Big Green men drop fifth in a row, fall to 0-4 in Ivy League
Talking Baseball, Bonds and Benson
Dartmouth soccer player temporarily leaves campus for opportunities in the international arena
EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff All of the pieces are seemingly in the right places.
Chris Takeuchi / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth track and field teams headed to the Princeton Invitational in search of warm, sunny weather and continued improvement.
Samantha Ceppos / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Mike Ouellette '06 had quite a 2005-06 season for the Dartmouth men's ice hockey team -- and less than a month removed from his final game with the Big Green, the senior captain is enjoying quite an off-season. On the same day he competed in the first-ever NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge, Ouellette was elected to the Division I All-America second team. The honor is Ouellete's first, and Dartmouth's third in three years, after current St.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth softball opened Ivy League play over the weekend by splitting doubleheaders against the Cornell Big Red and Columbia Lions. Dartmouth (9-16, 2-2 Ivy) captured a 4-3 win in its second game against Cornell (17-16, 3-1 Ivy), halting a losing streak that had stretched to five games after falling to the Big Red 3-2 in extra innings earlier in the day. The Big Green ground out another split against the Columbia Lions (18-15-1, 1-1 Ivy), losing the first game 3-1 and winning the second 5-2. Saturday and Sunday's games were not only eagerly anticipated as the commencement of Ivy competition, but were also a watershed in the team's season.
Courtesy of Michael Heintz The Dartmouth Rugby Football Club won its seventh Ivy League Title in nine years, dominating the Harvard Crimson for a 52-16 win Sunday in the title game of the Ivy League Rugby Championships. The championship game was the culmination of an impressive weekend for the Dartmouth rugby team, which outscored its three opponents 117-31 and included tournament Most Valuable Player Joe Killefer '06. Captain Jesse Blom '06 said that winning the Ivy League title is always a priority for the Dartmouth Rugby Football Club. "The Ivy League Championship is the most important title every year for Dartmouth because it lets us know that out of all the smart and rich kids in the Ivy League, we are the strongest, fastest and most rugged," Blom said.
The men's golf team rolled to a strong second-place finish at the Yale Spring Tournament Sunday. Overcoming oppressive weather conditions, the Big Green almost took the title home. The team compiled an 18-hole score of 305, three shots behind first-place Oklahoma Christian University.
EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff For the second straight game, second-half failure has extinguished the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team's bid for a major upset. The Big Green built a 6-1 lead over No.
Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth crew teams fanned out across the Northeast over the weekend for matches against some of the nation's top programs. In their season opener, the men's heavyweight squads fell to the Yale Bulldogs.
When asked the scores of the Dartmouth women's water polo team's four matches, freshman Jenna Newgard '09 said, "We creamed some teams, I can't remember all the scores." Newgard's statement expresses a good idea of how dominant Dartmouth was in its first-ever home tournament. The team won all four of its matches against Williams, Wesleyan and both the A and B teams from Yale Saturday and Sunday at the Karl Michael Pool.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's baseball team won three out of four over the weekend, sweeping Columbia 1-0 and 12-2 on Saturday and splitting a doubleheader with Penn on Sunday afternoon. The Big Green lost a heartbreaker to the Quakers in the first game, 8-7, before winning the nightcap 6-2.
300 students dodge homework, activities and rubber balls in Saturday tournament at Leede Arena
The No. 16 Dartmouth women's lacrosse team has a steep hill to climb if it is going to regain its title as Ivy League champions. After losing to 12th-ranked Cornell 13-8 in Ithaca on Saturday, the Big Green's in-conference record fell to 2-2 (6-4), good enough for fifth in the Ivy League behind Princeton, Harvard, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. Dartmouth was the preseason favorite to finish first, but with a perfect conference record, Princeton is currently on top of the standings.
Dartmouth's men's tennis team (8-9) will open its Ivy League season on Friday in a bid to turn things around after a disappointing streak of results in the last few years.