The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 02/22/16

02.22.16

Women’s lacrosse slams UMass Lowell 18-2 in season opener

MEN’S HOCKEY SPLITS HOME GAMES

MEN’S HOOPS WINS ONE, LOSES ONE

WOMEN’S SWIM & DIVE FINISHES IN EIGHTH SEAMORE ZHU/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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BY THE NUMBERS

103 Career goals for Jaclyn Leto ’16 of women’s lax

4 Straight wins for women’s basketball

4 Points for men’s hockey’s Corey Kalk ’18 on Friday

National rank of Ng ’17 and Mathis ’18 in women’s tennis doubles

02.22.16

Women’s lacrosse dominates in season opener, 18-2

By CHRIS SHIM

The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth’s women’s lacrosse team opened its 2016 campaign with a statement 18-2 victory, dominating the University of Massachusetts Lowell at home at Fahey-Scully Field in Hanover this past Saturday.

“It feels great to be 1-0. You want to start the year off with a win, and I thought we did some really great things today all over the field,” head coach Amy Patton said. “We got a lot of players in which was good to see, and a lot of young players really stepped up today.”

Patton said that overall she was really pleased with how the team came out to play hard the whole game.

The game started out slow, as Dartmouth and UMass Lowell were locked in a 1-1 tie for the first eight minutes of play. As play progressed, Dartmouth took control, taking a commanding 12-2 lead by halftime and then adding on six more while keeping UMass Lowell at bay during the second half.

Co-captain Jaclyn Leto ’16 opened her final season with a bang by scoring five goals, including her 100th career goal in a Dartmouth uniform. Leto, who played center

for much of the game and took the draws, also contributed four draw controls and two ground balls.

“I think the most fun part about it was not just us — the upperclassmen — scoring, but we had a lot of young girls out there that were able to participate and get some points which was awesome,” Leto said. “It was so fun to have everyone connected.”

Leto said she was unaware of the fact that she was on the cusp of reaching 100 collegiate goals but was really excited once she heard it announced over the loudspeaker.

Leto is the 17th player in the program’s history to accomplish this feat.

“I had no idea — it was really exciting and I’m really excited for the season,” she said. “It’s just a really positive way to start.”

Taryn Deck ’17 and Courtney Weisse ’17 also played major roles in the Big Green offense, tallying a hat trick each. Deck assisted Weisse twice and contributed a ground ball and two draw controls, while Weisse provided an assist to Ingrid Hermanson ’16.

Patton was pleased with how Deck and Weisse contributed to the offense.

“They’re both great leaders, they run our attack and they’re both very different players in what

their skill set[s] [are],” Patton said.

“Thinking back to last year, in the gains those two made towards the end of the year, they picked up right where they left off.”

In their first collegiate game, many freshmen stepped up to perform well. Charlotte Wahle ’19, making her first career appearance in goal for the Big Green, played in the cage for the full 60 minutes of play and tallied five saves.

Patton seemed impressed with her poise, especially given her lack of experience on this stage.

“I thought Char saw the ball really well — she was seeing it coming out of their sticks and had some really nice saves,” Patton said.

“She’s real calm out there, and it’s a real calming presence for our defense.”

Elizabeth Mastrio ’19, another freshman starring in her first appearance in Dartmouth uniform, tallied a goal and three assists.

Many of the draws were targeted at Mastrio, who contributed two to the Big Green’s 14 total draw controls. Kathryn Giroux ’19 and Campbell Brewer ’19 also had strong showings in their first collegiate games. Giroux tallied one goal and one assist, and Brewer recorded one goal late in the second half.

“We have some very good fresh-

men, and they’re coming along and pushing our upperclassmen which is really nice,” Patton said.

“That’s what you want to do as a coach — you want to have a freshmen class that can really push the upperclassmen. I’m very impressed with the whole class.”

Sophie Davidson ’18, Danielle Lisovicz ’16 and Lauren Maiorano ’17 also tallied goals in the highscoring game. Lauren Maiorano’s sister Kristen Maiorano ’19 tallied an assist in her first game for Dartmouth.

The Big Green defense also controlled much of the pace, limiting UMass Lowell to 12 shots and forcing 20 turnovers, while recording 34 shots itself.

Mastrio and Katie O’Neill ’18 both missed playing time due to yellow card violations for checking UMass Lowell players to the head.

Dartmouth has a busy week ahead, hosting the University of New Hampshire at Fahey-Scully on Tuesday, Feb. 23, before traveling to Florida to take on the University of Florida on Saturday, Feb. 27.

