HANOVER, N.H. – The Yale Men's Hockey Team picked a good time for a three-point weekend, and sophomore Justin Pearson picked a great time to get hot. With time running down on the regular season, the Bulldogs earned three points after a 4-3 win over Dartmouth that was highlighted by a second-straight two-goal night by the forward from Nashua, N.H.

Pearson and the Elis erased 1-0 and 2-1 deficits with three straight goals to move into a seventh-place tie with the Big Green in the ECAC standings with four regular season contests remaining.

Corbin Kaczperski, Yale's senior goalie, made 30 saves while his teammates outshot the home team 35-33 at Thompson Arena.

Pearson took advantage of Yale's first power play by skating in from the right point and going top shelf from the circle to even the score at 1-1. After the Big Green grabbed the lead back on a five-minute power play, a Yale rookie used his first career tally to even the score again.

Defenseman Michael Young used passes from the Smith brothers, Mitchell and Evan, to flick a shot past Adrian Clark, who earlier in the period robbed Curtis Hall of a shorthanded goal.

Yale got its first lead of the game in the third period when rookie forward Cole Donhauser picked off a pass in the neutral zone and skated to the circle before firing a shot between Clark's legs to make it 3-2 at 6:28.

Pearson, who now has a dozen goals this winter, added to the lead at 9:01 by converting a great Hall crossing pass for a one-timer from the edge of the crease. Hall showed some amazing stickhandling and moves to create space on one side of the net before throwing to the other side for his linemate.

Dartmouth pulled Clark with just over three minutes left and scored a goal to cut the deficit to one before finishing out the game with six skaters against four.

The Bulldogs, who tied No. 18 Harvard last night 4-4 at Boston, have their final regular season home weekend coming up with games against No. 2 Cornell and Colgate.