Dartmouth Opens Two-Game Series with 4-0 Shutout over Maine

Monday, November 28

Orono, Maine

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

2-5-0, 1-4-0

Maine

3-12-1, 2-8-1

Dartmouth

Maine

Dartmouth Opens Two-Game Series with 4-0 Shutout over Maine

11/28/2016 9:08:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

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By: Dartmouth

ORONO, Maine – After two weeks away from competition, the Dartmouth women's hockey team returned to the ice in dramatic fashion, defeating Maine by a score of 4-0 in the first of two games against the Black Bears at the Harold Alfond Arena on Monday evening.

The Big Green have won their last two games and are now 2-5-0 on the year, while the Black Bears dipped to 3-12-1. This was Dartmouth's first shutout since Feb. 7, 2015.

“I'm really happy with how our girls played tonight,” head coach Laura Schuler said. “Maine played a really hard, solid 60-minute hockey game against us and we had to bring our best to be able to get the W tonight. My staff and I were really excited to see Bailee Brekke score her first collegiate goal. It was a really exciting moment on the bench for everyone.”

Freshman Christina Rombaut led Dartmouth with her two points, assisting on the first goal before netting her own to close scoring. Six other players ended the night with a point apiece. Junior Brooke Ahbe scored the game winner in the first, while freshman Rose Falzone and Brekke added a tally apiece in the second. Seniors Eleni Tebano and Mackenzie St. Onge and sophomore Caroline Shaunessy were also credited with assists. Senior Robyn Chemago earned her first shutout of the season and the seventh of her career. She ended the game with 31 saves.

The Big Green did a good job controlling the puck in the early stages of the first period, spending a large chunk of time deep in Black Bear territory. That paid off at 8:46, when Ahbe got her first point of her junior season, knocking the puck behind goaltender Carly Jackson, who lost track of it as it slowly rolled into the net. Tebano and Rombaut also picked up a point in the process.

Dartmouth clearly was not satisfied with its one-goal lead, as it netted two more in the second. At 7:56, Falzone broke away and shot to Jackson's left and, although the goalie made the save, she couldn't hold on to the puck and knocked it toward the Green freshman. Falzone picked up her own rebound on the right and scored her second goal in as many games. At 12:28, Brekke got her first collegiate goal and second point of the year – a slapshot from the blue line following a cross from Shaunessy – to make it 3-0 in Dartmouth's favor.

At 14:59 in the third, Rombaut got her second point of the game with a power-play tally, a beautiful goal from the right post that flew over the goalie's head following a pass from St. Onge. That was St. Onge's first point since the 2014-15 season. Dartmouth tried its luck and continued to pepper Jackson with shots, but the Black Bear was able to stop all of them.

The Big Green outshot the Black Bears, 34-31. The visitors went 1-for-5 on the power play.

Dartmouth will return to the Alfond Arena on Tuesday evening for game two of their series with the Black Bears. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 p.m.