Big Green Begin Homestand With Games vs. UNH & Merrimack This Weekend

GAME 5
Dartmouth Big Green (1-3) vs.
New Hampshire Wildcats (3-3)
Date: Friday, Sept. 20, 2019 – 4 p.m.
Location: Hanover, N.H. – Chase Field
All-Time Series: 19-23-2
Last Time: 10.28.18 | L, 5-1
Live Stats | ESPN+

GAME 6
Dartmouth Big Green (1-3*) vs.
Merrimack Warriors (0-4*)
Date: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019 – 2 p.m.
Location: Hanover, N.H. – Chase Field
All-Time Series: 0-0
Last Time: First Meeting
Live Stats | ESPN+

THIS WEEKEND
The Dartmouth field hockey team is home for a pair of games this weekend against New Hampshire on Friday afternoon and then again Sunday versus Merrimack.

LAST TIME OUT
•   The Big Green split their weekend on the road with a 5-2 loss at Boston College on Friday and a 2-1 overtime victory Sunday at Holy Cross.
•   The win in Worcester on Sunday was the first of the season for Dartmouth and was the result of a Katie Spanos goal in the 67th minute.
•   The game in Newton was the first against the Eagles in eight seasons.

WINNER WINNER
•   Spanos now has seven career game-winning goals following the team's triumph at Holy Cross.
•   The goal was, however, the first OT tally of her career as all the previous winners had come in regulation.
•   For her play, Spanos was tabbed as the DartmouthSports.com Female Athlete of the Week.

TOP-10
•   Thanks to her goal in each game last weekend as well as an assist at BC, Spanos now has 60 career points, moving her into a tie for eighth all-time at Dartmouth.
•   Spanos ties Carolyn Steele '03 and Kate Perle '88 for eighth, jumping Kelly McHenry '11 and into the top-10 with the OT marker.
•   Lisa Masini '13 is seventh on the list with 70 points, while Virginia Peisch '11 is six with 75 points.

FIRSTS!
•   If the story of the weekend was Spanos' accession up the career points list, the subplot would be two other Dartmouth players picking up their first career points.
•   On Gracyn Campbell's first goal of 2019, a usually defensive minded Sara Falkson was credited with an assist, her first point in her 21st career game.
•   Amélie Perrier picked up her first career point by setting up the Spanos goal, making the pass back across the circle for the winning score.

ALSO LEADING THE PACK
•   Tied atop the team's scoring leaderboard through four games is senior Carmen Braceras with five points on two goals and an assist.
•   She scored the team's first tally of the season at Northeastern and then added another with a beautiful backhanded blast at BC.
•   She also picked up the lone assist on Spanos' goal at BC with the roles being reversed for her marker.

20 IS A LOT
•   Sophomore Isabella Santucci became the first Dartmouth goalkeeper in 10 years to turn aside 20 shots in a game when she did so at Boston College.
•   Santucci did become the first Dartmouth goalie since Meagan Vakiener '12 in 2009 to turn aside 20 shots from the opposition in a game. That season, Vakiener stopped 23 in the opener against Maine on Sept. 6 and then 21 vs. No. 6 Syracuse on Oct. 11, with the latter marking the most recent occurrence by a player in the green and white.
•   The 20 saves are the most by any goalie in the Ivy League so far this season and the second-most by any keeper in all of Division I or II.
•   As it stands right now, Santucci leads the nation in saves per game at 11.0.
•   She would go on to pick up her first-career victory Sunday at Holy Cross, making another seven saves.

SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
•   UNH is 3-3 this season.
•   After losing the first three games of the season, the Wildcats have rattled off three straight wins to even their record.
•   Finn Caron leads the way with 14 points thanks to seven goals. No other player has more than three points in the six games.
•   Jemma Woods is 3-1 in the cage and boasts a 2.0 goals against average and a .710 save percentage.

SCOUTING THE WARRIORS
•   This is Merrimack's first season at the Division I level.
•   The team begins the weekend in Burlington, playing at Vermont on Friday afternoon.
•   The Warriors are 0-4 coming into the weekend and have just three goals in those contests.
•   Two of those goals have come from the stick of Catherine Henaire (both against Davidson in the most recent loss), while Wilma Neumann has the other.
•   Merrimack's Miranda Judd is a native of the Upper Valley as she is from Lebanon. She is one of five Granite Staters on the roster.

AGAINST THESE TEAMS
•   UNH holds a slight 23-19-2 edge in the all-time series with Friday marking the 45th match-up in the series between Granite State rivals.
•   Sunday marks the first-ever meeting between Dartmouth and Merrimack.

A WIN WOULD…
•   …Be much better than a loss.
•   …Be the 362nd in program history (361-345-33).
•   …Be the first home week of 2019 and the 188th all-time in Hanover…

FOLLOW ALONG
•   Both games this weekend will be carried live on ESPN+.
•   Fans can also track all the action on Twitter and Instagram by following the team's official accounts: @DartmouthFH.
•   Live stats are provided in the links above.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
•   Following this weekend, Dartmouth will open Ivy League play next Saturday, hosting Princeton at noon.
•   The Green and White will then host non-conference UMass Lowell on Sunday, Sept. 29 at 2 p.m.

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