Dartmouth Hosts Brown in 2019 Home and Ivy League Opener

GAME 5
Dartmouth Big Green (1-3, 0-0 Ivy) vs.
Brown Bears (2-1, 0-0 Ivy)
Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019 | 1:00 PM
Location: Scully-Fahey Field | Hanover, N.H.
All-Time Series: Dartmouth, 32-13-1
Last Meeting: 4.28.18 | L, 17-13 | Providence
Streak: 0-1
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SATURDAY'S GAME
The Dartmouth women's lacrosse team is home for the first time this season on Saturday playing host to Brown at 1 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT
The Big Green are coming off a 20-10 loss Wednesday at No. 1 Boston College. Elizabeth Mastrio led the team with four goals, but BC's Sam Appuzo — the reigning National Player of the Year — had a career day, scoring eight times and finishing with 10 points to power the top-ranked Eagles to the win.

No. 400!
•   Lost in the excitement of Sunday's 19-6 win at Binghamton, was the result proved to be the 400th in program history.
•   In doing so, Dartmouth joined Princeton as only the second Ivy League team to reach the milestone win total.
    •    Princeton: 464
    •    Dartmouth: 400
    •    Harvard: 384
    •    Yale: 374
    •    Penn: 372
    •    Cornell: 342
    •    Brown: 280
    •    Columbia: 120

SCOUTING THE BEARS
•   Brown comes to Hanover with a 2-1 overall mark thanks to wins over Quinnipiac and Iona, while suffering just one loss with it coming in overtime at Ohio State, 15-14.
•   Risa Mosenthal leads not only the Bears, but all Ivy League players with 16 goals this season. She is averaging 5.33 per game in the early stages of 2019.
•   Brown's 14.67 goals per game is the third-best figure in the Ivy League thus far, while the 19.33 points are fourth.
•   Erin Tucker seems to be the goalie most likely to get the nod as she has in the three previous outings. In 166 minutes of action, she has a 9.44 goals against average and a .490 save percentage.

100!
•    Just days after teammate Kierra Sweeney reached the milestone, Mastrio became the 34th player in program history to record 100 career points Wednesday afternoon at Boston College.
•    Mastrio entered the game with 99 career points, making the first of her four goals on the day the one that reached the figure.

SHOOT IT!
•   These two teams lead the Ancient Eight in shots per game.
•   Dartmouth has 155 shots in four games, 45 more than the next closest team (Columbia). The 38.75 per-game average is also the highest of any team in the conference.
•   The Bears have attempted 105 shots in just three games for an average of 35.0, second only to the Big Green.

TOP-10!
•   Mastrio, Katie Bourque and Kierra Sweeney are all tied for third in the league with 7.25 shots per game, accounting for more than half of Dartmouth's shots on their own.
•   Kathryn Giroux is second in the conference with 6.75 draw controls per game.
•   Sweeney's 3.75 points per games is seventh in the Ivy League.
•   Claire Marshall's 2.50 ground balls per contest is also seventh.

285 FOR 23
•   Already the Ivy League's all-time leader in draw controls coming into the season, Giroux is looking to continue to build on her legacy on the draw.
•   She enters the weekend with 285 for her career and is looing to become the first conference player to reach 300.
•   Yale's Izzy Nixon is the league leader with 39 this season and ranks second in career draws with 266, just 19 back of Dartmouth's senior captain.
•   Five current NCAA players have reached 300 career draws with Olivia Jenner of Duke leading the way with 388.

IVY OPENER
•   For the second straight season, the Ivy League opener for Dartmouth will be a revenge game of sorts.
•   Last season, the Big Green welcomed Columbia to Hanover for the first conference game of the season and won 20-10. That victory had followed a 17-10 loss the year before in New York in the first win for the Lions in the 20th all-time meeting.
•   This year, the Green and White will look to duplicate that feat after Brown bested them, 17-13, last season in Providence in the final game of the season. That loss cost Dartmouth a share of the Ivy title and a chance to host the postseason tourney.

HOME OPENER
•   After moving the BC game from Hanover to Newton, Saturday will serve as the team's 2019 home opener.
•   The Big Green were 5-1 at home last season, including an impressive 13-3 win against in-state rival UNH in the opener.

FOLLOW ALONG
•   All Dartmouth women's lacrosse home games and Ivy League road games will be carried live on ESPN+ this season.
•   Fans can also follow along with live stats for each game throughout the season.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
•   Dartmouth will play host to UConn on Wednesday, March 6 at 3 p.m.
•   It will mark the third all-time meeting between the two teams with each posting a win on its home field.
•   The last time the Huskies ventured north to Hanover and Scully-Fahey Field was 2014 (a 14-11 win for the home team).

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