Over the Weekend
Men's Tennis: The Big Green won two home matches yesterday afternoon on Topliff Tennis Courts. Dartmouth defeated Boston University 6-1 and the University of Vermont 6-1.
Men's Tennis: The Big Green won two home matches yesterday afternoon on Topliff Tennis Courts. Dartmouth defeated Boston University 6-1 and the University of Vermont 6-1.
In what may prove to be the craziest, hard-hitting, and downright woolliest game this season, the women's soccer team outlasted the Bears from Brown yesterday by a score of 1-0 in Providence. The Big Green struck hard and fast as co-Captain Kate Andrews '96 punched a header past the Brown keeper in the opening minute.
The Dartmouth men's soccer team came into this weekend's Umbro/Lipton classic riding a three game unbeaten streak, not expecting to get shut out of the win column.
It was the game the Big Green football team had been waiting for, a contest when all three units, the offense, defense and special teams, came together and earned them a decisive 20-7 victory over the struggling Fordham Rams. Dartmouth's offensive juggernaut netted 543 yards of total offense with a superb balance of 263 yards on the ground and 280 yards through the air.
The Dartmouth water polo club went into this weekend's tournament with a 6-1 record and high expectations.
The unexpected became an ugly reality for the Dartmouth women's volleyball team Friday night. In the opening match of their Ivy League season, the Big Green was struck down by a struggling Harvard in three games 15-6, 15-11, 15-9. In Saturday's action, the Dartmouth women lost to Fairfield in five games and handily beat Long Island University in three. The match against Harvard was a struggle from the beginning.
Dartmouth returns home after a successful road trip to face Patriot League foe Fordham in the first of three straight home games for the Big Green.
It took a tie breaker, but the men's golf team pulled off an impressive win yesterday afternoon at the Northern New England ECAC Qualifiers. The Big Green tied with Boston College, as both teams shot a 316 on the day.
The women's crew returned to the waters of the Connecticut last week with some unfinished business to take care of.
What do you get when you try to fit 5,000 Dartmouth students, faculty and community members into a single, 3,500-square-foot room?
Yesterday afternoon the Dartmouth men's soccer team reaffirmed the notion that the Big Green are a dangerous team on the rise with an impressive 2-0 victory over nationally ranked Northeastern. Even though the final score was only 2-0, this was not a close game at all -- it was Dartmouth all the way. "Our back four was the key for us today," Coach Fran O'Leary said.
If I spit at a professor's face, being the non-athlete, non-legacy student that I am, my academic career here at the college on the hill would more or less be over.
What are the odds that a fading 1-8 soccer team can stop a streaking 4-1 squad that's hot off a milestone victory?
The Dartmouth women's volleyball team moved its record to 7-4 with a win in three games over Northeastern last night.
Jenna Kurwoski '97 has been selected as this week's athlete of the week for her stellar performance last weekend at Princeton that included four goals and one assist. Against the Tigers, Kurowski scored a hat trick in under five minutes, as she led the Big Green to a decisive 6-1 victory. Kurowski's nine points in one game erases the previous Big Green high point total.
The Dartmouth men's rugby team defeated the University of Connecticut Huskies last Saturday at Sachem Field. Led by captain Torbjorn Dimblad '97, Dartmouth went out to a 17-3 lead over UConn in the first 15 minutes of the match and cruised to an easy 44-9 win. The victory leaves Dartmouth undefeated in the New England Premier League in their quest for a third consecutive New England Championship. Fullback Mikael Morn '97 led the team in scoring with 24 points on a try, three penalties and five conversions.
The path didn't get any smoother for the Dartmouth field hockey team when the Big Green rolled into Princeton on Saturday for the start of a weekend road trip. Going into the game with a 3-2 record -- including tough, overtime losses to Boston College and Northwestern -- the team was looking for an upset against the nationally ranked Tigers. But the Tigers weren't about to let the Big Green even make this game close, as they scored five goals in the first half in route to a 7-1 victory. The Big Green just could not find their rhythm, as Princeton kept the heat on Dartmouth's defense, unloading shot after shot from inside the circle and taking a 5-0 lead at the half. "We just didn't play very well," Lauren Scopaz '00 said.
This past weekend, the men's tennis team began its march to a victorious season with a successful weekend at the Yale Invitational Tournament.
Undaunted by the reputation of Yale's golf course, the women's golf team traveled to New Haven last weekend and returned home from the meet with a sixth place finish and more confidence in their abilities. Competing on familiar terrain, Yale captured the title with an aggregate score of 646.
The women's tennis team kicked off its fall season this past weekend as the Big Green competed against Colgate and Fairfield University in the Dartmouth Invitational.