Women's lax falls to Penn despite late surge
The Dartmouth A late-game rally wasn't enough to propel Dartmouth's women's lacrosse team ahead of No.
The Dartmouth A late-game rally wasn't enough to propel Dartmouth's women's lacrosse team ahead of No.
Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Over the weekend, Dartmouth's rowers were able to come away with victories in Massachusetts, but had a tougher time in the state of Connecticut. The Dartmouth lightweight rowing team beat the University of Delaware in three out of four races, winning the varsity eights, the second varsity eights and the varsity four in Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass.
The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team took another disappointing loss last weekend to falling 16-11 to Ivy powerhouse No.
SEBASTIAN RAMIREZ-BRUNNER / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth's men's tennis team split their matches this weekend, beating Princeton for the first time in several years, but came up just short against a strong University of Pennsylvania team.
The Dartmouth Dartmouth's women's tennis dropped two away matches this weekend, blemishing its perfect Ivy League record and dropping from first to fourth in Ancient Eight standings. The No.
Dartmouth's track and field teams continued its spring success with impressive performances at the Brown Invitational on Saturday.
The Dartmouth These days, it's become fashionable among sportswriters to harp on team chemistry as the key to long-term success in sports.
Today's column will address an issue that has been on my "sports fan conscience" for quite some time. Coverage of professional sports is an expanding business and, at this point, its growth seems exponential, even in the literal sense of that word.
Good news, Big Green sports fans: Dartmouth baseball looks to exceed expectations this coming season.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff With the Ivy League's release of its list of Academic All-Ivy Honorees for the 2007-08 winter season, 10 Dartmouth athletes have been recognized for their academic and athletic successes.The award, which acknowledges 10 student-athletes--fi ve female and fi ve male--from each Ivy League school, praises students for their achievements, both on the court and in the classroom.In order to qualify, the honorees must have achieved a 3.0 cumulative Grade Point Average, while exhibiting leadership and excellence in their respective sports.All of the members of this year's class were key starters or reserves for their respective teams.From Dartmouth, nine members of the senior class -- Johnathan Ball '08, Andrew Berry '08, Kristen Craft '08, Nick Johnson '08, Adam King '08, Jessica Long '08, Liz Mancuso '08, Harry Norton '08 and Sydney Scott '08 -- and one junior, Carli Clemis '09, were honored.
It was a weekend of ups and downs for the Big Green softball team, which dropped both games in Sunday's doubleheader against the University of Pennsylvania before coming back to sweep Columbia in another Ivy League doubleheader on Monday afternoon. Despite the weekend's losses, Monday's Ivy League victories -- the team's first conference wins this year -- come at a crucial point in the season. "We're only ever one swing away from getting out of a slump, only one hit away from a winning streak.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth's baseball team continued its successful Ivy League season this weekend with a pair of victories over the University of Pennsylvania and a split decision against Columbia.
The Dartmouth men's and women's golf teams began their seasons in tough conditions this past weekend when the men's team traveled to the Yale men's Spring Open in New Haven, Conn., and the women traveled to Cape Cod Country Club in Hatchville, Mass., to compete against Harvard and Brown in a triangular match. The men's team finished in 15th place out of 27 teams present while the women came in third.
Dartmouth's men's and women's track and field teams both gave strong performances at the two-day Sam Howell Invitational this past weekend at Princeton University. Last week, both squads finished first of 13 teams at the Snowflake Invitational, held at Tufts University in Boston on March 29.
Another year, another fantastic March Madness. I do admit, in the true spirit of the event, I was somewhat disappointed to see all four No.
Year after year, March Madness does not disappoint. And this year, we've been treated to a truly special event.
This weekend, the varsity eights for the men's heavyweight and women's crew teams had races that came down to the wire, but only one was able to come out with a victory. The men's heavyweight crew team got off to a solid start, beating Holy Cross at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., on Sunday afternoon, just managing to edge out the Crusaders before the finish line. The Big Green varsity eight finished with a time of 6:03.2 seconds while the Crusaders' crew crossed the line just a hair behind at 6:04.0. The second Dartmouth varsity boat did not enjoy similar results, ending its race in second place in 6:23.0.
Dartmouth's women's lacrosse team dropped its third Ivy League game in four conference contests in a heartbreaking 10-9 loss to rival Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y, on Saturday. Despite outshooting the Big Red (5-4, 2-2 Ivy), the Big Green (5-4, 1-3 Ivy) could not outscore Cornell. While disappointed by the loss, Eliza Bennett '10 remarked that she was happy with the team's performance."We were really confident in the way that we played on Saturday, which is why it was really hard to deal with the loss," Bennett said.