Softball prepares for decisive series
With one weekend left in the softball team’s regular season, the North Division race is heating up for a spot in the Ivy Championship Series.
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With one weekend left in the softball team’s regular season, the North Division race is heating up for a spot in the Ivy Championship Series.
The men’s hockey team advanced to the ECAC quarterfinals in dramatic fashion Sunday night, stunning Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5-4 with three unanswered goals in the third period. Brad Schierhorn '16 shot the game-winner with 3:14 remaining.
The College’s Board of Trustees voted Saturday to increase tuition, room, board and mandatory fees by 2.9 percent to $61,947 for the 2014-15 academic year, the lowest percentage increase since 1977, and elected Bill Helman ’80 as the Board’s next chair. At the meeting, trustees expressed unanimous support for a proposal to strengthen sanctions for students found guilty of sexual assault.
A new policy will expect Greek organizations that receive complaints regarding standards of community violations to adjudicate the accused individuals in-house or participate in mediation sessions with the complainants. The Greek Leadership Council and Greek organization presidents unanimously approved the bylaw at a meeting on Monday.
As the women’s hockey team gears up for two major conference tilts this weekend against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, all eyes will be on forward Lindsey Allen ’16, who leads Dartmouth in scoring with 15 points and 10 goals.
Dartmouth men’s hockey returns home for the first time since Dec. 30 with a two-game homestand against Colgate University on Friday and No. 12 Cornell University (8-4-3, 4-3-2 ECAC) on Saturday.“Both teams play fast and physical, so we have to match their intensity and put the pressure on them,” forward Brad Schierhorn ’16 said. “We just got to play our game.”Dartmouth (3-12-2, 2-8-0 ECAC) currently ranks last in conference standings with only four points, possessing the worst conference record and the worst overall record.A Dartmouth victory in either game would be regarded as a surprising upset. If the Big Green takes both games, it would signal that Dartmouth refuses to write off its season and believes that it can climb out of the conference cellar.After losing its first eight games, Dartmouth has gone 3-4-2 since its first win of the season against Harvard University on Nov. 30.Even Dartmouth’s losses have been agonizingly close. After losing by big margins early on, three of Dartmouth’s four most recent losses have been by a lone goal.The exception was last Saturday’s 4-2 loss, when the University of New Hampshire scored on a delayed penalty call with 33 seconds left in the game.Colgate (9-9-3, 5-3-1 ECAC) enters Friday’s match-up, which will be the first meeting of the season between the teams, having won three of its last four games.Dartmouth will try to replicate the magic of last year’s Feb. 16 5-4 victory against the Raiders and avoid a similar defensive collapse like it suffered during the matchup between the two teams last season.During the first game against Colgate last season, on Nov. 16, 2012, Dartmouth held a 4-1 lead heading into the third only for its defense to disappear. Colgate tallied four unanswered goals in the final frame to stun then no. 12 Dartmouth and hand the Big Green its first loss of the 2012-2013 season.The second game was similarly action-packed. Colgate held a 4-3 lead with 10 minutes remaining until Dartmouth reeled off two consecutive scores, capping off the comeback with a goal from Eric Neiley ’15.The Dartmouth-Colgate all-time series score stand at 45-42-5, making the ECAC rivalry one of the most competitive in the country.Colgate features a well-balanced offense with five players registering 13 or more points. However, Colgate has a few weaknesses to exploit.First, Colgate has converted just 14 of its 100 power plays this season. On the penalty kill, Dartmouth has allowed 17 power play goals in 69 attempts, the second worst percentage in the ECAC so far.What might be most beneficial for the Big Green is Colgate’s inability to score in the first period, having been outscored 20-11 during the first 20 minutes.Recently, Dartmouth has shown the capability to start strong score points quickly, seen best by its first minute goal on Saturday against UNH.But in order to win, Dartmouth must capitalize on its scoring opportunities, especially during the power play. In Dartmouth’s last two games, against Boston University and New Hampshire, the Big Green failed to score during any of its opportunities with the numeric advantage.“A lot of our chances will come from the power play, and we just got to figure out a way to capitalize on them,” forward Charlie Mosey ’15 said.Then, on Saturday, Dartmouth will square off against a Cornell squad with some rust.Cornell’s men’s hockey team has taken to the ice sparingly in 2014 playing only a 6-0 exhibition win on Jan. 3 over the Russian Red Stars, a touring all-star team, and a game at Harvard University tonight before traveling to Hanover.Cornell leads the all-time series against Dartmouth 79-43-4. Dartmouth failed to defeat the Big Red last year, tying the first game 1-1 while losing the second 2-4. Dartmouth’s last win against Cornell was a 5-4 win in Feb. 2010in Hanover.Cornell possesses the best ECAC conference record of all the Ivies with a 4-3-2 mark. However, the Big Red still ranks fifth overall in the conference behind Union College, Quinnipiac University, Clarkson University and Colgate.One reason behind Cornell’s record has been an efficient offense that averages almost 43 goals on just 356 shots. Its power play offense is even more effective, scoring on 26 percent of their man-advantages, good for second in the ECAC.The offense also features six players with more than 10 points, bolstered by veteran goalie senior Andy Iles with a .919 save percentage and a defense that stifles the power play, allowing the second fewest goals on the penalty kill in the league.The puck drops both nights at 7 p.m. in Thompson Arena.
The NCAA, colleges and the media have all been investigating and hosting public discussions, attempting to find a solution to the dilemma that's threatening to remove "amateur" from college athletics.
Hopes run high that the incoming freshman class will help the women's team improve on its 16-10-5 (11-7-4 ECAC) record and advance past the ECAC quarterfinals, where the Big Green was swept by Harvard University.
Dartmouth returns seven defensive starters from last season, when the team went 6-4 and tied for third in the Ivy League at 4-3. Linebackers Bronson Green '14 and Michael Runger '14 and safety Garrett Waggoner '13 will anchor this year's defense. Last year, Runger led the Ivy League with 98 tackles while Waggoner earned first-team All-Ivy honors.
Dartmouth softball lost a heartbreaker to the University of Pennsylvania at the Ivy Championship Series in three games, missing a chance for an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament.
The Big Green played the first two games of the series on Saturday in Hanover before moving to Cambridge for the second two on Sunday.
Eight team members hoped to use their participation in the Mt. SAC Relays on Thursday and Friday to qualify for the regional championship. They were aided by favorable weather, as there was little wind and high temperatures.
On a warm, windy and sunny day at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, the Big Green (23-6, 8-4 Ivy) controlled the game for the first seven innings as they shut out the Hawks (15-21-1, 4-8 Northeast-10), allowing only two hits and scoring 12 runs, and putting the visitors in a 12-0 hole by the top of the eighth inning. During the eighth, St. Anselm put up a fight as they scored two runs on four hits, but the game was already out of reach.
Dartmouth offers 34 varsity sports, including 16 mens' teams, 16 womens' teams and two coed teams. Over 70 percent of teams, based on their official rosters, have more freshmen and sophomores than upperclassmen.
Dartmouth will host for the first time since 2007, with 130 figure skaters competing from nine schools, including the University of Delaware, Boston University, the University of Denver, the University of California, Berkeley, Miami University of Ohio, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Los Angeles and Adrian College.