Field hockey beats UMass and Columbia consecutively
Dartmouth field hockey was a perfect 2-0 this week, winning Wednesday at UMass and Saturday against Columbia at home.
Dartmouth field hockey was a perfect 2-0 this week, winning Wednesday at UMass and Saturday against Columbia at home.
One goal. That is all that separated the 15th-ranked Dartmouth hockey team from a berth in the NCAA tournament, at least if you ask the players.
It's Saturday of Homecoming and an average Dartmouth student, battling a stubborn hangover, might arise just in time to stumble to Memorial Field for the noon kickoff of the Homecoming football game.
At least they are not 0-7. That is just about all Dartmouth football fans can console themselves with as the Big Green (1-4, 0-2 Ivy) heads into a Homecoming weekend matchup with Columbia (2-3, 0-2 Ivy). Unlike last year's team, the 2005 Big Green has won a game prior to Homecoming.
Dartmouth will become the Big Green mecca of tennis this weekend as it hosts the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Northeast Regional Championship from Oct.
The Big Green cross country teams ran into a nationally stacked field at the NCAA Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind., this Saturday, but proved up to the challenge with strong finishes on both the men's and women's side.
Dartmouth equestrian rode to a close third on Saturday at Colby Sawyer College, finishing only three points behind the region-leading University of Vermont team and a single point behind Mount Ida College.
Dartmouth men's rugby rounded out the regular season Saturday with a 36-0 win over the University of Massachusetts Minutemen.
In another stormy weekend in the northeast, bouts of the shivers were accompanied by torrential winds of up to 40 miles per hour recorded on the Severn River at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
Women's soccer improved to 8-3-1 (Ivy 2-1) with a 1-0 win Saturday over the Penn Quakers. Played in Philadelphia, the game was the Big Green's second of the week.
The Dartmouth volleyball team (9-7, Ivy 2-4) continued to fall short of its potential this weekend, losing two matches at Brown and Yale.
One quarter of outstanding football was not enough for Dartmouth (1-4, Ivy 0-2), as three quarters of Holy Cross (5-2) domination doomed the visiting Big Green to its fourth consecutive loss.
In a tight defensive struggle, Dartmouth field hockey fell 1-0 to visiting Maine at a cold and windy Scully-Fahey Field on Sunday. Maine consistently threatened Dartmouth keeper Lauren Balukjian '06 at the end of the first half.
It looked as though history would repeat itself on Saturday, when the Penn Quakers hosted Dartmouth's men's soccer team at Rhodes Field in Philadelphia, Penn.
The Dartmouth Women's Rugby Club matched up against Ivy foe Brown this weekend at the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse After a hard fought defensive battle, it walked away from its brand new pitch with an 8-5 victory over the Bears. In the kickoff, Krystal Elkins '08, playing in a new position, provided a powerful kick that the forward pack aggressively chased.
Dartmouth men's soccer shut out 18th-ranked Vermont at Chase Field on Wednesday yet failed to extend its five-game winning streak.
ESPN has some of the best sportswriters on the planet working for them. Heck, Peter Gammons, their lead baseball analyst, was recently inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Dartmouth equestrian kicked off its regular season with back-to-back second place finishes Oct. 8 and 9 at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College, respectively.
PHILADELPHIA -- Two days after one of the best games of his career, Penn running back Kyle Ambrogi committed suicide, the university and police said. The 21-year-old senior, who died at his suburban Havertown, Pa., home Monday, had been battling depression, the Daily News reported Wednesday, quoting the player's family. "I knew my brother had been having some problems,'" Ambrogi's brother, Greg, a sophomore defensive back on the team, told the paper.
The Dartmouth men's golf team battled a scoring controversy and a torrential downpour this weekend at The Course at New Haven for the annual Yale Macdonald Cup.