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Game 7:
Dartmouth Big Green (2-4, 0-1 Ivy) vs. Brown Bears (2-3, 0-1 Ivy) Date: Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012 - 12 p.m. Location: Hanover, N.H. - Chase AstroTurf Field Last Time vs. Brown: Sept. 24, 2011 - W, 4-3 (OT) All-Time Series: Dartmouth, 24-10-2 |
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Game 8: Dartmouth
Big Green (2-4*) vs. Holy Cross Crusaders (1-7) |
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THIS
WEEKEND
The Big Green will play their second
and third games in five-day span after taking out Bryant, 6-5, Wednesday
afternoon in an offensive battle. The weekend kicks off with the Ivy League
home opener against Brown at noon on Saturday before making the trip south to
Worcester to square off with non-conference Holy Cross Sunday afternoon.
SCOUTING
THE BEARS
Brown makes the trip to Hanover
sporting a 2-3 overall mark and 0-1 record in Ivy play following a 4-1 loss to
Columbia last week. Saturday's game is the first outside of Rhode Island this
season for the team as they have played four home games with its lone road
contest coming at Bryant in Smithfield. The Bears' offense has struggled thus
far on the young season, averaging just 1.80 goals per game, while allowing
3.80 against, the second-worst figure in the league. Christus Clayton's two
goals and five points lead the team, while Shannon McSweeney has played all 350
minutes in goal with a .740 save percentage to her credit.
SCOUTING
THE CRUSADERS
In the second game of the weekend, Dartmouth will make the
trip to Holy Cross for a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. The Crusaders are coming off
a 4-0 road loss at Fairfield on Thursday afternoon. Carly Grimaudo leads the
team this season in scoring with four goals and nine points. Megan Bourne is
the only other Holy Cross player to score multiple times as she has two markers
in the eight games played. Kat Matchett has played all but one half in the
Crusaders' goal, posting a 3.07 goals-against average with a .697 save
percentage. Holy Cross has yet to win a home game in five tries this fall.
GETTING OFFENSIVE
After scoring just five goals in the first five games of the season,
Dartmouth's offense found its rhythm on Wednesday afternoon, scoring six times
from six different players. The last time the Dartmouth attack produced that
many goals in a game came against Sunday's opponent as the Big Green defeated
Holy Cross, 6-1, in Hanover on Sept. 25 of last season.
MULTIPLE
POINTS TO MAKE
Senior co-captains Lisa Masini (Ann
Arbor, Mich.) and Maya Herm (Bethesda, Md.) as well as junior Maggie Scanlon
(Shaker Heights, Ohio) all came away from the tilt with the Bulldogs with
multiple points. Scanlon and Masini each scored once and assisted on another,
while Herm was instrumental in setting up two others.
GETTING
ON THE BOARD
Senior Sam McPherson (Ventura, Calif.) and Scanlon each
scored their first goals of 2012 in the home win. Scanlon got on the board in
the first half by burying a loose ball in the circle to make it 3-0.
McPherson's huge blast from the left side also gave her team a three-goal lead
as her first of the fall made it 6-3 with just under eight minutes left and
proved to be the game winner.
BLANKEN'S
ROLE
Taking on the role as one of the Big Green players lined up
awaiting the pushout from Masini on penalty corners, senior Liz Blanken (Short
Hills, N.J.) has now scored two goals this season. Blanken had just one in all
of 2011, but six games into this season has managed to find the back of the
cage twice.
SISTER
ACT
When the whistle blows to start Saturday's game with Brown, Lisa Masini will
look up and see a familiar face across the field from her for the first time in
her college career. Masini's younger sister, Anna, is a freshman midfielder
with the Bears this fall and followed in the footsteps of both of her older
sisters playing in the Ivy League. Oldest sister Kit graduated from Brown this
past spring after a four-year run with the Bears' field hockey program.
LAST
TIME AGAINST BROWN
Ali Savage (Orange, New South Wales, Australia) scored eight
minutes into overtime, Herm had a goal and two assists and McPherson scored
once as the Big Green staged a come-from-behind victory over the Bears last
September. Three separate times Brown took a one-goal lead only to see
Dartmouth respond and pull even each instance until finally scoring the winner
in the extra period for its lone advantage of the day.
LAST
TIME AGAINST HOLY CROSS
The day after the comeback win over the
Bears, the Big Green returned home to take care of business against the
Crusaders. Savage and classmate Janine Leger (Johannesburg, South Africa)
scored goals just over a minute and a half apart in an early onslaught, while
Scanlon and Masini added markers early in the second half as Dartmouth cruised
to a 6-1 win, matching its largest margin of victory of the season.
NEXT UP
After the trip to Holy Cross, Dartmouth will be back in the Upper Valley to
take on Penn next Saturday, Sept. 29 at Chase AstroTurf Field at noon.
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