A senior looks for his final Big Green game
I'm in sports writers purgatory. Graduation is still 16 days away, but today is the final newspaper edition of the spring. By the time you read this, I'll be unemployed. And there are no games to cover.
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I'm in sports writers purgatory. Graduation is still 16 days away, but today is the final newspaper edition of the spring. By the time you read this, I'll be unemployed. And there are no games to cover.
If nothing else, tomorrow's matchup with No. 2 Virginia in Charlottesville should conjure up memories of just how close the Big Green women's lacrosse team came to earning a berth in the national championship game last year.
This column is a plea. It's a plea to Big Green baseball skipper Bob Whalen to quit staring at batting averages and earned run averages and search his heart for what is right. Rarely does a manager get to forget about wins and losses and enjoy the simplicity and the beauty of ballplayers being ballplayers. But tomorrow, when first-place Harvard comes to town, Dartmouth will have nothing to play for but pride, having been eliminated from the Ivy League title race last weekend in New Haven. Tomorrow is one of those precious opportunities to bask in the sunshine and play two. It's who will be playing those two that interests me.
Ask her players what they think of Amy Patton, and words of praise flow out of their mouth. Ask people in the athletic department what they think of Amy Patton, and they'll gush about one of Dartmouth's top coaching talents. Ask her peers what they think of Amy Patton, and they'll refer you to the Coach of the Year they bestowed upon her last season. They don't call her General Patton without good reason.
That being said, the Big Green baseball team's Ivy League opening road-trip this weekend is not a must-win situation.
It was almost the perfect ending to their careers. There were introductions before the games, fireworks and highlights during the game and smiling faces in the locker room. There was joy in Mudville for all involved.
As sports imitate life, so too does life imitate sports.
Two of the most storied players in Dartmouth men's soccer history will get a chance to show their wares to the nation next season in Major League Soccer play following this weekend's college entry draft in Fort Lauderdale. Senior defender Bobby Meyer was selected by the Colorado Rapids in the third round of Sunday's draft while goalkeeper Matt Nyman '99 signed as a free agent immediately after the draft with the Dallas Burn.
Sarah Hood '98 wasn't waiting by the phone, checking the mailbox or nervously pacing when USA Hockey announced the 20-person squad that will compete in next month's Women's World Championships Tuesday night. Having been out of contact with the program since 1993, there was no reason to expect that this roster would have her name penciled in on the wing.
This is a public service announcement. If you wish to attend tomorrow's hockey game against Vermont, go buy your tickets today to avoid waiting in a 30-minute line on Saturday. I know this may sound funny to some, students actually buying tickets to go to a game, but this is one of those rare six times per year that Dartmouth students actually rally around their sports teams and show their support.
Throughout their illustrious football histories, Dartmouth and Princeton have met on the final weekend to decide the Ivy League title on much-anticiapted late November Saturdays. That won't be the case this weekend though. Instead, both teams will attempt to salvage some pride after seasons gone amiss.
Last season, Brown brought their high-flying offensive attack to Memorial Field and put up a school record 473 yards passing, didn't allow the Big Green inside the 20-yard line and held Dartmouth to under 250 yards of offense. Oh, by the way, they lost, 13-7.
Dartmouth's football team may be struggling this year, but the Big Green football factory is all the National Football League seems to be talking about this week. That's because, with their top two quarterbacks out because of injury, the Minnesota Vikings are turning to former Big Green standout Jay Fiedler '94 to guide the NFC Central leaders in their contest this weekend against the Cincinnati Bengals.
This was supposed to be the get- well game for Dartmouth. With 2-5 Columbia coming into town for the final home game, the Big Green would get to toy with their fellow cellar-dwellers and regain some of the pride that has been lost over the past few weeks.
Following Saturday's 20-7 loss to Harvard, the question hung out there like a huge grenade, waiting to explode on Head Coach John Lyons and the rest of the Big Green football team. "Who will be the starting quarterback against Columbia next week?"
Dartmouth and Harvard started out the season in similar fashion. After losing their first two contests, the teams were struggling not only to win but to find themselves. Indeed, they were lost in the New England Wilderness, walking side by side down the losing path.
The Big Green may be No. 22 in the nation, but they are now second in the Granite State for the second straight year. Dartmouth lost the battle of New Hampshire by the score of 2-1 to UNH under the lights on Wednesday night despite outshooting their intra-state rival 31-7.
The Ivy League pre-season media basketball polls were released over the weekend placing the women third and the men seventh in the Ivy League, but you wouldn't know that by asking either men's head basketball coach Dave Faucher or women's coach Chris Wielgus.
The joke is always the same when Dartmouth and Cornell get together. The Big Green versus the Big Red in the battle of the Christmas colors. While usually a stale punchline, the thought of Christmas and getting home for the holidays will not be far out of mind for the loser of this contest, who can forget about the Ivy League title race.
If only the weather had been bad yesterday afternoon in Burlington, because then at least Vermont goaltender Mindy Vinelli could have blamed it on the rain for the beating the Big Green handed the Catamounts. After suffering through one of its most disappointing defeats of the season, the Big Green field hockey team rebounded in a big way by trashing Vermont, 5-2, in Burlington yesterday. The win put Dartmouth back over the .500 mark at 6-5 overall, 1-3 in the Ivy League.