Men's Lacrosse:
The Big Green look to even their Ivy League record when they travel to Cornell tomorrow to take on the third-place Big Red in the battle of the Christmas colors. Dartmouth will have to find a way to get the ball past Cornell goalie Rich Yost, who is second in the league in Goals Against Average. However, his save percentage is the lowest in the Ancient Eight. That task will be made harder by the fact that no Dartmouth player ranks in the top 10 league leaders for scoring.
Junior attacker Josh Morgan, whose two goals helped Cornell nearly upset Harvard last week, paces the offense for the Big Red.
However, Harvard was able to hold off Cornell thanks to the efforts of Ivy League player of the week Jim Bevilacqua, who found the back of the net five times for the Crimson. No. 18 Harvard will need all the help they can get this weekend when they face the No. 2 team in the nation, Princeton, for the top spot in the Ivies. The Tigers have won 15 straight Ivy League games.
Women's Softball:
First-place Cornell will play host to Princeton this weekend in a set of games that should help determine the early front-runner for the league title. Cornell is 17-3 on the season and boasts last week's pitcher of the week, Julie Westbrock. She threw a one-hitter against Wagner and struck out fifteen batters while only allowing two walks in her two wins last week.
Deborah Abeles of Harvard, a sophomore shortstop, earned offensive player of the week honors after batting .571 with a triple, three doubles and a homer. She is now just seven RBIs short of the Crimson all time record in just the start of her second campaign.
Men's Baseball:
Dartmouth opens its home season with a doubleheader against Columbia today at noon and finishes out the weekend by hosting Penn in a doubleheader on Saturday. Columbia boasts a 2-6 league record entering the weekend and is paced by freshman leftfielder who batted .500 in last weekend's four games. For the Quakers, senior catcher David Corelto enters on a hot streak, with seven hits in 12 at-bats, one home run, seven RBIs and six runs scored.
The entire league will wrap up series with the other division before entering divisional play next weekend. Princeton leads the Lou Gehrig division with a 3-1 record while Harvard, Brown and Yale are all tied atop the Red Rolfe division with the same 3-1 mark.
Each of those schools landed a player on last week's honor roll: Junior Pete DeYoung of Brown was named the league's player of the week, senior pitcher Eric Gusthall of Yale earned pitching honors and freshman pitcher John Birtwell of the Crimson took was named rookie of the week .
