Meyer Hits Mark as Dartmouth Rocks Brown
from press release
HANOVER, N.H. - The 18th ranked Dartmouth
women's lacrosse team used a balanced attack featuring nine
different goal scorers to take a 17-5 win over Brown in Ivy play
this afternoon.
Senior Greta Meyer (Denver, Colo.) recorded her 100th career goal
in the win, becoming the second Dartmouth player to do so this
season.
Dartmouth improves to 6-2 and a perfect 3-0 in Ivy play while Brown
falls to 5-4, 1-2 Ivy. The Big Green held a commanding advantage in
shots, 39-21 as well as ground balls, 21-11. Draw controls proved
critical as well, with Dartmouth grabbing 16 to Brown's eight.
The game was tied 22 with 16:16 to go in the first half before
Dartmouth rattled off a 6-0 run during a 10 minute span and
eventually went up 11-4 at the half to put the Bears away
early.
Sophomore Courtney Bennett (Darien, Conn.) opened the game with
back-to-back free position goals for a 2-0 Dartmouth lead just 1:35
into the contest. Brown's Paris Waterman answered back, however,
with two goals of her own to make it a tie game. The Big Green got
to work then, going on a 6-0 run with goals from five different
players. Sarah Plumb (Wellesley, Mass.) and Kirsten Goldberg
(Cockeysville, Md.) each scored unassisted goals to make it a 4-2
game before Goldberg fed the ball to rookie Liz Calby (Darien,
Conn.) who potted one from close range at 12:09.
Sarah Parks (Ellicott City, Md.) got in on the action with a score
off a nice look from senior Kat Collins (Darien, Conn.) before
Meyer assisted on a Hana Bowers (Old Greenwich, Conn.) tally two
minutes later. Calby connected on a pass form her former high
school teammate Bennett to put the Green up 8-2 with 4:19 on the
clock.
The Bears responded with two free position goals just 38 seconds
apart to make it an 8-4 game with 2:17 to play but Dartmouth put
its foot right back on the gas, scoring three free position goals
of its own in the final 1:45 of the first. Meyer converted her
100th career goal to start things off before Plumb and Goldberg
each scored to make it an 11-4 Dartmouth lead at halftime.
Dartmouth extended its run to 9-0 over the two halves, scoring six
unanswered goals in the second. Plumb started things off making
good on a slick pass from Collins for a 12-4 advantage at 26:48.
Sophomore Kelsey Johnson (Hingham, Mass.) made a nice defensive
play to cause a Brown turnover and brought the ball into the
attacking end where she was fouled. She then converted a free
position for her first career goal, hammering home that it was
truly Dartmouth's day.
Goldberg scored her third of the day before Collins, Dartmouth's
leading scorer, got her first on a day when she shined without
putting up huge point totals, taking double teams that freed up her
teammates. Parks and Bennett each got one more to put Dartmouth up
17-4 with 10:33 left in the contest. Brown finally got one more on
the board when Julia Keller scored off a pass from Kaela McGilloway
at 6:04.
McGilloway came into game as Brown's leading scorer with 28 points
on the season but was held to just that one assist thanks to a
stellar defensive effort by Shannie MacKenzie (Riverside,
Conn.).
Bennett, Goldberg and Plumb each tallied three goals and an assist,
while Bennett and Plumb grabbed three draw controls each.
Dartmouth has a quick turnaround before an exciting test this
Monday when the Big Green hosts #14 Syracuse at 3 p.m. on
Scully-Fahey Field.
