Men's soccer still has NCAA hope
The men's soccer team kept its post-season dreams alive this weekend with two 1-0 victories. With only one game remaining in the season, the Big Green's record is 8-3-3.
The men's soccer team kept its post-season dreams alive this weekend with two 1-0 victories. With only one game remaining in the season, the Big Green's record is 8-3-3.
As the cold weather starts to set in and the air becomes chilly, ice hockey begins to take over the minds of many avid sports fans, and with the NHL on strike, more time is available to support the Dartmouth women who start their schedule this Saturday. In a home exhibition match, the Big Green will take on the talented Concordia University team from Montreal, Que.
As many students gear up for the short Thanksgiving break, the men's basketball team is getting ready for its first league game against St.
Many seniors this time of year are wondering what they are going to do in the next year, but two seniors, Ted FitzPatrick and Sam Wilbur, already know.
With the fall season gradually coming to a close, the women's basketball team is preparing itself for another successful season. The team is coached by Chris Wielgus, who first headed the team from 1976-84.
After four grueling Fall terms together, not to mention seemingly endless months of off season training, the four seniors who make up the core of this year's outstanding women's soccer team have grown to appreciate all the advantages varsity athletics can provide. "I would say that the four of us know each other in and out," Mya Mangawang '95 said.
After a disappointing 1993-94 season, the men's hockey team is looking to improve last year's 5-21-1 record starting this Saturday when Dartmouth takes on Boston College. This year's team is made up of eight top 10 scorers from last year, including co-captains Dion Del Monte '95, a center, and Trevor Dodman '95, a defender. Both players have been key members of the team.
Dartmouth wins place in Eastern Playoffs Spring term
The men's soccer team limped home from Boston after a hard-fought 0-0 overtime tie with Harvard on Saturday afternoon. Dartmouth outshot Harvard 14-13 in a very evenly played match that had post-season implications for both teams. The result eliminated Dartmouth from the Ivy League title hunt, but the Big Green, whose record now stands at 6-3-3, can still make the NCAA tournament by earning an at-large berth.
Although it did not win Ivy championship, the Dartmouth field hockey team will have a chance at the Eastern College Athletic Conference, which, as announced last night, will be held at Chase Field this weekend. Last Saturday in Cambridge, the team demonstrated its usual unyielding toughness and defeated Harvard with a score of 4-1. Dartmouth dominated the game from the beginning.
Cross country teams run away with first place finishes
Strange things always seem to happen around Halloween. For the Dartmouth football team things were no different as a hexed offense and a vanished defense cursed Memorial Field Saturday, resulting in a haunting 35-12 loss to Ivy League rival Harvard. The loss was the second consecutive for the Big Green, dropping the team to 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the league with three games left to play.
With two last-minute wins last week, the women's soccer team became accustomed to pulling through in tense situations.
Despite shooting an impressive 616 last Monday and Tuesday at the Northeast Championships in Cape Cod, the men's golf team finished a somewhat disappointing sixth to end its season. "I was very satisfied with the scores," Coach Bill Johnson said.
After winning the first game of a match against the University of Vermont, the women's volleyball team gave in to its opponent's pressure, losing 3-1 last Thursday night.
Entering their first season in the Northeast Fencing Conference, the men's and women's fencing teams hope to establish Dartmouth as a competitive team worthy of recognition. "We have great hopes to do well," Captain Ben Herman '96 said.
After a long season of hill intervals, pool workouts and long distance runs, the women's cross country team will be put to the ultimate test on Friday when it will travel to Van Cortlandt Park in New York, N.Y.
Although the women's golf team did not meet its goal of placing in the top half of the pack at last weekend's Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament, the Big Green managed to hit a team low on the second day of play, collectively shooting a nine hole score of 345 on the Pennsylvania State University Blue Coarse. "I think once we got there and saw the level of competition, we realized our goal might be a little unrealistic," Meredith Johnson '98 said.
The men's and women's rowing teams returned from the biggest race of the fall, the Head of the Charles, relatively pleased with their performances given that the competition was not on the collegiate level, but an international one.
Josh Bloom '95, co-captain and inside line-backer of the Dartmouth football team, is one of 15 winners of an $18,000 scholarship for post-graduate study. The Scholar-Athlete award is given out by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.