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Women's rowing dominates over BU in lone home regatta

By Anna May Mott | April 22, 2019

The women’s rowing team raced their first and last home regatta last weekend against Boston University.

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After early success, heavyweight rowing struggles against Yale and Boston University

By Elijah Czysz | April 22, 2019

The Dartmouth men’s heavyweight rowing team began its season with a resounding victory in Worcester, MA over the College of the Holy Cross, Columbia University and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. The Big Green still face an uphill battle this season against other league opponents, having lost to Yale University in all five races Saturday, April 13.

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Young pitching anchors baseball team through rough season

By Baily Deeter | April 22, 2019

A typical first-year in many college sports gets minimal playing time as he or she adjusts to the difficulty of collegiate athletics. However, that hasn’t been the case this season for the Dartmouth baseball team.

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Pucks in Deep: A Wild Start to the NHL Playoffs

By Sam Stockton | April 22, 2019

There are a few things we have come to expect every year out of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs: inconsistent officiating and supplemental discipline, upsets and long series with lots of overtime.

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Senior Spring: Cy Lippold '19 exhibits grit and perseverance from childhood through her senior year

By Gretta Pickett | April 19, 2019

At 5 feet 2 inches, Cy Lippold ’19 does not have the physical frame of the typical basketball player. But that certainly has not stopped her from playing some of the most competitive college basketball in the nation.

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Women's lacrosse upsets No. 9 Penn after second-half comeback

By Addison Dick | April 15, 2019

The No. 24 women’s lacrosse team used a second-half scoring run to earn a signature win of its season against the No. 9 University of Pennsylvania. Down 7-4 one minute into the second half, the Big Green went on an 8-1 run to gain the lead and win the game with a score of 15-11.

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The Weekend Roundup: Week 4

By Eric Vaughn and Osezele Okoruwa | April 15, 2019

Men's tennis has a strong outing, women's rowing wins all of its races, and baseball wins a series against Brown in this week's Roundup.

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Track and field dominates in only home meet of spring season

By Gretta Pickett | April 15, 2019

Gray skies and less-than-ideal temperatures did little to quell the Dartmouth track and field teams’ success in their first and only home meet of the outdoor season.

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Baseball scoring and giving up runs at an alarmingly high rate

By Baily Deeter | April 15, 2019

Many people criticize baseball for being a slow-paced game without a lot of scoring. Scores like 3-1 and 4-3 are very common at all levels, and Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has been trying to increase the number of runs scored since he took office. But lately, the Dartmouth baseball team has found itself in more high-scoring affairs with scores that would be more common in football games than baseball games.

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Sports Cui-sine: NBA Playoff Predictions

By Mark Cui | April 15, 2019

The NBA playoffs kicked off with several upsets over the weekend. Is this the year of the underdog (at least in the earlier rounds, before the Warriors inevitably sweep in the finals)? Or are we just overreacting once again? Here are my hot takes for the first round.

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Pucks In Deep: Hard to Catch Lightning

By Sam Stockton | April 15, 2019

In a late regular season rematch of last year’s Eastern Conference Finals, the Tampa Bay Lightning hosted the Washington Capitals on March 20.

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Senior Spring: Zoe Leonard ’19 stands out in every season

By Anna May Mott | April 12, 2019

This fall, Zoe Leonard ’19 finished her final season as the Dartmouth volleyball team’s libero, but her history with the sport spans much longer than the past four years.

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Baseball falls 21-15 in longest game in Ivy League history

By Baily Deeter | April 8, 2019

The Dartmouth baseball team was scheduled to play 18 innings of baseball on Saturday in a doubleheader lined up against the University of Pennsylvania. They ended up playing 21, but not in the way they expected to.

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The Weekend Roundup: Week 3

By Eric Vaughn | April 8, 2019

Heavyweight rowing sweeps in its regatta, softball wins two out of three, men's lacrosse takes on the defending national champs and more in this week's Roundup.

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Women's lacrosse has six-game win streak halted by Princeton

By Addison Dick | April 8, 2019

Following a dominant victory over the University of Connecticut on Tuesday, the No. 20 women’s lacrosse team’s six-game winning streak came to an end Saturday when the Big Green’s second-half comeback against No. 17 Princeton University fell short.

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Women's rugby dominates at Harvard 7s to open spring season

By Elijah Czysz | April 8, 2019

There is only one Dartmouth sport undefeated this spring following a national championship season: women’s rugby.

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Pucks in Deep: Two Leagues, One League, No League

By Sam Stockton | April 8, 2019

Two weeks ago, with a record-setting television audience watching the game, the Calgary Inferno defeated the Les Canadiennes de Montréal 5-2 to capture the Clarkson Cup as Canadian Women’s Hockey League champions.

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Call rides to success in Dartmouth cycling-hosted event

By Luke Gitter | April 8, 2019

The Dartmouth cycling team has quite a rich history; founded in 1961 by Dan Dimancescu ’64, who helped the University of Connecticut win a national championship in 1961 before transferring to Dartmouth, the team has won six national championships and had five individual champions since its inception.

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Senior Spring: Jack Traynor ’19 engineers an outstanding career

By Justin Kramer | April 5, 2019

If there is one thing linebacker and co-captain Jack Traynor ’19 has always been good at, it’s tackling: tackling the most high school opponents in Illinois history (378), tackling the second-most (98) foes in the Ivy League last year and tackling an impressive engineering course load.

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Kyle Hendricks ’12 signs record breaking contract extension

By Baily Deeter | April 1, 2019

Dartmouth and the Ivy League are better known for their academics than for their sports teams. However, that’s not to say that stellar athletes haven’t catalyzed their professional careers in the friendly confines of Hanover or the rest of the conference.