Dartmouth and Cornell Square Off Saturday in Game With Huge Ivy League Title Implications

Saturday, April 20

Hanover, N.H.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Cornell

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Dartmouth can secure a spot inthe Ivy Tournament with a win.

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Dartmouth and Cornell Square Off Saturday in Game With Huge Ivy League Title Implications

4/19/2019 10:00:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse

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Saturday’s game will also serve as Senior Day for the 9-member Class of 2019.

By: Pat Salvas

GAME 14
No. 20/13 Dartmouth Big Green (9-4, 4-1 Ivy) at
Cornell Big Red (8-5, 4-1 Ivy)
Date: Saturday, April 20, 2019
Location: Hanover, N.H. - Scully-Fahey Field
All-Time Series: Dartmouth, 32-9
Streak: 1-0

SATURDAY'S GAME
The Dartmouth women's lacrosse team welcomes Cornell to Scully-Fahey Field on Saturday for the final home game of the season.

SENIOR DAY
•   Following the game, head coach Danielle Spencer and her staff will honor the nine members of the Class of 2019 with Senior Day ceremonies.
•   The nine Big Green seniors this season are Campbell Brewer, Kellen D'Alleva, Lauren D'Amico, Lindsay Frumer, Kathryn Giroux, Kristen Maiorano, Elizabeth Mastrio, Kierra Sweeney and Charlotte Wahle.

BIG GAME FOR THE BIG GREEN AND THE BIG RED
•   Three teams sit atop the Ivy League standings at 4-1 with two playing one another Saturday in Hanover.
•   Both Cornell and Dartmouth have four wins in five conference games with Princeton at the top thanks to its 13-11 win at Penn Wednesday evening. Since Princeton defeated Dartmouth, it owns the tiebreaker and therefore has the top spot right now.
•   The Saturday meeting in Hanover, though, can go a long way in determining a possible league crown when all things shake out by next weekend.
•   Cornell and Princeton play the final game of the year next Saturday in Ithaca, as the Tigers have to play the final three games of the year on the road.
•   Dartmouth heads down I-91 next weekend to play Yale in the 2019 regular season finale.

LET'S TALK SCENARIOS
•   Heading into the penultimate weekend of the Ivy League season, several scenarios are in play on Saturday that can lead to teams clinching spots in the postseason tournament:
o   Winner of Cornell/Dartmouth clinches a tournament berth
o   Princeton clinches a tournament berth with a win Saturday
o   Loser of Cornell/Dartmouth can clinch a tournament berth with a Brown loss Saturday
o   Penn can clinch a tournament berth with a win and a Brown loss Saturday

LAST TIME OUT
•   Dartmouth is coming off a 22-6 win Tuesday afternoon at Vermont in the final non-conference game of the season.
•   Nine different players scored goals and 13 had points in the win.
•   Kierra Sweeney had six goals in the first half, while Elizabeth Mastrio had a career-high five goals and seven points in the opening stanza.
•   Katie Bourque also had a hat trick in the opening half and Michelle Yu came off the bench to notch one of her own in the second frame to give the visitors a quartet of players with hat tricks in the game.
•   Kellen D'Alleva had a goal and two assists and now has 36 helpers this season, moving into second place all-time for a single season by a Dartmouth player and now is just three back of tying the program record.

AWARDS FOR 'TIN
•   Following the comeback win Saturday at Penn, Dartmouth's junior goalkeeper Kiera Vrindten received multiple honors.
•   She was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for the second time in three award cycles on Monday afternoon.
•   It was also announced on Wednesday that she was named the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) National Defensive Player of the Week all thanks to her season-high 14 saves and the win against the No. 9 Quakers.

SCOUTING CORNELL
•   The Big Red are 8-5 overall and 4-1 in Ancient Eight games.
•   Away from Ithaca, Cornell is 4-3, including 2-1 in conference matchups.
•   Caroline Allen leads the team with 35 goals and 54 points in 13 games this season. Her 19 assists are also the most of anyone on the roster in 2018.
•   Sarah Phillips (31) and Tomasina Leska (20) are the other two Big Red players with at least 20 goals.
•   In goal, Katie McGahan is the go-to keeper as she has a 9.31 goals against average and a .477 save percentage with all eight of the team's wins this year.

BIG GREEN vs. BIG RED
•   Saturday marks the 42nd all-time meeting between the two teams with Dartmouth owning the series at 32-9.
•   After two straight losses, the Big Green bounced back in 2018 with a 19-10 win in Ithaca.
•   Ellie Carson had five goals, while Bourque and Sweeney each had four.
•   Vrindten stopped 14 Cornell shots in the win.
•   Dartmouth is 8-1 at home against Cornell since 2001 with the lone loss coming in the last game played in 2017 (14-12).

LEADING THE WAY
•   With six goals at Vermont, Kierra Sweeney went over the 50-point mark for the first time in her career as she now has a team-best 54 this season.
•   Her previous best was 46 set last season (39-7-46)
•   Her 44 goals currently rank as the 15th-best figure for a single season in program history.

1 FOR 100
•   Needing just one point for 100 in her career, Ellie Carson was held off the scoresheet for the first time all season Tuesday afternoon.
•   Taking out last year's semifinal game against Penn in which she was injured in the opening minutes of the contest, this marked her first game played without a point since her freshman season (April 29, 2017), a streak of 23 straight games.

3 FOR 100… AND 4, TOO!
•   Thanks to her five goals in Burlington, senior Elizabeth Mastrio now has 97 career goals, leaving her just three shy of the century mark.
•   Were she to reach the mark, she would become the 18th player in program history to hit 100 career goals.
•   Mastrio also has 96 career draw controls, a figure that currently ranks ninth at Dartmouth. Another four and she would tie Kristen Barry '08 for eighth.

12TH ALL-TIME
•   Thanks to nine draw controls at Vermont, Kathryn Giroux moved into 12th place all-time in NCAA history with 377 for her career.
•   Her 119 this season rank as the second best in program history.
•   The 9.15 per game rank third of any player in the nation.
•   Giroux owns the top-three seasons of draw controls in program history: 133 (2018), 119 (2019) and 108 (2017).
•   How dominant has Giroux been on the draw? Sarah Plumb '12 was the previous record holder for career draw controls at Dartmouth with 155, a mark that is now 222 back of Giroux's current standing.

AS A TEAM…
•   Dartmouth is eighth nationally in scoring offense (15.92), jumping up two spots following the game at Vermont.
•   The Big Green's 93.4% success rate on clears is second in the country behind only Maryland (94.3%)
•   The team is fourth in both draw controls per game (17.62) and draw control percentage (61.4%) this season.
•   The 38.15 shots per game rank third in Division I, while the 27.54 on goal are fifth.
•   The scoring defense also improved thanks to allowing just six goals to the Catamounts. The 10.85 goals allowed per game is 39th nationally and fourth in the Ivy League.
•   The Big Green's 5.08 scoring margin is 15th in the country and leads the conference with Princeton the next closest at 3.54 (26th).

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?
•   Following Saturday's game, Dartmouth will wrap-up the 2019 season next Saturday at Yale (1 p.m.).