Women's golf team takes 3rd at first Ivy Tourney
Amherst's Hickory Ridge Country Club. The Orchard at Mount Holyoke. Just the names conjure up images of healthy green grass, budding flowers, and baby blue skies.
Amherst's Hickory Ridge Country Club. The Orchard at Mount Holyoke. Just the names conjure up images of healthy green grass, budding flowers, and baby blue skies.
Men's golf team beats Brown
Baseball team drops four games to Yale on the road
The men's tennis team marched through this past weekend unscathed and rolled over both its opponents, remaining undefeated in the Ivies and extending their season record to 15-3. The potential was there for a tension-filled showdown -- these two matchups were critical to the Big Green's dreams of a second Ivy League championship. But in the end, both Brown and Yale turned out to be only bumps in Dartmouth's road to Harvard and the EITA title. "The win summed up our season.
The women's tennis team dropped to 8-9 overall as they were swept by Brown (8-1) and Yale (6-3) on the road this weekend.
SOFTBALL: The Big Green dropped a pair of Ivy League games Saturday, falling 2-0 and 18-6 to Cornell at Sachem Field on Saturday. In the first game, freshman Laura Mills was the hard-luck loser, giving up just four hits and striking out eight.
Big Green fall to 3-7 overall, 1-4 Ivy, after 19-5 loss to Tigers
The Big Green crews fell short in all but two races this weekend as the JV lightweight eight and the freshmen lightweight eight took home Dartmouth's only victories on Saturday. While the women's crews and the lightweights struggled on their respective roadtrips to Princeton, NJ and Ithaca, NY, the heavyweights went head-to-head against the perennial powerhouse crews from Brown on the home course on the Connecticut River. In a four-way regatta against host Princeton, Penn and Virginia, the women's varsity line-up trailed the Tigers by seven seconds to take third while the Lady Cavaliers took top-honors in 6:57.7.
MEN'S GOLF: The men's golf team finished fifth out of 14 schools at the New England Division I championships yesterday at the par-72 Portland Country Club course in Falmouth. The Big Green carded 312-306-618 to finish just three strokes out of third and 26 strokes off the pace of champion Connecticut (295-297-592). Individually, Dartmouth showed good balance as all five players were within six strokes of each other over the 36 holes. MacKenzie Hurd '98 was the Big Green's top finisher, tying for 19th with 77-77-154.
The Big Green (5-19) earned two shutouts yesterday as they blanked the Columbia Lions, 8-0 and 11-0, yesterday at Sachem Field.
The UNH Wildcats put the brakes on the baseball team yesterday as they snapped the Big Green's 16-game streak with a 6-2 victory at Red Rolfe Field. The loss dropped Dartmouth to 20-8 overall on the season. Senior Andrew Spencer scored the only two runs for the Big Green as Conor Brooks '00 plated him twice. For UNH, Mike Kelley went 3-for-5 with a run and an RBI.
Senior attack-man Scott Watts led Dartmouth over the Vermont Catamounts yesterday to improve the Big Green's record to 3-6 on the season. Seniors Scott Hapgood, Brian Merritt, and Watts helped the Big Green bust out to an early 6-0 lead with three goals in the first 2:03 of the game. For the final three quarters, the teams played evenly as the Catamounts found themselves buried too deep early on. Goalie Andrew Dance '99 had a brilliant afternoon with 18 saves.
Big Green crush Harvard, 15-9, to earn share of 1997 league title
The Big Green baseball team crushed the Plymouth State Panthers, 20-10, yesterday to stretch their win streak to 16 games.
BASEBALL: The Big Green spiked their win-streak to 15 games as they downed Brown, 8-6 and 10-2, yesterday.
Big Green named Northeast Champions with 13-5-1 season record
The baseball team leap-frogged to the top of the Ivy League's Red Rolfe Division with a two-game sweep over Brown this weekend.
Heading into the weekend, the Big Green was riding a wave of big wins and strong play. Undefeated in the Ivies and boasting an 11-3 overall record, Dartmouth had to face another test, the Tigers of Princeton. Like Columbia before them, Princeton possessed an arsenal of top players in the Ivy League.
The women's tennis team proved to the world that they're no longer a weak Ivy League opponent, as they nipped both Princeton and Cornell by the narrowest of margins, 5-4, this weekend.
GOLF: The men's golf team took fourth place at the Ivy League Championship as freshman Chris Welty led the Big Green with a 74-79 at the par 71 Black Course at Bethpage State Park. His combined score of 153 earned him sixth place overall -- good enough for first team All-Ivy honors. Yale won the team title for the second straight year with a total of 606. Also scoring for the Big Green were Jay Danzi '98 (82-76 -- 158), MacKenzie Hurd '98 (84-75 -- 159), Steve Sugarman '97 (79-80 -- 159), and Jay Lavender '97 (92-74 -- 166). RUGBY: The Dartmouth Rugby Club beat Rice University 58-14 in the first round of the East regional at State College, Pennsylvania.