Squash enjoys mixed weekend
Over the weekend the Dartmouth men's and women's squash teams both faced off against some of the country's elite squads.
Over the weekend the Dartmouth men's and women's squash teams both faced off against some of the country's elite squads.
I remember when I was a young lad of eight or nine and my father and I were sitting at our kitchen table trying to think of a good name for the little league baseball team we were putting together.
The Dartmouth Ski Team continued its domination of the carnival circuit this weekend. After handily beating the University of Vermont and the rest of the field last week by 30 points, Dartmouth won by nearly 80 points this weekend at the Colby College Carnival in Sugarloaf, Maine. Dartmouth led the way with 613.0 points, while UVM trailed with 535.
Junior Danielle Fritze's favorite dive is a back one-and-a-half sommersault-pike on the-low-board.
On Tuesday not one, but two high school hoopsters poured in triple digits for the first time since 1979.
Now, this is more like it. The Dartmouth women's basketball team (3-11, 1-2 Ivy) picked up their second win in a row Wednesday when they traveled to New York to face Stony Brook (10-8). Dartmouth defeated the Seawolves 68-59 in the non-conference game, breaking the host team's 11-game home winning streak. Katharine Hanks '03 led her team in scoring with 21 points, putting her at 24th on Dartmouth's all-time scoring list with 631.
It was business as usual for the Dartmouth women's hockey team on Wednesday as it soundly defeated 10th ranked Providence 5-1 on the road.
This past weekend's NFL Conference Championship games featuring the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants were incredible, simply incredible.
In a nearly silent Leede Arena, Dartmouth hosted the 7-8 Red Raiders of Colgate. The Big Green hoped to close out their homestand with a victory after three straight nailbiting defeats. Dartmouth opened the night with one of their best halves of basketball all year.
The Dartmouth men's and women's ski teams surprised perennial power UVM to capture the team title in this weekend's Saint Lawrence Winter Carnival. Dartmouth took first place with 528 points, while UVM finished with 498 points.
They rank among the most storied franchises in sports history, on the same short list as the New York Yankees, Boston Celtics, and Green Bay Packers.
Despite dropping two more Ivy League games over the weekend, several Dartmouth men's basketball players showed improvement that could bode well for the remainder of the season. Ian McGinnis '01, the team co-captain and starting center who led the nation in rebounding at over 12 per game in 1998, pulled down 10 rebounds Friday night against Brown and 15 on Saturday versus Yale.
Midway through the season, the Dartmouth women's hockey team is ranked number-one in the nation. With four solid lines, three talented goalies, two straight wins, and only one loss so far, this is not a team to take lightly. Success this season has been thanks to a combination of factors.
During the course of a season a team is destined to hit its ups and downs. Today the Dartmouth men's squash team can only hope that the downs are behind them. Coming off an embarrassing 9-0 loss to Williams College, the Big Green traveled to Ithaca, N.Y.
Shaina Damm '02 and Mustafa Abdur-Rahim '04 led the way for Dartmouth with first place finishes in the women's and men's pentathlons on the first day of action at the 32nd annual Dartmouth Relays at Leverone Field House on Friday. For the women, Damm ran away with first place, easily winning the pentathlon by over 500 points.
With Dartmouth picking up its first four point weekend of the season with a pair of wins over Colgate and Cornell this weekend, it appears that the Big Green have finally found their stride. Although the Big Green has shown flashes of brilliance at various points of the season, they had been generally unable to use that talent for six straight periods. Dartmouth's recent success should come as no surprise to anyone that's been following the team, as the Big Green started playing markedly better since their 6-0 loss to the Princeton Tigers on November 18th. Despite a modest record of 7-7-1 overall and 4-3-1 in ECAC play, the Big Green are 6-2-1 since being shutout by Princeton. What's been the big difference between Dartmouth's first seven games and their last nine?
Duke, North Carolina, Maryland, Wake Forest, Virginia. These schools have been amongst the most consistent, and the best teams in college basketball in the last dozen years or so, and they're all in the same conference. Yet the ACC has been in a down period the last few years.
Who cares if they lost a few games in their non-conference schedule? So what if they lost their Ivy opener to Harvard last weekend?
After a win and a tie against the Vermont Catamounts last weekend, the Big Green appear to have their first half woes behind them as they head into this weekend.
A season filled with great hope and far-reaching expectations got off to a dubious start Wednesday as the Dartmouth men's squash team was handily beaten by visiting Williams College 9-0.