Men's soccer receives first-round bye in NCAA Tourney
Twelve minutes after 5 p.m. Monday night, the Collis TV lounge exploded with applause and cheers.
Twelve minutes after 5 p.m. Monday night, the Collis TV lounge exploded with applause and cheers.
It took four losses and a number of unlucky breaks for Dartmouth men's hockey to finally achieve a victory -- and what a win it was.
The Big Green volleyball team closed out its season with a strong showing against Yale on Friday and a win over Brown on Saturday. With the split of the weekend's matches, Dartmouth finishes with a 12-12 overall record, with a mark of 5-9 in Ivy League play.
In Saturday's football game between Dartmouth and Brown, there was nothing surprising about standout running back Nick Hartigan's 193 yards and two touchdowns and the Bears picking up their Ivy-best fifth League win of the season on their home field.
The 2005 season came to a painful close for the Dartmouth women's soccer team on Thursday night. After 90 minutes of hard fought, generally well-executed play, the Big Green found itself on the short end of a 2-1 final score against Boston College in the first round of this year's NCAA Tournament. The game was the second of the evening's doubleheader of NCAA play at the University of Connecticut's Joseph J.
Dartmouth women's hockey endured a tough weekend, dropping home games to both St. Lawrence University and Clarkson University, 3-0 and 1-0 respectively.
As Dartmouth's men's soccer traveled to Providence, R.I. to face Brown on Saturday, it was defending its Ivy League Championship trophy and striving to win the title for the third time in four years. The Bears, however, were fighting to protect their image of the most successful team in the last decade, winning seven of the last 11 championships.
With its hopes of contending for an Ivy crown or finishing with a winning record thwarted after a 1-4 start in league play, the Big Green football team (2-6) will now try to play the role of spoiler, hoping to vanquish the title aspirations of its remaining two competitors, Brown and Princeton.
Three consecutive losses would not have been an ideal start to Dartmouth hockey's centennial season.
The Dartmouth volleyball team will wrap up its season this weekend with matches against Yale (18-3, Ivy 9-2) and Brown (7-4, Ivy 10-12). The matches will be played in Hanover, marking a homecoming for the squad, which has only played six of its 22 matches at home thus far this season. The level of success that the team has achieved this year can be seen in very different lights.
The Dartmouth women's hockey team headed down to Chestnut Hill on Tuesday night for a midweek battle with number 10 ranked Boston College.
Dartmouth equestrian gave coach Sally Batton the best possible birthday present last Sunday: a victory at the University of New Hampshire show.
It just wouldn't be the Big Green Invitational if a Dartmouth player didn't make it to the final match.
When the Dartmouth women's soccer team left the field after Sunday's commanding 5-0 victory over Ivy rivals Cornell, none of the players or coaches knew for sure whether their 12-4-1 overall record and 5-2-0 conference marks would be enough to get the Big Green back onto the field and into the NCAA Tournament. That question was answered with an emphatic "yes" yesterday afternoon when ESPNEWS announced the brackets revealing that Dartmouth had indeed made it to the dance for the tenth time and the seventh time in eight years. The Big Green will take on the No.
The Dartmouth women's hockey team earned a split in back-to-back games this weekend against Princeton and Quinnipiac.
Dartmouth men's soccer forward Scott Darci '06 celebrated his Senior Day in style after scoring both goals in Dartmouth's 2-0 shutout of Cornell at Chase Field yesterday. The co-captain scored one in each half, notching his first two goals of the season.
On Sunday, the senior class of the Dartmouth women's soccer team donned the green for the last time, so it was only appropriate that the scoring sheet read like the roll call for the pre-game ceremony.
Up two goals with under four minutes to play in regulation, Dartmouth field hockey overcame an astonishing comeback to beat Cornell 3-2 in overtime at Scully-Fahey Field on Sunday's senior day. With about six minutes left in the second half, Dartmouth coach Amy Fowler replaced her keeper Lauren Balukjian '06 with backup Ashley Heist in order to let Dartmouth fans show their appreciation for Balukjian's career.
In a game that often appeared to be a rare duel between the arm of one quarterback and the legs of another, the 312 passing-yards of Dartmouth quarterback Josh Cohen '09 were not enough to overtake Cornell (4-4, Ivy 2-3) on Saturday.
The Dartmouth volleyball team continued its tendency to prevail over lesser teams and falter in the shadow of stiffer competition as they swept Columbia (5-16, Ivy 3-7) in three games on Friday night and lost to Cornell (18-3, Ivy 11-0) on Saturday afternoon.