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Men’s soccer secures first road win of season at Penn, 1-0 p. 7
Men’s hockey takes on Harvard at home in preseason matchup p. 8
Football perfect half way through season with blowout win at Marist p. 4 NATALIE DAMERON/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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FOOTBALL The No. 21 Big Green football team handily defeated Marist College by a score of 49-7 on Saturday to remain undefeated at the halfway mark of the team’s season. Quarterback Jared Gerbino ’20 threw a touchdown to tight end Connor Rempel ’20 on the opening drive of the game, which included 13 plays and four third-down conversions. Running back Caylin Parker ’20 scored on the next Dartmouth drive. The defense then got involved with the scoring when linebacker Jack Traynor ’19 secured his first of two interceptions on the day and ran 55 yards for a touchdown. Wide receiver Drew Estrada ’20 caught a 66-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Derek Kyler ’21 and Parker added a 43-yard
touchdown run to give the Big Green a 35-0 lead at halftime. In the second half, Rempel caught his second touchdown pass of the day and running back Dakari Falconer ’21 rushed for a 38-yard score to provide extra scoring for the Big Green. Dartmouth finished with 432 total yards of offense to the Red Foxes’ 190 yards. Gerbino, Kyler and quarterback Jake Pallotta ’20 combined for 208 passing yards and three touchdowns. The Big Green rushed for 224 total yards with an average of 5.2 yards per carry. Dartmouth now boasts a 5-0 record with a 2-0 mark in Ivy League play. Conference play will resume next Friday at 6 p.m. as the Big Green hosts Columbia University at Memorial Field.
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The field hockey team is now 0-4 in conference play after a pair of home losses this weekend.
Dartmouth field hockey lost two games this weekend, falling to 3-10 overall and 0-4 in Ivy League play this season. The Big Green fell to the Bulldogs of Yale University on Saturday by a score of 6-0. The Big Green stayed close with Yale in the first two quarters, only trailing by two goals at halftime. The Bulldogs, however, pulled away with two goals each in the third and fourth quarters. Big Green goalkeeper Isabella Santucci ’22 recorded 10 saves in the game. On Sunday, Dartmouth narrowly lost 2-1 to the University of Maine. The Black Bears opened the
scoring in the first quarter, but the Big Green equalized the score in the second quarter when midfielder Katie Persin ’20 scored her third goal of the season. Dartmouth, however, was only able to record two shots on goal and a third-quarter goal from Maine proved to be the game winner. Santucci recorded five saves in the game, but the Big Green was unable to find what it needed on the offensive side. The Big Green will continue to seek its first Ivy League victory of the season when it hosts Columbia University on Saturday at Chase Field.
ROWING All three Dartmouth rowing teams began their seasons at the historic Head of The Charles Regatta this weekend. For the heavyweight team, the Big Green’s 4+ competed hard and finished in third place in the championship round, falling just behind Brown University. Dartmouth’s 8+ finished its championship race in 16th place, finishing just behind Harvard University with a time of 14:13.854. For the lightweight team, the 4+ team finished in ninth place out of 16 teams with a time of 16.40.440.
Meanwhile, the 8+ team also finished in ninth place out of 17 boats with a time of 14.49.139. The women’s team, meanwhile, the 4+ team finished in ninth with a time of 18:26.23, just beating out Cornell University, while the 8+ team finished in 29th place. The men’s teams will compete next Sunday at the Princeton Chase, hosted by Princeton University, while the women will next row at the Foot of the Charles competition on Nov. 16.
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The Dartmouth women’s golf team concluded its regular season schedule at the Lady Blue Hen Invitational in Delaware this weekend, finishing eighth of 11 teams. Kaitlyn Lees ’22 and Angela Zhang ’23 were among the top of the individual leaderboard throughout the weekend, with both placing in the top 20 after two of the three rounds were completed. As a team, the Big
Green shot a 12-over-par 300 in the first round followed by an 11over 299 in the second round. On Sunday, Lees again led the Big Green with a seven-over-par effort, but the team as a whole slipped from its fifth place position on Saturday to finish eighth in the competition. Lees is a member of The Dartmouth staff.
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The volleyball team dropped games against Penn and Princeton this weekend.
