MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College women's ice hockey team suffered a 2-1 loss to Dartmouth College in its final home game of the fall semester on Saturday.
 
The Hawks fall to 9-9-1 on the season while the Big Green improve to 3-6-0 overall. The teams will conclude their non-conference home-and-home series on Sunday, Nov. 27 with the opening puck drop slated for 3 p.m. from Hanover, N.H.
 
Graduate student Kelly Golini (Tewksbury, Mass.) netted the Hawks lone goal in the contest, marking the 49th goal and the 96th point in her collegiate career. Golini ranks sixth all-time in program history in goals scored and is currently 11th in points, needing four to become just the ninth Saint Anselm women's ice hockey student-athlete to eclipse that threshold.
 
With just over seven seconds remaining in regulation, Jenna Donohue managed to gain clearance from the Hawks defense and fired a snap shot from just inside the right faceoff circle. The puck would deflect off the left post and in to the back of the goal to give the Big Green a 2-1 lead, which they would hold on to in the closing seconds to grab the win.
 
Earlier in the contest, the Hawks opened the scoring at 3:43 of the first stanza when Golini buried a rebound chance off a shot from sophomore Audrey Jackson (Shoreview, Minn.). Jackson fired a wrist shot from the right faceoff dot which was turned aside by the Dartmouth goaltender, Maggie Emerson but Golini was on the doorstep to knock home her ninth of the 2022-23 season.
 
Dartmouth knotted the score at one when Vanessa Stamper managed to collect her own rebound chance and sneak the second-chance shot by senior goaltender Allie Kelley (East Berne, N.Y.) at 15:57 of the first period.
 
The Big Green held an 18-4 edge in shots on goal through 20 minutes of play but the teams headed the intermission tied at one.
 
Saint Anselm had a great chance to take a 2-1 lead midway through the second period as sophomore Tyra Turner (Andover, Minn.) beat a Dartmouth defender and worked back across the goal mouth but Emerson followed the sophomore the whole way and made the save, preserving the 1-1 contest.
 
Each side had two power play opportunities in the contest but neither could register a goal on those chances. Dartmouth held a 46-19 edge in shots on goal and won 32 of 58 faceoffs in the tilt.
 
Kelley made double-digit saves in each of three periods including 17 of 18 in the first frame and all 12 in the second before adding 15 in the third, totaling 44 stops. Emerson made 18-of-19 saves in the Dartmouth goal.