Big Green Host Tigers on NESNPlus Saturday

Saturday, April 13

Hanover, N.H.

2:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Princeton

Peter Rizzotti men's lacrosse action versus Harvard

Freshman Peter Rizzotti

Photo by: Belle Smart

4/12/2019 9:16:00 AM | Men's Lacrosse

By: Charlotte Brackett

GAME ELEVEN
Dartmouth (2-8, 0-3) vs. Princeton (5-6, 0-3)
Date: Saturday, April 13
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Hanover, N.H. / Scully-Fahey Field
All-Time Series: Princeton leads, 57-8-0
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THIS WEEKEND
Having played its first home game just five weeks ago, the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team will host its penultimate home contest on Saturday, welcoming Princeton to Hanover for a 2 p.m. game on NESNPlus.

LAST TIME OUT
Dartmouth dropped a seesaw affair to Hartford, 12-11, on a snowy Tuesday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field after playing through 10 ties.

Ben Martin had a great game, ending up with six points from five goals and an assist. Harlan Smart, George Prince and Matt Paul all had multi-point performances. George Christopher got his first start of the season, ending up with nine saves. Tucker Brown handled most of the faceoff duties, going 8-for-20 at the X.

For the second game in a row and the fifth time this season, Dartmouth got on the board first, a goal courtesy of Martin at 12:15. Hartford answered three minutes later, and the score remained tied as both teams struggled to keep track of the white ball in whiteout conditions. After switching to a yellow ball late in the quarter, the Hawks netted their second at 2:06, only to have Martin respond less than 40 seconds later (2-2).

A combined six goals were scored in the final 10 minutes of the second quarter. After two lead changes and a pair of ties, Paul recorded his 20th marker of the year to put Dartmouth up with 1:24 to go. It looked as if the home team would take that one-goal lead into the half, but Hartford had a different idea, finding the back of the net with 48 seconds remaining to head to the third tied (5-5).

An additional eight goals were scored in the third, with neither squad being able to get more than one goal ahead before the other team tied things up. Trailing by one and with less than a second left with the extra player, Martin netted his fourth of the day with 19 ticks left to tie the score for the ninth time (9-9).

After such an eventful third quarter, the fourth was very quiet. With defense working in overdrive, zero tallies were scored in the first nine minutes. The Hawks broke through at 5:53 and Dartmouth worked hard over the next three minutes to try and even things up, but a number of shots missed the mark. The perseverance paid off, as markers by Martin and Smart 30 seconds apart put the Big Green up for the first time since the second quarter. That did not last, as Hartford scored a pair of tallies, the last being with 23 seconds left, and Dartmouth ran out of time to make another move (12-11).

SCOUTING THE TIGERS
Princeton has been having a pretty good season, but has struggled in Ivy League games, falling to arguably the three toughest opponents in Penn (19-10), Yale (15-10) and Brown (14-10). Since their last conference loss on March 30 to the Bears, the Tigers have downed both Stony Brook (14-4) and Siena (19-10).

LAST TIME AGAINST PRINCETON
April 14, 2018 – Sixteen Big Green players ended up with at least one point in Dartmouth's 24-13 loss to Princeton at Sherrerd Field.

Leading the team with three points each were Jack Korzelius (2G, 1A), Liam O'Connell (2G, 1A) and Richie Loftus (1G, 2A). In net, Alex Burnley stopped nine shots

Six players scored their first collegiate goals in the fourth quarter: Austin Meacham, Kiernan Gunn, Mike Connolly, Chris Bacotti, William Stonestreet and Jimmy Heidt. Jack Forrest and Evan Key netted their first markers of 2018.

LEADING THE WAY
After another good game on Tuesday, Martin is still first in all three categories with 24 goals, 13 goals and 37 points. Daniel Hincks is top in ground balls (33), Peter Rizzotti leads in caused turnovers (21) and Peter Chabot is first in faceoff wins (13-for-33, .394).

IN THE CONFERENCE
Dartmouth is doing well against its conference foes in a number of categories:

Team
Caused turnovers/game – 2nd, 10.64
Saves/game –2nd, 13.91
Save percentage – 2nd, .539

Individual
Goals/game – Martin, 6th (2.45)
Assists/game –Martin, 10th (1.36)
Game-winning goals – G. Prince, T2nd (2)
Shots/game – Paul, 2nd (8.91); Martin, 8th (6.27)
Goals against average – Hincks, 6th (11.90)
Save percentage – Hincks, 2nd (.542)
Saves/game – Hincks, 3rd (12.90)

BETWEEN THE PIPES
Christopher started his first game of the season on Tuesday, playing all 60 minutes against Hartford. Now, in 109 minutes, he has made 24 saves while allowing 22 goals. Hincks has played in and started nine games so far in his rookie season. In 489 minutes, he has made 112 saves while allowing 97 goals and is stacking up very well against the other goalies in the conference. A. Burnley made his season debut against St. John's and allowed zero goals.

FOLLOW ALONG
Live stats and video are available and can be found on Dartmouthsports.com.

NEXT UP FOR DARTMOUTH
The Green will play their last road game of the year next Saturday, April 20, when they head to Philadelphia to face league-leader Penn.