Wildcats Fall in Granite State Matchup at Dartmouth

Tuesday, February 18

Hanover, N.H.

4 PM

University of New Hampshire

1-2

Dartmouth

2-0

New Hampshire

Dartmouth

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Photo by: Tim Cardew

2/18/2025 7:07:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse

Box Score

HANOVER, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's lacrosse team was defeated 23-4 by Dartmouth College at Scully-Fahey Field on Tuesday afternoon.

Libby Boland (Victor, N.Y.), Piper Boudreau (Chelmsford, Mass.), Eva de Matteis (New Boston, N.H.) and Kate O'Rourke (Franklin, Mass.) each scored a goal for the Wildcats.

Freshman goalkeeper Ellie Thomas (Needham, Mass.) was credited with five saves.

Dartmouth was led offensively by Maja Desmond and Ryan Hapgood with four goals apiece; four other Big Green players also tallied four points. Starting goalie Gisele Todd stopped three of six shots on goal in 51:24. Riley Harrington was not credited with a save and allowed one goal the remaining 8:36.

UNH is now 1-2 and Dartmouth is 2-0.

UP NEXT

UNH returns to action Feb. 22 (3 p.m.) at Quinnipiac University.
The Wildcats' next home game is March 12 (4 p.m.) against Boston University.

FIRST QUARTER

de Matteis scored a player-up goal 46 seconds into the game when she caught the pass from Allie Connerty (Norwell, Mass.) low on the right side, split a pair of defenders to get to the front of the net for the goal.
Dartmouth scored seven consecutive goals to build a 7-1 lead at 3:26.
Boland drove from the top of the 12-meter and fired a shot from the 8m inside the left post to lift the Wildcats within 7-2 at 2:29.
The Big Green scored a pair of goals in the last 84 seconds to extend the advantage to 9-2 through 15 minutes.

SECOND QUARTER

The home team began the second quarter on a 5-0 run to take a 14-2 lead at 4:01.
O'Rourke was awarded a free position on the top-left side of the fan. She was knocked to the ground by a defender as she approached the front of the net. Parallel to the turf and only inches from hitting that turf, O'Rourke scored on a low shot at 1:36.
The Big Green scored with three seconds on the clock to take a 15-3 lead into halftime.

THIRD QUARTER

Dartmouth scored all six goals of the third quarter to extend the margin to 21-3.

FOURTH QUARTER

Boland's shot from the right side hit the post but Boudreau caught the ball off the rebound and fired a shot into the open net with 1:53 remaining to close the scoring.

UNH NOTEBOOK

de Matteis had a team-high two ground balls.
She and O'Rourke tied for the team lead with two draw controls.
Four 'Cats – de Matteis, Boudreau, Carly Ross (Annapolis, Md.) and Sarah Zwack (Weston, Conn.) – each recorded one caused turnover.
It was the second goal of the season for all four Wildcats.
This was the first time in three games that Thomas did not finish with 10+ saves.

GAME NOTEBOOK

Dartmouth finished with the edge in shots (34-11), shots on goal (28-7), draw controls (25-5) and ground balls (11-6).
Turnovers were even at 16.
UNH scored on 1 of 2 free-position shots while DC was 5-for-6.
The 'Cats were successful on 10 of 15 clear attempts and the home team was 12 of 15.

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