Baseball splits 14-game slate of contests over break
While many of their classmates baked in the sun or frolicked on vacation, the Dartmouth baseball team took their show on the road for spring break.
While many of their classmates baked in the sun or frolicked on vacation, the Dartmouth baseball team took their show on the road for spring break.
The Dartmouth equestrian team took home the Reserve Championship at both the Bates-Bowdoin meet held March 6, and at the Mt.
The Big Green scorched the Arizona desert this past week, dominating action at both the Arizona State Invitational on Friday and Saturday and at a competition held at Scottsdale Community College a day earlier. Though dozens of Dartmouth athletes contributed to the team's success this past week, Mustafa Abdur-Rahim '04 proved to be the star of the show, winning ECAC Player of the Week honors for the second time this year. While in Scottsdale, Abdur-Rahim finished the two-day decathlon with a score of 7,936 points, simultaneously qualifying for the U.S.
The Dartmouth women's tennis team won three of its five matches during a spring break trip to Florida, and in the process gained its first national team ranking in over two years. During the middle of the set of matches in the Sunshine State, the Big Green attained the No.
Dartmouth softball (2-9) opened its spring 2004 season with an 11-game road trip to California. The team had a challenging start, facing both Buffalo and Brigham Young University on their first day of play March 19.
Mustafa Abdur-Rahim '04 Track and Field Abdur-Rahim continued his outstanding year by qualifying for the U.S.
The Big Green men's tennis team returned to Hanover from California with much-needed tans and excellent preparation for their upcoming Ivy season despite going winless in their last three contests and falling to 6-7 on the season.
Two come-from-behind wins marked the Dartmouth baseball team's first games of the 2004 spring season this weekend. After a busy winter training in Leverone Field House, the team hoped to prove themselves at University Field in three games against the Hofstra Pride.
This past week, federal prosecutors announced that they had found evidence that six professional athletes -- including baseball stars Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield -- had received human growth hormone (hGH) and the designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) from BALCO Labs. While this new information has certainly raised some questions about the integrity of Major League Baseball, was it really unexpected?
The Dartmouth cyclists picked up where they left off last year by winning the women's elite A race and placing three riders in the top 25 in the men's elite at the Rutgers invitational, their first race of the season. Staving off winds and driving rain, women's captain Amy Wallace '04 captured the top spot for the women, just edging out teammate Kristina Eaton '04, who placed fourth. "We each did our own race, but I happened to be riding Kristina's wheel coming into the last few hundred yards, so she inadvertently gave me a lead out for the sprint.
After a pair of crucial victories at home against archrivals Harvard and Brown last weekend, the third-ranked Dartmouth Big Green will travel on the road to finish their regular season schedule in the state of New York. The Big Green (20-5-2, 12-3-1 ECAC) broke out of its worst slump this season to clinch the Ivy title.
Three Dartmouth lacrosse players have been named to the 2004 Tewaaraton Watch List, joining 26 men and 25 women from throughout the NCAA in vying for the Tewaaraton Trophy, the most prestigious award in college lacrosse.
Since 1979, every four-year women's basketball player at Dartmouth has won an Ivy League title. Impressive as the statistic is, the stakes are higher than ever, with senior co-captains Jamie Librizzi and Sam Burnham looking for their share of history in the next six days. This weekend the Dartmouth women travel to the Palestra, Philadelphia's college basketball mecca, to take on first-place Pennsylvania.
Although recently it seems as though the Dartmouth Sailing Team could hold a regatta on certain patches of the Green, the co-ed sailors opted to return to the southern comfort of Charleston, S.C., for just their second taste of competition since the fall. The Bob Bavier Team Race Invite, hosted by the College of Charleston, tested the Big Green against seven of the best programs in the country in the squad's first team race event of the season.
Team loses by a 10-to-3 margin in last game of season
The women's water polo team finished with a record of 3-1 at its first tournament of the season, held this past weekend at Yale University.
Dartmouth's track teams concluded their indoor league season this past weekend by competing in the Indoor Heptagonal Championships hosted by Cornell University.
The men's squash team won two of three matches in New Haven this weekend to secure a fifth-place finish in the Howe Cup national championships.
Last weekend at the C.R.A.S.H.-B World Indoor Rowing Championships in Boston, John Hertzer '04 took first place in the collegiate men's lightweight division with a time of 6:17.7 for 2,000m.
Merely a fortnight ago, the Big Green saw itself atop the national standings and undefeated in the ECAC.