Big Green lacrosse to confront stretch of top-five teams
Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff By Nate Niparko The Dartmouth Staff In the world of sports, mediocre is the opposite of newsworthy.
Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff By Nate Niparko The Dartmouth Staff In the world of sports, mediocre is the opposite of newsworthy.
A random survey of 10 of my college friends finds that nine individuals knew the winner of the Florida-Ohio State match in the BCS Championship.
The Dartmouth Dan Shribman '07, a former forward on the Dartmouth men's hockey team, was awarded the inaugural Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award by the Hockey Commissioners' Association last week. The award is named after former Army hockey captain Derek Hines, who died while serving in Afghanistan in September 2005, and it was voted on by sports information directors from the six major Division I hockey conferences, along with representatives from Army hockey and the Hines family.
Alicia Modeen / The Dartmouth Staff While golf's best were struggling in the cold weather at Augusta National this past weekend, the Dartmouth men's golf team started its spring season five hundred miles north in the Yale Men's Spring Open.
I'm guessing many of you faithful WOE readers are probably sitting down with a fresh plate of eggs and toast dished out by my main man Lerrone of the Hop staff and have immediately turned The D to the back page for this very column.
The Dartmouth softball team ran into some tough competition this past weekend during a pair of Ivy League road doubleheaders.
Chris Takeucchi / The Dartmouth Staff After inclement weather postponed Dartmouth's Wednesday doubleheader against Siena, poor field conditions forced a pair of Ivy League doubleheaders scheduled to be played in Hanover this past weekend to move to Princeton, N.J. Away from home, the Big Green (5-16-1, 2-6 Ivy) dropped a pair of games to Cornell on Saturday, losing 4-2 in game one and 12-3 in game two, then split a doubleheader with Princeton, winning the early game 2-1 and dropping the nightcap 12-4. Game one starter Robert Young '10 pitched the first five innings against the Big Red (11-14, 5-3 Ivy) beautifully, giving up just three hits and retiring the side in order in the fourth and fifth. "I had a great bullpen [session] before the game and went out there and did what I knew I could do.
I need to start this space with a correction of sorts: I mistakenly wrote last week that Rob Esposito selected Florida to beat UNC in his NCAA March Madness bracket.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth's track team got its first taste of Ivy League competition this season on Saturday at the Princeton Invitational in Princeton, N.J., on Friday, April 6, and Saturday, April 7.
Mike Knapp '09 of The Dartmouth recently grilled baseball stud Chase Carpenter '08 on MLB predictions, mental preparation and sporting equipment.
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EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff By Nate Niparko The Dartmouth Staff After dominating the first three quarters, the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team looked like it would cruise to a fifth consecutive victory and keep its Ivy League record perfect with a win over Penn.
The Dartmouth men's tennis team beat the Cornell Big Red 4-3 in Ivy League play this weekend. The fiercely-contested victory was the first for the Big Green in conference action. Currently, Dartmouth is fifth in the Ivy League standings.
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Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff Down 5-1 to defending Ivy League champion Cornell midway into the first half, it seemed as if the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team would be in for a long day.
Many of Dartmouth's student-athletes would attest that after college, full-time athletics is usually not a possible career option.
Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Staff After winning three games overseas, the Dartmouth Women's Rugby Club is confident of stateside success in their upcoming spring season.
Despite the copious amounts of snow on the ground, baseball season is finally underway after six excruciating months of having to watch other sports.
The Dartmouth women's soccer team announced their captains for the 2007 season this week. The players and coaches selected Monica Martin de Bustamante '08 and Annie Stanley '08 to lead the team. Martin de Bustamante has had an interesting journey as she ascended to the role of Big Green's captain.