In its first home weekend of Ivy League play, the Big Green dropped both of its matches, falling to the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. Dartmouth started the weekend with sixth-place Penn on Friday, and lost in four sets (21-25, 19-25, 25-23, 21-25) despite strong performances from Makenzie Arent ’23 and Elise Petit ’21, both of whom posted double-doubles. The match was close throughout — there were a total of 25 ties over the course of the game. The Big Green had an impressive win in the third set, when the team was down 20-23 and then put up five straight points to win its only set of the match. The momentum shift was not enough, however, as the Quakers took the fourth set to finish off the game. On Saturday, the Big Green took on perennial Ivy
League powerhouse Princeton, and lost in three sets (25-14, 25-17, 25-22). After a weak first set, the Big Green had a much better second set and hung within five points of Princeton until the Tigers went on an 8-2 run to take a 20-12 advantage. Despite scoring evenly with the Tigers for the rest of the set, the Big Green could not come back to win. In the third and final set, the Big Green was neck and neck with the Tigers, down just one point with a score of 18-17 until the Tigers pulled away to secure the match. After being swept this weekend, the Big Green falls to 1-6 in Ivy play heading into the second round of matchups. Dartmouth will host Harvard University next weekend and will seek to complete the season sweep of the Crimson after beating them in the first game of Ivy play.
M Soccer The Big Green rode a shutout from goalkeeper Alex Budnik ’22 and a 55th-minute goal from forward Tiger Graham ’21 to its first road victory of the season, a 1-0 win over the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday. Budnik finished the game with four saves, enough for his third shutout of the season. After Graham’s goal, the Big Green defense stood tall, fighting off six shots over the final 25 minutes
of the match. Dartmouth improved to 5-5-1 on the season and 2-1-0 in conference play. The Big Green now sits in second place in the Ivy League standings with four conference matches remaining. The team will play its final non-conference match on Tuesday at home against the University of Hartford before hosting Columbia University next Saturday night.
The Big Green fell to the Quakers of the University of Pennsylvania by a score of 1-0 on Saturday. Penn scored the lone goal in the 11th minute on its first shot of the match. The Big Green put pressure on the Quakers, outshooting them 14 to 11. Dartmouth, however, only placed three of those shots on goal. The Big Green had four corner kicks in the second half
but could not find the back of the net. The team fell to 0-4 in conference play and 8-5 for the season. The Big Green will play its final non-conference match of the season at home against Southern Illinois University on Tuesday night before looking for its first Ivy League points when it hosts Columbia University on Saturday afternoon.
Cross Country The men’s cross country team placed 22nd out of 38 teams at the Under Armour Pre-National Invitational at Indiana State University. Sam Morton ’21 was the Big Green’s top runner, finishing in 77th place with a time of 24:38. Owen Ritz ’21, Benjamin Matejka ’21, Pat O’Brien ’21 and Liam Jamieson ’22 all finished among the top 150 runners. Brigham Young University won the competition, and the Big Green finished as the top Ivy League
team at the race, placing better than Yale University and Cornell University, which finished 23rd and 33rd respectively. The NCAA National Championship will occur at the same course at Indiana State on Nov. 23. The Big Green will next run at the Central Connecticut State University Short Course Invitational on Friday in preparation for the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship in New York City on Nov. 1.
