HANOVER, N.H. – The Harvard women's hockey team (1-0-0, 1-0-0 ECAC Hockey) scored four unanswered goals to top Dartmouth (0-1-0, 0-1-0 ECAC Hockey) in its season opener in Hanover, N.H.
 
During the opening frame, Harvard outshot Dartmouth 10-4 despite the Big Green cashing in on a close range wrister to take a 1-0 lead at 14:28. Harvard spent the last minute of the period on a 5-on-3 power-play but was unable to convert.
 
Nearly midway through the second, a lengthy penalty review resulted in a game misconduct for the Big Green, putting the Crimson on the power-play for another five minutes. With two minutes remaining on the major penalty, Dartmouth took another minor penalty, giving Harvard more 5-on-3 play time. At 11:35 Maryna Macdonald rattled off the first goal, on the power-play, of the 2021-22 campaign to even the score at 1-1. Not five minutes later, Keely Moy scored a highlight reel goal, drawing the Big Green goalie out of the net before swinging the puck behind the netminder's skate and into the net. The goal was Moy's 25th career strike.
 
Just 3:28 into the third, Moy chipped in another score to extend the Crimson's lead to 3-1, short-handed from Brooke Jovanovich. At 16:51 Jovanovich notched a goal of her own on the power-play to seal Harvard's 4-1 victory.
 
Harvard Highlights

• Brooke Jovanovich, Maryna Macdonald and Keely Moy scored their first goals of the season. Macdonald scored the first goal of the 2021-22 campaign while Moy tallied the first game winner, a shorty and finished with a +2 rating.
• Taze Thompson tallied her first career point, an assist, and went 15-1 at the faceoff dot.
• Mia Biotti marked her first career assist on Macdonald's goal.
• Becky Dutton made 10 saves in her season debut.
• Dominique Petrie led the roster with eight shots.
• Seven players made their career debuts tonight.

 
Game Notes

• Dartmouth accumulated 19 penalty minutes on eight infractions.
• The Crimson put up 41 shots to the Big Green's 11.
• Harvard scored three types of goals, two power-plays, one even strength and one short-handed.
• The Crimson has now won the last 10 matchups against the Big Green dating back to the 2015-16 season.
• Harvard women's hockey is three wins away from 700 program wins since gaining varsity status.
• Katey Stone is five wins away from 500 career wins. She'd be the first female coach and fourth coach of a women's program to achieve the mark.

 
Up Next
Harvard will play its home opener tomorrow, Oct. 23, against Saint Anselm. Puck drop is set for 3 p.m.