Women's hoops lose
With 10 minutes left in the second half of last night's women's basketball game against Rhode Island, Betsy Gilmore '94 fired a routine pass to Brandi Jones '95 on the wing.
With 10 minutes left in the second half of last night's women's basketball game against Rhode Island, Betsy Gilmore '94 fired a routine pass to Brandi Jones '95 on the wing.
In a match that will hopefully be a sign of good things to come for its new coaching staff, the women's squash team broke a three-all tie with a trio of clutch wins to triumph over Williams College, 6-3, on Thursday night at the Berry Sports Center. The men's team, which, like the women's team, was playing its first match of the new year, fell to a deep Williams squad, 7-2. The women's win marked the first Big Green victory of the regular season for new head coach Chris Schutz Brownell '87, a former All-American squash player for Dartmouth.
In its past two meets, the men's swim team showed encouraging signs of improvement with a pair of strong performances against the University of Massachusetts and the University of Pennsylvania. Penn blasted Dartmouth 146-84 in Philadelphia on Saturday, while UMass escaped with a 156-138 win last Wednesday in Karl Michaels Pool. The team had a brave performance against a very strong Penn team with some outstanding individual performances. A win for the 200-meter medley relay team of Pete Moore '94, Ben Lannon '96, Jason Stern '94 and Matt Carlson '94 gave the Big Green a strong start.
In a season where every single night turns into "just one of those games" for the 1-12 Big Green men's basketball team, Harvard certainly did its best not to break any trends in a 79-69 slapping of Dartmouth on Saturday night in Leede Arena. On defense, Harvard was quicker at every position, from center to water boy, as the Crimson picked Dartmouth for 20 steals and forced a homely 26 turnovers. On offense, the Crimson's brick-heaving point guard, Tarik Campbell, who averages six points a game on 31 percent shooting, drilled half his shots to score 16 while Michael Gilmore, a sixth man who averages a sleepy 10 points a game, scored a career-high 21 points. From the foul stripe, Harvard, which normally converts a grandmotherly 63 percent of its free throws, found a way to score 34 points from the line of largess. And the end result was that Harvard, a squad that came into the contest with a seven-game losing streak, grabbed its first win in nearly a month. Dartmouth, meanwhile, fattened its losing streak to double digits.
The men's hockey team entered the weekend expecting tough competition from Harvard and Brown, the Eastern College Athletic Conference's top two teams. A tough weekend is exactly what the Big Green got. Harvard squeaked by Dartmouth 2-1 Saturday in Cambridge, while Brown escaped with a 4-3 win over the Big Green Friday night in Providence. "It was nice to be close with two of the better teams in the league, because no one ever expected us to win this weekend," goalie Mike Bracco '94 said.
Diverse scoring and strong defense power Big Green win
Cory Murphy 95 broke two pool records and won three individual events in the women's swim teams second win ever over Cornell on Sunday . Murphys record-setting performances came in the 100- and 200-meter backstroke.
Tomorrows game means a lot for the womens basketball team. The Big Green look to break the .500 mark for the first time this season and put their untarnished Ivy League record - and their five-game winning streak - on the line. Coach Chris Wielgus goes for her 150th career win. And, oh yeah, they play Harvard. "Whenever you play Harvard, its special," Wielgus said. The Crimson have been a difficult team to figure out this season.
Last weekend Dartmouth christened its new track in Leverone Field House with a bang, hosting the 25th annual Dartmouth Relays, a series of track and field events at masters, high school, college and open levels.Two record-shattering performances highlighted the event.
Big Green's numbers are low, but spirits keep rising
For a few brief, tantalizing moments in last night's 87-82 loss to the University of Vermont, the men's basketball team showed the world on the floor of Leede Arena a few glimpses of the future. Sea Lonergan '97 scored 20 and was perfect in three tries from three-point land.
Monday night's 76-69 win over Boston University looked like deja vu all over again for the Big Green women's basketball players, and they're beginning to like the feeling. The team's fifth straight win was another come-from-behind blindsiding of a team that didn't know what hit it until the final buzzer sounded. Dartmouth scored the game's final 11 points to erase a four-point deficit with the help of eight points from Ilsa Webeck '94, who finished with 20 points and 11 rebounds for her third consecutive double-double. But the real catalyst in the game was, once again, a dynamic freshmen class that has ridden a wave of confidence all the way to installing Dartmouth as the Ivy League's hottest team. The wave began back in November when Jen Pariseau hit a three-pointer the first three times she touched the ball against Vermont.
Big Green suffer weekend losses to Penn and Princeton
The women's hockey team suffered a disturbing fall from the high of having beaten the country's number one team, losing to key Eastern College Athletic Conference rival Princeton 2-1 Saturday. The Big Green recovered on Sunday with an easy 8-1 trampling of Yale to push their record to 5-4-1 overall. Still, the loss to Princeton was a considerable setback in the team's bid to defend its Ivy League title. The game was a battle to the final moments, but those final moments belonged to the Tigers, who banged the game-winning goal into the net in the final minute of play to beat Dartmouth for the first time in two years. Malaika Little '97 scored Dartmouth's lone goal midway through the second period. "I think we let down a little at the end," Coach George Crowe said.
As he watched Princeton fourth-line winger Ethan Early burn Dartmouth defenseman Mike Loga '93 for a goal that put the Tigers ahead 4-1, Princeton's Assistant Sports Information Director Mike Jackman grinned and said, "Gotta love those tennis balls." Just about anyone in orange and black would have to concur.
Team tops Penn and Princeton; extends win streak to four
Both teams face Penn and Princeton; women at home
Reid's overtime goal caps Big Green's improbable comeback
More than 3000 track and field athletes of all ages will set their spikes in Leverone Field House this weekend for the 25th Annual Dartmouth Relays, New England's premier indoor track and field event. The participants include high school and college athletes, former and current Olympians, national and world record holders, club team members, masters champions and grammar school kids. On Friday, the men's and women's Masters events will be held, featuring athletes over 30 divided into age brackets.
New women's basketball coach Chris Wielgus doesn't believe in looking at the past. "If you look backwards, then you go backwards," she said.