Women's hockey clinches No. 3 seed with impressive wins
The Big Green women's ice hockey capped off a successful regular season with two resounding road victories this weekend over Cornell and Colgate.
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The Big Green women's ice hockey capped off a successful regular season with two resounding road victories this weekend over Cornell and Colgate.
The Big Green women's hockey
The Big Green women's hockey team emerged from the weekend with a tie and a win in its final home stand of the regular season. Following a 1-1 defensive battle with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Friday, Dartmouth overpowered Union College on Saturday to come away with a 4-1 victory.
Yale (9-9-5, 6-7-3 ECAC) arrived in Hanover hoping to defend second place in the Ivy League, which it had wrested from the Big Green (12-7-4, 9-5-2 ECAC) last week following Dartmouth's loss to Harvard (19-1-0, 16-0-0 ECAC). When the two teams played earlier in the season, Dartmouth emerged with a 4-1 victory.
It was the second shutout loss of the year for Dartmouth (11-7-3, 8-5-1 ECAC) and it came at the hands of one of Harvard's strongest performances of the season. The Crimson (17-1-0, 14-0-0 ECAC) maintains its perfect ECAC record with the win.
The Big Green (11-6-2, 8-4-1 ECAC) held the top-ranked Wildcats (20-3-0) to one goal through the first forty minutes of play last Thursday, keeping the game tied until the final period when UNH managed to pull away with two goals to win the game.
The No. 2 Big Green women's ice hockey team had mixed results on the road this weekend, tying with No. 7 Clarkson 3-3 in overtime on Jan. 11 before falling 5-2 to No. 3 St. Lawrence on Jan 12.
After a long week of final exams, the majority of Dartmouth students began their winter break on Tuesday, Dec. 11. But not everyone went into hibernation right away, as the Dartmouth women's hockey team spent the following week on campus, building their team and winning games.
Harvard squeaked away last Tuesday with a 2-1 victory over the Big Green at home. Before the game, the Crimson was ranked second in the ECAC and Dartmouth was eighth. Harvard preserved its unbeaten season, improving to 7-0-0 with the win.
The 4-3 defeat at the hands of the Saints came down to the final minute when St. Lawrence scored a power-play goal.
The contest was one of the most intense Big Green athletic events in recent memory, but Dartmouth (11-4-3) fell to Vermont (9-9-3) in soul-crushing fashion, 5-4.
Almost no Dartmouth faithful were there to see the Big Green men's soccer team play the first-round game of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. Even Keggy the Keg was apparently home for the Thanksgiving holiday, and conspicuously absent from Burnham Field.
Big Green men's and women's cross country capped off frustrating seasons on Saturday with stellar performances in the NCAA Northeast Regional Meet.
Big Green soccer has long been one of the most exciting sports to watch each fall. But the question for far too long among spectators has been, "Where the heck do I sit?"
The team demonstrated marked improvement over last weekend as it worked cohesively as a unit to come through in the clutch against the Tigers in its second come-from-behind victory of the year.
Any team that begins its season with two overtime games is bound to have an exciting year. With a 4-3 win over Vermont and a 5-5 tie against Boston University, the women's hockey team has certainly opened the 2007-2008 season in electrifying fashion.
Sometimes things just aren't meant to be. There was little in the way of smiles on the bus ride home from Friday's Ivy League Heptagonal Cross-Country Championship meet for the Big Green after one of the more disappointing races of the year.
Dartmouth sent eight tennis players to Norfolk, Va., this week to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Tournament. Hosted by Old Dominion University, the tournament spans four days and allows players to qualify for the ITA National Indoor Championships in November by making the final round in this week's matchups.
The men competed against 37 other Division I schools in an 8K race and finished 27th. Do not let the relative final placement deceive you -- this meet was a great success.
Let's play a word association game. I'll name a sport, and you shout out the first thing that comes to your mind. Dartmouth cross country -- that's right, Ben True '08!