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HAMILTON, N.Y. (11/5/10) – The Colgate women's ice hockey team suffered a 6-2 setback to Dartmouth on Friday night, in its third ECAC Hockey game of the season. The Raiders finished 2-for-5 on the power play.

Colgate (3-6, 1-2  ECAC) started the game at a disadvantage, conceding an early goal from Sasha Nanji in the first 13 seconds of the game to trail the Big Green 1-0. The Raiders answered back minutes later at the 5:47 mark when sophomore Brittany Philips (Lauder, Man.) used her speed to beat her defender, skate around the goal and pass the puck up to senior Jessi Waters (Menlo Park, Calif.). Waters then tipped it to freshman Rachel Walsh (Calgary, Alta.) who hammered it home, to even the score at 1-1.

In the second period, Dartmouth scored three consecutive goals to build a 4-1 lead. The first came from Amanda Trunzo who picked up a loose puck, skated down the middle of the ice and beat senior Lisa Plenderleith (Ajax, Ont.). Erica Dobos added the second goal two minutes later when she hooked up on a nice tic-tac-goal with Jenna Hobeika and Katie Horner to net the Big Green's second goal of the period. The third came on a wrister by Reagan Fischer.

Colgate stopped Dartmouth's streak of three goals at the 18:58 mark of the second frame when junior Amanda Kirwan (Mississauga, Ont.) connected with sophomore Jordan Brickner (Lake Forest, Ill.) who fired the puck into the net, to put the score at 4-2. Senior Jacquie Colborne (Calgary, Alta.) was also credited with an assist.

Dartmouth (3-0, 3-0 ECAC) then went on to score two more goals in the final 20 minutes of play to give the Big Green its third consecutive win of the season.
 
Plenderleith made 24 saves for Colgate, while Lindsay Holdcroft had 17 for the Big Green.

The Raiders will resume play tomorrow at 4 p.m. when they host No.10 Harvard in their final game of the weekend in Starr Rink.