“I think we did a really great job at playing our game,” Deck said. “Hopefully we will continue to play our game against better and tougher and faster teams this week.”

Women’s swim and dive finishes eighth at Ivies

By EVAN MORGAN The Dartmouth

No. 7

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This weekend told an all too familiar tale for the Big Green women’s swim and dive team, as they finished in eighth place in the Ivy League Championships for the third straight year. Despite several record-breaking performances, the women finished with 532.5 points, seven points behind seventh-place Cornell University and trailing winner Harvard University by almost 1,000.

After dropping all of their dual meets this season, head coach Jim Wilson’s team had hoped to find some vindication at Princeton University’s

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“We were not one of the teams that everybody was looking up to, but we were hoping to pick off a couple other teams,” Wilson said.

The Big Green had its goggles trained on Brown University, Columbia University and Cornell.

On the first day of the meet, the women looked on track to a better finish. The team’s 161 points had them in seventh place, 32 above Cornell.

Wilson said the second day was not as good as he had hoped, “but it was still us and Cornell.”

On the final day, the two teams were neck and neck until the final event.

“As a coach, as you go through that last day, you’re adding up points and figuring out where Cornell is going to swim and where you can beat them,” Wilson said. “[However], you can only control the way your swimmers swim and not the way the other team swims, so if they step up and have really good swims, it’s going to throw a monkey wrench into the plans that you made.”

That wrench finally came on Saturday night, and the Big Green slipped from seventh to eighth.

Though the meet was a disappointment for the team, it was not without individual success. The women, who tapered and shaved before the big

meet, were excited at the prospect of swimming their best times of the season.

“It’s just so much fun to be able to get up there and be able to do something physically that I’ve never done before,” co-captain Charlotte Kamai ’16 said. “It doesn’t matter so much what the name on the person’s cap next to me is, I just want to beat them.”

Sophomore standout AnnClaire MacArt ’18 twice bested a three-yearold record in the 500-meter freestyle, touching in at 4 minutes and 49.37 seconds in the preliminary heat and then posting a 4:49.03 in the A final.

“That felt pretty awesome. I’ve been working toward that one for the whole season, and I really really wanted to go under 4:50,” MacArt said. “It was nice to start out like that, and to see everybody get pumped about it too was cool from a team aspect.”

The Big Green also took down a three-year-old team record by just a tenth of a second in the 200 freestyle relay. Kendese Nangle ’16 and Kamai had set the record at the Ivy Championships in 2013 their first year on the team.

“It was awesome that we made a full circle from freshman to senior year, being able to break the record with a whole new crop of teammates,

including a ’17 and a ’19,” Kamai said.

Teammates also highlighted the performances of Allison Parent ’19, who finished 11th in the 200 backstroke, and Hayley Winter ’18, who took 14th in the 1650 freestyle.

Every member of the Dartmouth team who attended Ivy Championships contributed some individual points to the team effort, an uncommon feat according to Kamai.

Buoyed by the team’s close contention with Cornell, camaraderie was high at the season’s final meet.

“Everybody would be on the side of the pool deck cheering for somebody to have a great race, so there was always somebody there to hug them and congratulate them, especially our senior swimmers,” MacArt said.

Kamai noted that team spirit was off the charts over the weekend.

Ultimately, the women did improve from last year, narrowing the gap between the Big Green and the other teams at the bottom of the standings. Wilson announced his retirement in October, so this year is one of transition for the Dartmouth swimmers. However, MacArt sees reason for optimism.

“It was fun to see this turnaround from last year,” she said. “There’s a lot to look forward to coming into next year.”

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY

Men’s basketball splits New York weekend

By ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff

This past weekend, Dartmouth men’s basketball team commenced the second half of its conference season, vying to disentangle itself from a four-way tie at the bottom of the league standings. In its second look at its two New York-based Ivy League foes, the Big Green (9-15, 3-7 Ivy) convincingly triumphed over Cornell University (9-15, 2-8) 78-66 on Friday night, but could not sustain an early lead against Columbia University (19-8, 8-2 Ivy) on Saturday in falling apart 73-54.

In its first game of a four-game road trip, Dartmouth took full advantage of a chance at redemption. Only three weeks earlier, it surrendered a lead late against Cornell that further ushered in a damaging losing streak.

The contest in Ithaca this time around nearly followed a similar course, but the Big Green, having led for all but four minutes on the night, finally managed to neutralize a late opposing surge to secure its third victory in conference play.

Neck and neck in the early stages of the first half, the 13:28 mark signaled a dramatic change in the balance of the game, after which Dartmouth sprung out to a 16-3 run over six minutes. Catching fire from deep, the team made 5-of-8 in the first stanza to enter the half with a commanding 36-24 edge.

