Men's and women's cross country finish strongly
Dartmouth's cross country teams were in split-squad action this weekend, but still had enough manpower on each team to leave the competition in the dust.
Dartmouth's cross country teams were in split-squad action this weekend, but still had enough manpower on each team to leave the competition in the dust.
Saturday, the Dartmouth football team showed that playing roughly even on first, second and third downs against a good football team cannot always guarantee even a close game.
The Big Green men's soccer team started its defense of last year's Ivy League title with a hard-fought and well-earned 1-0 overtime defeat of the Princeton Tigers at Chase Field. The Tigers (3-4-1, 0-1-0 Ivy), who finished second to Dartmouth in the 2004 Ivy League standings, never looked like they stood a chance and were lucky not to concede in the first half.
Coming off a thrilling win against Vermont on Wednesday, the Dartmouth field hockey team hoped to carry its momentum into a busy weekend of games.
The Dartmouth women's soccer team fell to a record of 6-3-0 after suffering a 2-0 loss yesterday to the Princeton Tigers (3-4-2, 1-1 Ivy). The match was the second straight Ivy competition for the two teams and brings both teams to 1-1 in the conference.
Regionally ranked Big Green volleyball (9-3, 2-0 Ivy) out-hit, out-served and outmatched opponents to win the Harvard Invitational this weekend in Cambridge.
Once again, Dartmouth football will look to achieve a first in eight years. This time it may not be as noteworthy as a season opening win, but rather the more modest goal of a victory over Ivy League perennial power Penn this Saturday.
When cross-state rivals Dartmouth and Vermont clashed on Wednesday in a battle for field hockey supremacy, neither team gave an inch for most of the contest. After two overtime periods, it had become clear the game wasn't going to be settled by conventional means.
Women's Volleyball -- In her fourth year with the Big Green women's volleyball team, Kristen Shockley has been promoted to Associate Head Coach.
Dartmouth's golf teams were both in action last weekend, with the men taking eighth in a field of 12 in the Central Connecticut Invitational in New Britain, Conn., and the women finishing tenth out of 17 at the Princeton Invitational. The Big Green men finished with a 36-hole total of 611, 20 shots behind Central Connecticut State University, who took first by four strokes over Army. Matt Uretsky '07 led the team, shooting rounds of 71 and 78 (149), good for a tie for ninth; Brendan Ray of CCSU led the field with 68 on the first day and 73 on the second, for a winning stroke total of 141. "Matt was one shot under par the first round.
The Big Green men's soccer team won both games at the 2005 Dartmouth Adidas Classic Invitational, which was played over the weekend at Sachem Field.
Despite the slight break in activity over the summer months, as the new freshmen class has slipped onto campus with its usual whirlwind, the Dartmouth sailing team has also re-taken the New England waters by storm.
In a celebration enjoyed by players past and present, Dartmouth men's and women's rugby clubs opened their brand new clubhouse this weekend.
The Dartmouth women's volleyball team claimed its own Invitational and squashed any fears of a letdown after an emotional Friday night win over Harvard, defeating the Maine Black Bears 3-1 Saturday afternoon at Leede Arena.
Dartmouth women's soccer improved to 6-2 with a 1-0 win over Brown Saturday. The game opened Ivy League play for the Big Green, who will face other Ivy League opponents in six of their final nine games. The match extended Dartmouth's win streak to four straight. The only goal of the game came from senior co-captain Megan Wijas in the 29th minute.
Dartmouth women's cross country took third out of a field of 26 teams at the Iona Meet of Champions in Riverdale, N.Y., on Saturday.
For nine minutes in the first quarter on Saturday, Dartmouth football fans, starved for a product reminiscent of the early 1990s, saw their Big Green outplay and outmatch the second ranked school in Division I-AA.
Many more games like this and Dartmouth women's soccer coach Angie Hind may have to see a cardiologist.
Admittedly, the Granite Bowl does not hold the same prestige as the Rose Bowl. Yet, for the first time in recent memory, the battle for New Hampshire this Saturday will feature two undefeated football teams both vying for a second consecutive victory. The University of New Hampshire Wildcats, ranked second in all of Division I-AA, will look to squelch the newfound momentum of a Dartmouth team coming off their first season-opening triumph in eight years. Having lost the past two Granite Bowls by a combined 46 points, Dartmouth's quest for a 2-0 start will not be a walk in the park.
On Tuesday night the Dartmouth women's volleyball team showed what a difference a year can make. The ladies in green emerged victorious from a back-and-forth, five-game, 144-minute marathon against in-state rival UNH in Durham (30-28, 30-32, 30-27, 26-30, 15-13). The win helped to erase memories of a dismal 1-7 start to 2004 that was capped by a three-game loss to the same Wildcats of UNH. With the victory, the Big Green improves to 5-3, just one win shy of the team's entire 2004 total of six victories.