DARTMOUTH SWEEPS MINNESOTA WITH 4-0 VICTORY

HANOVER, N.H. - For the second night in a row, Dartmouth got goals from each
of its top three lines and the top-ranked Big Green handed second-ranked
Minnesota a 4-0 defeat for a sweep of the team's two-game series.

For the Gophers, the two losses marked the second time they have ever been
swept in a weekend series and third time they have lost back-to-back games.

Dartmouth got an early goal, two minutes 12 seconds into the opening period,
from Sarah Clark and a late first-period goal, with 29.2 second on the
clock, from Jennifer Wiehn.

The Big Grenn tacked on two more in the second period. The first, coming at
the 6:20 mark when Lydia Wheatley, while being tied up in front of the net,
managed to redirect a Carly Haggard pass over the should of Gopher netminder
Erica Killewald. Kim McCullough scored on the power play with 5:10 left in
the period when she carried the puck out of the right faceoff circle, around
a Minnesota defender and shot the puck through Killewald's pads.

From that point, Dartmouth goalie Meaghan Cahill did the rest, recording a
30-save shutout as her team outshot its guest 35-30.

Minnesota...........  0  0  0 -  0
Dartmouth...........  2  2  0 -  4

   1st period - 1, DC, Sarah Clark 3 (Kim McCullough) 02:12. 2, DC, Jennifer
Wiehn 6 (Kristina Guarino, Melissa Dolan) 19:30. Penalties - Liz Macri, DC
(interference) 08:07.
   2nd period - 3, DC, Lydia Wheatley 2 (Carly Haggard) 06:20. 4, DC, Lauren
Trottier 4 (Kim McCullough) 14:50 (pp). Penalties - Correne Bredin, DC
(holding) 07:28; Emily Buchholz, UM (holding) 13:39; Leslie Reiart, DC
(high-sticking) 19:22.
   3rd period - Penalties - Kelsey Bills, UM (interference) 03:06; Melissa
Coulombe, UM (holding) 08:54; Kim McCullough, DC (high-sticking) 12:11.
   Shots on goal - Minnesota 11-10-9-30. Dartmouth 11-11-14-35. Power
plays - Minnesota 0 of 4; Dartmouth 1 of 3. Goalies - Minnesota, Erica
Killewald 9-4-1 (35 shots-31 saves); Dartmouth, Meaghan Cahill 5-0-1
(30-30). Referee - Wayne Silva. Assistant referees - Bill Jones, Sarah
Perkins. A - 457.

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