Softball edges out Harvard for title

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.

Women's lacrosse defeats Cornell in last Ivy game

Baseball clinches division title

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.

Men's tennis caps off winless Ivy season against Harvard

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.

Women's lacrosse unable to handle Terriers' firepower

Zeke Turner / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In the midst of the final stretch of the season, the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team traveled to Boston only to leave disappointed,falling to No.

Baseball squeaks by Vermont in the eighth to win 13-10

Chris Parker / The Dartmouth Staff A clutch pinch-hit single off the bat of Brett Gardner '10 gave the Dartmouth baseball team a winning boost in its 13-10 victory over the University of Vermont on Tuesday in Burlington, Vt. Down two strikes in the eighth inning with men on first and second, Gardner helped Dartmouth (20-11, 14-2 Ivy) take an 11-10 lead from which UVM (10-22, 3-5 America East) would not recover. Dartmouth entered the eighth inning trailing Vermont 10-9, and then tied the game at 10 off of singles from Jake Carlson '12 and Ray Allen '09. After leading for most of the game, the Big Green was forced to manufacture a comeback after pitcher Max Langford '12 gave up four runs in the seventh inning.

Ledyard hosts kayak festival in honor of DOC centennial

Geoff Holman / The Dartmouth Those who aren't familiar with the Ledyard clubhouse might imagine it as just a great place to take a date, rent a canoe, float slowly and undisturbed out on the water, and soak in the sun as you work on your tan. Now imagine sitting in a piece of plastic, being tossed around in ice-cold, churning whitewater, and trying to stay ahead of 29 other maniacal rowers splashing angrily on your trail as you float uncontrollably towards a nine-foot waterfall where nothing more than a few feet of water separates you and your one-man boat from a rocky riverbed below. This weekend, the 89-year-old organization and Dartmouth Outing Club affiliate hosted the first annual Ledyard River Festival, which stands to become one of the premiere paddling event in the Northeast. While Ledyard has historically been involved with promoting the region's paddling culture, no comparable event had ever been held in the Northeast, although such events take place frequently and annually in other parts of the country. "Ledyard is a club that supports the paddling community at Dartmouth -- so whitewater and flatwater kayaking and canoeing," Alice Bradley '11 said.

Baseball lights up Yale pitchers with 49 hits in four games

Chris Parker / The Dartmouth Staff The Big Green bats cranked out plenty of hits this weekend, as the Dartmouth baseball team won three out of four games against Yale, scoring a total of 42 runs in a pair of doubleheaders in New Haven, Conn. Dartmouth (19-11, 14-2 Ivy) scored in the double digits in its three victories, while the Bulldogs (12-20, 6-10 Ivy) earned their only win in the first game of the four-game series, a 4-1 pitchers' duel on Saturday. The Big Green bats quickly warmed up to beat Yale 12-9, 13-2 and 17-8 in the next three games of the weekend. "It's always nice to take three games from an opponent like Yale," captain Jack Monahan '09 said.

Doubles point creates problems for Big Green

Ricky Melgares / The Dartmouth The Dartmouth women's tennis team lost to Yale and Brown over the weekend after failing to secure the doubles point in both matches.