find Carmen Braceras' name on the Dartmouth scoresheet this season. The rookie from Concord, Massachusetts, has goals in six of the team's 11 games this season to lead the way for the Big Green attack. Her six goals are twice as many as second-place Joanne Nazareth and Morgan Philie at this point.

FOLLOW ALONG
Saturday's home game will be carried live and in HD on the Ivy League Digital Network. Fans can also follow the action on Twitter by following the team's official account: @DartmouthFH.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
Dartmouth will have a bit of a respite before taking on Columbia in Harlem next Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. Following Saturday's game with Yale, Dartmouth only has a pair of home games remaining against Holy Cross (10/26) and Harvard (10/29) with the latter serving as Senior Day.

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