The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 02/01/16

02.01.16

MEN’S HOCKEY DROPS THRILLER TO QUINNIPIAC, TOPS PRINCETON

WOMEN’S HOCKEY DROPS TWO AT HOME

ROMAN ’16 ON OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE

TWO LOSSES FOR MEN’S BASKETBALL

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BY THE NUMBERS

1015 Career points for Connor Boehm ’16

3 Shutouts for Charles Grant ’16 in January

0 Times Alexa Dlouhy ’19 hasn’t won first in slalom

7:57.12 Joe Chapin ’16’s 3000-meter time, the 4th fastest in Dartmouth history

02.01.16

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Men’s basketball drops weekend games at home

By ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff

Fresh off of a three-game win streak that revitalized optimism for the season, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team collapsed back into the doldrums during this past weekend of action. Thoroughly outplayed

by Columbia University (15-6, 4-0) in a 77-60 loss on Friday night, the Big Green (7-11, 1-3) then fell apart and lost a lead down the stretch on Saturday to fall 77-73 to Cornell University (9-9, 2-2), concluding a five-game homestand on a decidedly sour note.

Yet one bright spot did emerge over the two-game set, as forward Connor Boehm ’16 reached 1,000 points for his Dartmouth career with a layup during the first half against Cornell. Broader team struggles, however, overshadowed the milestone for the senior.

“You don’t play to score points, you play to win games,” Boehm said.

“So it’s obviously a cool thing to be mentioned among a lot of great players here at Dartmouth, but I wish it could’ve come on a better night.”

In the first contest, Columbia dominated the early stages and never looked back, demonstrating the talent disparity that has elevated it to the elite tier of the conference.

With Dartmouth toiling on offense, the Lions leaped out to a 10-0 run in the game’s first four minutes.

After the Big Green fought back to get within six, the visitors responded with an even more expansive surge.

Over a five-minute span, Columbia exploited a ruptured Dartmouth defense in a 19-2 burst, making for the bleakest of scorelines at 32-9 with 8:30 left in the half.

A balanced assortment of offensive production led the way for the Lions, as four different players reached double-digit scoring. Star senior guard and the Ivy League’s best three-point shooter Maodo Lo perfectly blended three-point prowess — 3-for-8 from deep — with strong drives to the basket to post 16 points. Grant Mullins matched that output, and Alex Rosenberg chipped in 14 off the bench in just 19 minutes.

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The men’s basketball team led early against Cornell University before falling apart later in the game.

Sticking true to their sharpshooting identity, Columbia thrived on the long-range shot, converting 10-for25 from three.

For the home team, Evan Boudreaux ’19 continued to solidify his role as an offensive leader, topping Big Green scorers with 15 — almost entirely off attacking the rim — to go with seven boards, showing his refined rebounding ability several times along the way.

The two sides engaged in a foulheavy contest as well, with the Big Green committing 26 and going to the line 31 times, and the Lions fouling 27 times and seeing 36 free throw attempts.

For the second week in a row, turnovers plagued Dartmouth on offense.

While the miscues evened out in the slugfest against Harvard University last Saturday, the same tendency wrought considerable damage on offensive rhythm against a better team. The Big Green committed nine turnovers in the first half and 20 by the end of the night — nine more than the Lions. Many of the miscues would be better classified as unforced. As a whole, the turnovers consistently sapped away offensive possessions.

Nevertheless, Dartmouth found some life towards the end of the first half. A 15-4 push — fueled by drives to the rim and visits to the free throw line — over the final five minutes cut the deficit to 42-32. After such an awful half, the finish represented a small victory.

Yet it would go largely in vain, as the Big Green failed to capitalize on and extend this surge following the halftime break.

“I think we started to get it inside, and we started to have success,”

Boudreaux noted about the late first half comeback. “That was our game plan. [But] we went away from that for whatever reason [in the second half].”

For a few minutes, it seemed guard Miles Wright ’18 — severely underutilized as of late — was entering a hot streak. Drilling two threes in a short span cut the deficit to single digits. But Columbia quickly stemmed the tide, and after Wright missed his next three, he got just one more shot all game.

Columbia would go on to permanently stave off Dartmouth, restoring a lead that hovered around 20 points before finishing with a 77-60 triumph.

Less than 24 hours later, the Big Green faced a more even level of competition against Cornell. Grabbing the upper side of the scoreboard for 30 of the total 40 minutes on the night, and at one point midway through the second half leading 5846, Dartmouth utterly broke down in the latter stages of the game.

