The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 02/08/16

02.08.16

Women’s hockey shuts out Brown 5-0 on senior day

MEN’S HOCKEY SPLITS WEEKEND, TRACK AND FIELD POSTS PERFECT 6-6 ON THE HOSTS LAST PENALTY KILL HOME MEET TIFFANY ZHAI, SEAMORE ZHU/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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3 Place of women’s tennis at ECAC championship

3 Podium sweeps for track and field

27 Points for men’s basketball’s Evan Boudreaux ’19

972 Points for first place finisher Dartmouth at UVM Carnival

02.08.16

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Women’s hockey snaps losing streak on Senior Day

By JAMES HANDAL

The Dartmouth Staff

The women’s hockey team beat Brown University 5-0 on Saturday, snapping a 15 game winless streak.

The team fell to Yale University the night before in overtime 4-3. The Big Green’s first win of 2016 improved the team to 5-16-3 overall and 5-10-3 in ECAC hockey play.

“Overall, we had a good weekend and we outplayed both Yale and Brown, but Yale was able to capitalize on our defensive mistakes,” Hailey Noronha ’18 said.

“It was great I was able to get my second goal of my career and help the team out against Yale. Goals don’t come all the time and I think I was able to contribute to the win today.”

Noronha added that everyone played great and succeeded in their individual roles perfectly.

On Saturday, the Big Green faced the Bears for a second time this season after Dartmouth’s 4-0 win back in November and proved themselves the better team again, defeating the Bears 5-0 on Senior Day for the Big Green.

With a big crowd at home, the Big Green started the first period off strong. The Bears opened the scoring with an own goal at 3:24.

Pressure mounted as Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17 passed the puck to Lindsey Allen ’16 who shot at net minder Julianne Landry. The Bears failed to clear the puck and knocked it into their own net.

The Big Green had a 16-5 shot advantage in the first period, but the second was a less eventful, more balanced affair. On a power play in the second half, Ottenbreit scored after a cross from Eleni Tebano ’17 which deflected off Landry’s glove to give Dartmouth the 2-0 lead.

Starting in the third, the Big Green proved too much for the Bears as Laura Stacey ’16 scored at 7:24 when Ailish Forfar ’16 passed to her. The puck was caught but not secured and dropped into the net to put the Green up 3-0. Stacey then added a goal in the empty net at 17:37 to bring her tally to 10 goals

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Women’s hockey blanked visiting Brown University on senior day last Saturday.

on the season. Forfar then tacked on a goal at 19:57 in the right side of the net to finish the game 5-0.

“We’ve been continuing to work on finding ways to produce some offense and score goals,” head coach Mark Hudak said. “We saw a bit of that this weekend, but we are trying to not lose focus on defense.”

Hudak said that the team unfortunately had a loss to Yale in overtime but that everything paid off on Saturday.

“We had a great weekend as a team and it was nice that things finally clicked for us on Saturday night,” Stacey said.

The Big Green outshot Brown 38-13 and was effective, 2-4, on the power play while the Bears went 0-5. Robyn Chemago ’17 got the shutout and had 13 saves compared to Landry’s 33 stops.

“Robyn had a really good game and was solid picking up the shutout,” Hudak said. “The team in front of her did a good job so she can see the puck so she can be on top of things.”

The first period of Dartmouth’s 4-3 loss to Yale was balanced

between the Bulldogs and the Big Green, with Yale opening the scoring at 5:52 when Hanna Astrom managed to put the puck into the net.

A few short moments after, Forfar and Kate Landers ’19 took successive shots on net minder Hanna Mandl which created a havoc in front on the net with Noronha poking the puck in with her second goal in as many games.

Before intermission however, the Bulldogs scored at 19:42 on a nice team goal to lead 2-1 into the second.

The Big Green outshot the Bulldogs 13-8 during the first period.

The second period was quiet until Yale scored to get a 3-1 lead at 2:09, but Tebano responded with her first goal of her season, assisted by Ottenbreit and Stacey, after she scored with a shot hitting the crossbar and crossing the line.

Going into the third trailing 3-2, Forfar circled Mandl and scored at 1:35 tying the game at 3-3. Neither team was able to grab the gamewinning goal in regulation, but at 3:17 in overtime, Yale scored on a shot that went past Chemago to

end the game.

The Big Green outshot Yale 3219 and went 3-5 on power plays while the Bulldogs went 0-5. Net minder Chemago had 15 saves while Mandl had 29.

