It all came down to a shoot-out for revenge.
Revenge for a tough January 5 loss (3-2) to neighbors and defending national champion UNH.
But this time it was the Big Green's women's hockey team that came out on top.
"It was a huge upper," co-Captain Malaika Little '97 said. "Today we just brought it all together."
By the end of the third period in yesterday's Concordia Tournament competition, the two teams were tied at 3-3.
The teams went head to head in a 10-minute sudden death overtime but neither team could find the net.
And so it was left up to Big Green veterans Sarah Hood '98, Michelyne Pinard '98, co-Captain Amy Coelho '97 and Wendy Soutsos '99.
These women took control of the shoot-out, out-scoring UNH 4-2 to take the win.
Coelho was named the MVP of the game.
The team played two other games at the tournament this weekend, splitting the results. After falling on Friday to Concordia University 6-0, the Big Green women's hockey team came back on Saturday to crush its College Brebeuf opponents 11-0 at the Concordia Tournament.
Hood earned game MVP status the four goals she put away over the course of the competition.
It was Jessica Clark '98 who began Dartmouth's scoring run against the College Brebeuf Dynamiques.
By the end of the first period, Hood had added to Clark's netter to give the Big Green's a 2-0 lead.
By the end of the second period, the Dynamiques were looking at a five point deficit.
Hood notched the first goal with helpers from Emilie Schnitman '98 and Sara Nelson '99.
Freshmen Jaime Arndt and Christine Szarek each pushed through the Dynamiques' defense to knock in the last two goals of the period.
Apparently Dartmouth was not satisfied with a five-point lead. The team returned from the locker room in the third period to put away six more goals.
Coelho, Pinard, Sarah Halsell '99 and Kathleen O'Keefe '99 each contributed a goal to this six-goal streak.
Hood was also back at the net, finding her way past the College Brebeuf goalie for two more goals.
"[College Brebeuf] was definitely at a different level from our other competition this weekend but it was good to pull everything together and get some goals," Little said.
Melissa Siegfried '96 preserved the win for the Big Green with her 16 saves.
In the first game of the weekend, Concordia University proved the better team, coming away with a 6-0 shutout of the Big Green.
"The scoreboard doesn't say what happened," Little said. "Concordia is a great team. We showed really good intensity."
The tournament host captured a 3-0 lead in the first period and never looked back.
Concordia doubled Dartmouth's shots on goal with 30 attempts to Dartmouth's 15.
Such shooting gave Concordia an advantage that allowed it to tally two more goals in the second period and one final netter in the third.
"It was a great weekend for the whole team," Little said. "A lot of people really stepped up their games. The defense was stable and the forwards' hustle level came up. It showed us some of the potential we have and what we can do if we want to."
Dartmouth will take this week to prepare for games against Cornell and St. Lawrence next weekend.
The Big Green met both of these teams one week ago, losing to Ivy foe Cornell 0-3 and blasting St. Lawrence 8-0.
