HANOVER, N.H. – First-year forwards
CC Bowlby and
Catherine Trevors and sophomore
Gabby Billing each posted two points in the Dartmouth women's hockey season debut Friday night at Thompson Arena.
A high-scoring game, the Big Green were bested by visiting Harvard, 7-4, in the 2019-20 debut for both teams.
A third-period hat trick from the Crimson's Kristin Della Rovere was the difference in the ECAC Hockey and Ivy League tilt despite the home team's resurgent play throughout the night.
Both Bowlby and Trevors scored a goal and dished out an assist in their first collegiate game, while Billing was credited with a pair of helpers.
"Obviously, we're not happy with a loss," head coach
Laura Schuler said. "But we made significant strides from our last game and that comes with us playing together more in practice and having the ability to really start to come together as a team."
The Green and White fell behind 3-0 in the opening 10 minutes of the first period, a deficit that lasted through the end of the frame and more than halfway through the middle stanza.
That's when they began to chip away at the Crimson lead. Trevors started the scoring for the home team with the first of her career at 12:20.
Jennifer Costa made it a 3-2 game as she scored her first of the year just under three minutes later. However, Harvard halted the home team's run with its fourth of the game a minute and a half after to push the lead back to a pair, 4-2.
Currie Putrah was another freshman to find the back of the net in her debut, scoring 1:31 into the third period to once again pull Dartmouth to within a goal.
Della Rovere then notched the first of her three third-period goals to put the game all but out of reach midway through the frame. Bowlby made it 6-4 with her first in the final minute only to see Della Rovere answer back for the hat trick just 16 seconds later to cap the game's scoring at 11 combined goals.
Rookie
Hannah Humphreys turned aside 21 shots in her Dartmouth debut in the blue paint. At the other end of the ice, Lindsey Reed stopped 17 in the win.
Harvard was 1-for-3 on the power play, while the home team was unable to score in four opportunities.
The Big Green head to Burlington to take on Vermont in a non-conference game Tuesday at 6 p.m.