Game Notes: Women's Lax Battles Intrastate Rival Dartmouth (Feb. 23)

GAME 3
New Hampshire (1-1) at Dartmouth (1-0)
Tuesday, February 23 • Scully-Fahey Field • 3 p.m.
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THE GAME
New Hampshire returns to the road to battle intrastate rival Dartmouth College on Feb. 23 at Scully-Fahey Field. Game time is 3 p.m.

THE MATCHUP
UNH has a 13-23 lifetime record against Dartmouth College. The Big Green has won each of the last four meetings and 19 of 20; UNH's only win in that span was a 9-8 victory at home Feb. 27, 2010. The last time the Wildcats won in Hanover was 1991 (9-4); since then, DC has won 11 consecutive home games in the series.

In UNH's most recent trip to Scully-Fahey Field (Feb. 28, 2013), Dartmouth prevailed 11-10. In the most recent matchup, the Big Green won 15-7 in Durham (Bremner Field) on Feb. 22, 2014.

These programs met annually from 1977-84 and 1986-96 and 2000-2014. The Wildcats and Big Green were scheduled to play last February, but that game was postponed and eventually canceled.

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
UNH has a 1-1 overall record that includes 0-1 on the road. The Wildcats opened the 2016 season Feb. 13 with a 14-8 win vs. Hofstra University at Cowell Stadium. Most recently, the 'Cats were toppled 16-4 at UMass this past Saturday.

New Hampshire has scored on 18 of 33 shots for an impressive .545 shooting percentage. Also of note, 27 of the 33 shots have been on goal; that's an .818 percentage. In comparison, the opponents have a .414 shooting percentage (24 goals/58 shots) and .759 shot on goal percentage.

'CAT NIPS
Sophomore attack Carly Wooters (White Plains, N.Y.) scored a career-high two goals at UMass to match her personal best of two points established in the season opener vs. Hofstra University.

Sophomore goalkeeper Kate Clancy (Barrington, R.I.) matched her career high of 12 saves at UMass. She made nine stops in the first half to keep the 'Cats within striking distance. Clancy recorded 12 saves twice last year as a freshman.

Wooters, Laura McHoul and Devan Miller are the three 'Cats who have tallied a point each of the first two games.

UMASS PULLS AWAY FROM UNH
New Hampshire struck first, but UMass scored four consecutive goals and UNH never pulled closer than two goals the rest of the way in a 16-4 final Feb. 20 at Garber Field. The Minutewomen pulled away in the second half by closing the game on a 7-0 run the last 25 minutes, 30 seconds.

GET THE BALL
Junior defender Francesca LoVerde led the 'Cats in both ground balls (three) and caused turnovers (two) at UMass. LoVerde and Lizzie Suschana are atop the UNH leaderboard in caused turnovers with three. Clancy and Amy LeBel are tied for the team lead in ground balls with four. Devan Miller has a team-high three draw controls.

104 AND COUNTING
Senior attacker Laura McHoul entered the 2016 season as UNH's record holder for career assists with 102; she supplanted Karen Geromini, who tallied 101 assists, as the record holder last season. McHoul has one assist each of the first two games to increase that total to 104.

McHoul broke New Hampshire's single-season assist record with 39 in the 2014 season. She also holds No. 3 with 33 in 2013 and No. 5 with 30 in 2015.

CLIMBING THE ALL-TIME POINTS LIST
Laura McHoul enters Tuesday's game at Dartmouth with 66 goals and 104 assists for 170 points in 51 career games; those calculate to averages of 1.29 gpg, 2.04 apg and 3.33 ppg.

McHoul is currently No. 9 on the program's all-time points leaderboard. Ahead of her are No. 8 Pauline Collins (178) and No. 7 Liz Brickley (179).

LAST LINE OF DEFENSE
Sophomore goalkeeper Kate Clancy returns to reprise her role as starting goalkeeper. Through two games, she has stopped 20 of 44 shots on goal for a 12.00 GAA and .455 save percentage.

Clancy started all 16 games last season and played 895:51 of a possible 966:00 minutes (90.0%) finished with an 11.50 GAA and .380 save percentage. She recorded double-digit saves three times, including 12 in back-to-back games against Drexel and Denver.

WELCOME BACK
The Wildcats return 21 letter winners, including seven starters, from last year's 6-10 squad that went 2-4 in America East.

IT'S A WHOLE NEW WORLD
Fourth-year head coach Sarah Albrecht welcomes eight newcomers – one transfer and seven freshmen – to the UNH women's lacrosse program in the 2016 season.

SEXTON GARNERS TWO AMERICA EAST ACCOLADES
Freshman attacker Catherine Sexton was named Offensive Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week by America East on Feb. 16. Sexton recorded a team-high four points (two goals, two assists) to lead UNH to a 14-8 victory against Hofstra University in the Feb. 13 season opener at Cowell Stadium. She opened the game scoring at 3:23 to ignite a 4-0 run, and Hofstra never got closer than three goals the rest of the way. Sexton helped ensure that by recording an assist on UNH's fifth and sixth goals. She also scored a second-half goal and tallied her two goals on just three shots.

SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.) is 1-0 following last Saturday's 18-2 home win against America East representative UMass Lowell. The Big Green scored six consecutive goals to build a 7-1 lead and closed the game with 11 unanswered goals, including all six goals scored in the second half. DC dominated the stats with decisive advantages in ground balls (14-8), draw controls (14-8) and turnovers (14-20).

Jaclyn Leto (5g) and Taryn Deck (3g, 2a) paced the attack with five points. Courtney Weisse (3g, 1a) and Elizabeth Mastrio (1g, 3a). Charlotte Wahle made five saves in her collegiate debut.

Dartmouth finished with a 3-11 record in the 2015 season. Leto garnered All-Ivy League First Team and IWLCA All-Northeast Region Second Team last year with 43 goals and 47 points.

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