After Cornell shot out to a 7-0 run in less than a minute around the eight-minute mark to cut it to a possession game, Dartmouth responded with an 8-1 run of its own — seemingly staving off the visitors’ last gasp effort. Yet the comeback trail hardly ceased for the Big Red. Trailing 7061 at the 3:43 mark, Cornell would finish the game on a 16-3 surge. Such a comeback was especially unique, as instead of the typical field goal hot streak, all but two of these final points for the Big Red came entirely at the free throw line.

Stellar freshman Matt Morgan sank nine of 12 free throws during this stretch, and went 17-23 at the charity stripe for the whole game,

adding three deep balls to lead all scorers with 32. Coming off a 33-point performance the night before in a win against Harvard, Morgan has now admirably picked up the slack in the absence of Cornell’s injured top scorer Robert Hatter.

For Dartmouth, Boehm reached 22 points on his career night, and Boudreaux scored 24 points to match with 16 boards for another excellent showing.

Forty-two of the Big Green’s points — and essentially all 17 of its free throw makes — emanated from the paint, accounting for much of the home’s team successes on Saturday.

Overwhelming drives to the rim built up comfortable leads in the early parts of both halves, with Boudreaux in particular scoring and drawing contact at will near the basket.

Turnovers and poor jumpshooting — as evidenced by a putrid 2-17 mark from three — threw the offense off course. At the end of the first half, a 19-8 finish by Cornell swung the balance as it went ahead 41-35 at the break. After reclaiming an edge shortly after halftime, Dartmouth floundered down the stretch again, neither able to halt Cornell’s surge nor return to offensive competency itself.

“I felt we had the spirit and will tonight to win,” head coach Paul Cormier said on Saturday. “Last night [against Columbia], I question that a little bit [and] putting in the work to get it done. Tonight I thought we did, but we didn’t make plays down the stretch.”

The Big Green will now travel away from Hanover to play the University of Pennsylvania at 6 p.m. next Saturday, and Princeton University the following night at the same time.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2016

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY

Men’s hockey splits weekend games

By MAC EMERY and GAYNE KALUSTIAN The Dartmouth Staff

The No. 1 Quinnipiac University Bobcats and unranked Princeton University Tigers trekked north to Hanover this weekend to face off with the Dartmouth men’s ice hockey team, in the receiving votes category, bringing with them two completely different stresses. The first brought with it the challenge of simply being the best team around. The second brought with it the pressure of performing in front of the over 4,000 people that turned out to take part in Dartmouth’s annual tradition of assaulting the visiting Tigers (3-9-2 overall, 5-14-2 ECAC) with tennis balls following the Big Green’s (119-1 overall, 8-6-0 ECAC) inaugural goal.

Dartmouth split the weekend, pulling ahead of the current national powerhouse 5-2 before allowing four unanswered goals and an empty netter to put them on the wrong side of a comeback, dropping the contest to the Bobcats (20-1-5 overall, 110-3 ECAC) 7-5. The Big Green returned to Thompson Arena to shutout the Tigers 2-0 on Saturday.

The Bobcats posed a serious threat to Dartmouth’s then-five-game win streak before the Friday game, not dropping a single game this season to ECAC opponents and only one game in its 25 played at that point in total, lost to now No. 9 Boston University in mid-December.

With an improbable and yet not impossible task before them, the Big Green offense got to work immediately.

Centerman Carl Hesler ’18 netted a goal 9:04 into the first period off a rebound, centered from Kevin Neiley ’18 to Ryan Bullock ’16 who shot the puck off Quinnipiac goalie Michael Garteig. Dartmouth inched out further ahead just 0:41 into the second period as Jack Barre ’16 put away his eighth goal of the season on a completely exposed net after a full-team assault on the Quinnipiac crease. After a Quinnipiac goal by Travis St. Denis less than five minutes later, Barre struck again, giving Neiley his third assist of the night and Dartmouth a 3-1 lead as he put another rebounded puck in behind Garteig.

John Ernsting ’19’s first career goal came less than a minute into the third period and a goal by Brett Patterson ’16 sandwiched Quinnipiac’s second goal, putting Dartmouth ahead by three with less than 15 minutes to play and the nation’s powerhouse searching for a miracle.

The unprecedented avalanche that the Bobcats brought down on the Big Green began with an unassisted goal by Devon Toews after he collected a puck at the point to push it past Chuck Grant ’16 down the ice. Less than a minute later, Quinnipiac’s Sam Anas skated outside of the crease to put a backhanded shot on the far post, putting the back by just one.

Anas scored the tying goal at 10:49 before a Bo Pieper redirect gave Quinnipiac the lead. An empty-netter with four seconds left sealed the five-point swing and buried the Big Green somewhere in the Bobcats’ current 20 regular season wins.

