Season Comes to an End in Heartbreaking Shootout Loss at Cornell

Saturday, November 3

Ithaca, N.Y.

11:30 AM

Dartmouth College

(6-11, 2-5Ivy)

Cornell

(5-12, 1-6Ivy)

Team	1	2	OT 1	OT 2	OT 3	Final F
Dartmouth	4	0	0	0	0	4
Cornell	4	0	0	0	1	5

Photo by: John and Matt Risley

Season Comes to an End in Heartbreaking Shootout Loss at Cornell

11/3/2018 2:21:00 PM | Field Hockey

Box Score

Spanos scores twice, including late equalizer, but Big Red win in shootout.

By: Pat Salvas

ITHACA, N.Y. - The final game of the 2018 season was a memorable one for the Dartmouth field hockey team.

A back-and-forth affair at Cornell's Dodson Field eventually ended in a shootout with the Big Red (5-12, 1-6) besting the Big Green (6-11, 2-5), 5-4, picking up the Ivy League win.

Senior Gemma Bautista gave the visitors a 1-0 lead in the fourth minute only to see Juliana Tardif answer back in the eighth for the home team.

Grace Royer then put the Red up, 2-1, with a goal in the 16th, but junior Carmen Bracers followed with her second goal of the season in the 26th to tie it up once again. Katie Spanos' eighth of the season came in the 34th minute and swung the lead back to Dartmouth, but was short lived as Royer scored again with 52 seconds left in the half to send the teams to the locker room tied at 3-3.

The second half produced only a pair of goals, down from the six that came in the opening period. Royer capped her hat trick just 8:08 into the half, putting Cornell up 4-3. A span of 21 goalless minutes followed before Spanos finally pulled Dartmouth even thanks to a long run, a deke of the goalkeeper and a shot deposited into the far back corner of the cage.

With Spanos' goal coming with just under six minutes remaining, overtime followed soon thereafter. No goals in the first 10-minute session produced a second. With three minutes and change remaining in the fourth period of the play, Jessica Valvano — playing in her final game — made a score-preserving defensive save, knocking a Royer shot out of the air and away from the cage.

In the shootout, the Big Red stopped all four Dartmouth opportunities, while scoring twice to come away with their first Ivy win of the season.

Playing in her final game, senior goalkeeper Hailey Valerio made 13 saves in a contest in which she was tested with great frequency. At the other end of the field, Cornell's Maddie Henry was also tested often and turned aside 15 in the win.