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GAME 9
#20 Dartmouth Big Green (5-3, 2-0 Ivy) vs.
Harvard Crimson (5-4, 1-1 Ivy)
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019 | 2:00 PM
Location: Scully-Fahey Field | Hanover, N.H.
All-Time Series: Harvard Leads, 22-21-1
Last Meeting: 3.31.18 | W, 18-14 | Cambridge, Mass.
Streak: 1-0

SATURDAY'S GAME
The Dartmouth women's lacrosse team plays Harvard in an Ivy League contest at Scully-Fahey Field Saturday at 2 p.m. The game will be carried live on NESNplus in addition to ESPN+.

LAST TIME OUT
•   The Big Green picked up a 16-12 win Tuesday afternoon against visiting non-conference Hofstra.
•   The result pushed the win streak to four games with the last loss coming in February on the road to No. 1 Boston College.
•   Dartmouth raced out to a 7-0 lead, but needed to hang on in the final minutes, holding off a resurgent Pride team for the four-goal victory.
•   Kierra Sweeney led the home team with five goals. Ellie Carson added three tallies with two assists for a five-point afternoon. Elizabeth Mastrio once again had a two-goal, two-assist game, while Katie Bourque and Sophia Turchetta each scored twice.
•   Katie Forman played the second half and picked up the win in goal, while Becca Wade started the game in the Big Green cage.

RANKED
•    The Big Green entered the top-20 in the Inside Lacrosse Poll, coming in at No 20 this week.
•    Dartmouth is 22nd in the most recent RPI.

SCOUTING HARVARD
•   The Crimson are coming off a 10-goal win against rival Yale last week, defeating the Bulldogs, 18-8.
•   Harvard is 5-4 overall and 1-1 in Ivy play after dropping its conference opener, 11-5, at Cornell on March 2.
•   The team is 2-3 this season in road games.
•   Keeley MacAfee leads the team in goals (27), assists (9) and points (36). Shea Jenkins is tops on the roster in both ground balls (27) and draw controls (31).
•   In goal, Grace Rontondo has played 534 minutes and has a 41.6 save percentage and 11.36 goals against average in that time.

AGAINST THE CRIMSON
•   Dartmouth snapped a three-game losing skid to Harvard last season with an 18-14 win in Cambridge.
•   Five straight goals early in the second half allowed the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team to overcome a 10-8 deficit and take control of the game.
•   Carson provided three goals and four assists to lead the Dartmouth attack, while Sweeney was close behind with four goals and one helper for five points. Seven other Big Green players found their names on the scoresheet at the end of the game.

FAMILIAR FACE
•    Harvard's first-year head coach is Devon Wills '06.
•    Wills is the all-time leader in goalkeeper wins ar Dartmouth, finishing her four years with 51 (51-20), leading Dartmouth to a pair of Final Fours (2005 and 2006).
•    Her 538 career saves rank second at Dartmouth, while her 7.14 goals against average is third.
•    She was a three-time All-Ivy League First Team selection and was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2003.

BACK IN FRONT
•   Kathryn Giroux was credited with 11 draw controls against Hofstra, her second-best single-game total this season.
•   That figure gives her 327 for her career and moves her back into first place all-time in Ivy League history, passing Yale senior Izzy Nixon (318).
•   She moved into fifth place nationally with 8.63 draws per game this season.
•   In total, Tuesday's game marked the 13th time that Giroux has reached 10 or more draws in a game, accounting for nearly a quarter of her games.
    o   3/21/18        at Jacksonville | 19
    o   4/25/18        UMass Lowell |17
    o   5/4/18          vs. Penn | 16
    o   3/22/19        at Columbia | 15
    o   4/15/17        Cornell | 13
    o   3/29/17        at Siena | 12
    o   4/28/18        at Brown | 12
    o   3/16/18        at Hofstra | 11
    o   3/26/19        Hofstra | 11
    o   2/18/17        at UMass Lowell | 10
    o   4/22/17        at Yale | 10
    o   2/15/19        at Northwestern | 10
    o   3/2/19          Brown | 10

TOP FIGURES
•   Dartmouth is the top scoring team in the Ivy League with 15.63 goals per game.
•   The 23.50 points per game are also the most by any team in the Ancient Eight.
•   There hasn't been one dominant scoring force for the Green and White like other teams rely on, but rather a scoring-by-committee effort that has produced results.
•   Kierra Sweeney ranks second in the league with 28 goals and fifth in points per game (4.50).
•   Kellen D'Alleva is the only other Dartmouth player to rank in the top-10 in points per game as her 4.13 are eighth.
•   D'Alleva's 21 assists are second in the Ivy League and 17th nationally.
TEAM FIGURES
•   As a team, the Big Green are second in the nation in both shots per game (39.13) and shots on goal per game (28.38). No other Ivy teams rank in the top-30 in either category.
•   Dartmouth is also fourth in the nation in both draw controls per game (18.25) and draw control percentage (.632), figures that are also tops in the conference.
•   The Green's rate of successful clears attempts is 91.5%, another mark that ranks fourth in Division I.
•   The 27 draw controls in the first game of the season at Northwestern on Feb. 15 still ranks as the second-best single-game output by any team this season.
•   The 36 total points accrued by Dartmouth last Friday night against Columbia are the most by any team in the Ivy League this year and are tied for the sixth-most by any DI team.
•   The Big Green also lead the league in ground balls per game (21.0).

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 host UConn next Tuesday in a rescheduled game.
•   Opening draw from Scully-Fahey Field is set for 3 p.m.

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