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Women's basketball must sweep to keep Ivy hopes alive

By Jonathan A. Lee | February 27, 1998

The time is now. If the women's basketball team wants any share of the Ivy title now held solely by Harvard, the Big Green must win their next three games and hope that the Crimson fall apart down the homestretch. Now three games back behind Harvard (10-1 Ivy), Dartmouth (7-4 Ivy) shares the second place position with the Princeton Tigers (7-4 Ivy). So the Big Green will be shooting for all or nothing this weekend as they head down to Providence and New Haven to take on the Brown Bears and the Yale Bulldogs for the second time this season.

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Athlete of the Week

By The Dartmouth | February 25, 1998

The Dartmouth College women's hockey team claimed their fourth Ivy League title of the 1990s by virtue of a 5-2 victory over Harvard.

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Catamounts down Green skiers despite alpine success

By Lou Scerra | February 24, 1998

Dartmouth won all four downhill disciplines at the Williams College Carnival, but it wasn't enough as the Big Green finished second to Vermont in team scoring for yet another week, 780-746. The men outscored UVM in the alpine disciplines, and were only two points behind UVM in the men's overall scoring. David Viele '98 finally beat St.

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Women's hoops faces most decisive weekend of year: Penn, Princeton and Green are all two games behind Ivy leading and two time defending champion Harvard

By Jonathan A. Lee | February 20, 1998

It is the biggest weekend of the year for the women's basketball team as the Big Green look to break out from a three-way second-place tie in the Ivy League as they take on the Penn Quakers and the Princeton Tigers at Leede Arena tonight and Saturday. A Dartmouth sweep over the southern Ivies would be especially sweet considering Penn and Princeton share the second-place slot in the standings.

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Lanza named scholarship finalist

By Jacob T. Elberg | February 12, 1998

Big Green football center and long snapper Dominic Lanza '98 was one of 20 football players nation-wide named yesterday as finalists for the annual National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics preseason-games Scholar-Athlete postgraduate scholarships. The finalists were chosen from 78 nominated football players and will join 15 additional finalists representing all sports other than football. Lanza is joined in the group of finalists by some elite players, including Heisman finalist quarterback Peyton Manning of Tennessee and Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost. Ten of the 35 football finalists are from Division I-A institutions, while 10 are from non-Division I-A institutions.

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Weekend wrap up: fencing and table tennis win

By Lou Scerra | February 10, 1998

Both the Dartmouth College fencing and table tennis teams had solid weekends, cementing their positions for the postseason. FENCING: The fencing team spent a successful two days competing in Massachusetts last weekend.

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Tigers and Quakers visit Green for tough weekend

By Lou Scerra | February 6, 1998

One of them is 16-1, number 11 in the country, winners of their last 18 Ivy League games. The other is 3-1 in the conference, winners of three of the last five Ivy automatic bids and has Michael Jordan as their starting point guard. The Princeton Tigers and Pennsylvania Quakers come into Leede Arena with wonderful resumes, but, as of late, the Big Green have proved that they are going to make things tough for their visitors. Dartmouth (6-12, 3-3 Ivy) has won its last three, a home win against perennial tournament-qualifier Navy and two road wins against fellow New Englanders Yale and Brown.

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Squash stomped on by Crimson

By Scott Harrison | February 5, 1998

Last night Harvard swiftly disposed of both the Dartmouth men's and women's squash teams. The men's team took one match in an 8-1 loss while the women were shut out 9-0.

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Athlete of the Week

By The Dartmouth | February 4, 1998

P. J. Halas '98, Dartmouth men's basketball captain and point guard, broke his career-high mark for points on Friday night against Yale by pouring in 25 points and adding three assists and two rebounds to lead the Big Green to a 70-68 victory. He saved an even better encore for the following night, though, when he tied the school record for most three-pointers made in a game with seven.

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Hoops welcomes Yale and Brown

By Mikisha Brown | January 30, 1998

As the weekend nears Dartmouth's women's basketball team prepares for two major Ivy contests. It is crucial that the Big Green claim victory in both games in order to keep themselves at the top of the pack pursuing this year's Ivy championship. Dartmouth will host Yale in the opener of this doubleheader weekend tonight at 7p.m.

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