Dartmouth men's (Pain Train) and women's (Princess Layout) ultimate Frisbee teams went to Las Vegas, Nev., over Winter Carnival weekend to play in Trouble in Vegas, a tournament featuring some of the top collegiate teams in the country. Overall, 64 men's and 32 women's programs competed.
The complicated tournament format allowed teams to keep playing even after they could no longer win the outright championship.
Dartmouth men's ultimate were seeded 15th and opened play last Saturday against second-seeded Colorado, who knocked off Dartmouth 13-5. No. 31 University of Chicago beat the Pain Train 13-10 in the second match. Dartmouth split its remaining games on the first day, losing to Massachusetts-Amherst and beating San Diego State on a winner-take-all last point.
Pain Train had a reverse of fortune Sunday, recording a 3-1 record for the day. Dartmouth started with back-to-back wins against Stanford's B-Team and Cornell before losing to UC Berkeley in the third game. Dartmouth's last game was a rematch with UMass. This time Pain Train emerged victorious.
Having split the weekend, Dartmouth expected to play two games on Monday. Tufts defeated Dartmouth 10-8 in the first game, and the second never happened. Dartmouth was credited with a win when Chicago, its scheduled opponent, left early to catch a return flight. Dartmouth men's team finished the weekend with a 5-5 record.
Dartmouth's women started stronger and finished weaker than its male counterpart. Princess Layout won its first game against California-Santa Barbara, 7-4. Its next two games in opening group play were losses, however, to Northwestern and Oregon.
Dartmouth continued its skid through the second-round, where it faced off against three California teams. California-Berkeley, California-Davis and California-San Diego each beat Princess Layout in the second round.
In its last set of games, Dartmouth fared a little better. Princess Layout beat Stanford B 7-6 before losing its final two games to Humboldt State and Carleton College.
Dartmouth club table tennis played against other members of the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association's New England Division this weekend at Harvard. Dartmouth beat Massachusetts-Boston and Tufts but lost to Boston University.
The match with UMass-Boston went to a best-two-out-of-three doubles tiebreaker in which Zach Nass '08 and Jiayi Hao '08 beat delivered a clutch victory.
The other Dartmouth students who participated in the tournament were Vissuta Jiwariyavej '09, and Daniel Leung '09.
Dartmouth club hockey beat its rivals from the Tuck School of Business 4-1 last Thursday at Thompson Arena.
Maxime Guimond '06 scored all four goals for the undergraduates, giving him his second hat trick of the year.
Darcy Marr '06 and Bart Van Hampski '06 each had two assists, and Chuck Rosenwasser '06 saved 14 of the 15 shots he faced.
With the win Dartmouth improves to 10-1 on the season.
