Dartmouth Set for Big Weekend vs. Princeton, at No. 19 UMass

GAME 13

Dartmouth (5-7, 1-4 Ivy League) vs. Princeton (5-8, 3-2 Ivy League)
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023 – 11 a.m.
Location: Hanover, N.H. – Chase Field
All-Time Series: Princeton leads, 31-8-2
Last Meeting: Princeton, 1-0 (10/8/22)

GAME 14

Dartmouth (5-7, 1-4 Ivy League) at UMass (9-6, 3-2 Atlantic 10)
Date: Sunday, October 22, 2023 – 1 p.m.
Location: Amherst, Mass. – Gladchuk Field Hockey Complex
All-Time Series: UMass leads, 23-11
Last Meeting: UMass, 1-0 (OT) (9/8/19)

THIS WEEKEND'S GAMES
Already owning its most wins in a season since 2018, the Dartmouth field hockey team returns home for the second to last weekend of the year, hosting defending Ivy League Champion Princeton on Saturday before traveling to No. 19 UMass on Sunday. Both games can be seen on ESPN+ and will start at 11 a.m. (Saturday) and 1 p.m. (Sunday), respectively. The Big Green are coming off a 1-1 weekend in New Haven, Connecticut, featuring a 2-1 overtime loss at Yale and 3-2 shootout victory at Sacred Heart. At 5-7, Dartmouth owns its best record after 12 games since 2012 (when the Big Green were 6-6).

WITH A WIN...
- (With a win Saturday) Dartmouth would snap a 10-game losing streak against Princeton and beat the Tigers for the first time since 2011 at home. It would also snap a five-game home losing streak vs. Princeton.
- (With a win Saturday) Dartmouth would pull within 31-9-2 in the all-time series.
- (With a win Saturday) The Big Green would improve to 6-7 on the season, marking their best record after 13 games since 2012 (when they were 8-5).
- (With a win Sunday) Dartmouth would win at UMass for the fourth time in its last five tries.
- (With a win Sunday) The Big Green would pull within 23-12 in the all-time series.
- (With a win Saturday or Sunday) The Big Green would win their sixth game of the season, doubling last season's win total and be the program's most wins since 2018 (when they finished 6-11).
- (With a win Saturday and Sunday) Dartmouth would improve to 7-7, marking its most wins in a season since seven in 2017 and mark the program's best record after 14 games since 2012 (when the Big Green were 9-5).

LAST TIME OUT...
- In a back-and-forth game, Sacred Heart twice erased Big Green leads, but the Dartmouth field hockey team was victorious in the end, beating the Pioneers 3-2 in a shootout on Sunday.
- Freshman Lucia Campaño was a catalyst of the offense once again, posting a goal and assist in regulation, while also converting a must-make fifth round attempt to send the shootout to sudden-victory sixth round.
- Before Campaño's tally, sophomore Ava Carlson made an incredible save to keep the Big Green alive. Carlson denied four of the six shooters in the shootout, including each of the last three.

ALL-TIME VS. PRINCETON
Princeton leads the all-time series, 31-8-2, with Dartmouth's last win coming in 2011 via a 2-1 final. The Tigers have won 10 in a row, with last season's meeting being a slim 2-1 Princeton victory, the closest margin in the series since the Big Green's victory at home on Sept. 17, 2011. Since that point, Princeton has won five straight in Hanover.

SCOUTING PRINCETON
Defending Ivy League Champion Princeton has struggled this season in entering Saturday 5-8 overall and 3-2 in the league. However, the Tigers have played a challenging nonleague schedule with the likes of Louisville, North Carolina, Rutgers, Maryland and more. In Ivy play, Princeton has beaten Columbia, Cornell and Brown while falling to Penn and Harvard. Four student-athletes lead the team with six points apiece, including Bridget Murphy whose three goals are tops on the Tigers. Robyn Thompson has started all 13 games in goal, recording a 1.98 goals against average and 74.5 save percentage.

ALL-TIME VS. UMASS
UMass leads the all-time series with Dartmouth, 23-11. The teams last played in 2019, a 1-0 Minutewomen victory in Hanover. The teams played the year prior at UMass and saw the Big Green pick up a 4-3 win. Dartmouth has won three of its last four meetings at UMass.

SCOUTING UMASS
UMass enters the weekend 9-6 and 3-2 in the Atlantic 10, ranked No. 19 in the most recent NFHCA Poll. The Minutewomen most recently won at Davidson last weekend, 3-2, which followed a 3-1 home win over UConn five days prior. Mali Herberhold leads the team in points with 14 via five goals and four assists. Jess Beech is second with 11 points, also scoring five goals and dishing an assist. Myrte Van Herwijnen has seen the majority of time in goal, tallying a 1.48 goals against average and 80.4 save percentage.

ODDS AND ENDS
- Friday vs. Princeton will feature two former teammates and classmates at Repton School in England in Dartmouth freshman Ella Bowman and Princeton freshman Ottilie Sykes.
- Dartmouth's 26 goals through the first 12 games are its most since the 2018 season when the Big Green had 32 at the same point in the season. For comparison, the Big Green scored 27 goals all of last season, 18 in all of 2021, and 31 in all of 2019. There were 17 games in each of those seasons.
- The Big Green have two overtime wins in the same season for the first time since 2019. The last time they had three was in 2005 (two in overtime and one that ended in penalty strokes).
- Dartmouth has had four games go to overtime this season for the first time since 2019 (when the Big Green had six). Going back to the regular season finale last season, five of the last 13 regular season games have gone to overtime.
- Sunday's shootout vs. Sacred Heart was Dartmouth's first since the 2021 season opener, which was head coach Mark Egner's debut at UC Davis and also a Big Green victory.
- Sophomore Olivia Galiotos is third nationally in defensive saves (5).

NEXT UP
After this weekend, Dartmouth finishes its season at home hosting Columbia on Saturday, Oct. 28 on Senior Day. Gametime is set for 12 p.m.

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