“I think defensively we really stepped it up and did a good job of containing their perimeter players,” forward Evan Boudreaux ’19 said, while also emphasizing the team’s strong defensive play. “Our defense gave us a chance to a build a decent lead and then carry that over into the second half.”

The dominance spilled over into the subsequent half, as for more than an 18-minute stretch going back to the first, Dartmouth kept a double-digit separation from the Big Red. Despite Dartmouth accumulating as much as a 20-point lead, Cornell cut its deficit down to six with just under four minutes left to play. The comeback was fueled by the play of Cornell guard Darryl Smith, who finished the night tied for a game-high of 22 points.

Yet Dartmouth refused to break down late, converting a slew of critical free throws down the stretch.

A few of those came from Boudreaux, who once again led the way for Dartmouth.

Despite posting a substandard 6-for-17 field goal mark, the first-year player produced another remarkable performance with 22 points — buoyed by going 9-for-11 on free throws — and 18 rebounds. Moreover, Boudreaux attained the double-double by halftime, his third straight and ninth on the year.

More than halfway through the Ivy League slate, it is worth taking stock of the magnitude of the freshman’s success.

Averaging the second-most points per game in the Ivy League, Boudreaux has been a near-unstoppable force on drives to the rim — either converting baskets, as evidenced by his third-most two-point field goals, or habitually drawing fouls. In terms of maximizing volume and accuracy, he ranks as the best free throw shooter in the conference with a league-leading 127 made.

But it doesn’t stop there. Boudreaux has become a rebounding savant through his skill, physicality and anticipation on the glass, cor-

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Men’s Basketball SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

YALE PRINCETON COLUMBIA PENN HARVARD DARTMOUTH CORNELL BROWN

9-1 8-1 8-2 4-5 3-7 3-7 2-8 0-2

18-6 18-5 19-8 10-13 11-15 9-15 9-15 7-17

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Big Green men’s basketball is now in sixth place in the Ivy League.

ralling the second-most rebounds per game and posting a 17.0 rebound percentage — an estimate of the percent of rebounds grabbed while on the court — that puts him at third in the conference. Particularly raising his level in league play, Boudreaux has etched his name as a premier conference player in only his first year in Hanover.

All the while he has received plenty of help, as Taylor Johnson ’18 and Miles Wright ’18 had 14 and 13 points, respectively, on Friday night and three more contributors had at least seven to propel Dartmouth past Cornell. Another advantage on the boards materialized as well, as a 46-32 rebound edge proved key for the win.

The following night saw the Big Green travel to New York City and face a top-tier Ivy team in Columbia. While the Lions hardly dominated to the extent that it did during the teams’ meeting in Hanover a few weeks ago, Dartmouth nevertheless could not translate an early-game cushion to more sustainable control.

Yielding the first basket of the night, Dartmouth swiftly responded by scoring nine consecutive points. As both sides engaged in a 3-point showdown consisting of a combined six long-range shots in just the first eight minutes and ten seconds, the Big Green’s stalwart trio of Boudreaux, Wright and Connor Boehm ’16 scored their team’s first 20 points to command the contest’s early stages.

Yet after coming out brimming with confidence following a second straight Ivy victory, that early energy — and shooting ability, more specifically — petered out as the first half wound down and the second half began.

The 8:24 time stamp in the first half particularly marked a consequential turning point. Up until that point, the Big Green had made 10 of 20 shots — three of which from deep — and cultivated a 24-15 lead in what would remain its largest of the night.

Such control allowed the team to lead for 88 percent of the first half of the game clock.

But for the rest of the opening half, Dartmouth turned cold from the field going 1-of-10. For the remainder of the game after its nine-point edge, the team converted just 10 of 42 shots — producing a dreadful .238 shooting percentage, far below its .429 average on the season. Continuously developing its offense along the way, Columbia warded

off each of Dartmouth’s incursions on its lead, eventually closing out the night with authority in leaving with a 19-point win.

“We were too individually focused going on later in the game,” forward Boehm said in explaining why the team stumbled on offense. “Going into the game, the plan was reversing the ball, getting everybody touches, work through our offense. I thought we did a good job of that in the first half, but [then] we started stopping possessions to short, taking shots too early in the clock, not getting enough reversals, and that’s kind of what hurt us.”

Four different Lions ended the contest in double digits, led by guard Grant Mullins with 17, while five different players contributed to a strong three-point presence, as Columbia went 9-for-29 from deep. On the other side, Boudreaux had a team-high 16 points but struggled on offense in shooting 5-for-18, caused in large part by the Lions’ defensive containment effort.

