The national competition, hosted by Princeton, pitted the top eight ranked collegiate teams in the country against each other in a three-round, single-elimination tournament that spanned the entire weekend.
The Big Green men entered the contest ranked eighth nationally.
Dartmouth (12-10, 1-5 Ivy) ended up bowing out to No. 1 Trinity College (16-0, 6-0 NESAC) in the first round on Friday.
The top-seeded Trinity squad overwhelmed the Big Green players in nine straight matches, tallying a final score of 9-0.
Although the tournament was single-elimination, Dartmouth went on to face Cornell and later the University of Pennsylvania to determine its final standing.
The Cornell team (12-4, 4-2 Ivy), which beat Dartmouth in a 6-3 road defeat on Jan. 24th, proved once again to be an immovable force.
Co-captain Andrew Boumford '09 and Mike Lewis '11 posted the only victories against the Big Red, bringing the final score to 7-2.
Seeded in the No. 1 position, Boumford found himself gridlocked against his opponent Will Hartigan as he entered the third game.
Nonetheless, Boumford's depth allowed him to cruise past the sophomore contender in the final two games.
Playing in the No. 5 spot, Lewis shut out his opponent Thomas Spettigue in three games.
Although the Big Green managed to put forth a strong performance against Penn (7-6, 2-4 Ivy) during their final match on Sunday, they could not avenge a 5-4 loss to the Quakers earlier in the season.
Once again, Penn edged out Dartmouth by a slim margin of 5-4, handing the Big Green an eighth-place finish.
The powerhouse Trinity squad clinched its 202nd consecutive victory in the final round of the competition.
With 11 national titles under its belt, Trinity has now cemented its place in the history books with the longest active winning streak in any intercollegiate varsity sport.
The Dartmouth women's squad recovered this weekend from a disappointing string of losses to Princeton and Penn last weekend with a second-place finish at the CSA Howe Cup National Championships hosted by Harvard.
This year, Brown (7-8, 1-5 Ivy) and Dartmouth (11-9, 0-6 Ivy), perennial A-Division teams, found themselves in the top-seeded positions of the B-Division, where the Kurtz Cup was up for grabs.
The Big Green players floored the competitors from Hamilton College (12-10, 6-6 NESAC) in the first round of matches on Friday by a final score of 8-1.
In the semi-final round on Saturday, Dartmouth managed to post a repeat victory over the squad from Mount Holyoke College.
Playing in the No. 3 position, co-captain Libbey Brown '10 completed a dramatic rally from two games down to emerge victorious over Laura Robinson.
Deadlocked at a score of 4-4 and entering the final matchup, the Big Green players one-upped the Lyons, 5-4.
In the final round of matches on Sunday, Brown upended Dartmouth's dominant streak and dashed any hopes for a Kurtz Cup title.
Playing in the top two spots, Hannah Conant '11 and co-captain Madeline Lurio '09 collected a pair of victories against their opponents.
Maura Doherty '11, playing at No. 4, added Dartmouth's final point to the scoreboard as she trumped her opponent Sophie Scherl in four games.
Already with a 5-4 loss on their record to the Bears on Jan. 31, though, Dartmouth was again unable to pull off the win.
The Dartmouth teams put up a tough fight at the national championships and throughout the season, yet luck was unfortunately not on their side, explained co-captain Ted Newhouse '09.
"We put out our best in all three matches we played this weekend," he said. "Unfortunately things just didn't go our way. Despite the results, I still could not be happier or more impressed with the effort and heart of our team."
