Dartmouth Holds Off Harvard, 5-3
Wahl's goal brought the Crimson within one in the second half (photo courtesy David Silverman).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Dartmouth scored four
first-half goals and withstood a rally by the Harvard field hockey
team before adding a late goal for a 5-3 win Saturday afternoon on
the Crimson’s Senior Day at Jordan Field. Emma Keller, Carly
Dickson and Katelin Wahl scored goals for Harvard.
Five different players found the net for Dartmouth (9-7, 4-2 Ivy
League), and Virginia Peisch had three assists. Cynthia Tassopoulos
made eight saves for the Crimson (5-10, 2-4), while the Big
Green’s Jenna Stearns recorded four stops. Harvard’s
Pilar Curtis made a defensive save in the first half. Dartmouth
outshot Harvard, 18-15, but the Crimson held the edge in penalty
corners, 10-8. Crimson seniors Kristin Bannon and Elizabeth
Goodman-Bacon were honored in a brief ceremony before their final
Ivy League home game.
The action-packed opening half saw Dartmouth outscore Harvard, 4-2,
despite a 12-9 edge in shots and an 8-5 penalty-corners advantage
for the Crimson. Meghan Everett put the Big Green ahead early,
deflecting in a Peisch cross at the 2:32 mark. The Big Green
doubled its lead when Kelly Hood scored on a penalty corner, but
Keller cut the deficit to 2-1 at 17:59. She banged in the rebound
after Pilar Mayora sent in a long ball off the pad of Stearns.
Dartmouth scored twice in three minutes, on goals by Maya Herm and
Samantha McPherson, but Dickson got the Crimson back in the game
about 10 minutes before halftime. She took a corner insertion from
Bannon on the left side of the circle and fired a low shot past
Stearns. The goal was part of several minutes of Crimson pressure
late in the period, but the Dartmouth defense blocked a number of
shots and Stearns made a nice save on a high flick from Dickson off
a corner.
The Crimson trimmed its deficit to a single tally more after a
penalty corner was awarded about 11 minutes into the second half.
Dickson shot toward the goal, and Wahl deflected the ball past
Stearns for her first collegiate goal. The Big Green held off more
Harvard attacking play until putting the game away in the final
minute, when Rebecca Sobel banged in a rebound shot.
