HAMILTON, N.Y. – An explosive second period led to Colgate defeating the Dartmouth women's hockey team by a score of 5-2 at the Class of 1965 Arena on Saturday.
After being scoreless at the end of the first period, a combined five goals were scored in the second, giving the Raiders a 4-1 advantage heading into the final period.
Freshman
CC Bowlby and junior
Emily McLaughlin were credited with Dartmouth's goals, while fellow junior
Katerina Dajia assisted on the second marker. In net, freshman
Hannah Humphreys had 12 saves in the first 28 minutes before making way for junior
Kayla Wormsbecher, who had 12 stops in 31 minutes.
The Big Green looked good in the opening stanza, putting some nice shots on net while also keeping the Raiders off the board at the same time. Colgate (13-9-4, 7-4-1) started the second period off stronger than Dartmouth (5-11-3, 2-8-3), scoring three goals and prompting Wormsbecher to enter the game at 8:04.
At 9:20, Bowlby netted her eighth of the season, intercepting a Raiders pass and firing past goalie Liz Auby while falling to bring the Green within two. Colgate added one more in the final two minutes to make it a 4-1 game heading to the third.
Colgate got one more on the board at 6:27, but Dartmouth cut that lead back to three when McLaughlin scored her first goal of the season at 12:55. Wormsbecher had some good saves in the final few minutes to keep the home team from scoring again.
The Raiders had a 29-19 shot advantage and went 1-for-6 on the power play, while the Big Green missed out on all three opportunities.
Dartmouth will return to New York next weekend to take on Clarkson and St. Lawrence.