Any Given Monday
The sun was shining on Dartmouth baseball this weekend. After a cold start to the morning on Saturday at the annual Green and White football scrimmage, the day turned around by afternoon and a crowd gathered at Red Rolfe Field.
The sun was shining on Dartmouth baseball this weekend. After a cold start to the morning on Saturday at the annual Green and White football scrimmage, the day turned around by afternoon and a crowd gathered at Red Rolfe Field.
While the Dartmouth men's and women's crew teams faced fierce conditions at Cornell University and at home this weekend, only the lightweight men's crew team was able to snag a victory over the Big Red, winning by a margin of six seconds.
The Dartmouth men's and women's track and field teams performed well at both the 117th Penn Relays and UMass Invitational this past weekend, the last meets in which the teams will participate before the Ivy Heptagonals at Yale University on Saturday and Sunday.
Four games behind the top team in the Ivy League North Division and with four games to play, the Dartmouth softball team competed in a pair of doubleheaders this weekend against division-leading Harvard University with the title on the line. The Big Green's slim hopes of forcing a tie in the standings were quickly shattered, however, as Harvard (34-14, 18-2 Ivy) took the first game of Saturday's doubleheader in Hanover, winning 8-1 to lock up the North Division crown.
This week I decided to throw a little spin on the traditional one-on-one formula. Dartmouth always brags about the strength of its community, so I wanted to portray some of the school's legendary camaraderie.
The Dartmouth sailing team had mixed results this weekend, winning the Northern Series 1 competition, a home regatta at Mascoma Lake in Lebanon, N.H., and coming in fourth and fifth overall in the George Morris Trophy at Boston University and the Southern Series Seven at Salve Regina University, respectively. The Southern Series Seven presented cold and light conditions on Saturday.
Two weeks ago, after a demoralizing four-game sweep at Yale University, the Dartmouth baseball team stood at just 6-6 in the Ivy League.
Meghan Cooney / The Dartmouth In a back-and-forth game with neither team leading by more than a goal until midway through the fourth quarter, Brown University pulled out a 13-12 overtime win against the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team on Saturday afternoon in Hanover.
Capping an impressive season in which it lost only one Ivy League game, the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team emerged victorious with a share of the League title by defeating Harvard University on Friday evening, 14-7.
Despite Wednesday's forecasted thunderstorms props to the Sun God, they never came it was time for my first round of golf of the spring. Before I recount the events of a common Dartmouth College spring day, let me first explain my views on golf it is from the Animal House school of thought.
For most graduating seniors, spring is a time of contemplating job offers or deciding on a graduate school.
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth softball team played a pair of non-conference games against Boston College on Wednesday in preparation for its four-game showdown against Harvard University this weekend.
Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Continuing to dominate on its home turf, the Dartmouth baseball team soundly defeated the University of Hartford on Wednesday afternoon, 7-1.
Peter Bogardus '51 Tu'52 a recipient of Dartmouth's Alumni Award and an accomplished former member of the Big Green football and rugby teams died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif., on April 18 after suffering a massive heart attack in his sleep, his son Peter Bogardus, Jr.
When Peter Williamson '12 won his first Ivy League golf championship as a freshman, he proved to the New England golfing community that he was a force to be reckoned with.
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth softball team broke the school record for the most runs scored in one game, putting up 20 in a 20-3 win over Brown University on Monday.
Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff When the Dartmouth women's tennis team wrapped up its season on a high note, outscoring Harvard University to clinch a share of the Ivy League Championship with Yale University on Saturday, the historic victory resonated with every player in the program who had toiled in practices and tough matchups.
NICHOLAS ROOT / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth sailed in four regattas this weekend, with the women's team competing at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women's Championships at Bowdoin College and the co-ed squad competing in the Thompson Trophy Intersectional regatta at Connecticut College, the Priddy Trophy at the University of New Hampshire and the Admiral's Cup in Kings Point, N.Y.
For the first time this year, I can finally say that spring has arrived. Usually, people associate spring with bright sunshine and budding flowers, but those of us in Hanover know that April often only promises more snow.
NICHOLAS ROOT / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's baseball team completed its home sweep of Brown University on Monday, winning an afternoon doubleheader with scores of 2-1 and 11-4.