“We are definitely on an uphill climb and I am really excited for these last two regular season weekends,” Stacey said. “We have found a way to put the puck in the back of the net and hopefully we can gain some confidence and momentum from this weekend and carry it with us the rest of the way.”

With only road games left for the Big Green, Dartmouth will face Union College on Friday and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute the next day.

“In order to start a win streak we need to keep riding on the high of our win today,” Noronha said.

“We know what we are capable of and we just need to continue to be confident and consistent.

Going on the road is tough. This [win] bodes well going to the last couple road games. Every minute of every game counts and I look forward to seeing what these next weeks hold for us.”

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Just before beating Brown, the Big Green lost an overtime heartbreaker to Yale University.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY

No. 20 men’s hockey splits Ivy road games

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IVY

OVERALL

YALE COLUMBIA PRINCETON PENN CORNELL BROWN HARVARD DARTMOUTH

6-0 5-1 4-1 2-3 2-4 2-4 1-5 1-5

15-5 16-7 14-5 8-11 9-11 7-13 9-13 7-13

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Dartmouth men’s ice hockey has moved into a three-way tie for fourth place in the ECAC.

By SAM STOCKTON The Dartmouth Staff

No. 20 Dartmouth men’s hockey split a pair of road games this weekend, falling to No. 11 Yale University in New Haven before riding a four-goal second period to a win over Brown University. The Big Green now sits at 12-10-1, and its 9-7-0 conference record is good for fourth in the ECAC. On Friday night in New Haven, a pair of Stu Wilson goals gave the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead before the game was six minutes old.

Carl Hesler ’18 cut the lead in half, but by the end of the period, Yale led 3-1, using their speed to take advantage of the Big Green’s slow start.

“They came out with a lot of pressure and a lot of speed early, and they put us on our heels,” Brett Patterson ’16 said. “They got a quick goal, and it just pushed us back a little too far. We didn’t really have a response to their speed. They’re a good team, and they have a lot of speed up front. That’s hard to defend, especially when you’re on the road.”

The Big Green was outshot by its Ivy League and ECAC rival by a count of 36 to 22, and a slow start to the first period doomed the Big Green from the opening puck drop.

“I think we made a lot of mistakes in our own zone,” Grant Opperman ’17 said. “Yale is a good team, and if you make mistakes in your own zone, they’re going to capitalize.

There were some mental small mistakes that they were able to capitalize on, and I think that allowed them to control the pace of the game. Once you have a lead like that, you can get a little bit more cautious and defensive and make it harder on us to climb out of that hole.”

After a tally by Cody Learned left the score at 4-1 in favor of the Bulldogs just 41 seconds into the second period, coach Bob Gaudet ’81 lifted goaltender Charles Grant ’16 in favor of James Kruger ’16. Kruger went on to stop 22 of the 23 shots he faced.

“For whatever reason, it just wasn’t going [Grant’s] way,” Opperman said. “He’s been unbelievable for a long stretch, and those nights happen. We knew Kruger was a talented goaltender — we saw that a lot last year. He’s a good goalie, and we had a lot of confidence in front of him.”

After falling against Yale, the Big Green rebounded against Brown, powering past

the last-placed team in the ECAC for a 6-3 win. Going into the matchup in Providence, the Big Green placed a premium on strong work ethic and sticking to its game plan.

“I think our work ethic was lacking a bit during the first period of the Yale game, and we picked it up as the game went on,” Troy Crema ’17 said. “We wanted to get our work ethic back, stick to the game plan and play our game.”

Against the Bears, Kruger made his first start since a Nov. 27 loss to the University of Michigan and turned aside 30 Brown shots after relieving Grant against Yale.

Kruger was also the beneficiary of a strong offensive performance from his Big Green teammates.

Corey Kalk ’18 blocked a shot to spring himself on a breakaway where he wristed a lifted shot past the glove of Brown netminder Tim Ernst to open the scoring.

While Kalk’s marker came in the game’s opening frame, a wild, seven-goal second period decided the game.

Brown wing Nick Lappin beat Kruger to tie the game at one before Tim O’Brien ’16, Jack Barre ’16 and Opperman each found the back of the net and gave the visiting Big Green a 4-1 lead. O’Brien’s goal, coming while captain Brad Schierhorn ’16 sat in the sin bin for slashing, marked the Big Green’s first shorthanded tally of the season.

All three Big Green goals came within a two-minute span just after the midway point of the period, but the high-scoring second stanza was not yet complete.

Kevan Kilistoff ’19 authored a beautiful goal, stickhandling past a Brown defender before rifling a shot past Tyler Steel, who replaced Ernst in net after Opperman’s tally. The goal was sandwiched between a pair of Brown tallies, leaving the score at 5-3 after 40 minutes of play.

