HANOVER — Senior forward Gabby Billing scored in the third period to break a 3-3 tie and give the Dartmouth College women’s hockey team its first win of the season, 4-3 over No. 9 Cornell at Thompson Arena on Saturday.
It was the first career head coaching win for new Dartmouth coach Liz Keady Norton as well.
Freshman forward Laura Fuoco, junior forward Currie Putrah and freshman defender Kenzie Bachelor also scored for Dartmouth (1-2-0, 1-2-0 ECAC Hockey). Fuoco added had two assists.
Cornell scored first, but Dartmouth answered three minutes later when Fuoco scored on a breakaway set up by junior forward Celine Pietraszek.
Putrah knocked the puck home with an assist by junior forward Catherine Trevors five minutes into the second, but Big Red tied things 43 seconds later. Bachelor gave Dartmouth the lead late in the second on her first career goal with assists from sophomore forward Jenna Donohue and Fuoco. Another Cornell goal tied it before Billing’s power-play game-winner.
HANOVER — The Huskies (3-3-0) scored three back-breaking goals in the final six minutes of regulation to beat the Big Green (0-2-0) at Thompson Arena.
All of the game’s goals came in the third period. Joey Musa tied the game for Dartmouth at 4:15 of the third only to have UConn’s Vladislav Firstov, Marc Gatcomb and Ryan Tverberg respond, the latter two into empty nets.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Big Green dominated the Bears at Marvel Field.
Nicole Ihensekien, Sophia Haley, Emily Henrich, Nyah Cordero, Abbey Savin, Marguerite Genereux and Grace Player all scored a try for Dartmouth, and Savin hit six conversions.
Dartmouth scored nearly 11 minutes in and led 21-5 at halftime.
HANOVER — The Big Green had a two-set lead but needed a fifth set to win (16-14) after the Tigers tied the match.
With the decider knotted at 14 apiece, Dartmouth sophomore Ellie Blain had a kill and served an ace to send the Big Green to victory. Dartmouth won the opening sets, 26-24, 25-14, before the Tigers took back-to-back 25-14 sets to force the tiebreaker.
Junior Taite Ryan led Dartmouth (12-7, 4-6 Ivy) with 14 kills and added 24 digs.
PRINCETON, N.J. — Dartmouth junior Seth Weprin led the Big Green at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship, finishing in 25th place with a time of 24:56, as the Dartmouth men took fifth at the West Windsor Fields.
Freshman Albert Velikonja was 28th (25:01), while senior Liam Jamieson finished less than a second behind in 29th.
Junior Corinne Robitaille paced the Dartmouth women with a 16th-place finish (21:12), and freshman Ellie Tymorek was just four second behind in 19th place. Sophomore Emily Levonas was 30th (21:45). The women were sixth as a team.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Big Green fell to 4-11-0 on the season and 0-6 in the Ivies.
Junior Hatley Post had 10 saves and senior Isabella Santucci five for Dartmouth. Yale scored twice in each half in the victory.
ALLSTON, Mass. — Allie Winstanley scored off a rebound in the 85th minute to avoid the shutout as the Big Green women dropped to 1-5 in the Ivies and 5-7-1 overall. Sydney Brown assisted on the goal.
Harvard scored early, in the sixth minute, and added goals in the 28th and 78th minutes.
ALLSTON, Mass. — The Crimson made an early goal hold up as they snapped the Big Green’s two-game unbeaten streak.
Dartmouth (2-10-1, 0-4-1 Ivy) gave up the lone goal in the first minute of action and were unable to find an equalizer after that, despite matching Harvard’s (6-5-3, 1-2-2 Ivy) level of play for the rest of the game.
Dartmouth outshot the Harvard, 12-8, in the second half. Freshman goalkeeper Costi Christodoulou made his third consecutive start and recorded two saves.