Big Green to Face Defending National Champion Yale

Saturday, April 6

New Haven, Conn.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Yale

Mike Connolly men's lacrosse action versus Harvard

Sophomore Mike Connolly

Photo by: Belle Smart

Big Green to Face Defending National Champion Yale

4/5/2019 9:46:00 AM | Men's Lacrosse

By: Charlotte Brackett

GAME NINE
Dartmouth (2-6, 0-2) at No. 5 Yale (6-2, 2-1)
Date: Saturday, April 6
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: New Haven, Conn. / Reese Stadium
All-Time Series: Yale leads, 53-34-0
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THIS WEEKEND
Dartmouth men's lacrosse will be on the road for the second weekend in a row, traveling to New Haven to take on defending national champion and fifth-ranked Yale.

LAST TIME OUT
Dartmouth had a strong first quarter before No. 10 Cornell ran away with the lead, defeating the Big Green by a score of 15-5 at Schoellkopf Field on Saturday afternoon.

The team was led by Ben Martin with his hat trick, while Matt Paul had two points from a goal and an assist and three other players had one point apiece. Daniel Hincks matched his career-high from last weekend, stopping 17 shots.

Hincks started the game off very well, making three consecutive saves on three tough shots by Cornell in the first minute of play. The Big Red (6-3, 1-2 Ivy League) got on the board first at 12:30 and it looked as if Paul had tied the game up seven minutes later, but the goal was waved off. Paul did not forget that, coming back to score at 1:58, a tally that counted this time. With under a minute remaining, Martin gave Dartmouth (2-6, 0-2 Ivy League) the lead, only to have Cornell tie things up with 17 seconds to go (2-2).

The Big Green stayed right with their ranked opponents until the Big Red scored at 11:26 and again at 5:10 to pull ahead by two. Dartmouth had a few chances in the second quarter but could not get one back and headed to the intermission trailing, 4-2.

Cornell scored its fourth and fifth markers in a row midway through the third. George Prince cut into that lead and scored the Green's first tally since the first quarter, but the Big Red responded with a trio of goals in three minutes to pull further ahead (9-3). Some big saves by Hincks kept Cornell at bay for the remainder of the quarter.

After another Big Red tally 25 seconds into the fourth, Dartmouth found a little momentum with back-to-back Martin goals, getting the Big Green within five while the junior completed his hat trick (10-5). Cornell cut Dartmouth's could-be run short, putting three more on the board in a two-minute span. The Big Red scored two more goals in seven seconds to end the game (15-5).

SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS
Yale enters this weekend's game with an overall record of 6-2 and 2-1 in Ivy League play. The Bulldogs are coming off a 13-12 triple overtime loss to Penn last Saturday, their first loss since their first game of the season, an 11-10 OT loss to Villanova on Feb. 16.

LAST TIME AGAINST YALE
April 7, 2018 – A strong first and fourth quarter led No. 3 Yale to a 17-7 win over Dartmouth at Scully-Fahey Field.

Jack Korzelius and George Prince both ended the day with four points. Korzelius led with his four goals, while Prince had two goals and a pair of assists. In net, Alex Burnley made eight saves while being saddled with the loss. He also led the team with seven ground balls.

LEADING THE WAY
Martin remains first in assists (11) and points (27), while Paul is first in goals (18) and man-up tallies (2) and is second in points (23). Hincks leads the team in ground balls (32), and Peter Chabot is still first in faceoffs (13-for-33, .394) and Peter Rizzotti is first in caused turnovers (18).

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

Team
Penalty kill percentage – 3rd, .667
Caused turnovers/game – 2nd, 10.67
Goals against average – 2nd, 11.00
Saves/game – 3rd, 13.33
Save percentage – 2nd, .548

Individual
Goals/game – Paul, 6th (2.44)
Assists/game – Prince, T5th (1.44); Martin, T10th (1.33)
Game-winning goals – G. Prince, T1st (2)
Shots/game – Paul, 1st (9.56)
Goals against average – Hincks, 3rd (10.82)
Save percentage – Hincks, 2nd (.558)
Saves/game – Hincks, 3rd (12.89)

BETWEEN THE PIPES
Hincks has played in and started all eight games so far in his rookie season. In 450 minutes, he has made 99 saves while allowing 80 goals and is stacking up very well against the other goalies in the conference. George Christopher has appeared in three games and, in almost 30 minutes, has made four saves. 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 Big Green will play their final non-conference game of 2019 on Tuesday, April 9, when they host Hartford at 4 p.m. After that, just three more games remain on the schedule.