“It was pretty crazy,” Crema said. “Usually when you’re on the penalty kill, you’re just grinding, but we managed to squeeze a shorthanded goal out of it. From there, we just carried our momentum and chased their goalie.”

Patterson said that he believed the team’s performance against Yale was an exception to their recent strong play and not representative of the team’s best effort.

“It was a group lapse Friday night,” he said. “We took it upon ourselves to say, ‘That’s not the team we are. We’ve been

playing good hockey, and we needed to get back to what we want to be as a team, and that’s a hard working, high character team.

That showed up on Saturday with the six goals.”

Hesler scored the lone goal of the third period with assists coming from Barre and Josh Hartley ’17 to clinch the Big Green victory. The game was higher scoring than most of the Big Green’s recent victories, in which the team has placed an emphasis on strong play in their defensive zone.

“Obviously, the best case scenario is we score a lot, and they don’t,” Opperman said. “You look at a game like Princeton [a 2-0 victory] and the number that sticks out is zero — any time you can get a shutout, that’s got to be first priority. A game like Brown, where we get six goals is nice, but we focus on the three. If you give me the option between a 6-5 game and a 2-0 game, I’d always want the 2-0 game, but a win is a win.”

Despite surrendering eight goals on the weekend, the Big Green’s penalty kill was a perfect 6-6, and O’Brien gave the Big Green a shorthanded boost. The kill’s success comes as welcome news to the Big Green, which allowed Quinnipiac University to go twofor-two on the power play in last weekend’s 7-5 loss to the Bobcats.

“Coach [John] Rose has been working with us a lot on the penalty kill, and we’ve done a lot of video sessions,” Patterson said.

“A lot of details and stick positioning. As a group, we just executed. Our four main killers — O’Brien, Schierhorn, Hesler, and Barre — came up big for us, along with our D-corps. When you get a stop on the penalty kill, you get a little morale boost. It helps you get going on the road especially.”

The Big Green have just six games remaining in the regular season, with the next four at Thompson Arena.

“We like where the team is right now,” Crema said. “Obviously, we had that little speed bump against Quinnipiac last Friday.

We’re working really well as a unit. We have six really crucial games ahead of us leading into the playoffs, and if we can string some wins together that would really help us in the long run.”

Next weekend, the Big Green will host Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

Women’s Basketball SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

PENN CORNELL PRINCETON HARVARD YALE DARTMOUTH BROWN COLUMBIA

5-0 5-1 4-1 3-3 2-4 2-4 1-5 1-5

16-3 13-7 15-4 8-11 11-12 7-15 13-7 12-9

Men’s Hockey SCHOOL

ECAC

OVERALL

QUINNIPIAC YALE HARVARD RENSSELAER ST. LAWRENCE DARTMOUTH CORNELL CLARKSON UNION COLGATE PRINCETON BROWN

12-0-4 9-4-3 9-4-3 6-4-6 8-6-2 9-7-0 7-6-3 7-6-3 3-8-5 4-11-2 3-11-2 2-12-3

21-1-6 14-5-4 13-6-3 14-10-6 14-11-3 12-10-1 12-7-4 15-10-3 10-10-8 8-19-2 6-16-2 4-16-4

Women’s Hockey SCHOOL

ECAC

OVERALL

QUINNIPIAC CLARKSON PRINCETON COLGATE HARVARD ST. LAWRENCE YALE RENSSELAER CORNELL DARTMOUTH BROWN UNION

13-2-3 11-3-4 12-5-1 9-4-5 10-6-2 8-6-4 9-8-1 7-8-3 5-9-4 5-10-3 1-14-3 0-15-3

23-2-4 23-3-4 19-5-1 17-6-7 13-9-2 14-11-5 10-14-1 9-14-5 9-12-4 5-16-3 3-19-3 0-24-6

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Track and field hosts the Dartmouth Indoor Classic

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The Big Green men took second and third in the mile.

By CHRIS SHIM The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth men’s and women’s track and field recorded strong individual performances at the Dartmouth Indoor Classic this past Saturday at home in Leverone Field House. The Indoor Classic served as the fourth and final home meet of the indoor season for the Big Green.

Last week, Dartmouth sent a lot of runners down to Boston to compete at the Boston University Terrier Invitational. A lot of other athletes, however, got that weekend off.

“They were very fired up to compete this weekend and they had some great performances,” men’s head coach Barry Harwick ’77 said.

