Men's soccer continues to struggle

EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff Last year's Ivy champion, Dartmouth, has experienced a rough start to this season, winning only two of its first eight games and managing to score only six goals thus far.

Women's soccer defeats Princeton, still undefeated in league

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff An Emily Tracy '07 goal in the 39th minute of play was enough to lift Dartmouth women's soccer to the top of the Ivy League as the Big Green (6-3-1, 2-0 Ivy) rolled over Princeton (4-4-1, 0-2 Ivy) 1-0 on Saturday afternoon at Lourie-Love Field. "Beating Princeton was a huge win for us because it gets us one step closer to our goal of the Ivy championship," Tracy said.

Football fails in bid for first victory of season at Penn

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff They call Philadelphia "The City of Brotherly Love." So it came as no surprise that when Jason Bash '06 trotted out onto the fabled Franklin Field against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) on Saturday, some of the Penn fans gave him a standing ovation.

Women's volleyball takes second at Dartmouth Invitational

Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff For the Dartmouth women's volleyball team, two points turned out to be the difference between a heartening victory in a home tournament, complete with a win over an Ivy League rival, and a bittersweet second-place finish. Although the Big Green managed to score two convincing victories against the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Robert Morris University in Saturday's competition, an emotional Friday night loss to Harvard that ended in a 15-13 fifth game cost the Big Green first place in the Dartmouth Invitational and soured an otherwise encouraging weekend. Before a revved up crowd at Leede Arena in that match, the Big Green (6-6, 0-2 Ivy) dominated the first two games (30-21, 30-22), playing some of its best volleyball of the season.

Field Hockey beats Penn at home

EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff Co-captain Whitney Waugh '08 and Stef Miller '09 scored nearly 30 seconds apart in the first half and the Big Green defense held off two corners in the waning moments of the second half to lead the Dartmouth field hockey team over the University of Pennsylvania, 2-1, Saturday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field in Hanover. The win over the Quakers (3-7, 1-2 Ivy) gave the Big Green (2-6, 1-2 Ivy) its first victory in the Ivy League this year.

Football seeks first victory in Ivy opener versus Pennsylvania

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The stands at the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field have stood nearly empty for years.

Volleyball plays well in spurts, falls to UNH in three games

Women's soccer stumbles to scoreless tie with Syracuse

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth women's soccer settled for a 0-0 tie with the Syracuse Orange on Tuesday afternoon in Syracuse after a pair of overtime periods, despite a 22-shot effort from the Big Green offense. "Obviously we would have liked a win and we certainly had the opportunity to score, but that's soccer -- sometimes you outshoot a team but still come out with a tie or a loss," Becca Poskin '09 said. It is the first tie in the Dartmouth-Syracuse series history.

Men's soccer tallies early, falls to Fairfield in overtime

Reiley qualifies for Nationals; sailors win Western Series at home

Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff While others were relishing their final days of summer vacation, the Dartmouth sailing team began preseason practice and competition on Sept.

Eagles soar over Big Green in weekend blowout

Women's golf stumbles to ninth place finish at Princeton

Jennifer Garfinkel / The Dartmouth Staff After an impressive showing last week as hosts in the Dartmouth Invitational, the women's golf team struggled at the Princeton Invitational golf tournament held at the Springdale Golf Club in Princeton, N.J.

Volleyball defeats University of Maine in straight games

Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff In a show of resilience, the Dartmouth women's volleyball team (4-4, 0-1) downed the University of Maine (2-9) in three tough games on Saturday. On the heels of a four-game Friday night loss to Harvard, Dartmouth jumped out to an impressive start against the Black Bears and held on for the victory, sweeping Maine, 30-18, 30-25, 30-27. After a decidedly dominant performance by the Big Green in the first game, Maine bounced back in the second game to take an early lead that held for most of the game.