“They really did a good job doubleteaming Evan when we got him the ball. And then we had to go away from certain options that we had,” head coach Paul Cormier said about his star’s troubles. “We got the ball to him but they quickly double-teamed. He tried to score before the double-team got there, so he had to rush some shots, and when he was able to get rid of the ball to someone else, we weren’t able to capitalize on that.”

With four games left in the season, Dartmouth now begins a new week of conference play tied for fifth in the Ivy League, and mathematically eliminated not only from the race for the conference crown, but also facing a ceiling of fourth place as a potential finish in the standings. That’s due to the enormous gulf between the top three teams, composed of Yale University, Princeton University and Columbia University, and the bottom five in the league. While the former group has posted at least a five-point average margin of victory per game — with Yale and Princeton on average ending games at least 10 ahead — the latter cohort has ranged from a -1.7 to -8.0 average margin. Yale sits 9-1, Princeton 8-1 and Columbia 8-2 in Ivy League play.

Dartmouth is 3-7.

The Big Green will continue their road trip this upcoming weekend, playing at Brown University on Feb. 26 at 7 p.m., then at Yale the following day at 8 p.m.

Women’s Basketball SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

PENN PRINCETON HARVARD DARTMOUTH CORNELL YALE BROWN COLUMBIA

9-0 8-1 7-3 6-4 5-5 2-8 1-9 1-9

20-3 19-4 12-11 11-15 13-11 11-16 13-11 12-13

Men’s Hockey SCHOOL

ECAC

OVERALL

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

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

23-2-7 18-5-4 15-8-4 16-12-4 16-12-6 14-12-1 13-8-6 16-13-3 12-11-9 5-16-6 8-22-2 5-20-2

Women’s Hockey SCHOOL

ECAC

OVERALL

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

16-2-4 14-3-5 14-6-2 12-5-5 12-7-3 9-8-5 9-9-4 8-9-5 9-11-2 6-13-3 1-18-3 0-19-3

26-2-5 26-3-5 21-6-2 20-7-7 16-10-3 15-13-6 13-12-4 10-15-7 10-17-2 6-19-3 3-23-3 0-28-6

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016

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Men’s hockey beats Colgate 5-2, loses tight game to Cornell 1-0

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The men’s ice hockey team is two wins away from receiving a bye out of the ECAC First Round.

By SAM STOCKTON The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s hockey team split a pair of weekend games, surging past Colgate University for a 5-2 victory on Friday night before falling 1-0 to Cornell University on senior night.

The Big Green’s conference record of 11-9-0 (14-12-1 overall) is good for a tie for fifth in the ECAC. On Friday night, the team rode a dominating first period to victory at Thompson Arena. The Big Green outshot the Raiders 13-7 in the frame and generated a 3-0 lead.

Throughout the game, Dartmouth’s lineup of Jack Barre ’16, Carl Hesler ’18 and Corey Kalk ’18 took charge, combining for four goals and four assists on the night. After Grant Opperman ’17 opened the scoring, Kalk was able to deposit his own rebound in the back of the net.

With under a minute to play in the first, Kalk and Barre took advantage of an ill-timed Colgate line change, and Kalk fed Barre, who proceeded to lift a backhand past Colgate netminder Charlie Finn.

Head coach Bob Gaudet ’81 noted Kalk’s contribution of two goals strong play from center Hesler and left winger Barre.

“They’re strong physically, they’re tough, they kill penalties,

and Jack plays on the power play,” Gaudet said. “They are key players for us. Corey plays with a lot of pace, and Jack and Hes dominate down low.”

Kalk, who replaced an injured Kevin Neiley ’18 on the Hesler line, emphasized the privilege of playing with two of the Big Green’s best forwards.

“Jack and Carl are having career years, so all I was trying to do was create some energy for them,” Kalk said. “[I wanted to] get some speed on their line and take control of the other team’s top line, and we managed to do that. We managed to get the puck deep, get some bounces, and capitalize. It’s unreal playing with those guys, and that’s how it goes when you work hard.”

For much of the second period, the Big Green continued to carry the play. Late in the period, Kalk netted his second goal of the night, extending the lead to 4-0. The Raiders finally answered with Evan Peterson and Tylor Spink beating James Kruger ’16 in short succession to cut the lead to 4-2.

“There were some careless mistakes, particularly not back-checking well, and that sometimes results in a goal,” Kalk said. “We weathered the storm after we got a little careless not getting pucks deep. All in all, we

stuck to our game. Like coach says, we stick to our process, we win the game.”

