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No. 4 Dartmouth Pulls Away for 12-9 Win over No. 3 Tigers in Women's Lacrosse
April 23, 2005 | Women's Lacrosse
April 23, 2005
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HANOVER, N.H. - With one of its senior captains ailing due to injury and its leading scorer the focal point of the Dartmouth defense, Princeton certainly gave a terrific effort Saturday afternoon in the biggest game of the 2005 Ivy League season. But the homestanding Big Green were just a little bit better.
Jen Pittman and Kristen Barry each scored twice in the first 17 minutes of the second half to help No. 4 Dartmouth take control and Katieanne Christian and Pittman scored in the final 10 minutes to put it away as the Big Green won its first outright Ivy title since 2000 with a 12-9 victory over the No. 3 Tigers at Scully-Fahey Field.
The win, the first for Dartmouth (13-0, 7-0) over Princeton (10-3, 5-1 Ivy) since 2001, also gives the Big Green the Ivy League's automatic NCAA tournament berth. The Tigers, who had won five straight against the Big Green, 16 straight Ivy League games overall and had at least shared each of the last four Ivy titles, will almost certainly make the NCAA field as an at-large team.
Dartmouth's win Saturday afternoon came mostly because of an outstanding performance in the opening minutes of the second half after the Tigers had tied the game at 6-6 by halftime. Pittman scored just 26 seconds into the half to give the Big Green a lead it would not relinquish, and she scored again five minutes later to make it 8-6.
Barry's goal a minute after that one gave the Big Green a 9-6 lead with 23 minutes left and forced a Princeton timeout, not to mention a goalie change from Sarah Kolodner to Colleen O'Boyle. The freshman scored again with 13 minutes left to give Dartmouth a three-goal lead again at 10-7.
Katie Lewis-Lamonica's goal less than a minute after Barry's goal would pull the Tigers back within 10-8 with 12:38 on the clock, but Christian then scored perhaps the biggest goal of the game with just under 10 minutes left, thanks to a nice feed from behind the net from Sarah Szefi, to give Dartmouth another three-goal lead. Princeton played much of the second half without Elizabeth Pillion, the team's second-leading scorer who left the game with a leg injury late in the first half. The Tigers' leading scorer, Lindsey Biles, scored twice in the game's first 11 minutes but did not have a goal after that.
Lewis-Lamonica had three goals for Princeton, all on free-position opportunties, including two eight-meter shots in the final two minutes of the first half that tied the game at halftime. Christine Dobrosky also came off the bench to score twice for Princeton, including one with 20 minutes left in the game that stopped Dartmouth's three-goal run that began the second half.
Dartmouth came out hot in the rain at the beginning of the game, getting goals from Christian and Sarah Sanborn in the first two minutes. But Pillion found Biles four minutes in and Kathleen Miller scored unassisted with 24 minutes left to tie the score at 2-2.
Princeton took its only lead of the game with 16:39 left in half when Ashley Amo took Miller's pass in front and scored past goalie Devon Wills, but Dartmouth scored three times in a four-minute span after that to take a two-goal lead into the final minutes of the half.
Pittman had a game-high four goals overall, while Barry and Christian each scored three. Dartmouth outshot the Tigers 25-20.
Princeton plays at Delaware Tuesday night.