Club lax trades snow for sun in Fla.
Courtesy of Christy Lazicky Last weekend, the Dartmouth women's club lacrosse team escaped Hanover's snow flurries and competed in the Fun In The Sun lacrosse tournament hosted by the University of Miami.
Courtesy of Christy Lazicky Last weekend, the Dartmouth women's club lacrosse team escaped Hanover's snow flurries and competed in the Fun In The Sun lacrosse tournament hosted by the University of Miami.
The Dartmouth women's basketball team led by over 10 points in one game and trailed by over 10 in the other midway in the second half of each game of its New York Ivy swing, but the final outcome was the same in each as the Big Green fell to Columbia, 58-55, and Cornell, 50-43. Dartmouth (8-14, 5-3 Ivy) slipped from its first-place tie in the Ivy League standings to a third-place tie with Columbia (8-14, 5-3 Ivy), while Cornell (15-6, 7-1 Ivy) seized sole possession of first place, with Harvard (13-9, 6-2 Ivy) one game back. It was a rough weekend for Dartmouth, as both captain Kristen Craft '08 and Koren Schram '09 were ill in what may have been the deciding weekend for Dartmouth's Ivy title aspirations. "Cornell and Columbia are both tough teams to play on a very long road trip," Craft said.
A recent rash of trades is likely to produce the familiar: By the end of the season, there is a good chance that either Kobe Bryant or Shaquille O'Neal will hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy.
Shaquille O'Neal is now a Sun, and Pao Gasol is now a Laker. As we all know, this year's Western Conference Playoffs are merely an audition to square off against a (presumably healthy) Celtics team in the NBA Finals.
The Big Green women's hockey team fared well over the weekend, earning a solid 6-0 victory over Quinnipiac and a come-frombehind 2-2 tie against rival Princeton. Dar tmouth (14-7-6, 11-5-3 ECAC) came out strong Friday against the Bobcats (5-21-4, 11-5-3 ECAC) and simply never let up, netting five goals in a single period during the win. While the first quar ter was a defensive battle during which neither team scored, Dartmouth found its rhythm early into the second period.
While the Dartmouth women's tennis team did not lose a single match against Boston University and Quinnipiac, the men's team had two close losses, each by the score of 4-3, to Marquette and No.
The Dartmouth men's squash team (13-5, 2-4 Ivy) had a disappointing weekend at the CSA Championships in Cambridge, Mass., losing to Ivy rivals Penn and Princeton, both by scores of 9-0. The Big Green entered the CSA Championships at the No. 7 position in the Potter Division, which is made up of the top eight teams in the nation. Dar tmouth star ted of f the weekend on Friday, playing No. 2 Princeton in the quarter-final round of the tournament.
A crazy freshman rushing the field carried by the cheers of the audience, ice blanketed with tennis balls and dead fi sh during hockey games, ancient rivalries and years of sport history are what describes the Ivy League.
Larissa Cespedes / The Dartmouth Staff In a competition Saturday against Brown, UNH, UVM and Quinnipiac, the Dartmouth men's track and field team managed to squeak past Brown with a solid performance in the meet's final event.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff Men's basketbal Ivy League competition has seen two trends this season: Cornell has dominated the courts and Dartmouth has struggled against conference rivals.
Kasia Vincunas / The Dartmouth Staff Competing against over 2,500 athletes, Dartmouth's men's and women's track and field teams saw strong results this past weekend at the 2008 Valentine Invitational held at Boston University. At this point in the indoor track and field season, all victories are at the individual level, as the meets do not assess team scores. At the Valentine Invitational, Dartmouth's men finished with a number of encouraging times and victories. Brian Evans '08 finished 14th in both the 55-meter and 200-meter dashes with times of 6.58 seconds and 22.20 seconds, respectively. "[He] looked very good in [the 200 meter], it was his fastest time of the season," men's head coach Barry Harwick '77 said. "[Evans is] a young man who gets ready for the big meets," women's head coach Sandra Ford-Centonze said.
Courtesy of Ben Bostick The Dartmouth figure skating team, the defending National Champion, started its competitive season off on the right skate at Boston University this weekend, besting 16 teams to emerge victorious after 17 hours of competition. The competition was the first of two contests that will determine which three Eastern teams will qualify for the Figure Skating National Championships, which will take place in Ann Arbor, Mich., in early April. Though Dartmouth took the ice with just 12 skaters, the Big Green took a decisive victory of 103.5 points.
Though I usually focus on current Dartmouth athletes, I have chosen the ever-growing population of ex-varsity athletes in Hanover as the topic of this column.
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Procrastinating at the gym as usual, I'm sipping at that pathetic water fountain.
Johan santana will sway new yorkers to root for the mets
Johan santana will sway new yorkers to root for the mets
Dartmouth men's hockey played to two ties this weekend, first in a 4-4 draw against Rensselaer on Friday and then in a scoreless match against Union on Saturday.
A week after the Dartmouth men's basketball team lost two games by a combined six points, the Big Green dropped two games to Brown and Yale by a combined 65 points, losing 77-51 at Brown on Friday and 97-58 at Yale on Saturday. The Big Green (8-12, 1-5 Ivy) is now in danger of falling out of the Ivy League race.
The Big Green women's hockey team emerged from the weekend with a tie and a win in its final home stand of the regular season.