HAMILTON, N.Y. (2/9/09) – The Colgate University women’s ice hockey team couldn’t control No. 3 Dartmouth College, as the Big Green picked up a 5-1 win at Starr Rink on Friday, Feb. 9.

 

Four of Dartmouth’s five goals were scored on the special teams, four on the power play and one short handed.

 

The Big Green took a 1-0 lead at 13:19 of the first frame.  Maggie Kennedy received a pass from Caroline Ethier on the left side of the net.  Kennedy banked a shot off of goaltender Brook Wheeler’s (Brussels, Ont.) leg and the puck deflected into the bottom right corner of the net for the goal.

 

Gillian Apps scored just 17 seconds into the second session, with the game’s only even-strength tally.  Teammate Sarah Parsons passed the puck up the ice to a wide open Apps at center ice.  Apps skated in on net and went five hole on Wheeler to give Dartmouth a 2-0 lead.

 

With 1:39 remaining in the second period, Julie Bronson padded the lead with a 4x3 power-play goal.  Bronson, set up at the point, collected a Shannon Bowman pass and rifled a shot towards the net that ricocheted off a Raider defender and over the shoulder of Wheeler.

 

Katie Weatherston tallied back-to-back goals within six minutes to give Dartmouth a 5-0 lead in the third.  She surprised Colgate, which had a 5x3 advantage, stealing the puck near the far blue line and skated up the left side of the ice and shot the puck towards Wheeler.  The puck deflected and went across the goal line, for a short-handed unassisted marker at 2:01.

 

Weatherston added a power-play goal at 7:07, when she skated in on the left side, started to make her way across the doorstep and then drilled the puck between the legs of Wheeler.

 

Sophomore Sam Hunt (Calgary, Alta.) was able to keep Dartmouth goaltender Carli Clemis from a perfect game, when she recorded a power-play goal at 17:51.  Junior Mallory Johnston (Chatham, Ont.) found freshman Katie Stewart (Exeter, Ont.), and Stewart moved the puck to Hunt on the left side of the net.  Hunt fired a shot that bounced around on its way through traffic and over the goal line.

 

Wheeler finished the night with 28 saves, while Clemis turned away 18 shots.

 

The Big Green maintain a first-place standing in the ECACHL with a 17-1-1 league record and a 20-4-2 overall record.  The Raiders are in fourth place in the standings with a 12-6-1 league mark and a 13-13-2 overall record.

 

Colgate hosts No. 6 Harvard on Saturday, Feb. 10 at 4 p.m.  It will be Senior Day, as it marks Colgate’s final home game of the regular season.