Squash teams split games at Yale Round Robin
Note to readers (May 23, 2014): When The Dartmouth found thatJake Bayer '16 had fabricated a quotation, wedecided to remove his articles from our website.\n For a full statement, clickhere.
Note to readers (May 23, 2014): When The Dartmouth found thatJake Bayer '16 had fabricated a quotation, wedecided to remove his articles from our website.\n For a full statement, clickhere.
As Billy Joel’s “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” played over the speakers, John Gilmore ’17 took to the ice in Thompson Arena, displaying all the swagger of Joel’s 1980 hit, tossing his hat and throwing his tie over his shoulder.
The men’s and women’s basketball teams both lost to Harvard University this weekend, getting swept in the season series against the Crimson. The Big Green men (7-9, 0-2 Ivy), missing center and leading scorer Gabas Maldunas ’15 with an ACL injury, were scorched 80-50 at Leede Arena while the women (3-13, 0-2 Ivy) fell 77-59 in Cambridge, Mass.
When the Big Green men’s hockey team takes on Princeton this weekend, Thompson Arena will be filled to capacity with students anxiously awaiting the first Dartmouth goal, prepared to unleash a tennis ball frenzy. For the past three years we have perfected the act of smuggling in seemingly innocuous fuzz-balls into the arena.
If Dartmouth were a country, it would rank 43rd among nations for total medals won at the Olympic games, with 63 overall. Ahead of countries like Mexico, Iran and Ethiopia, the Big Green’s 29 gold, 21 silver and 13 bronze medals stand as a testament to the school’s storied history at the Olympics.
This week Austin and I took the competition to our peers, and by peers, we mean fellow students who compete for intramural glory and can’t pass muster. We were excited for the reprieve from facing the grind of varsity athletes in their sports of choice, returning to the place from which we started our climb to becoming Rec League Legends. Recording some time in the Moosilauke League is also a great way to boost our community service stats.
This week I sat down with Alex Mitola ’16, the starting point guard on the men’s basketball team, to discuss the team’s season so far. The team lost to Harvard University 50-80 yesterday at Leede Arena, dropping to 7-9, 0-2 Ivy this season. After a 7-4 start, the team has now lost five in a row as it heads into the teeth of its Ancient Eight schedule, preparing to host the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University next weekend.
The ski team won second place at the University of New Hampshire Carnival in Jackson this weekend, running on the strength of a solid Nordic performance. Three Dartmouth skiers reached the podium in the two freestyle events.
Dartmouth men’s hockey (3-14-3, 2-10-1 ECAC) fell to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (10-10-4, 4-5-3 ECAC) 4-2 on Friday night in Troy, N.Y. Dartmouth played competitively all game but came just short of equalizing the score with an empty net as time ran out.
The swim and dive teams swept the competition this weekend, with both the men and women coming in first at the annual Dartmouth Invitational held at the Upper Valley Aquatics Center in White River Junction.
The women’s ice hockey team gained a critical four points this weekend, defeating Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, both in come-from-behind fashion. The team now enjoys a three-game winning streak, which started with a 4-2 win over Colgate University on Jan. 18. The 2-1 win against Rensselaer (10-13-2, 6-7-1 ECAC) marked the second time that Dartmouth (7-13-1, 6-8-1 ECAC) has beaten the Engineers this season. Union College (8-17-1, 3-11-0 ECAC) won the two teams’ earlier meeting this season, but the Big Green took Saturday’s game 4-3 after surmounting a third period deficit.
When Will Geoghegan ’14 crossed the finish line on Saturday at the Terrier Invitational at Boston University in 3:58.04, he crossed into the history books as well. The senior from Brunswick, Maine, ran the fastest mile in the nation this year, breaking Dartmouth and Ivy League records.
The men’s and women’s hockey teams face crucial ECAC games this weekend. The women (5-13-1, 4-8-1 ECAC) will play Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, looking to pick up four points in the standings, while the men (3-13-3, 2-9-1 ECAC) square off against RPI on the road.
Basketball, captain Tyler Melville ’14 said, is in his blood.
Sasha Nanji ’13 is a former Big Green hockey player and will write a column every other week about her life post-Dartmouth as a professional hockey player in Canada.
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.
Note to readers (May 23, 2014): When The Dartmouth found thatJake Bayer '16 had fabricated a quotation, wedecided to remove his articles from our website.\n For a full statement, clickhere.
The women’s swimming and diving team lost a close home meet to the University of New Hampshire on Friday before defeating the University of Vermont soundly on the road in its Sunday matinee.
The gun went off, and Abbey D’Agostino ’14 shot to the front of the pack. Less then one lap in, she cleared the field, going on to win the women’s 1,000-meter race in 2:46.88, over seven seconds ahead of the second-place Columbia University runner. Overall, the Big Green women came in second in the Ivy League tri-meet Saturday at Leverone Field House, while the men easily took home first.
The men’s tennis team dominated on Saturday, handily defeating Bryant University and Villanova University in a morning-afternoon doubleheader. Both competitions ended 7-0, marking the second time in the past three seasons the Big Green has swept its opening weekend.