Despite taking a loss, Dartmouth

scored more goals against Quinnipiac in this game than any other team has all season — including itself in November.

The Big Green lost to the Bobcats 6-2 on Nov. 14 when Quinnipiac was ranked No. 4 and Dartmouth was yet to receive votes.

“We’re a good hockey team, we played a good hockey game and obviously they’re the number one team in the country,” head coach Bob Gaudet ’81 said. “They’ve got a lot of weapons.

We played a hard game, and they beat us.”

Two very strong periods of hockey may have been silenced on the scoreboard, but for the team that is looking to learn and grow as the postseason looms, the 40 minutes of grinding out goals and holding the worthiest of worthy opponents to a three-goal deficit bodes well. Despite the inevitable disappointment that comes with allowing a lead to slip away, losing to the country’s leading team, captain Brad Schierhorn ’16 said, is bittersweet.

“We took our foot off the gas a little bit,” he said. “We did score a couple goals early there. It definitely gives us some confidence. If they’re the number one team in the country, it gives us confidence that we can play with anybody.”

The confidence translated to a shutout victory on Saturday night, Grant’s third shutout of 2016 and a very necessary nightcap to a weekend that could have set Dartmouth on a downward trajectory at the absolute wrong moment in the season. The 37-save shutout is Grant’s best is his Dartmouth career, leaving the goalie with a memorable night but raising some questions about a team that allowed 37 shots on goal to take place at all.

“We’ve been finding ways to win games,” Grant said. “Maybe we didn’t have our best play. Our chords are just finding ways to hit the back of the net, with our chances. I think we only have two losses [since Jan. 1], so that might be one of the better records in the nation.”

Barre echoed the concern that it wasn’t

the team’s best game but pointed, too, to the importance of the victory while Gaudet said that “it wasn’t a pretty ‘W.’” Gaudet said that Grant was the team’s “star tonight”despite Princeton executing and playing well “with a lot of energy, a lot of heart.”

“We did a good job of killing penalties down the stretch,” Gaudet said.

The Big Green penalty kill was on point on Saturday, killing all three penalties it pulled.

Fans flung tennis balls from the stands at 8:34 into the first period, brought on by a goal by Alex Jasiek ’19. Troy Crema ’17 played aggressively to Tiger goaltender Colton Phinney, keeping the puck loose in the paint for Jasiek to backhand into the net. The second and only other goal of the night came at the hands of Barre, who carried the puck from the Big Green’s defensive zone to sink it behind Phinney’s left shoulder. Barre has been instrumental in the team’s recent success, averaging 1.4 points per game in January, an ECAC leading mark and making Barre the second most productive player on offense in the NCAA since Jan. 1. Barre leads Dartmouth in both goals (10) and assists (10), ultimately putting the senior six points ahead of his nearest teammate.

Based off of this season’s conference games, Barre is tied for fifth as an ECAC scoring leader.

With four weeks left in the regular season, the Big Green is looking to replicate, more or less, its recent results and give itself the best position possible moving into the ECAC tournament. Dartmouth is looking forward to two road games against Ivy and ECAC opponents Brown University and No. 11 Yale University next weekend, a weekend the Big Green split earlier in November. Yale sits just ahead of the Big Green in the ECAC standings, making the matchup critical for Dartmouth who, though four weeks out, currently sits just one place out of securing a bye out of the first round – a bid straight to the ECAC Quarterfinals in March.

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RUNDOWN THE

Men’s Basketball SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

YALE COLUMBIA PRINCETON CORNELL HARVARD DARTMOUTH BROWN PENN

4-0 4-0 2-1 2-2 1-3 1-3 1-3 0-3

13-5 15-6 12-5 9-9 9-11 7-11 6-12 6-11

Women’s Basketball SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

PENN CORNELL HARVARD PRINCETON YALE DARTMOUTH BROWN COLUMBIA

3-0 3-1 3-1 2-1 2-2 2-2 0-4 0-4

14-3 11-7 8-9 13-4 11-10 7-13 12-6 11-8

Men’s Hockey SCHOOL

ECAC

OVERALL

QUINNIPIAC HARVARD RENSSELAER YALE DARTMOUTH ST. LAWRENCE CORNELL CLARKSON UNION PRINCETON COLGATE BROWN

11-0-3 8-3-3 6-2-6 6-3-3 7-4-3 7-6-1 6-6-2 5-6-3 3-7-4 3-9-2 3-10-2 2-10-3

20-1-5 12-4-3 14-8-6 13-5-4 11-9-1 13-11-2 11-7-3 13-10-3 10-9-7 5-14-2 7-18-2 4-13-4

Women’s Hockey

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The men’s hockey team rebounded from the loss to Quinnipiac to beat Princeton Saturday.

