Dartmouth Falls on the Road to League Leading Penn

Saturday, February 4

Philadelphia, Pa.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

6-13, 1-5

Penn

12-6, 5-0

Dartmouth

Penn

Dartmouth Falls on the Road to League Leading Penn

2/4/2017 8:43:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score Fanni Szabo Belle Koclanes Emily Slagle Cy Lippold Emily Dryden Highlights: Dartmouth women's basketball vs. Penn, Feb. 4, 2017 Box score: Penn 68, Dartmouth 38 PDF Box score

By: Dartmouth

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Dartmouth women's basketball team fell to league-leading Penn 68-38 on Saturday night at The Palestra in Philadelphia.

With the loss the Big Green drop to 6-13 overall, 1-5 in Ivy League play, while the Quakers improve to 12-6 overall, 5-0 in conference play.

Sophomore Emily Dryden scored seven points and grabbed a team-high six boards. Junior Emily Slagle also scored seven points for Dartmouth and got her first start of the 2016-17 campaign.

“Penn is the best team in the league,” said Belle Koclanes, the Gail Boudreaux '82 and Family Head Coach of Dartmouth Women's Basketball. “They're excellent at every position and are so disciplined. They have size, speed and great guard play. They're zone is tough to play against because they have so much length. You get an opening and you think it's there, but they close the window on you, just like that. We need to get better in order to compete with them, but the message to team was this is the best in our league and to learn from them.”

In the opening minutes of the game, Dartmouth hoped to hang close with a Penn offense that had a many scoring threats to contend with. The Big Green had a golden opportunity about halfway through the quarter when last season's Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, Sydney Stipanovich went down hard with an ankle injury and was helped to the bench. Dartmouth could not capitalize as the Quakers unleashed a 9-0 run to go up 13-5 before the end of the quarter.

In the second, Penn continued to get shots to fall and won the battle on the boards with 29 total rebounds before the halftime whistle. Stipanovich eventually made her return to the game before the break, she finished the night with a team-best 15 points.

Dartmouth needed a strong run in the third to climb back into the contest, but the Quaker's stingy defense settled down after Cy Lippold and Fanni Szabo hit a pair of threes. Penn's defensive pressure led to a 10-2 run for the Quaker's which gave the home team a comfortable 53-25 lead before the final stanza. In the last 10 minutes of the game, Penn continued to get its shots to fall en route to a league-best five conference victories.

Dartmouth returns to action next weekend when the Big Green host Yale on Friday before Brown visits Leede Arena on Saturday. Both games can be seen live on the Ivy League Digital Network with Brett Franklin and Jill Glessner on the call.