HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth women's basketball ended its road weekend with a 57-43 loss to Yale at John J. Lee Amphitheater.
Katie Douglas and
Mia Curtis led the way with eight points apiece, while
Mekkena Boyd pulled down a team-leading eight rebounds. The Big Green outrebounded the Bulldogs, 37-34, highlighted by 17 offensive boards.
Dartmouth (1-16, 0-5) at Yale (12-6, 5-1)
Strong defense on both sides kept the score low in the first quarter and four Yale points in the first 40 seconds were the only ones on the board with 5:42 remaining. Yale made it 9-0 before Dartmouth got within two with a seven-point Big Green run, capped by Douglas' trey. The home team managed one more bucket before the buzzer, taking an 11-7 lead to the second.
Yale added five more points before Douglas' second 3-pointer and Curtis' free throw cut in, but the Bulldogs maintained a 23-11 advantage. A two-minute scoring drought was ended by a Curtis swisher late in the quarter, and Dartmouth ended the half on a 4-0 run courtesy of a jumper by
Doreen Ariik and a last-second shot by Douglas (27-17).
The Big Green came out with a strong in the third with a Boyd foul shot, caroms by
Carrington Washburn and Ariik, and a trey by Curtis, making it a six-point game in the first 35 seconds. Having been kept off the board for the last 90 seconds of the second and the first two minutes of the third, Yale had a resurgence, going on a 10-4 run over a three-minute span and keeping the pressure on until the end (45-29).
Rosie Jennings and Curtis hit two shots apiece from the charity stripe to start the fourth before the Bulldogs started to creep up to a 20-point lead. Dartmouth refused to give up, responding with a trey by
Emma Koch while keeping Yale scoreless for over four minutes. The Green outshot the Bulldogs, 14-12, in the final quarter, keeping the game closer than past ones against a team that beat Penn the day before (57-43).
Dartmouth will be home this weekend when it hosts Columbia on Saturday.