SCHOOL

ECAC

OVERALL

QUINNIPIAC CLARKSON PRINCETON COLGATE HARVARD ST. LAWRENCE YALE RENSSELAER CORNELL DARTMOUTH BROWN UNION

12-1-3 9-3-4 10-5-1 8-3-5 9-6-1 7-6-3 8-7-1 7-7-2 5-7-4 4-9-3 1-13-2 0-13-3

22-1-4 21-3-4 17-5-1 16-5-7 12-8-1 13-11-4 9-13-1 9-13-4 9-10-4 4-15-3 3-18-2 0-22-6

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Sofia Roman ’16 finds basketball success overseas

By VIKRAM BODAS The Dartmouth

When Sofia Roman ’16 was cut from the Dartmouth women’s basketball team during her junior year, she had two choices. She could either give up on her hoops career or continue to chase her dream.

That same year Roman visited her native Philippines for the first time since she left as a child, a trip that would end up saving her basketball career. Roman, who grew up in White Plains, New York, had been in contact with the Philippine women’s national team’s coaching staff since high school in the hopes that one day she would have the opportunity to compete internationally for her country.

“I went to the Philippines during our academic break between Spring and Summer 2014 for 10 days to try out and play in front of the coaches,” Roman said. “I did not think it would happen so soon, but before I left they informed [me] I had made the team.”

Roman’s coach on the national team, Patrick Henry Aquino, said that Roman’s desire to compete at a higher level coupled with her marquee defensive aggressiveness led him to add her to his roster.

“I wanted her on the team because

who drove to basket and attacking the basket for a pull-up or an assist.”

Aquino echoed Roman’s sentiments that she perfectly fit the way he wanted his team to play.

“Our system is dribble-drive so her game can thrive because she can shoot from behind the three point line and can penetrate with her dribbling skills,” Aquino said.

Looking forward, Roman hopes to continue her international basketball career after she graduates and hopes to make a career out of basketball in the Philippines.

“Sofia is a fighter,” Danica Jose, one

of her competitive style and her want to prove that she can play international basketball,” Aquino said.

Roman’s impact on the international basketball stage did not end with making the team. This summer she helped the Philippine women’s national team get promoted from Level 2 to Level 1 in International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) rankings as a result of their success in the 2015 Asia Women’s Championship, where they finished seventh out of a total 12 teams. The promotion was the first in women’s national team history and an achievement that Roman does not take lightly.

“Being a part of history is an achievement in itself as a basketball player,” Roman said. “I am so proud of what we accomplished and I look forward to what this means for our country and women’s basketball there.”

According to the latest FIBA world rankings, the Philippines is now ranked 49th in the world, just surpassing basketball powerhouses like Hungary, Paraguay and the Virgin Islands.

As far as her Dartmouth basketball career goes, Roman cites the transition from former coach Chris Wielgus to current coach Belle Koclanes as the chief reason for her departure from the program.

“The new coach wanted to revamp the program and needed players who fit her system,” Roman said. “She also wanted to make room for future recruits.”

Although the 5’7” defensive ace was caught off guard by this decision, her confidence and desire to remain in Hanover never waned.

“To be honest, it was really hard for me to understand, but I still believed in my abilities,” Roman said. “[Division] 1 basketball has such a high turnover rate. A lot of my basketball friends have transferred from one school to another during their careers. I still believe I am [Division] 1 caliber.”

Roman said that she had the option to transfer but decided not to because of the education Dartmouth offers and because she still had the opportunity to play basketball for her country during her off terms.

Roman said that while she was unable to find her place within Koclanes’s system here at Dartmouth, her game thrived in Aquino’s fast paced offense back in the Philippines.

“We ran a dribble-drive offense,” Roman said. “The system worked well because the team has a good combination of slashers and shooters. I loved getting the kick out from my teammates

Sofia Roman ’16 is thriving as a member of the Philippines national team.

netminder Sydney Rossman made the save. In the opening period, the Bobcats put up eight shots on goal to the Big Green’s three.

Quinnipiac opened the scoring in the second at 9:23 when Robyn Chemago ’17 got knocked away from the goal. The goal was Quinnipiac forward Emma Woods’ sixth goal of the season. Still in the throes of a close game, Stacey stole a Bobcat pass and beat two players to make an attempt at the net. Rossman, again, was able to snag a goal away from the Green.

