Track teams triumph at Heps
The women’s team earned 102 points, coming in second place in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships at Leverone Field House.
The women’s team earned 102 points, coming in second place in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships at Leverone Field House.
We’ve reached the end of the term, and we all know what that means: championship season. For all of us athletes (yes, the Rec League Legends qualify, even if we don’t get a PE credit), now is the time when winter season really matters. Put all of that other stuff behind you. Focus on winning the championship — at the end of the day, that’s all that matters. Right, Lebron?
The women’s basketball team recorded its second Ivy League win of the season against Columbia University and fell to Cornell University in this weekend’s matchups. The team (5-21, 2-10 Ivy) bested seventh place Columbia (6-20, 3-9 Ivy) 82-75 on Friday night before losing to fourth place Cornell (14-12, 6-6 Ivy) 63-50.
The women’s ice hockey team had its playoff season cut short after dropping the first round best-of-three series to No. 3 Clarkson University this past weekend. The Big Green (9-20-1, 8-13-1 ECAC) lost to the Golden Knights (27-4-5, 16-2-4 ECAC) 2-0 both Friday and Saturday afternoon. In each game, the offense failed to mobilize, managing only 31 shots on the weekend to 70 by the Golden Knights.
When the crowd rose to its feet in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s senior night game against Cornell University, filling Leede Arena with applause, it was not because of an and-one, a three-pointer or a powerful dunk. Tyler Melville ’14, the team’s captain and its only senior, checked out for the last time in front of loyal Hanover fans. Cheers echoed through the building as Melville slowly walked down the row of chairs to his seat, receiving hugs from each member of the coaching staff and the players on the bench.
In a dash to the playoffs, men’s hockey took on two nationally ranked teams to close out the season, taking down No. 11 Cornell 1-0 but losing to No. 16 Colgate 2-1. Consequently, Dartmouth will travel to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the 10th seed for the first round of the ECAC Hockey Championship Tournament.
The men’s swim and dive team concluded its team season this weekend in Cambridge, Mass., with a sixth place finish in the three-day Ivy League Championships. Last season, the Big Green finished fifth.
Full of verve and anticipation, the men’s and women’s track teams huddled up in the Class of 1953 Commons Thursday night to perform their ritual cheer. Shouting in a circle in the middle of the dining area, the team shared their excitement for the weekend with campus.
The club fencing team placed fifth at the New England Intercollegiate Fencing Conference championships last weekend, the highest ranked club team to compete in the Mt. Holyoke College event.
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The women’s lacrosse team began its season with a dominant 15-7 win over the University of New Hampshire on Saturday and a 14-11 victory over the University of Connecticut at home on Wednesday. The men’s team saw less success, falling to No. 3 University of North Carolina 18-5 and dropping a close game to the University of Vermont, 13-8.
The men’s swimming and diving team travels to Harvard University to compete in the Ivy League Championship meet this weekend. At last year’s competition in Providence, Dartmouth took fifth with 768 points, 270.5 points behind fourth place Yale University.
The softball team came back from the Florida International Tournament winless, losing two games to Florida International University and three to the University of North Florida. In the team’s opening tournament last season, Dartmouth went 3-2 and generated 23 runs. This year, Dartmouth only scored nine runs in its five games.
Note to readers(May 23, 2014): When The Dartmouth found that Jake Bayer '16 had fabricated a quotation, we decided to remove his articles from our website. For a full statement, click here.
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, costing a steep $7.99 for a printed copy, sells over a million copies at newsstands each year. This is more than 10 times what a traditional weekly edition of Sports Illustrated sells — the kind that actually features athletes, statistics and sports news. What started as a five-page insert 50 years ago has since made Time Inc. over $1 billion in revenue. This year’s copy was released on Feb. 18.
At 7 a.m. most mornings in the fall, varsity track and field distance runner Jill Corcoran ’15 woke up and went for a run. But instead of taking her through Pine Park or down Rip Road, her daily jaunts brought her past Big Ben and the Tower Bridge.
As the Sochi Olympics come to a close and semi-obscure events like bobsled drift back into irrelevance (though no one can forget “Cool Runnings” (1993)), we decided to break the one rule we set for the winter. That’s right, faithful readers. Those of you who follow us religiously, which is probably all of you, will recall that we solemnly swore never to Nordic ski. It’s physically taxing, cold and isolating, and we don’t look great in skin-tight apparel (just kidding).
This week, I sat down with women’s hockey forward Lindsey Allen ’16, who leads the team in goals and points, which she attributes due to a shortened bench and small group of upperclassmen. We talked about her love for the sport and what it means for the Toronto native to be a leader on the team.
Providence dealt a heavy blow to the women’s swim and dive team this weekend, as the Big Green came in eighth place in the Ivy League Championships at Brown University. The team had high hopes of improving on last year’s fifth-place performance, but the seniors were forced to hang up their fast suits and swim caps with a disappointing finish at the bottom of the scoreboard. The team scored 535 points, 874 points behind first place Harvard University.
The men’s basketball team could not find a way to get back in the win column this weekend, dropping both of its games on the road. The Big Green fell 67-57 to Princeton University on Friday night, and 74-65 to the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday night. The Big Green (9-15, 2-8 Ivy) has now lost six straight games.