Box Score 

HANOVER, N.H. (1/15/10) -  The Colgate women's hockey team earned a decisive 6-4 victory against Dartmouth on Friday evening at Thompson Arena. It marks the second time in two years that the Raiders have defeated the Big Green and just the fifth time ever. Colgate improves its overall record to 7-13-3 and 3-5-3 in the ECAC, while Dartmouth drops to 6-9-2 overall and a 4-7-1 mark in the league.

The Raiders jumped out to a 5-1 lead mid-way through the second period, which despite two quick goals in the second and another in the third the Big Green were unable to stage a successful comeback. Colgate's leading scorer and senior Katie Stewart (Exeter, Ont.) led the Raiders in scoring with two goals followed by Jordan Brickner (Lake Forest, Ill.) and rookie Brittany Phillips (Lauder, Man.) who tallied a goal and an assist apiece. Sarah Parsons led Dartmouth picking up a hat trick, tallying three goals and an assist.

Brickner was the first to score for Colgate, lighting the lamp just under seven minutes into the first period. Parsons responded a few minutes later netting her first goal of the game and tying it at 1-1 at 14:13 in the first stanza. Freshman Jenna Klynstra (Edmonton, Alta.) was next to score, putting in the Raiders only power-play goal of the game in the final 30 seconds of the period and giving Colgate a 2-1 advantage heading into the first break. Colgate finished the game 1-4 on the power-play.

Colgate opened the second period with three consecutive goals, all coming within a five minute span. Phillips was the first to find the net with 11:01 expired in the period. Stewart was the next to score giving the Raiders a three point lead, 4-1, with 8:30 remaining in the second. Senior Beth Rotenberg (Toronto, Ont.) picked up Colgate's final goal of the stanza, putting in the eventual game-winning goal at 14:10. Jessi Waters (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Evan Minnick (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) assisted on the game-winning goal as Waters collected her second assist of the period.

After a goalie change by the Big Green, the squad was sparked by a second goal from Parsons tallying two in the final two minutes of the second period. Parsons second goal came at with 1:31 remaining followed by Dartmouth's third goal of the game, from Jenna Cunningham. Despite the Big Green's two last minute goals, the Raiders were able to enter the third period with a 5-3 advantage.

Stewart added an insurance goal to open the third period, tallying her 14th goal of the season five minutes into the final stanza. Parsons would close out the game with one final goal with just under two minutes remaining in the match.

Junior Lisa Plenderleith (Ajax, Ont.) had 45 saves in the game, just one shy of her career-high. Whitney Woodcox had 17 stops in 32 minutes of play while Mariel Lacina had eight in the remaining time.

The Raiders will be back on the ice tomorrow when they take on No. 6 Harvard at 4 p.m. in Boston, Mass.