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Football perfect half way through season with blowout win at Marist B y DEVAN FINK The Dartmouth
Another week, another big win for the Big Green. On Saturday, the No. 21 Dartmouth football team (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) continued its perfect season in a 49-7 rout of Marist College (1-5, 1-2 Pioneer) in Poughkeepsie, NY. This was the first-ever meeting between the two programs. The Big Green dominated in all facets of the game and breezed past the Red Foxes, putting the game away early. Dartmouth scored on each of its first three offensive drives, adding an interception returned for a touchdown and yet another touchdown to enter halftime with a commanding 35-0 lead. The first drive of the game saw the Big Green march 75 yards downfield in 13 plays to take the quick 7-0 lead. The running game got going quickly; Dartmouth rushed for 54 yards on the first drive alone and finished the day with a net 224 rushing yards, the second-highest team total this season. A four-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Jared Gerbino ’20 to tight end Connor Rempel ’20 capped off the scoring drive. “When we score on our first or second drive, it really set the tone for the rest of the game,” Gerbino said. “When we’re firing on all cylinders, our offense just gets going.” Dartmouth added a second score on a one-yard Caylin Parker ’20 run shortly thereafter, and quickly put the game away with an interception returned for a touchdown by linebacker Jack Traynor ’19 early in the second quarter. “Those make a difference in terms of point totals and also just the emotional swing of a game,” said head coach Buddy Teevens ’79. “You take an offense that’s on the field for the opponent and then turn that into a score for us. It’s a blow emotionally as well.” After not having a single interception during the first three games, the defense now has five in the last two. “It’s a collective effort,” Teevens said. “Pressure from the guys up front really makes the quarterback uncomfortable, makes him reset his feet and hurry his throw. Coverage on the edges with our guys breaking on the football. We have some talented safeties on the inside
reacting to the ball in flight. We’ve done a pretty good job with that. There have been some errant throws caused by the defensive line that result in interceptions.” Not even two full minutes after Traynor’s pick-six, Dartmouth scored once again. This time, quarterback Derek Kyler ’21 found wide receiver Drew Estrada ’20 for a 66-yard touchdown pass, putting the team up 28-0. Estrada often has a flair for the big play, averaging more than 20 yards per reception. “It has to start up front with the o-line blocking, giving the quarterback time to throw the ball,” Estrada said. “All the receivers have to run the right route based on the defense. The quarterback has to throw a good ball. Derek threw a great ball, hit me in stride perfectly. It’s just cool that everyone has to do their job in order for those big plays to happen.” Estrada went on to finish the day with three catches for 90 yards and the touchdown, giving him 20 catches for 466 yards and six touchdowns on the season. On Saturday, Estrada also surpassed 1,000 receiving yards for his college career, becoming just the 23rd Big Green receiver to accomplish the feat. “It’s a nice round number,” Estrada said. “I know there are so many guys who have done it in Dartmouth football history. It’s nice to be considered in that group of guys. That was a number that kind of surprised me. I just saw the tweet [about it], so I didn’t know that I was even close, to be honest.” Estrada also added 20 yards rushing on Saturday. He now has 689 total allpurpose yards on the season, ranking second in the Ivy League. “We can hurt teams in many different ways,” Estrada said. “When you have guys that can run the ball, catch the ball and throw the ball like that, it just makes it harder for the opposition to game-plan each week.” In addition to Estrada’s versatility, Dartmouth also has relied on a triad of quarterbacks this season to create headaches for defenses. On Saturday, all three players, Gerbino, Kyler and Jake Pallotta ’20, had successful afternoons. In total, they completed 18 of 27 passes for 208 yards and three touchdowns to just one interception.
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Following a big win last weekend over Yale, the Big Green improved to 5-0 with a victory at Marist College on Saturday.
“It really shows how much trust [the coaching staff has] in not just one, not just two, but three different guys,” Gerbino said. “It speaks for itself as far as the success we’ve been having with it. It’s good that we’re all really close. We’re all really good buddies, so we feed off of each other. When one guy gets going, we all really amp it up and get each other going.” On a 43-yard touchdown rush from Parker, Dartmouth would score once more before halftime to put the score at 35-0. The team has outscored opponents 136-10 in the first half this season, and its dominance in the first two quarters has certainly allowed the coaching staff to get more players into the game. On Saturday, every member of the team who dressed for the game saw action on the field. “You see some of the freshmen that have come in — we’ve traveled a number of them — and they’ve made contributions,” Teevens said. “[They’re] just learning to play with the speed and the pace and just the expectation as well. [Playing all 62 dressed players] is very, very helpful in terms of depth,
development, and certainly a long-term look at the program.” The scoring pace slowed in the second half, though the Big Green did add touchdowns in both the third and fourth quarters. Rempel caught a second touchdown pass midway through the third. He had quite the day, with three receptions, 23 yards and two scores — all season-highs — as Dartmouth went up 42-0. Running back Dakari Falconer ’21 rounded out the Big Green’s scoring on the day with a 38-yard run 11 seconds into the fourth. In addition to the high octane offense, a defensive shutout appeared to be in order for the majority of the game. On Marist’s final offensive possession, quarterback Matt Edwards completed all nine of his passes, including a 16-yard strike to tight end Sean Gaffney, to lead the Red Foxes to their only touchdown of the game. Now, Dartmouth fully turns its attention to conference play. Each of its remaining five games will be against fellow Ivy League schools, and this important stretch begins with a Friday evening matchup versus Columbia
University in Hanover. Without a conference postseason, each game for the remainder of the season will carry added significance as the Big Green hopes to bring the Ivy League title back to Hanover. “That’s the cool thing about the Ivy League,” Gerbino said. “Every league game is pretty much a playoff game, a win-or-go-home-type of deal. We’d love to go 10-0 and have the cards in our hand.” Still, Gerbino said he recognizes that in order to win the conference, the team is going to have to take everything one step at a time. No. 16 Princeton University (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) remains the biggest threat to Dartmouth’s title hopes. They had a big win on Saturday as well, smashing Brown University 65-22 in Providence. “We’re not worried about any other team,” Gerbino said. “We are worried about the team we are playing the next week. As of [Sunday], we’re going to review the Marist game and get right to Columbia. There’s a bunch of really good teams in this league. If our team plays our ball and plays the best ball we can play, I think we can go undefeated.”
