Sailing cruises into first at nat'ls
All year long, the Dartmouth women sailors have set their eyes on one goal -- the national championships. The ICYRA Boatscapes National Dinghy Championships at St.
All year long, the Dartmouth women sailors have set their eyes on one goal -- the national championships. The ICYRA Boatscapes National Dinghy Championships at St.
Five goals by freshman Sean Hartofilis helped the third-ranked Princeton men's lacrosse team overcome a late three-goal deficit to edge the defending national champion Virginia Cavaliers, 12-11, in the NCAA semifinal game.
The Ivy League champion Harvard Crimson softball squad (11-1 in Ivy play) found the confines of Norman, Oklahoma a bit less friendly than those of familiar Ivy League stadiums, and the results show that. The Crimson, the lone Ivy representative to the NCAA Regional, were eliminated in two straight games, falling to host Oklahoma University 11-0 a week ago Thursday and Northwestern 9-6 last Friday. Harvard had the misfortune of drawing the national powerhouse Sooners, ranked fourth in the country, in the first round on their home turf.
Brooks, Little, Nickerson and Mileusnic will play at New England Game
Over 25 years ago, on April 8, 1974, lefthander Al Downing threw a 1-0 fastball that he hoped would catch the outside of the plate.
It could have been us there. The Princeton women's lacrosse team made a valiant run to the NCAA finals, but fell in the championship game to the first-ranked Maryland Terrapins 16-8 on Sunday. Dartmouth's own women defeated the Tigers 16-13 in overtime back on April 22 to claim the 2000 Ivy League championship.
Weitzel '00, Graw '00, Hughes '02 make to the nation's All-Star team
The Dartmouth athletic department announced major athletic awards at a ceremony on Monday to a number of outstanding Big Green athletes. Courtney Banghart '00 (Basketball) Banghart crowned two awards as she received the Class of 1976 Award (as Dartmouth's most distinguished female athlete selected by the coaches of women's varsity teams) and the Agnes B.
Tigers advance to Men's Lacrosse Final Four with Maryland win
The Dartmouth athletic department added two new staff members yesterday as they named Chad Brown to assistant football coach and Mike King to assistant director of sports information. Brown, a 1998 graduate of Purdue University, will join the football staff as tight ends coach.
News and opinion from the playoff front -- Imagine this scenario: One of the top teams in the league enters March riding high, in the lead of their division.
Although sparse in numbers, the track and field team journeyed to New Jersey this past weekend for the 124th IC4A Track and Field Championships and the 17th ECAC Women's Division I Track and Field Championsips, both hosted by Princeton May 18-21. "A lot of people were pleased with how Heps went and wanted to end their seasons on a good note there," said women's co-captain Margie Van Orden '00, referring to the Heptagonal Championships held last weekend at the University of Pennsylvania. Team members, who did make the trip to Princeton, made strong showings,as they competed in a field of over 1000 athletes representing 81 IC4A teams and 69 ECAC teams. Brooke Derham '02 posted the Big Green's best overall finish of the weekend, with a fourth-place showing in the javelin at 135-0. Allison Cardlin '01 secured fifth in the shot put (45-11 1/4), and Betsy Beck '00 took eigth in the pole vault at 11-3 1/2. For the men's team, Adam Horst '00 turned in a fifth-place performance in the decathlon, amassing 6,467 points. Teammates Matt Markell '01 (6371 points) and Joe Kimpel '03 (5983 points) finished in seventh and ninth place, respectively. Also scoring for the Big Green was Ryan Padilla '00, who ran the 5000 in 14:41:23 to take eigth place overall.
While most Dartmouth students were complaining how the cold weather and rain put a crimp into their Green Key plans, the Big Green men's golfers had the weather to blame for ending their season prematurely.
The Dartmouth football team announced on Friday that offensive forward Caleb Moore '01 will serve as captain for the 2000 season. The junior was a first team All-Ivy selection in 1999.
The Dartmouth freshman lightweight eight captured a silver medal yesterday, giving them the best finish for the Big Green at the Eastern Sprints Regatta, held in Worcester, Mass. Dartmouth, seeded third in the race, finished only a second to first-place Princeton and overtook Yale for the second sport.
Though the academic year may be winding down for Dartmouth, the sailing team still has farther to go before they head home for the summer.
When I was very little, I would sprint home from the bus on the corner and rush inside to finish up my homework before heading out to play.
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