The Bobcats started the third period with offensive pressure and scored at 3:41 with a game-winning power play goal by Melissa Samoskevich, her 13th of the season. Later in the third, Hailey Noronha ’18 scored her first career goal on a Dartmouth power play with a wrist shot to cut the lead to a goal.

Dartmouth pressured Quinnipiac to the end but could not manage the tying goal.

“I am very happy I was able to put one in the back of the net and I am glad I was able to help the team out,” Noronha said. “I think the team needs

to continue to keep our spirits high.

Consistency is a huge part of being successful, and we just need to continue to make those good strides.”

Quinnipiac outshot Dartmouth 21-14 in shots that were on target, and the Bobcats were 1-3 on the power play while Dartmouth was 1-2. Big Green netminder Chemago made 19 saves while Rossman made 13 saves.

“I thought we played a good game against Princeton as well as Quinnipiac,” head coach Mark Hudak said.

“We had more chances than the other teams did and had probably four to five breakaways in both games. We are just struggling to put the puck in the back of the net. We played really well in both games and we are creating a ton of opportunities but ultimately I was really happy defensively and thought we did a great job”.

On Friday, Dartmouth Ivy League foe Princeton defeated the Big Green 4-1. Stacey’s single goal in the second period to open up the scoring was followed by four unanswered Princeton goals.

In the first period, the Big Green

and the Tigers were evenly balanced, exchanging shots with neither finding the back of the net. Princeton’s goalie Kimberly Newell was under distress but made a few timely saves to keep the Tigers in the game.

At 4:38 in the second, Stacey found the back of the net with a well-struck passing sequence between Ailish Forfar ’16 and Kate Landers ’19. Stacey backhanded the goal after skating around Newell. Later in the period, Princeton’s Karlie Lund scored the tying goal to knot the score at 1-1 heading into the third period.

Princeton’s Jamie McDonell tallied two goals, the first at 10:21 in the final period and the second an unassisted tally at 16:23 to give the Tigers a 3-1 lead. Chasing the win, the Big Green pulled Chemago from the net with about a minute remaining, and Princeton’s Molly Contini scored with 27 seconds remaining to seal the win for the Tigers.

The Big Green and the Tigers both registered 28 shots on goal with Chemago saving 24 shots and Newell saving 27. On the player-advantages,

of Roman’s Philippines national team teammates, said. “Whenever I’m with her on the court, it’s hard for you not to give your all.”

That said, she has dreams that go beyond just excelling on the hardwood.

“I want to continue to play basketball professionally in the Philippines by representing my country,” Roman said.

“In five years, I see myself in the Philippines, still playing basketball. But after that I could see myself getting into the media or maybe running a business.”

If the past is any indication, Roman will not allow any obstacles to hinder her on her way to achieving her goals.

COURTESY OF SOFIA ROMAN

Women’s hockey drops weekend games to Princeton, Quinnipiac

By JAMES HANDAL

The Dartmouth Staff

The women’s hockey team fell to both No. 9 Princeton University and No 4. Quinnipiac University at home this weekend. The Big Green lost to Princeton 4-1 and to Quinnipiac 2-1 to extend their winless streak to 14 games and dip to 4-15-3 overall and 4-9-3 in conference play.

“We were playing the first place team in the ECAC [Quinnipiac] and had them on the ropes numerous times throughout the game,” Laura Stacey ’16 said. “I think we have to be happy with how we played and keep pushing forward. I thought we played really well this weekend and battled hard and it was definitely much improved and we are making huge strides each game.”

On Saturday, Dartmouth faced Quinnipiac for the second time this season after the Big Green’s 7-1 loss on Dec. 4 but lost in a much closer contest this time around. Early in the first period, Lindsey Allen ’16 came close to scoring off a Bobcat turnover in Quinnipiac’s own defensive third, but

Dartmouth went 0-2 and Princeton went 0-5.

“I am really excited for next weekend, as we have two big Ivy games,” Stacey said. “They are both good teams to play against and after a good week of practice hopefully we can get back into the win column and turn the rest of this season around.”

The team is getting back to full strength and is hoping this week with a full squad will lead to a great weekend.

“This was the first time we had the team all together,” Hudak said. “We’re looking forward to this coming weekend, against two Ivy League teams. We are looking forward to the first week with the whole team together, and I feel like we are on the rise.”

The Big Green has six games remaining in the regular season. The Big Green’s final home games will be next weekend on Friday at 7 p.m. against Yale University and on Saturday, the team’s senior day, at 4 p.m. against Brown University. Dartmouth heads into both games with optimism after prevailing over Brown 4-0 and tying Yale 3-3 back in November.