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with Evan Griffith ’18 Th’20 The Redshirt Senior: Teams to Look Out For with College Basketball Just Around the Corner It’s never too early to start thinking about basketball season. While professional basketball is already in the full swing of preseason and is caught up in a scandal with China, the infinitely more exciting college basketball season has something even better: ongoing scandals! The latest reaction to the NCAA bringing the ban hammer down on programs was Snoop Dogg’s
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performance at the University of Kansas’ Late Night in the Phog event. His performance — which conveniently coincided with the NCAA’s investigation of head coach Bill Self potentially providing impermissible benefits to players and recruits — included Snoop Dogg wearing Adidas apparel (referencing the Adidas scandal a few years ago), pole dancers (referencing the recent investigation into the Georgia Institute of Technology’s basketball program) and a money gun shooting fake $100 bills into the crowd. It went over as well as one might expect with the Kansas administration, with athletic director Jeff Long issuing an apology the next day. The landscape is as exciting as ever! So who are the frontrunners to win it all this season? It’s probably one of the teams that did well for themselves last year and had the crux of their talent return to school. Among those teams, the two that are most poised to make a long run are the University of Florida and Michigan State University. Florida is returning a breakout point guard in sophomore Andrew Nembhard and has pulled in the eighth-best recruiting class, per 247 Sports, which includes two five-star recruits in small forward Scottie Lewis and
point guard Tre Mann. In addition, Florida won the sweepstakes for arguably the most talented student in the transfer portal with forward Kerry Blackshear Jr. committing to Florida after transferring from Virginia Tech. The Gators are awash with talent, but Blackshear coming in not only adds another big man to the starting rotation — he also adds leadership. Last season, the talent was with the young players, so any growing pains caused by Nembhard and the other young guns in Noah Locke and Keyontae Johnson will be lessened with the addition of Blackshear. Florida is an obvious Final Four contender this upcoming season. Michigan State is trying to recreate some of the magic from last year when the team took down the Duke University Fighting Zion Williamsons in last year’s Elite Eight. Michigan State’s best player on that team and one of the best players in the country, Cassius Winston, was instrumental in that win. He ended up returning to school instead of going pro. Cassius Winston is in fact the first player named to the AP All-American First Team to return to school in seven years; the last to do it was Doug McDermott in 2012. Winston, as a point guard, improved his
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scoring from 12.6 points per game to 18.8 points per game last season. Winston will also have another guard to help out in the backcourt with the return of Joshua Langford, who averaged 15 points per game to begin the 2018 season before his season ended with an ankle injury. Michigan State is a well-coached team which features the return of one of the best players in the country; sometimes the pick for which team will be the best is the obvious one. Now that the power conference teams are out of the way, we can move on to the mid-majors. The Ivy League is especially relevant to this discussion, because Harvard University’s team is going to be really good, probably AP-Pollranking-at-points-in-the-season good. Harvard’s 2016 recruiting class are all seniors by this point and will all start for the team. Bryce Aiken (the 86th ranked recruit in the country that year), Chris Lewis (108th) and Seth Towns, (129th) will all suit up healthy for the first time in a long while, and the Crimson have already played well enough to compete for the Ivy League title when some of these three players sat out due to injury. Harvard has lost two straight years on the cusp of winning the
Ivy League Tournament and with the talent the team has returning, in addition to the equally-as-wellranked freshmen the Crimson have coming in, it would be difficult to imagine Harvard not giving the Ivy League the best representation it has had in a long time. Other mid-majors to look out for include Gonzaga University, but the Bulldogs are good every year, so there’s not much to talk about there. In that team’s conference, however is Saint Mary’s University, a Catholic university located in the East Bay of San Francisco. Even after losing All-American big man Jock Landale and an All-Conference point guard in Emmett Naar, Saint Mary’s found a way to crash the NIT due to head coach Randy Bennett (the brother of University of Virginia head coach Tony Bennett). Bennett, like his brother, is keenly aware of the changes that occur across the college basketball landscape. Last year, Bennett implemented a more free-flowing game plan atop of the team’s usual Princeton offense. With that kind of adjustments made, and the loss of only one starter this past offseason, don’t be surprised if Saint Mary’s gives Gonzaga a run for their money in the West Coast Conference.
