Big Green can't find their stride in New York City
Dartmouth's cross country teams brought their seasons to a respectable close on a crisp Saturday morning in New York City's Van Cortlandt Park.
Dartmouth's cross country teams brought their seasons to a respectable close on a crisp Saturday morning in New York City's Van Cortlandt Park.
After 90 minutes of nervous play and nail-biting action, Dartmouth's men's soccer team clinched sole possession of the Ivy League title with a 2-1 win over Brown at Chase field on Sunday.
Okay, Sox fans, I'll just go ahead and say it: As many of you around campus have let me know, you were right and I was wrong.
Though Dartmouth tennis had not played a competitive match in Hanover since Sept. 19, the Big Green men could not have felt more at home, dominating the likes of Hartford, Manhattan, Buffalo, Marist and Harvard over last weekend's Big Green Invitational. Dartmouth's top singles player, co-captain David Webb '05, had little trouble reaching the finals of the A singles bracket, rolling over Patrick Flint of Hartford, Alon Cohen of Manhattan and Buffalo's Mike Rockman.
Three freshmen sailed away with a key victory in Maryland over the weekend, as Ben Sampson '08 and his crewmates Betsy Bryant '08 and Andrew Geffken '08 competed in 16 races against the 16 best freshman teams on the Atlantic Coast and won A-division by over 10 points. The second half of the freshman team included Luke Hathaway '08, Adele Wilhelm '08 and Aisha Stewart '08, who finished seventh in B-division, bringing the Big Green to an overall second-place finish for the regatta. The wind at the U.S.
The Dartmouth women's novice crew team cleaned up at its first race of the season this weekend. Fighting windy and rough conditions on their home Connecticut River and rowing on a course shortened to 1.5 miles from its original three miles, the A boat came in first place at the Dartmouth Novice Invitational with a time of 9:40.
Decked out in orange racing shirts and rowing through fierce winds, the Dartmouth freshman men's crews took to the Connecticut River Saturday with victory in mind.
SACHEM FIELD, Nov. 6 -- On a beautiful sunny Saturday, the Dartmouth rugby team to extended its four-game winning streak and advanced to the Northeastern Rugby Union Final Four as it hosted Syracuse University for a first round playoff match.
With the season winding down, the Dartmouth women's volleyball team showed that there is still plenty of fight left in the squad as they played for pride in two weekend road matches.
The men's hockey team never thought the only opportunity for Dartmouth fans to throw tennis balls onto the ice would come after the final buzzer sounded Saturday.
The Big Green women's field hockey team capped off a rollercoaster season Sunday with an impressive road victory against Cornell.
The Dartmouth men's rugby team earned a fourth straight win at home Saturday in its final regular season match against Northeastern University.
The Dartmouth women's tennis team dominated the A singles flight during the weekend's Big Green Invitational, occupying three of the four tournament semifinals slots and producing its first victor in four years.
On Friday night, while most of the '08 class was running their requisite laps around the oh-so-touchable bonfire, four of their classmates were asleep down at Yale University, resting up for the New England Freshman Championships.
The Dartmouth men's water polo team finished second in the North Atlantic Division of the Collegiate Water Polo Association last weekend, completing its season with nine wins and two losses, both of which came at the hands of a much-improved Middlebury College squad. The North Atlantic Championship Tournament at Middlebury College began well for Dartmouth, with wins against Bates College and Boston College Saturday.
After last Saturday's thrilling four-game upset over Yale, the Dartmouth women's volleyball team appeared primed to put a forgettable first half of the season behind it in its second trip through the Ivy League schedule. During Homecoming weekend, the team took to the road in matches against the best and worst of the Ivy League.
The Dartmouth equestrian team placed third out of nine total teams Saturday during a home show held at Morton Farm.
Leading up to Saturday's season-opening game against Quinnipiac University was the hype triggered by a national ranking of 11, the distinct prospect of an NCAA tournament berth and the optimism and hopes of an entire region.
While the rest of the campus was busy rounding up freshmen for the bonfire, No. 2 Dartmouth women's hockey burned Boston College in a convincing 7-1 victory in Thompson Arena on Friday night to open up its regular season. Junior Katie Weatherston, Dartmouth's leading scorer from a year ago, led the way for the Big Green (1-0) with a hat trick, and she added two assists late in the third period to finish with a five-point performance.
Rittgers denied opportunity to repeat last year's upset, as coaches plan to start backup Shula