Big Green Back In Ivy Action Saturday at No. 16 Princeton

GAME 7
Dartmouth Big Green (5-1, 1-0 Ivy) at
No. 16 Princeton Tigers (4-2, 1-0 Ivy)
Date: Saturday, March 24, 2018 | 1:00 PM
Location: Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium | Princeton, N.J.
All-Time Series: Princeton, 27-18
Last Meeting: 3.25.17 | L, 18-8 | Hanover
Streak: 0-4

SATURDAY'S GAME
The Dartmouth women's lacrosse team is back in Ivy League play Saturday afternoon as it takes on No. 16 Princeton in New Jersey.

ROAD SWING
Saturday's game marks the third of four games on the team's current road trip, the longest stretch away from Hanover this season.

LAST TIME OUT
• The Big Green put up 17 goals on Wednesday in Jacksonville, but needed a last-second defensive stop to secure a 17-16 win in the first-ever meeting between the two programs.
• Kathryn Giroux registered 19 draw controls (more below).
• Ellie Carson (4-2-6) and Tori Chanenchuk (3-3-6) both posted six points in the win and scored the final two goals in the last 1:24 of play to turn a one-goal deficit into a one-goal win for the Big Green.
• In all, six Dartmouth players had multiple points with four players recording at least four: Carson, Chanenchuk, Elizabeth Mastrio (4-0-4) and Sophia Turchetta (2-2-4).

SCOUTING THE TIGERS
• Princeton is 4-2 overall this season and has a 1-0 mark in Ivy League play.
• The Tigers are currently 16th in the most recent national poll.
• The most recent game saw Princeton escape Penn State with a 13-12 win Monday afternoon in Happy Valley thanks to an eight-goal second-half surge.
• Kyla Sears leads the team across the board offensively in goals (21), assists (7) and points (28). Kathryn Hallett ranks second with 14 points on 12 goals.
• In net, it's been a healthy dose of Mary Kate McDonough as she has started all six games. She boasts a 3-2 mark to go along with an 11.97 goals against average and a .439 save percentage.

AGAINST PRINCETON
• Dartmouth is looking to shake off a four-game slide to the Tigers that dates back to the 2014 season.
• The only win against Princeton since the start of the 2012 campaign was a double overtime victory in an Ivy Tournament Semifinal played at Penn in 2013.

ON THE DRAW
• The old Ivy League single-game record was 15.
• Giroux held Dartmouth's old mark of 13.
• It's the most by any player in the nation this season by three
• The 8th best single-game mark in NCAA women's lacrosse history.
• Giroux's 19 draws on Wednesday would rank as the second-best figure this season by a Dartmouth player if she didn't have any prior to the start of the game with the Dolphins.

OH YEAH, DID WE MENTION…
• …that Giroux is now Dartmouth's all-time leader in draw controls with 171 in just over two and a half seasons?
• Her fourth draw of the game moved her alone into first place, passing the previous record holder Sarah Plumb '12 who had amassed 155 between 2009 and 2012.
• How good has Giroux been in the last two seasons? Her 154 since the start of last year (21 games) would rank as the second-best total in program history. An impressive total given that Plumb had set the previous program standard in 61 career games played across four seasons, just one more than Giroux has in her last 21 contests.

The best on the draw in program history. Simple as that. pic.twitter.com/EuVZ4WUkDm
— Dartmouth W Lacrosse (@DartmouthWLax) March 22, 2018

SISTER, SISTER
• Tori will be looking for revenge on older sister Colby.
• Colby Chanenchuk is a senior at Princeton and the older sister of Dartmouth's Tori Chanenchuk.
• She helped Princeton to a win last season in the first meeting between the two sisters, while Tori will look for a bit of retribution in this year's meeting, the final one between the two teams with the sisters playing one another.
• Colby led Princeton in assists last season with 38 and posted 52 total points. This year, though, she has just five assists and six points in six games.
• Tori is off to a great start in her sophomore season at Dartmouth. She posted a six-point effort in Jacksonville and is third on the Big Green in scoring with 17 points (4-13-17), while leading the team in assists (13) and the Ivy League in assists per game (2.17).

PICK EM UP
• Saturday's game features a match-up of the conference's top-two teams in terms of picking up ground balls in 2018.
• Princeton leads the way with 20.50 per game, while the Green and White are second in the Ancient Eight with 20.0 per game.

FOLLOW ALONG
• The game will be carried live on the Ivy League Network.
• GoPrincetonTigers.com will provide live stats for those looking to follow along.
• For an inside look at the team, follow @DartmouthWLAX on Twitter.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
Dartmouth will head to Harvard next Saturday (1 p.m.) to wrap-up the road trip. As it stands right now, the Crimson (15.50) and the Big Green (15.33) are the top-two scoring teams in the Ivy League.

Schedules