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HANOVER, N.H. – A four-goal weekend from Nick D'Agostino spurred the Big Red to a four-point weekend.

The junior defenseman scored two goals for the second night in a row on Saturday, including the game-winner with 10:37 to play in the third period in a 3-2 victory over No. 14/17 Dartmouth at Thompson Arena.
 
Brian Ferlin scored the other goal for Cornell (3-2, 3-1 ECAC Hockey), which completed a road sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth for the first time since the teams were paired together for travelling purposes by ECAC Hockey for the 2003-04 season.
 
Yet it was the Big Green that struck first with freshman Tyler Sikura's power-play goal 15:05 into the first. Cornell responded with Ferlin's third goal of the season with 1:32 remaining before the first intermission. Keir Ross poked the puck away from a rushing Dartmouth player in the left circle of the Big Red zone, and Ferlin skated away through the neutral zone in transition. On an innocuous-looking two-on-two, Ferlin pulled toward the middle at the top of the right circle and snapped a shot that beat Dartmouth goalie James Mello low to the far side under the blocker.
 
The Big Red had three of its five power plays in the middle frame, capitalizing at the 14:07 mark on D'Agostino's third goal of the weekend on the man advantage. Set up in the Big Green zone, Greg Miller worked the puck from the right point down the wall to Joel Lowry at the bottom of the circle. He slid a pass to D'Agostino in the slot, who beat Mello to put Cornell in front, 2-1.
 
But Dartmouth tied the game a few minutes later on a broken play entering the Cornell zone. The Big Red has yet to enter the final 20 minutes of a league game trailing.
 
The game-winner was actually set up by a near miss at the other end. The Big Green gained possession behind the Cornell cage and a centering pass intended for a Nick Walsh one-timer narrowly missed its target. The puck now sliding up the slot, Cornell's Dustin Mowrey collected and turned up ice on the right wing. He waited for D'Agostino to join the rush and worked a double give-and-go toward goal before D'Agostino finished with his team-leading fourth goal of the season. As of game's end, he led the nation in points per game among defensemen (1.60).
 
The Big Red clamped down defensively from there, with Andy Iles making 23 saves – including three in waning moments with Mello pulled for an extra attacker – to earn the victory.
 
Cornell returns home for its next three games, with the first two coming against ECAC Hockey foes. Princeton visits Lynah Rink on Friday, Nov. 18, then No. 19 Quinnipiac arrives the following night. The Big Red will then play host to Niagara on Tuesday, Nov. 22 before the highly anticipated Red Hot Hockey game against No. 16 Boston University on Saturday, Nov. 26 at Madison Square Garden in New York.