Love at first sight
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Maybe you realized this truism just three days ago when you cuddled up with a loved one who studies far away, but who managed to come and celebrate the day for lovers.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Maybe you realized this truism just three days ago when you cuddled up with a loved one who studies far away, but who managed to come and celebrate the day for lovers.
The Penn Quakers (14-7, 7-0) maintained their undefeated Ivy mark and upped their League lead to two games with a 55-46 victory at second-place Princeton (13-9, 5-2) on Tuesday night. A 360-degree slam dunk by Penn forward Ugonna Onyekwe with a few seconds remaining gave closure to a game that had been closely contested throughout. Princeton jumped in front with an early 12-6 lead, but the Quakers responded with a 14-0 run and led 25-18 at halftime. The Tigers got as close as 40-38 with 5:55 left in the game when their star of the game, Mason Rocca, hit a pair of free throws.
Curtis Wilgosh '99 will be remembered by many who met him during his years at Dartmouth as affable, gregarious and big (6'2", 200 lbs.). But most of all, people will remember his presence on ice. As a center for the Dartmouth men's hockey team, the Saskatchewan native played in 110 games, while netting 28 goals, 42 assists and 70 points.
St. Lawrence 5, Colgate 1 In a battle between the top two teams in the ECAC, St. Lawrence crushed Colgate in a 5-1 home victory last Friday. St.
With four games left to play this season, the Dartmouth women's ice hockey team has the opportunity to clinch one of the greatest seasons in the team's 22-year history.
Recruiting violations and improper benefits. Those words must sound like fingernails on a chalkboard to any respectable college basketball coach.
Scott McArt '01 skied to his best finish of the season under the white-covered trees of Oak Hill, while Gusty Swift '01 carved through the soft snow on Worden's Schuss en route to the best Alpine finish for Dartmouth on day one of Winter Carnival last Friday. The several inches of wet snow that accumulated through midday helped the cross-country racecourse and had limited effects on the Alpine racing hill. "It was actually kind of painful," said McArt after the 15k freestyle race.
The Penn men's basketball team maintained its one-game Ivy lead over Princeton this weekend as both teams easily defeated Harvard and Dartmouth.
Penn 78, Harvard 76 In Friday's battle for first place in Ivy League women's basketball, Penn (15-6, 6-1) came out the victor by a single field goal, leaving Harvard (13-6, 6-1) to play host to Princeton with its first Ivy loss. The game was close all the way through, with neither team able to sustain a large margin over the other.
One drunken frat boy. A bunch of kegs lined up in a row. Could anything better represent man's never-ending struggle to conquer nature? The brothers of Psi Upsilon fraternity meet once a year to try to answer this complex question, or at least to get slightly inebriated in public. Returning from a one-year hiatus, Psi U is holding its 19th annual Keg Jump this Winter Carnival weekend.
With an especially skilled field of competitors this year, the Dartmouth Ski Team turns to its home race courses hoping that spectator support will help drive a successful campaign against the University of Vermont and Middlebury. The Darmouth Carnival starts the run for the NCAA championships, as three Carnival competitions have passed and two more remain.
While the national polls still have the Dartmouth women's ice hockey team ranked sixth overall in the nation, a successful 2-0 road trip last weekend gave the Big Green sole possession of second place in the ECAC.
When? What WILL it take? Winning all four Grand Slam events on the PGA Tour? The eclipse of Byron Nelson's consecutive win record of 11 PGA tournaments that sportswriter after sportswriter listed as the most difficult record to break in sports? Hitting the ball further than Happy Gilmore on steroids every time to the tee? For the last two years, it seems that no one will recognize Tiger Woods as the greatest golfer in the world.
The nation's fourth-ranked Boston University blanked Harvard, 4-0, on Monday at the semifinals of the 48th annual Beanpot tournament--a hockey competition among Harvard, BU, Boston College and Northeastern University. The Terriers, 17-6-6 this season, has won the last 12 Beanpot games.
Men's Squash The Dartmouth men's squash team had a successful weekend, winning all three of its matches to improve to 10-5 overall (2-2 Ivy League). The Big Green captured two shutout wins, 9-0, over Bowdoin and Bates on Saturday in Brunswick, Maine, and battled to earn a 6-3 conference win at Brown on Sunday. Against Bowdoin, Andrew Schmidt '01 and Scott Judah '02 were forced to go five games before completing the victories. In the contest with Bates, Ryan Evans '00, playing as the second seed, and Colin Greenspan '00 also won five-game matches. On Sunday, Beau River '00, captain and top seed for Dartmouth, and fourth seed Bill Reisner '02 each needed only three games to defeat their Brown opponents.
Arizona, Stanford, UCLA. Western basketball has long been dominated by these Pac-10 Conference powerhouses.
Stowe, Vt. -- Dartmouth's Erin Quinn-Hurst '02 brought life to the women's cross-country team with a second place finish in Saturday's 15K freestyle race, holding off the Vermont Catamount star Ekaterina Ivanova.
Harvard 67, Cornell 57 Cornell men's basketball remained winless in the Ivy League, losing at Harvard on Friday night.
For all you who missed it, Sunday afternoon the North American All-Stars took on the World team in Toronto for the 50th annual NHL All-Star game.
With only 40 seconds remaining in the game, defenseman P.J. Martin'03 scored the game-winning goal to lift the Dartmouth men's hockey team to a 2-1 away victory at Union last night before a crowd of 1448. The Big Green now have a sole possesion of fourth-place in the ECAC with a .577 winning percentage (6-4-3 ECAC, 7-9-4 overall). Dartmouth's newest second line had another impressive game as Chris Taliercio '02 gave Dartmouth a 1-0 lead in the first period.