Staff Reports

TROY, N.Y. — The Dartmouth College men’s hockey team reeled off four straight goals over the second and third periods for a 5-2 win over Rensselaer at Houston Field House on Saturday night to close the ECAC Hockey regular season.

After yielding Jake Johnson’s first goal of the campaign for RPI, the Big Green (10-9-3, 11-14-4) powered to a 4-1 lead behind a Will Graber goal and two from Drew O’Connor in the second period and another from Graber in the third. Graber completed a hat trick with an empty-net goal with 6 seconds to play.

The decision, combined with Yale’s loss to Quinnpiac on Saturday night, left Dartmouth with the fifth seed for the upcoming ECAC conference tournament. The Big Green will host last-place St. Lawrence in a best-of-three series beginning on Friday night at Thompson Arena.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Penn 56, Dartmouth 52

PHILADELPHIA — After a tough battle, the Big Green fell short of a win and fell to fifth place in the Ivy League standings.

Isalyas Quinones led Dartmouth with 13 points, nine scored in the fourth quarter, and five rebounds. Kealy Brown added double digits to the score as well with 10 points, three rebounds and two assists.

In other action, Yale bested Columbia to take fourth place in the standings. The Big Green must win their two final games for a chance to qualify for the Ivy League tournament.

Dartmouth hosts Columbia on Friday at 7 p.m.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Dartmouth 11, Wagner 4

NEW YORK — The Big Green closed a three-game road trip by topping the Seahawks at Hamline Field.

Ben Martin paced Dartmouth (1-2) with three goals and an assist. George Prince also posted a hat trick, and five other players found their way onto the scoresheet.

Prince netted the game’s first goal less than two minutes in, and he and Martin traded scored until the Big Green owned a 5-0 lead a little more than a minutes into the second quarter.

Daniel Hincks played the first 57 minutes in goal, making 11 saves to pick up his first collegiate win. George Christopher made two stops in late mop-up duty. The Big Green hosts UMass Lowell on Tuesday in its home opener.

Women’s Lacrosse

Dartmouth 15, Brown 11

HANOVER — Kellen D’Alleva had a career-high six assists, along with two goals, to lead the Big Green to a win in their home opener.

Dartmouth (2-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy) held Brown, one of the top-scoring teams in the nation, to a season-low goal total to get the win. Kierra Sweeney added five goals for the Green. Campbell Brewer scored three times and had an assist. Dartmouth goalkeeper Kiera Vrindten made nine saves for the win.

D’Alleva, a senior, had a total of 32 points in her career prior to this 8-point outburst. Sweeney now has a team-best 17 goals through five games this season.

Dartmouth hosts UConn on Wednesday at Scully-Fahey field at 3 p.m.

BASEBALL

Dartmouth sweeps FDU

CARY, N.C. — Trevor Johnson poked a two-out, two-run single in the ninth inning and Kade Kretzschmar delivered an RBI sac fly in the 10th as the Big Green took the second half of a doubleheader from Fairleigh Dickinson, 4-3.

The Big Green (3-4) took the opener, 6-1, behind four innings of solid pitching from freshman Nathan Skinners.

Dartmouth meets St. Joseph’s on Sunday to close the Army Baseball Classic.

Softball

Toledo 5, Dartmouth 4

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Big Green led, 3-2, after six innings before the Rockets scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to steal the win.

Trailing 5-3, Dartmouth loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the seventh but could score only one run. Tessa Grossman was 3-for-4 for Dartmouth with a RBI and a run scored.

Schae Nelson and Taylor Ward each had two hits and a RBI. Billie McFadyen added a pair of hits for the Big Green, who finished with 11 hits as a team.

Madie Augusto went the first 6 ⅔ innings for Dartmouth in the circle.

The Big Green plays twice in the UCF Invite on Sunday against Toledo at 9:30 a.m. and Florida State at 11:30 a.m.

Women’s Tennis

UMass 4, Dartmouth 3

HANOVER — The Big Green fell to UMass at the Boss Tennis Center, dropping the hosts to 3-8.

UMass won two of three doubles matches to start the day. The Big Green won at No. 3 with the pair of Allison Chuang and Allison McCann winning 7-5. Chuyang Guan (6-2, 6-2) and Jingyi Peng (6-4, 7-5) each won in straight sets in singles play for the Big Green. McCann added a 6-0, 5-7, 7-6 (4) win at No. 6 singles.

Dartmouth heads to Texas for spring break in two weeks when the Big Green will visit Rice, TCU and SMU over a six-day stretch.

MEN’S SQUASH

Giegerich Advances

HARTFORD, Conn. — Dartmouth’s Matt Giegerich is the last man standing for the Big Green in the East Division of the Malloy Cup after a 3-0 semifinal sweep of Harvard’s Julien Gosset on Saturday.

Giegerich dominated the first game, 11-3, squeezd out a 12-10 victory for a two-game lead and closed out the win, 11-8, to advance to the finals.

Giegerich will take on Cornell’s Charles Culhane from Cornell in the finals on Sunday morning at 11 a.m.

MEN’S SWIMMING

Sodokoff Third at Ivy Meet

PROVIDENCE, R.I. —

Justin Sodokoff placed third off the 3-meter diving board to highlight Dartmouth’s eighth-place team finish at the Ivy League Championship.

The Big Green tallied 425.5 team points. Sodokoff added 27 of them with his diving finish (355.80). Connor LaMastra was fifth in the 200-yard butterfly (1:44.35). Dartmouth closed the weekend by taking eighth in the 400 freestyle relay (2:59.34).