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Men’s soccer secures first road win of season at Penn, 1-0 B y ELIZABETH WILSON The Dartmouth
This weekend, the men’s soccer team got its first road win of the season against an Ivy League rival, defeating the University of Pennsylvania 1-0. Coming off of a 3-1 loss against Yale University last weekend, the team was hungry for a win. Sitting in second place in the Ivy League with one loss already on the books, the Big Green knew it was a must-win game. “There was a lot of anticipation for it because we knew it was a must-win game,” said Mothibi Penn-Kekana ’22. “We had a good week of training, we didn’t have a mid-week game, so we brought the energy that we needed.” The game had a physical start, with two quick Dartmouth fouls, and one by Penn, within the first 10 minutes. Dartmouth’s Zach Kalk ’20 had the first shot of the game in the 12th minute, which went wide of the net. Soon after, Penn took a corner kick, followed by a shot on net which was saved by goalkeeper Alex Budnik ’22. In the 20th minute of the game, the Big Green had a corner kick, followed by three quick, consecutive blocked shots by Kota Sakurai ’21, Patrick Murphy ’21 and Kalk. Three minutes later, Kalk had another shot, blocked by Penn. The persistent shooting by Dartmouth lightened up through the end of the first half, however. The end of the half was closed out with a shot by Alex Van Schalkwyk ’23 in the 41st
minute and another save from Budnik with five seconds remaining in the half. Dartmouth’s strong start on the field was reflected in the stats from the game. The Big Green outshot Penn 6-2 in the first half, with goalkeeper Budnik recording saves on both of Penn’s shots. Penn came out strong at the beginning of the second half, with shots on the Big Green goal from Jack Kohlbrenner and Alex Touche of Penn. However, in the 55th minute, Braden Salvati ’20 sent the ball to Kalk, who found teammate Tiger Graham ’21 for the first and only goal of the game. “We definitely had more control over the game so we were expecting to win, and then when the goal happened that obviously that was a big weight off our shoulders and it just became a choice of defending hard,” PennKekana said. The 63rd minute saw two quick corner kicks, followed by two shots by Penn. Despite Penn’s momentum throughout the second half, the Dartmouth defense was able to hold off six shots over the course of 25 minutes and kept Penn scoreless for the game. With Penn’s failure to score, Budnik was able to record his third shutout of the season. “All season long, [Budnik has] been really, really focused,” said head coach Bo Oshiniyi. He’s been just really steady for us. And he’s done a great job of keeping us calm and making big saves when he has to.”
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The Big Green improved to 5-5-1 and 2-1 in conference play with a win over Penn on Saturday.
In the second half of the game, Dartmouth was outshot 8-2, with Budnik recording four saves during the game for the Big Green. The in-conference game proved to be a competitive and physical one, with the Big Green being carded for 13 fouls and Penn for 14. The Big Green sits only behind Yale
in the Ivy League, and will look to finish out Ivy play undefeated for its best chance to bring home a championship. Dartmouth has its final non-conference game this week at home against the University of Hartford on Tuesday, then remains in Hanover to take on Columbia University on Saturday. The team plans to take the momentum and
energy from Saturday’s win forward through the rest of the season. “We’re second in the Ivy League and we know that basically every game is do or die,” Penn-Kekana said. “We can’t afford to lose because we’ve already lost one game, so we’re going to take all the energy to all of our Ivy League games.”
