Box Score
HANOVER, N.H. – The streak is over, and Cornell's chances at an Ivy League championship might have gone with it.

The Big Red fell 3-1 at Dartmouth on Saturday night, losing for the first time since the season opener against Niagara on Sept. 2. Cornell also drops out of first place in the Ivy League for the first time all year and will need a win and lots of help next weekend to secure its first league championship for the first time since 1995.

The teams played a tightly contested first half with Cornell (8-2-5, 3-1-2 Ivy League) getting two free kicks close to the Dartmouth (8-5-3, 4-1-1) goal. Patrick Slogic took both opportunities but hit the Big Green wall, and the teams went into halftime tied 0-0.

The biggest event of the first 45 minutes, though, was Cornell keeper Rick Pflasterer going down with a leg injury in the game's first five minutes. Pflasterer lay on the ground for a full minute before being helped off the field by training staff. That left goaltending duties for the Big Red to freshman Zach Zagorski, who had only seen nine minutes of game time in his career.

Four minutes into the second half, Dartmouth struck. Kevin Dzierzawski got an unassisted goal in the 49th minute that stunned the Big Red and put all the pressure on the visitors.

The middle portions of the second half were tight and even, with Cornell unable to break through the Dartmouth defense for a goal. With under six minutes to play, Dartmouth scored again on what seemed like it was going to be the icing goal. The ball bounced around the penalty box from Dartmouth's Aaron Gaide to Adam Rice to Maarten van Ess, and van Ess beat Zagorski for the goal that made it 2-0.

The Big Red rushed to get the ball back to midfield for the kickoff, and they quickly got their goal on a cross to Patrick Slogic. Slogic, a defender who is the tallest man on the roster, headed the ball into the net and gave the Big Red hope that the night was not over. The goal also kept alive Cornell's streak of being the only team in the country to score a goal in every game this year.

But the hope died quickly as Lucky Mkosana, the Ivy League's leading scorer, got his 10th goal of the year on a breakaway as the Cornell offense pushed forward. That made it 3-1, and the large Cornell contingent in Hanover was silenced.

The Big Red now falls behind Dartmouth and Columbia in the Ivy League standings with just one game to go. Dartmouth controls its own destiny in the league now, and though Cornell can beat Columbia next weekend, it will need the Big Green to lose and might need more help from Brown and Penn.

Cornell's regular season ends on Saturday at home against Columbia. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.