Women’s head coach Sandy FordCentonze seemed pleased with where the team was in its training leading up to the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship later this month.

“As far as our athletes, we had several PRs and some nominal performances, and it really looks like things are clicking the way we want them to, where people are running faster each week,” Ford-Centonze said. “They aren’t peaking yet, which is great because the Heptagonals are three weeks out. We’re very excited and hopeful that people will perform well there.”

Dartmouth swept the first three places in both the 60-meter hurdles and the 400-meter. Parker Johnson ’19 finished first in the 60 hurdles with a personal best of 8.21 seconds, according to Harwick. Finishing right behind him were Alec Eschholz ’19 (8.28) and Alex Frye ’17 (8.34). In

the 400, Amos Cariati ’18 (49.77), Edward Wagner ’16 (50.13) and Zach Plante ’18 (50.15) finished in the top three spots. Tim Gorman ’16, with a time of 4:16.06, and Peter Geithner ’16, with 4:19.31, turned in strong performances in the mile with second and third place finishes, respectively.

The Big Green also recorded strong performances in the field.

Corey Muggler ’17 won the long jump in a personal best of 246.50/7.48m, which moved him to fifth all-time in Dartmouth history in the event according to Harwick.

Justin Donawa ’19, who also plays for the soccer team at Dartmouth, won the triple jump with a leap of 49-4.50/15.05m in only his second

time competing in the event. Max Cosculluela ’17 also won the pole vault in 16-6.75/5.05m.

In the shot put, Lucas Ribeiro ’19 (51-4.50/15.66m) and Colin Minor ’18 (50-10.25/15.50m) placed first and second, respectively. Matthew Sindelar ’18 led a Dartmouth sweep of the top four places in the high jump with a second place finish, clearing 6-4.0/1.93m. Adam Couitt ’18, Frye, and Nico Robinson ’17 placed second, third and fourth, respectively.

“Everything just came together and clicked,” Muggler said. “It feels like I am finally learning how to transition my speed down the runway into good height on the takeoff. Hopefully I can continue to improve and score points for the team at [the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships] in a few weeks.”

Highlighting the performances on the women’s side was the double win

by Sara Kikut ’16 in her final indoor home meet of her Dartmouth career.

She took wins in both the 60-meter (7.68) and the 200 (25.18).

Kikut said that her goal for the meet was to have a solid performance in the 60, because she had been working on that event the most in practice.

“I am happy I was able to execute some of the technique I have been working on,” Kikut said.

Dartmouth also nabbed wins in the other sprint events, including wins in the 60 hurdles by Abby Feeney ’17 (8.94), in the 400 by Katy Sprout ’17 (58.53) and in the 500 by Marissa Evans ’18 (1:16.80).

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The Big Green women won the pole vault, the triple jump and the high jump.

The Dartmouth women swept the first three places in the 1000.

Jennifer Cunningham ’17, who finished in 2:58.34, led the way. Marisa Magsarili ’19, second in 2:59.16, and Abby Markowitz ’16, third in 2:59.95, followed Cunningham across the line.

In the field events, Molly Shapiro ’16 won the triple jump with a leap of 39-8.0/12.09m and Allison Frantz ’18 won the high jump in 5-6.0/1.68m. Kaitlin McCallum ’16 won the pole vault with a 125.50/3.80m, short of the school record that she was aiming for, according to Ford-Centonze.

Also starring in the meet was Dartmouth alumnus Emmaline Berg ’13, who won the women’s shot put

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The Dartmouth Indoor Classic was the last home meet of the year for the Big Green.

with a throw of 53-01.75/16.20m, more than 3.5 meters further than the second place finisher.

“Since it is an invitational, we could [let] unattached athletes — non-collegiate athletes — compete,” Ford-Centonze said. “[Berg] has already qualified for [USA Track and Field National Championships] and it was great for her to get a chance to throw in the winter.”

Both athletes and coaches viewed this meet and those prior as stepping stones towards the ultimate goal of competing well at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships held at Cornell University at the end of February.

“Every time you go into a season, there’s always that one goal, and that goal is Heps,” Ford-Centonze said.

“We start talking about the Heps in September. The Heps is going to be a meet that everyone is going after and doing everything they can to win” The track and field teams will split up next weekend as they begin their final preparations for the championships. According to the coaching staff, most of the runners will be competing at the Boston University Valentine Invitational, while the sprinters who compete in the 60-meter dash and the field event athletes will travel to compete at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ford-Centonze said that BU is known for having a track conducive to fast times and MIT is known for its nice throwing facilities, which influenced the decision to send different athletes to each event.