Brown tops women's lax
A heart-breaking loss this weekend to the Bears of Brown set the women's lacrosse team one game back in their Ivy League standing, forcing a tie in the league title race between Dartmouth and Princeton.
A heart-breaking loss this weekend to the Bears of Brown set the women's lacrosse team one game back in their Ivy League standing, forcing a tie in the league title race between Dartmouth and Princeton.
If this weekend's results teach Big Green rowers anything, it's that if they want to win, home is the place to be. The women's crew and the heavyweights both took top honors on the home course this weekend while the lightweights struggled on a grueling double-header roadtrip down south. The women's varsity crew cruised to their first victory of the season on Saturday as they beat Radcliffe and Syracuse on the 2000-meter course on the Connecticut River.
Despite close play for most of the first three quarters, the men's lacrosse team fell to Brown University yesterday, 17-7, in a game which opened up only at the end. The Big Green got behind early, but were able to struggle back to tie the game at the half.
Men's lacrosse team looks to improve 1-2 Ivy record on Saturday
The Big Green will put their game-winning strategy to the test tomorrow as the women's lacrosse team takes on the Brown Bears for a shot at the Ivy title. Now alone at the top of the Ivy totem pole, Dartmouth (8-2 overall, 4-0 Ivy) will enter the game hot off a 13-7 win over the Yale Bulldogs on Wednesday. "When we played Yale, everything just clicked," sophomore Heather McNulty said.
Baseball's oldest adage is that pitching and defense win championships, and Dartmouth has certainly proved that they have plenty of both -- winning several close well pitched contests over the course of the last week. But yesterday afternoon against St.
Freshman Brian Nickerson provided the offensive punch behind the baseball team's 6-0 week by batting .545 (12-for-22) with five extra-base hits (4 doubles, 1 HR) and eight RBIs. Among the rookie's biggest games were a 4-for-5 performance against UMass-Lowell, and a 2-for-3 game against Cornell that included two walks, a double, a homer and four RBIs. For his stellar stats, Nickerson was named the Ivy League's Player of the Week.
Ninth-ranked Big Green steamroll past 11th-ranked Bulldogs
The Yale Bulldogs used a 7-0 explosion in the third quarter to soar past the men's lacrosse team,. eventually beating the Big Green 15-11 yesterday afternoon.
Dartmouth riding team shows depth and talent at Regionals
The Dartmouth softball team continued to struggle yesterday afternoon as it fell in a double-header against Vermont, 4-0 and 6-4. The loss dropped the Big Green to 5-17 overall. In the first game, the Catamounts secured the victory with four runs in the sixth inning. In the second game, Vermont took an early 3-0 lead with two runs in the first and another in the third.
The Big Green baseball team bumped their record to 14-7 yesterday with a narrow 6-5 victory over Vermont.
Women's lax struggles to find the net as they fall to 7-2 overall
Now 6-1, the Big Green look to extend perfect Ivy record
After weeks of travel, the men's lacrosse team will finally return home this weekend for a game against Cornell University at 1 p.m.
The Big Green lost a double-header to St. Anselm College late yesterday afternoon, 3-0 and 5-4 in extra innings.
Junior attack Jen Greene has managed to provide the helping hand for the Green and White this year with 18 assists on the season so far. But that's probably something she's very used to by now.
The Big Green ousted the Tufts Jumbos, 16-11, yesterday in a slugfest in Medford, MA. The win was the fifth in a row for Dartmouth, which improved to 9-7 heading into this weekend's Ivy League play at Red Rolfe Field. It was a big day for senior Andrew Spencer as he became Dartmouth's all-time hits leader with a single in the top of the first inning.
Big Green beat UMass Minutewomen, 13-8, at Chase Field
The Big Green used a 12-run scoring spree in the final three innings to beat UMass-Lowell, 16-13, yesterday in Medford, Mass. Rookie James Little swung the hot bat for the Big Green, going 2-for-4 with a double and a four-bagger as he knocked in four runs on the afternoon.