Men's lacrosse ends season with loss
The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team squandered an early lead to lose the last game of its season to Harvard 8-5 at home on Saturday.
The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team squandered an early lead to lose the last game of its season to Harvard 8-5 at home on Saturday.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff An opposite-field home run by Cornell's Elise Menaker in the bottom of the fifth inning broke a 1-1 tie and ignited the Big Red softball team to a 6-1 victory over Dartmouth in game three of the Ivy League championship in Ithaca, N.Y.
NICHOLAS ROOT / The Dartmouth Tuesday was a particularly difficult day for the No.
IAN BLUMENTHAL / The Dartmouth After clinching the Red Rolfe Division title last weekend, the Dartmouth baseball team prepares to face Cornell in a best-of-three series for the Ivy League Championship this weekend in Hanover. The Big Green (23-13, 16-4 Ivy) and the Big Red (16-21, 11-10 Ivy) will meet in two nine-inning games on Saturday, with the first game starting at 12 p.m.
The NBA Playoffs theme is "Where Amazing Happens," and naturally the theme song is Kanye West's "Amazing." However, the first round of the playoffs has been more baffling than anything.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Under the sweltering sun, the Big Green softball team fell 10-2 to a hard-hitting Boston College team on Tuesday in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Dartmouth (22-21, 13-7 Ivy) had seven hits, compared to the twelve recorded by BC (18-28, 3-12 ACC). With these numbers, the game could have been closer, co-captain Ashley Gleason '09 said. "We did well in the box," she said.
In case you haven't noticed yet, the weather has been gorgeous in Hanover lately. Sure, we got a little rain the other day, but that is behind us, and spring is in full bloom -- even feeling like summer at times. My colleagues, Jordan Rose '09 and Michael Knapp '09, stumbled through a vain attempt at giving a few trite suggestions as to what to do when when the weather is warm in the "Toe to Toe" column on Sunday, but I think I can do better.
Courtesy of Ed Hagerty After outscoring opponents 213-0 in the first two rounds of the Ivy League tournament, the men's rugby team crushed Harvard 62-13 to take home the Ivy League championship on Sunday in New York. Chris Downer '11 led the offensive charge in the championship game against Harvard, running in three tries, while Jeff Kolovson '09 improved the score by converting six kicks. "It's about growth on every play," coach Alex Magleby '00 saidof the team's winning ethos.
Under a strong spring sun, wood chips flew and saw dust swirled about as Dartmouth hosted the 63rd annual Woodsmen's Weekend competition this past weekend. Drawing 27 teams and about 200 competitors, the two-day event featured competitions in various woodsmen's events, including axe throwing, fire building, canoeing, chain throwing, block chopping and crosscut sawing. The two-day event was split between venues.
Dartmouth golfer Peter Williamson '12 made history this weekend, winning the 2009 Ivy League Men's Golf Championship at the Atlantic City Country Club in Atlantic City, N.J.
The Spirit Lake Sioux tribe of North Dakota recently authorized the University of North Dakota to use the Fighting Sioux nickname and Indian head logo, according to the Associated Press.
WHAT TO DO IN THE WARM WEATHER
WHAT TO DO IN THE WARM WEATHER
In this weekend's tightly contested Class of 1984 Plaque regatta in Philadelphia, Penn., Dartmouth's women's crew team bested University of Pennsylvania in five out of seven races, but could not overcome the competitors from Princeton to claim the victory. Both the heavyweight and the lightweight crews, meanwhile, were swept in weekend competition against their conference foes. Navigating through strong headwinds in the first varsity race, the Dartmouth women settled in between Princeton and Penn for a second-place finish.
The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team fell to No. 4 Princeton in Princeton, N.J. on Saturday, 14-7. The game was the second consecutive loss for the Big Green (4-10, 1-4 Ivy). Co-captain Brian Koch '09 led the way for Dartmouth with two goals and two assists, including his 100th career goal.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Devin Lindsay '11 struck out Harvard's Stephanie Krysiak swinging on Sunday evening to clinch the North Division title for the Dartmouth softball team. Captain Ashley Gleason '09, in her final year with the team, said words cannot explain her feelings of excitement over the win. "I don't even know.
Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth After splitting four bitterly fought games with Harvard this weekend, the Big Green baseball team clinched the Red Rolfe Division title and earned a bid to the Ivy League Championship. Upon defeating Harvard (12-28, 10-10 Ivy) in the first game of the Sunday doubleheader with a score of 11-5, Dartmouth (22-13, 16-4 Ivy) pushed Brown (19-17, 13-5 Ivy) out of contention for the division title. Kyle Hendricks '12 threw 102 pitches in a seven-inning complete-game clincher, giving up four earned runs on seven hits.
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DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's tennis team concluded its tough season with a loss on Wednesday, falling to Harvard 6-1 to seal a winless record in the Ivy League. Stephen Greif '11 said that, despite the Big Green's disappointing record, the team had a positive attitude going into the match against Harvard. "We knew we had nothing to lose, especially given our Ivy record," he said.