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The Dartmouth
October 15, 2026
The Dartmouth
Sports
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Women's lax takes on Quakers, Nittany Lions

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Now ranked eighth in the nation and hot off their 10-8 upset win over the Princeton Tigers, the women's lacrosse team heads south to play the Penn Quakers and the Penn State Nittany Lions in a Friday-Sunday weekend double-header. The Big Green made their mark last weekend by downing their perennial Ivy foe and vaulting three spots in the national poll.



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Back to baseball

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I've returned. Yes, what follows is yet another installment in my random sports chatter. And without further ado... Spring has arrived and with it comes yet another baseball season.


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Athlete of the Week

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Freshman pitcher Laura Mills threw a lot of softballs over the plate on Saturday, but not a single one touched the aluminum. That's right, this rookie caught nine batters swinging and gave up one walk as she earned the first no-hitter of her career in Dartmouth's 4-0 victory over Central Connecticut last weekend. Mills was named the Ivy League's Rookie of the Week for her near-perfect performance.






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Over the Weekend

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SAILING: The Big Green sailing team travelled to three separate regattas where they took 2nd, 4th and 5th places respectively. In the Duplin Trophy regatta, hosted by Tufts, Leigh Lucas '98 and Erin Meyers '00 teamed up to race in the A division while Amanda Ruscitto '97 was joined by Shannon Law '00 in the B division.


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Men's lacrosse falls to suny Stony Brook, 13-10

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The "frozen tundra" of Memorial Field seems to have taken its toll on the men's lacrosse team these days, as the spark from their trip down South has suddenly turned cold. Despite moving the game to the snow-free fields of Keene State College in Keene, N.H., the Big Green fell to SUNY Stony Brook 13-10 last Saturday, dropping their record to 1-3 overall. Dartmouth led 2-1 after an otherwise slow first quarter.



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Lightweight crews sweep Tufts heavies

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Dartmouth's lightweight crews found the light through the dense fog along the Charles River this weekend as all four boats cruised to easy victories over the Tufts heavyweights. Fresh off their victories at the Augusta Invitational over the break, the first varsity won the 2000-meter race in 6:07, edging Tufts by 14 seconds, while the second boat clocked a 6:13 to beat the Jumbos by 17 seconds. "Considering we haven't been on the water all week, I think we rowed quite well this weekend," coxswain Stephanie Yu '97 said.




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Baseball downs Babson in its East Coast opener

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The baseball team will try to improve on their 4-6 record as they travel to Merrimack College for a non-conference bout tomorrow at 1 p.m. The game follows a 9-6 Big Green victory over Babson College on Wednesday and a western spring break series which brought the team to an early 3-6 record. In Wednesday's game, Dartmouth took an early 1-0 lead before exploding for four runs in the third inning to all but put away the Babson squad. Sophomore Mike Conway sent a shot up the middle for the spot on first base before co-Captain Andrew Spencer earned a walk to get men on first and second. Aaron Meyer '00 belted a double into the outfield to send Conway and Spencer trotting home.



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Athlete of the Week

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Rookie shortstop Brian Nickerson has only been wearing the Green and White for a couple weeks, but he's already putting up the numbers for the Big Green. In his first week as a collegiate ballplayer, Nickerson led the Ivy League batting stats with a whopping .438 average, hitting 14-for-32 over the break.


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Women's golf team places third twice in Bermuda

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Unfazed by a five-month hiatus from competition, the women's golf team traveled to Bermuda over Spring Break to train and returned with a pair of third place finishes in tournament play. Last October, the women received a number of outstanding individual performances en route to ending their fall season with a strong eighth place finish in the ECAC Championships. Bermuda's warm temperatures and cloudless skies gave the linksters the opportunity to pick up their games almost where they left off in the fall, and the women took full advantage of the situation. Throughout the trip they played and practiced on three different courses, one of which, Mid-Ocean, is ranked among the top 100 courses in the world. "It was a fun course to play," Lauren Epstein '00 said.



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Men's tennis kicks off season with a 7-2 record

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While many students were relaxing at home or tanning on the sunny beaches of Florida, the men's tennis team sweated it out in California. After a couple days of drilling, the men had their first face-off, going up against Loyola Marymount.