Dartmouth Takes Down Brown on the Road

Saturday, February 17

Providence, R.I.

4:00 PM

Dartmouth College

14-9, 6-4Ivy

Brown

14-9, 2-8Ivy

Dartmouth

Brown

2/17/2018 5:41:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score Belle Koclanes Kate Letkewicz Olivia Smith Andi Norman Cy Lippold Emily Slagle Box Score PDF ILN Highlights HTML Stats

By: Dartmouth

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Dartmouth women's basketball team took down Brown on the road Saturday, 77-60, to complete the team's second weekend sweep of conference play.

The Big Green improve to 14-9 on the season and 6-4 in Ivy League action while the Bears move to 14-9 as well but fall to 2-8 in the league and are eliminated from playing in the Ivy League Tournament.

Senior Kate Letkewicz led the way with another dominating performance, scoring 28 points to lead the road team, while senior Emily Slagle dropped 15 and junior Cy Lippold scored 10 to help the effort.

“This was overall a really great weekend for our program,” said The Gail Koziara Boudreaux '82 and Family Head Coach Belle Koclanes. “We want to advance to postseason play, so we have to understand how important every game is. I'm proud of our team's effort.”

Following Friday night's career performance, Letkewicz shot 11-of-20 including four three-point buckets to score 28 points, the second-most she's scored in a game in her career. 19 of the senior's points came in the first half alone, as Dartmouth entered the locker room with a 15-point lead.

Entering the third period, Brown came out swinging defensively and caused a couple of turnovers while the home team fought to cut the lead. With 1:46 left in the period, Bears' Shayna Mehta hit a three and made it a six-point game. On the outside of a 30-second timeout, Lippold found Slagle wide open in the corner and the senior knocked down a three that would put the Big Green back up by nine and set the tempo for the rest of the game.

The closest Brown would come to tying the game up was 42 seconds into the fourth quarter when the Dartmouth lead was eight points. Even with a couple of missed shots in the early minutes of the last period, the Big Green continued to score and ended with the 17-point lead. The largest lead of the game was 19 points from Dartmouth with one minute left in the game.

“Major shout out to Kate Letkewicz for her offensive performance this weekend, especially tonight,” Koclanes said. “She was just feeling it, she had the hot hand. Brown threw a lot of different defenders at her, and she was able to score inside and out tonight.

“Emily Slagle as well stepped up, we needed everyone to score and contribute, so she stepped up big time and hit the key three. That's what seniors do, her and Kate, Andi Norman, and of course Olivia Smith wasn't out there but she stepped up on the bench coaching her teammates.”

The Big Green played another solid shooting night, with 44.8 percent from the field, 46.2 from three and 83.3 from the free throw line.

Dartmouth has four games left in the season, hosting Penn and Princeton next weekend in Hanover and spending the final weekend of the regular season on the road at Columbia and Cornell.