Big Green football (1-4, 1-1 Ivy) hopes to improve on its form of late and turn its season around against Columbia after tough road losses to Yale and Holy Cross. A return to Memorial Field very well may be the added boost the team needs as it has played well at home this year, losing a heartbreaker in overtime to Colgate and defeating Penn. The Homecoming game is Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
Women's volleyball (12-4, 5-1 Ivy) looks to bounce back from its first Ivy League loss of the season but will face tough competition from Penn (10-7, 3-2 Ivy) on Friday night and Princeton (13-3, 5-0 Ivy) on Saturday afternoon. Princeton comes into the weekend as the front-runner in the league standings, and Penn is sitting just behind the Big Green in third place.
"[Last weekend] we learned that in order to be Ivy League champions we cannot have really inconsistent days," Jess Thomas '09 said. "[The loss] will be a huge motivating force for us this weekend."
Game times for volleyball are 7 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. Both games are in Leede Arena.
Men's and women's soccer return to action this week with the men's team hoping to stay near the top of the Ivy standings, while the women look to move ahead of the other three teams in a four-way tie for fourth place in the Ivy League. Men's soccer (7-2-2, 1-0-1 Ivy) is currently second in the Ivy League and has had the fewest goals against (five) of any Ivy team. The women (3-8-1, 1-2-0 Ivy) have been relatively even in their Ivy games with three goals for and four against. Both teams take on Columbia, with the women at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and the men playing the nightcap at 7 p.m. Both games are at the new Whitey Burnham field.
Field hockey (3-8, 1-4 Ivy) looks to bounce back after a 2-0 loss to Boston College last Sunday. They will play against Columbia, who now is in a three-way tie for fourth in the Ivy League. The game is at 12 p.m. on Saturday at Scully-Fahey Field.
Also this weekend, the Dartmouth crew teams venture to Boston for the Head of the Charles Regatta, which may be the most prestigious rowing event this side of the Atlantic Ocean. The regatta marks the first competition of the fall season for the three teams, and they all hope to improve on last year's outstanding performances. In the spring, the women's team was invited to the NCAA Championships while the men's lightweight team was invited to the Henley Royal Regatta in England, and so both teams have big expectations for this year.
And finally, the winter athletic season kicks off tomorrow, as men's hockey faces York in a scrimmage and then continues with a scrimmage against Yale on Sunday afternoon. The Big Green was picked to finish sixth in the ECACHL by the media and seventh in the coaches poll, so the team will certainly have something to prove as it goes forward this season. Both scrimmages are at home at Thompson Arena, with Saturday's contest set to begin at 7 p.m. while the game on Sunday will start at 4 p.m.
