Co-captain Kristen McCormick '09 described the game as fulfilling one of the team's main goals.
"Something that we've been struggling with in almost all of our games is that our first half never equals our second half, or our second half never equals our first half," McCormick said. "So our goal has been to be consistent for 70 minutes, and the fact that we scored in the last second of the game means that we basically achieved that goal."
The Big Green (3-6, 2-1 Ivy) started off the game strong with two first-half goals by Kelly Hood '12.
Less than two minutes into the game, Hood shot one into the goal off a centering pass from Kelly McHenry '11.
Ten minutes later, McCormick stick-stopped a pass from Peisch during a penalty corner, and Hood took the ball and fired it into the lower left corner.
While the Big Green started off the game with a comfortable 2-0 lead, the Wildcats (5-8, 0-1 America East) shrunk Dartmouth's lead to one with a goal off of a penalty corner with 12 minutes left in the first.
UNH continued to push in the second half, tying up the game less than two minutes into the period as Whitney Frates found herself alone in front of the net.
McCormick saw UNH's breakaways as an area for the team to work on in preparation for its next game.
"It's about recovery and trusting your other defenders," McCormick said, "and we're constantly trying to work on making sure everyone is covered in the circle as opposed to ball-watching. We get caught doing that a lot, so it's definitely something we want to work on."
For the following 33 minutes, until Sobel's game-winning goal, the teams were locked in a stalemate at 2-2.
Meagan Vakiener '12 saved seven shots to keep the Big Green in the game, while UNH goalkeeper Jenna Lehman made only two saves in 70 minutes of play.
Dartmouth ended the game with eight shots on the board to UNH's 19.
The margin represents an unusual trend for the Big Green offense, which has been able to out-shoot its opponents by comfortable margins in its last few games. The Wildcats also had an advantage in penalty corners, taking 11 corners to Dartmouth's four.
McCormick, however, didn't see these statistics as an accurate indication of the team's performance.
"I don't necessarily think that we didn't play as well as we usually do, but I think that there have been games where we've seen better passing patterns on our part," McCormick said.
She added, "The fact that we were still able to keep good passing and a good game up the whole game was really important to us, and on top of that, UNH was a really good team. They worked really hard and they had really crisp passing."
"I think it just all came down to who wanted it more, and who was going to create more for themselves. Although they had several opportunities, we ended up capitalizing on ours and they didn't."
The Big Green will face Boston College (7-4, 0-3 ACC) in a non-conference game on Sunday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Dartmouth will resume conference play the following weekend, facing Yale (2-7, 0-3 Ivy) on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 12 p.m. at home.
