Box Score HANOVER, N.H. – Hanna Bunton notched a career-high three points as the No. 3 women's hockey team doubled up Dartmouth, 4-2, to finish a three point weekend and maintain possession of first place in the ECAC Hockey standings.
 
With the win, the Big Red improves to 8-0-2 overall and 6-0-2 against ECAC Hockey opponents. Dartmouth falls to 2-7-0 and 2-6-0 in league play.
 
Cornell controlled possession from the opening puck drop and Bunton got the Big Red out to an early lead just one minute and 16 seconds into the first period redirecting a shot from classmate Sydney Smith past the Big Green's Lindsay Holdcroft.
 
Taylor Woods played the puck out of the corner to Smith on the left circle, who threw a soft wrister into traffic in front. Bunton was positioned on top of the crease in front of a pair of Dartmouth defenders who helped to obstruct Holdcroft's view of the puck.
 
Smith earned her first collegiate point with the assist.
 
Dartmouth knotted things at one just past the 13 minute mark of the first after Karlee Odland forced a turnover deep in the Cornell zone and touched the puck to Lindsey Allen who fooled Lauren Slebodnick with a quick turnover shot from the slot.
 
Just over two and a half minutes later, senior co-captain Alyssa Gagliardi ripped a shot from just inside the right point for the first of three power-play goals for the Big Red to regain the lead, 2-1.
 
The play started when Jillian Saulnier and Jessica Campbell won a battle along the left half wall. Saulnier played the puck to Bunton on the left point, who quickly passed it cross-ice to Gagliardi. The Raleigh, N.C. native got the shot away before Dartmouth's penalty kill unit was able to regroup.
 
With time winding down in the first period, Campbell – the other half of the Big Red's captain team this season – collected the rebound from her own shot and notched the another power-play goal to give Cornell a 3-1 lead.
 
Bunton and Gagliardi picked up assists thanks to strong play on the point.  Gagliardi's one-timer off a Bunton pass was initially stopped by Holdcroft, but the rebound kicked out to Campbell in the slot. Holdcroft again made the save, but Campbell followed the play and squeaked a flat-angle shot in between the Big Green netminder and the left post to put Cornell up by two heading into the first intermission.
 
At the 7:47 mark of the second, Dartmouth notched a power-play goal of its own just 23 seconds into the man-advantage. Lindsey Allen stripped the puck in the corner put a wrister into Slebodnick's pads from the bottom of the right circle. Cornell was unable to corral the rebound and after Allen got a second attempt, the puck popped out to Catherine Berghuis who put it high over the sprawling Cornell goaltender to pull within one, 3-2.
 
But Cornell cashed in on the power play once again with six minutes to play as Cassandra Poudrier pinched in from the left point and backhanded a rebound past Holdcroft on top of the crease. Poudrier now has three goals this season, all on the power-play.
Emily Fulton and Saulnier earned assists on the play to close out the scoring for the Big Red.
 
Holdcroft finished with 34 saves for the Big Green, while Slebodnick stopped 25 for the Big Red. Gagliardi and fellow senior defenseman Hayleigh Cudmore combined for 10 blocked shots.
 
Cornell has a week off before returning to Lynah Rink to play host to nationally-ranked Boston College after the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 29 and 30.