GAME 5
Dartmouth Big Green (2-2) vs.
Sacred Heart Pioneers (5-2)
Date: Friday, Sept. 14, 2018 – 4 p.m.
Location: Hanover, N.H. – Chase Field
All-Time Series: 3-0
Last Time: 9.18.16 | W, 3-0
LIVE STATS | ESPN+ VIDEO
GAME 6
Dartmouth Big Green (2-2)* vs.
Holy Cross Crusaders (0-5*)
Date: Sunday, Sept. 16, 2017 – 1 p.m.
Location: Hanover, N.H. – Chase Field
All-Time Series: 18-9
Last Time: 10.24.17 | W, 4-3
LIVE STATS | ESPN+ VIDEO
THIS WEEKEND
For the first time this season, the Dartmouth field hockey team will be home for a pair of games, taking on Sacred Heart Friday afternoon before playing host to Holy Cross in a Sunday matinee.
LAST TIME OUT
For the second time this season, the Big Green went 1-1 and split a weekend. Dartmouth dropped its home opener, 3-2, in overtime to Vermont on Friday before bouncing back two days later at UMass with a 4-3 victory in a back-and-forth affair between the nonconference foes.
SCOUTING SACRED HEART
•   Despite playing its first five games of the season on the road and its first two of seven home games at Yale's Johnson Field in New Haven, the Pioneers have jumped out to a 5-2 start.
•   Senior Allie Brouchard leads the team in both goals (3) and points (7). One of those goals came via a penalty stroke, while none are game winners, a stat reserved for five different individuals thus far.
•   Sophomore Hailey Power has played nearly all 500 minutes in goal so far and boasts an impressive 1.97 goals against average and .816 save percentage.
AGAINST THE PIONEERS
•   These two teams last met in the 2016 season with the Big Green winning, 3-0, in New Haven.
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Carmen Braceras and
Evie Bird scored the final two goals of the game, while
Hailey Valerio made two saves to help earn a combined shutout with Emma Plumb.
•   Dartmouth is unbeaten in three all-time games against Sacred Heart.
SCOUTING HOLY CROSS
•   The Crusaders have had a rough go of it so far in 2018, losing their first five games of the season with a home game against LIU Brooklyn slated for Friday before coming up to Hanover on Sunday.
•   Part of the problem has been a lack of scoring as the team has managed just three goals and has been shutout twice.
•   Three players have scored those three goals with Madeline Alderfer leading the team in scoring with three points as she also has an assist.
AGAINST THE CRUSADERS
•   In the pouring rain of last season's game in Worcester, Dartmouth managed to pull out a 4-3 win to push its win streak at the time to three games.
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Jocelyn Wulf,
Tatum Schultz and
Katie Spanos are all back after scoring in the game last season.
•   Valerio made 10 saves to preserve the victory.
•   The Big Green own an 18-9 edge all-time against the Crusaders.
A FAMILIAR FACE
•   Back in Hanover on Sunday is Holy Cross assistant coach Maddy Carpenter.
•   Carpenter spent three seasons (2015-17) with the Big Green after graduating from Northwestern.
•   She left to join Holy Cross following last season.
FIRE AWAY
•   Dartmouth's 25 shot attempts and 17 total shots on goal against UMass on Sunday were season highs for the Big Green.
•   All six of Spanos' attempts in the game found their way on goal, the most this season.
STREAKING SPANOS
•   Since being shutout in the opening game of the season, Spanos has scored in each of her team's last three contests.
•   With her three goals and one assist, Spanos leads the team with seven points.
•   Through four games last season, Spanos also had seven points. That was thanks in large part to a goal and two helpers in a 7-2 win against Bryant in the Big Green's fourth outing.
LOGJAM
•   After Spanos, there is a logjam of three players with four points for second place on the team in scoring.
•   Schultz (1-2-4),
Gracyn Campbell (2-0-4) and
Katie Persin (2-0-4) are all tied for second.
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Gemma Bautista and
Maddie Donahue are both tied with Schultz for the team lead with two assists.
FOLLOW ALONG
•   Both games this weekend will be carried live on ESPN+.
•   Fans can also track all the action on Twitter and Instagram by following the team's official accounts:
@DartmouthFH.
•   Live stats are provided in the links above.
WHAT'S AHEAD?
Dartmouth opens the 2018 Ivy League slate next Saturday at Princeton. Game time from New Jersey is set for noon with the contest airing on ESPN+.