Gaudet again turned to the Hesler line to grab momentum back early in the game’s final stanza.

“It’s a funny game, and you have to just move on,” Gaudet said. “After the second period, you just don’t let the other team’s momentum carry on by going into the third period and Hesler’s line starts. We get play down in their end, and then the next line comes out. The tone is set, and we’re just playing a new game in the third period. Let’s win this next battle.”

Gaudet said that shifts are important to the game and the team only lost one, building on that advantage throughout the entire period and allowing the Big Green to maintain control of the game.

In the final 20 minutes, the Big Green held their opponents to just five shots, and Hesler took advantage of an empty net with two seconds remaining to cement a 5-2 victory.

The following night, the Big Green were unable to solve Cornell goaltender Mitch Gillam, who authored a 33-save shutout and caused a disappointing Senior Day defeat.

“I thought we played well for much of it, but we weren’t able to come through,” Gaudet said. “It’s a one-nothing game. I give our guys

credit, I think they played their asses off. Our kids played their asses off from the goalie on out, they just weren’t able to convert.”

Despite the disappointing result, captain Brad Schierhorn ’16 said he was pleased with the way his team played.

“I have no issues with the way we played,” he said. “We played our hearts out all night and had lots of chances. You definitely have to give their goalie credit.”

The game’s lone goal came early in the second period, when Cornell center Jeff Kubiak utilized a beautiful toe drag, before rifling a shot past Charles Grant ’16. Even in the losing effort, Grant was perhaps the Big Green’s best player, stopping 20 shots and keeping the Big Green in a game that, despite its low score, featured plenty of offense. “[Grant] played great,” Schierhorn said. “He’s been playing great ever since Christmas, and tonight was just another example.

He made those key saves when we needed him, and he was just a rock all night.”

For the Big Green, the best chance of the night came midway through the third when two Cornell skaters were whistled for minor penalties on the same play, prompting a twominute five-on-three advantage.

“It’s a huge opportunity, and we didn’t make good of it,” Gaudet said.

“We have to be better there, there’s no question about it. It’s obviously a crucial situation, and a lot of pressure on the guys. They’re trying to move pucks, and they’re trying to do the right things. They’re playing on some good adrenaline, we just had to calm that down, and we weren’t able to do it.”

In an opportunity that clearly had the potential to change the course of the game, the team struggled to control the puck in their offensive zone and generate chances.

“We couldn’t really connect well, and we didn’t really bear down and make a play,” Brett Patterson ’16 said. “We didn’t make many hard plays, and it came back to bite us.”

As Gaudet explained, despite the low score, the game was certainly an exciting one.

“The purist might say there’s not really a ton of offense,” he said.

“That was a classic college hockey game. Fifteen years ago playing Cornell it’s the same game. We win one-to-nothing or we lose one-to-

nothing.”

One bright spot in an otherwise disappointing affair was Connor Dempsey ’16’s presence in the line-up. Dempsey, a senior from Winthrop, Massachusetts, had not played since the 26 games he suited up for in his sophomore season before finally getting his chance in the Class of 2016’s final regular season game at Thompson.

“He’s what college athletics is about,” Gaudet said. “I love the kid. You talk about the things you can control — your work ethic, your attitude, and your preparation — that kid is prepared every single day. He comes out to goalie practice to help our goalies get better. He makes our guys work. He’s a good hockey player. I just absolutely love the kid, and there was no doubt that he was playing tonight. He’s what Dartmouth hockey is about.”

Gaudet was not the only part of the team to celebrate Dempsey’s role on the team.

“He’s a guy who comes every day, puts his head down and works hard with a smile on,” Patterson said. “It’s great to see him out there. He’s one of my best friends, and he’s going to be one of my lifelong friends. We love having him out there, and we love having him in the lineup. He’s a big character guy, and he’s respected by everyone.”

Gaudet also took a moment to commemorate his senior class as a whole, saying that the group has added and will continue to add a lot to the program.

“They’ve led by example,” Gaudet said. “They’re very different personalities, but they mesh very well together. They’ve done a good job of keeping our team together and taking the young guys under their wing.”

The Big Green has now arrived at a crucial moment in their season.

The top four seeds in the ECAC tournament receive a first round bye, and the currently fifth-placed Big Green would slip past St. Lawrence University for fourth place with a pair of wins next weekend. Dartmouth plays St. Lawrence in Canton, New York on Friday before facing off against Clarkson University on Saturday.

“We’ve been saying the last three weeks that we’re in a playoff mindset,” Schierhorn said. “Especially now since that first round bye is so close. These next two games are going to be playoff games.”