Original Sports ClichÉs

Remembering a Minnesota Hero

Men's tennis cannot find California love in spring break trip

/ The Dartmouth Staff The men's varsity tennis team suffered a five-game losing streak on its California trip, where it took on five competitive teams in the span of one week. Entering the series of games with a 7-3 record, Dartmouth returned home 7-8 on the season.

Women's lacrosse opens Ivy season with weekend split

The Dartmouth women's lacrosse team kicked off its Ivy League season at Scully-Fahey Field with an up-and-down weekend.

Dartmouth winter athletes recognized for academic prowess

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff Ten Dartmouth student-athletes were awarded All-Ivy Academic honors last Wednesday for the winter season.

Men's laxers trump Albany, halt three-game losing streak

Samantha Ceppos / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team bounced back from its spring break struggles with a win over No.

Harvard routs men's hockey, crushes NCAA tourney hopes

The Dartmouth Big Green men's ice hockey team saw its dreams of an NCAA tournament berth come to an end on Friday, March 17, at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, N.Y.

Women's basketball gives Big East power a first-round scare

The Associated Press The Dartmouth women's basketball team came close to making NCAA history Sunday in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Ski team captures third place in NCAA Championships

Jennifer Wang / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth ski team pulled off its best performances of the season to finish third in the country at the NCAA Skiing Championships held in Steamboat Springs, Colo., from March 8 to 11. The third-place team finish is the highest for the Big Green since 1982, when the men's and women's championships were combined. With five individual All Americans and a Slalom Champion, Dartmouth was able to finish well ahead of archrivals the University of Vermont and Middlebury, which placed fifth and seventh, respectively.

Harvard defeats men's hockey in ECACHL semifinals

WEB UPDATE, March 23, 7:00 a.m. Dartmouth's men's hockey team saw its dreams of an NCAA tournament berth and an ECACHL postseason title come to an end last Friday when Harvard crushed the team 10-1. The Big Green had previously split their regular season encounters with the Crimson, losing in Cambridge and then blotting them out at Thompson Arena. During Friday's ECACHL semifinals match against Harvard, Mike Devine '08 allowed seven goals on twenty-four shots before he was pulled after the second period for freshman goalie Daniel Goulding '09, who let three pucks past the crease on eleven shots.

Women's basketball advances to March Madness after defeating Brown, Princeton

WEB UPDATE, March 17, 4:12 p.m. Dartmouth's women's basketball team is headed back to the Big Dance. After last year's 95-47 trampling by the University of Connecticut Huskies, the women in green are ready to give the NCAA tournament another shot.

Figure skating dominates field at UPenn Invitational

Malenchak leads squash players at CSA Individuals

Courtesy of Dartmouth Athletics Eight of Dartmouth's top squash players competed at the CSA Men's and Women's Individual Championships over the weekend.

Men's hockey ready to defend top seed in quarterfinals

Samantha Ceppos / The Dartmouth Senior Staff March madness, baby!

Cholnoky '08 wins division at Rowing Championships

Courtesy of Ernest Parizeau The Dartmouth rowing team produced a world champion late last month at the CRASH-B World Indoor Rowing Championship when heavyweight coxswain John Cholnoky '08 won his division at the event.

Big Green softball drops three of four at Buzz Classic

JENNIE POST/The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth softball started its season going 1-3 in Georgia Tech's inaugural Buzz Classic in Atlanta, Ga., this past weekend. The team split its games on Friday, losing to Eastern Michigan 4-3 in extra innings and defeating Winthrop 13-5. The first game, the loss to Eastern Michigan, was the only close game of the weekend.

Straight from the Mule's Mouth

Intelligence Quotient

Ouellette earns Ivy League Player of the Year recognition

Samantha Ceppos / The Dartmouth Senior Staff While the Big Green prepares to face-off against Brown or Yale next weekend at Thompson Arena in the quarterfinals of the ECACHL playoffs, five Dartmouth standouts received All-Ivy honors for their regular season play.

Player spotlight: Ikechi Ogbonna

Courtesy of Dartmouth Athletics Ikechi Ogbonna '06 is best summed up by his performance at the Indoor Track and Field Heptagonal (All-Ivy) Championships this year. Ogbonna, ranked second in the Ivies in the 60-meter hurdles, was soon to compete in the finals.