Providence, r.i.
Opperman’s night came after the Bears (4-20-2, 3-15-1 ECAC Hockey) scored twice in the opening 3:21 from Tyler Bird and Sam Lafferty. Opperman followed with two goals in the first period and another in the second.
For just the third time in his career, Opperman found the back of the net two or more times in a game and for the second instance, it came at the expense of the Bears (Nov. 15, 2014). His hat trick was the first by a Big Green player this season and the first since Brad Schierhorn scored all three in an overtime Game 1 win against Colgate in last season’s first round.
Junior Corey Kalk and senior Troy Crema added the other two tallies for Dartmouth (10-13-3, 7-10-2). Crema’s power-play goal with 10:47 remaining gave Dartmouth a 5-2 lead, but proved to be the game winner as the Bears’ Brent Beaudoin scored twice in the final minutes to bring the home team to within one.
But timely saves from Dartmouth goalie Devin Buffalo and a puck that hit the crossbar and ricocheted out as time expired helped Dartmouth to a season split with Brown.
Crema and Kalk both finished the night with a goal and an assist.
In all, Dartmouth outshot Brown, 44-28, posting double-digits in shots on goal each period.
Brown’s Gavin Nieto turned aside 23 shots in just over 32 minutes of action, before giving way to Tim Ernst who made 16.
The Big Green visits Yale’s Ingalls Rink tonight. It’s the first game in New Haven since last season’s ECAC quarterfinals sweep of the Bulldogs.
Brown 5, Dartmouth 2
Hanover
Dartmouth’s Kennedy Ottenbreit and Bailee Brekke each ended the night with a goal and an assist, and teammates Mackenzie St. Onge and Hailey Noronha also had assists.
The Big Green outshot the Bears, 38-25. Neither team was able to score on the power play in a game that saw only three penalties. Dartmouth goalie Robyn Chemago had seven saves throughout 28 minutes, while Christie Honor finished out the game and had 13. Brown’s Elvin had 36 saves, 17 in the first.
Dartmouth will conclude the season today against Yale.
Cornell 72, Dartmouth 57
Ithaca, n.y.
Fanni Szabo led Dartmouth with 22 points and went 10-for-15 from the field, Teammates Olivia Smith and Kate Letkewicz each scored nine points.
Nicholle Aston scored 14 points and Samantha Widmann 11 for Cornell.
Dartmouth returns to action tonight at Columbia.
Dartmouth Leads At Middlebury
Middlebury, Vt.
The host Panthers sit in a distant third with 365 points, while Williams (329) and New Hampshire (323) make up the rest of the top five.
Drach won the women’s 15K freestyle (40:02.5), while Dartmouth freshman Lauren Jortberg was third.
The Big Green’s Luke Brown was second to Stocek (46:17.9) in the 20K freestyle. Dartmouth’s Thomas Woolson was third in the men’s slalom (1:35.10).
Dartmouth put five skiers in the women’s slalom top 10, led by sophomore Alexa Dlouhy in fourth in 1:38.00.
The carnival will conclude today, beginning with the first run of the women’s giant slalom at 9:30 a.m. and the women’s classic sprint relay kicking off at 10 a.m.
Dartmouth 4, Penn 1
Princeton, n.j.
Dartmouth jumped out to an early lead courtesy of doubles wins at Nos. 1 (George Wall and Roko Glasnovic) and 3 (Ciro Riccardi and Charlie Broom).
Broom, Glasnovic and Wall won in singles to clinch the match.
Dartmouth will play Columbia — which swept St. John’s on the first day of action — at noon today. The winner will head to the championship match.
Dartmouth 8Franklin & Marshall 1
Boston
Nick Harrington, Brian Giegerich, Matt Giegerich, Jack Harvey, Carson Spahr, Alvin Heumann, Sam Epley and Glen Brickman won for the Big Green.