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Men’s hockey takes on Harvard at home in preseason matchup B y OLIVIA MORTON
second period, denying Harvard the potential of increasing their lead and outshooting them 9-7. Though the season doesn’t officially “I think when we got the puck start for another two weeks, the Big in the offensive zone, that’s kind of Green men’s hockey team took to its our game, we cycled the puck well home ice this Saturday in a preseason and I think that was our strength,” matchup with the Harvard University O’Connor said. “It felt pretty good [to score], it was good to get a scrimmage Crimson, dropping the game 4-2. After a small buzzer mishap, both in since we start playing in a couple teams got right down to it with Big weeks. It felt good to get out there Green goaltender Adrian Clark ’20 against a different team. It was a good coming up with a huge save in the game, felt good with my linemates and everything.” first minute. With the score D a r t m o u t h “I think we’re a lot now 3-2, it was seemed to clear that the game control the next better than we were was dependent on couple minutes, out there today, but but a tripping we’ve got a lot of work the outcome of the third period. The offense gave Big Green came out the Crimson to do.” strong with a lot of an early lead off early chances, but a power play. Harvard goaltender The remainder -BRENDAN DEMLER ’21 Mitchell Gibson, of the period who was drafted was back-andby the Washington f o r t h , w i t h some strong attempts by the home Capitals in the 2018 draft, came team that just couldn’t quite find the through for the Crimson with several back of the net. With one minute big saves. Five minutes into the period, remaining in the first period, Harvard Harvard was penalized for having too scored again off a loose puck; another many players on the ice, resulting in a penalty with 32 seconds remaining power play which eventually turned gave Harvard a second chance and into a five-on-three in Dartmouth’s they capitalized with yet another goal favor after a Harvard player was with only two seconds left on the clock. called for goaltender interference. Though the first period may have Unfortunately, the Big Green was been tough, the Big Green came unable to capitalize on this power play, out with an intensity and fire that and the Crimson players returned to Harvard just couldn’t match in the the ice with the score of the game second period. Drew O’Connor ’22 held at 3-2. scored the first of his two goals in “I think we’re a lot better than the fourth minute off an assist from we were out there today, but we’ve Quinn Foreman ’21. His second goal got a lot of work to do,” said captain came only four minutes later, with Brendan Demler ’21. “It’s a really an assist from Collin Rutherford short preseason so we haven’t had ’21 and Foreman for the second time to work on specialty teams a ton time. Dartmouth dominated the or our breakouts, our d-zone. It’s just The Dartmouth
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Drew O’Connor, pictured here last season, scored two goals in the preseason matchup with Harvard.
something we need to work on and we’ll get there.” Demler added that the team brought a lot of energy to the game. “We were working the puck down low pretty well,” he said. “And just trying to get the puck over the goal line more and get some more shots is what we need to focus on.” The remainder of the period was fairly back-and-forth, with both teams coming up with some great plays. But with five minutes remaining, the Big Green suffered two penalties two minutes apart from one another, and Harvard took advantage of the ensuing five on three, scoring with two minutes and 30 seconds remaining.
Reflecting on the game, head coach Bob Gaudet ’81 said he was certain that the Big Green was the better team, but that consistency is key. “In terms of our strength, our physicality, we got better as the game progressed,” Gaudet said. “First period we were just okay, second and third I thought we were good and what hurt us was a couple late goals in the first period — and that’s gonna be something that we have to make uncharacteristic for us. I thought we were going pretty good, and I liked the level of intensity we had, but I think we were a little off in some of the finer points, the details, and that’s what we’ve got to continue to work
on.” Special teams and power plays played a large role in the outcome of the game, but with some work, O’Connor said he believes that the Big Green will come out on top when Dartmouth takes on Harvard in the first official game of the season two weekends from now. “I think we played a solid game against them,” O’Connor said. “The biggest thing was just special teams — they beat us on special teams, we didn’t score on our power play and they got a few on theirs. I think cleaning that up will definitely play a big aspect but I think we can definitely win the next game.”