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Yale baseball falls short in Hanover

By Eric Petitt | April 29, 1996

When it mattered most, the Dartmouth baseball team got the job done this weekend, grabbing three of four games and, in the process, crushing the title hopes of Red Rolfe Division favorite and three-time champion Yale. When it mattered most, pitching, possibly the team's biggest question mark, hurled four near-flawless complete games against the Elis, allowing only six runs in 28 innings. And when it mattered most, the Big Green made the big play at the plate and in the field, vaulting them into a two-team race with Harvard for this year's Red Rolfe Division Title. "We had to do it," starting pitcher Matt Tarver-Wahlquist '98 said.

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Race proves hectic for women's crew

By Jonathan A. Lee | April 29, 1996

Saturday was just altogether a hectic race day for the women's crew team. And it certainly made for some stymied expectations for its big races against Penn and Princeton. Things first fell out of synch early in the week when the home race course on the Connecticut River became flooded with huge logs and other sorts of debris.

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Men's tennis sweeps weekend games

By Ben Riefe | April 29, 1996

Riding the momentum of last weekend's sweep over Navy and Princeton, men's tennis hit the road and gained two more EITA wins. On Friday, Dartmouth defeated Yale 4-3 in a match not as close as the score implies.

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Men's volleyball club closes out successful season at 35-7

By Mark Woodard | April 26, 1996

The success story behind Dartmouth's men's volleyball team is an endearing one. After the demotion from varsity status to club status three years ago, the future of the program looked bleak at best. Yet this team found a way to carry on through two tough seasons without funding or coaching to persevere until this season, when talent, experience, and heart combined in a magical formula to make men's volleyball team one of the college's most successful programs in the '95-'96 season. Last weekend, the team saw the fruition of its three-year uphill struggle.

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Baseball snags 8-7 win over Tufts

By Eric Petitt | April 26, 1996

Call them the Big Green Grit if you want, because with their backs up against the wall, they are all heart. The Big Green rallied in their last two at-bats to rip victory from the hands of the Tufts Jumbos (yes, there is a worse mascot than Green), giving Dartmouth its second straight come from behind victory, 8-7. With Dartmouth down by two runs in the bottom of the last inning, Jimmy Meyer '97 led off with a scorching rope to center field, landing him at first base with number three hitter Andrew Spencer '97 coming to the plate.

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Men's lacrosse thrashes UVM

By Jesse Sweet | April 25, 1996

Yesterday's men's lacrosse game could have been the biggest shoot that did not include postal employees in years if the University of Vermont's offense had been able to penetrate the iron curtain of Dartmouth's defense. Yesterday's game could have been a hard-nosed defensive battle if UVM had held the lean mean scoring machine Scott Hapgood '97 to under five goals. Yesterday's game could have been an epic tale of two teams battling with pride and determination to attain the status of "the champion" if UVM had found some way to slow down the high-powered Big Green lacrosse team. As Vermont discovered, all the "could have been's" in the world do not win lacrosse games.

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Baseball snaps three-game losing streak

By Eric Petitt | April 25, 1996

The Big Green baseball team had a little fun yesterday, coming from behind to crush its hosts from the University of New Hampshire 15-10. Dartmouth, down 7-4 going into the seventh inning, erupted for nine runs, six of them unearned, to take a 13-7 lead against New Hampshire.

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Softball team drops two games to BU

By David Kung | April 25, 1996

The Big Green was shut out by the Boston University softball team during a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon 4-0 and 8-0. In the first game, the Terriers scored once in the second and three times in the third inning.

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Athlete of the Week

By The Dartmouth | April 24, 1996

Junior Adam Nelson's throw of 61-2 3/4 in the shot put last weekend was enough to earn him NCAA and Olympic provisional qualification. Nelson's throw, which helped his team towards a second place finish just behind the University of Massachusetts, was also best throw this year of all Heps, New England and IC4A competitors. "It was incredible," Coach Barry Harwick said of Nelson's put.

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Heavyweights sweep BU, Rutgers

By Brian Fleming | April 24, 1996

The men's heavyweight crew team swept its way to victory, defeating both Boston University and Rutgers last Saturday. The race, scheduled to take place on the Rutgers course, was moved to Princeton's man-made course because the Rutgers course was flooded. Despite the change of venues the rowers still had to endure rough conditions. "It's hard to say how we were rowing because we had a tailwind and some nasty chops," Todd Newman '96 said.

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'Big Green' must be changed to inspire

By Justin Evans | April 23, 1996

Dartmouth needs a new mascot. Scratch that ... Dartmouth needs a mascot. Dartmouth's lack of a mascot has been laughed at for years, and it is time for a change. Not only would a mascot increase fan enthusiasm, but it would bring in added revenue from the sale of apparel bearing the mascot. Before every home football game, the University of Colorado parades its mascot, a buffalo, around the field.

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Rowers claim 2nd at Biglin Bowl

By Mark Woodard | April 23, 1996

Dartmouth's lightweight men's crew team traveled to Boston this past weekend to compete in the Biglin Bowl against three other New England teams in a four-way regatta. The regatta, which looked to be a good measuring stick of Dartmouth's position in the region, was a great success.

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