Sports Weekly 10/20/14

10. 20. 14

FOOTBALL OUTLASTS HOLY CROSS FOR WIN

MEN’S SOCCER DROPS SECOND IN A ROW TO PENN

WOMEN’S SOCCER GETS FIRST IVY WIN OVER PENN KATE HERRINGTON, KELSEY KITTELSEN, DANNY KIM/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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BY THE Football escapes Homecoming with 24-21 win NUMBERS

8-4 Shot margin for the women’s soccer team against Penn.

9-3 Shot margin for the men’s soccer team in the second half against Penn.

20:21 Time for Dana Giordano ’16 in the Wisconsin Invite, good enough for 19th.

1997 Last time the football team had a record better than 4-1 to start the season. It was 5-0.

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The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Last season when Dartmouth met the College of the Holy Cross on the gridiron in Hanover, the Crusaders drove 67 yards in the waning minutes of the game to kick a game-winning field goal. This year, with another opportunity for a demoralizing game-ending drive, a mature Dartmouth (4-1, 2-0 Ivy) defense halted Holy Cross (2-6) in its tracks.

With the sun peeking out from behind the clouds over Memorial Field nearly three hours into the game, Dartmouth held Holy Cross to a sack and three incomplete passes to seal a 24-21 victory in the Big Green’s Homecoming game.

Despite appearing to have the game in hand after going up 24-6 at the end of the third quarter, the Big Green struggled to finish off the Crusaders, who scored a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns to make the game yet another exciting chapter in the school’s 101-year rivalry.

The Big Green, which relied on the passing game last week against Yale University, returned to its roots with a powerful running attack against Holy Cross. Dartmouth running back Kyle Bramble ’16 rushed for 113 yards, his second 100-yard rushing game of the season.

“We started off slow,” co-captain center Sean Ronan ’15 said. “But the offensive line as a unit knew that it was going to be on us.”

Quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 added 64 yards on the ground in addition to a 15 completions on 23 attempts for 156 yards and a pair of scores through the air.

In addition to snuffing out the Crusaders’ final attempt at the end of the fourth quarter, the Big Green defense also came up with a pair of interceptions on the day. Nickelback Frankie Hernandez ’16 nabbed his first career pick early in the second quarter and safety Donahue had his third of the season early in the third quarter, which sparked Dartmouth’s second touchdown drive.

The teams traded field goals to start the scoring. Neither team could

generate more than 30 yards on a drive before Dartmouth broke through with the first touchdown of the game on an eight-yard strike from Williams to wide receiver Ryan McManus ’15 in the right corner of the end zone with 1:11 remaining in the first half.

McManus would finish the game as Dartmouth’s leading receiver in the game, hauling in eight receptions for 89 yards.

Holy Cross managed to drive 51 yards in eight plays in the final minute of the half to kick a 39-yard field goal as time expired that made the score 10-6 at the break.

Head coach Buddy Teevens said that the team discussed being physical and executing as areas of improvement during the half.

After the offense failed to capitalize on its opening drive of the second half, Troy Donahue ’15 picked off Holy Cross sophomore quarterback Peter Pujals and shifted the momentum in Dartmouth’s favor.

After the interception, the Big Green marched on a methodical 11-play 81yard drive that was capped by a sevenyard play-action pass from Williams to an open Bramble for a touchdown.

The Dartmouth defense, aided by a holding penalty, forced a punt on the next series that McManus returned to the Holy Cross 48 yard line, giving the Big Green great field position to strike

again.

Riding a powerful running attack that averaged 5.7 yards per carry, Dartmouth scored again on a six-yard run by Brian Grove ’16, who went untouched off the right tackle to give the Big Green a seemingly insurmountable 24-6 lead after three quarters.

But, the Crusaders refused to quit, filling the fourth quarter with much more tension than the first 45 minutes would have predicted.

On their first possession of the fourth, Holy Cross reeled off a masterful 17play drive that took 6:56 and ended in the visitor’s first touchdown of the night. On Dartmouth’s next possession, the Big Green stalled at the Holy Cross 42 and failed to convert on fourth and three. The Crusaders took advantage of the field position and drive for another touchdown, making the score 24-21 with just over two minutes to go after succeeding on the two-point conversion thanks to a strong second effort.

Dartmouth went three and out on the next series, but a well-placed punt from Ben Kepley ’17 backed the Crusaders up to their eight yard line with just 1:25 remaining and no time outs.

Dartmouth set the tone on the first play, with Cody Fulleton ’16 and Corbin Stall ’15 combining for a sack. The secondary shut down Pujals’s options and forced him to throw three incompletions under significant pressure to more or

less end the game.

For the second season in a row, Pujals impressed against Dartmouth, throwing for 208 yards and rushing for 82, but the sophomore quarterback’s effort could not bring his team back from an 18-point hole.

“He’s a heck of a player,” Donahue said. “I’m definitely glad that’s the last time I’ll ever have to see him.”

After Saturday’s game, the record between the two rests perfectly tied at 37-37-4, including alternating wins and losses over the last five years.

Last season, the Big Green lost a dramatic contest to Holy Cross on a last-second field goal which frustrated many of the players. But this season, instead of reeling, the players were confident enough to attack and execute to finish the game, Donahue said.

“We were put in that same situation, two minute offense, and this year we were able to get the stop,” he said. “It’s a little bit of redemption.”

Teevens pointed to the team’s growth, noting his pride that the group learned from the previous experience and succeeded the second time around.

“A nice sign of maturation is that they’re disappointed with the way that they finished the game,” Teevens said.

The team returns to Ivy League play next week as it travels to New York to take on the winless Columbia University Lions at 1:30 p.m.

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The football team roared out of the gates then held on to defeat Holy Cross 24-21 on Homecoming.

Women’s soccer bests Penn 2-0

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The women’s soccer team beat the University of Pennsylvania 2-0 in front of a raucous crowd on Homecoming Saturday at Burnham Field to break its fivegame winless streak and notch this season’s first Ivy League win.

Corey Delaney ’16 scored the first goal, her second of the season, and Jackie Friedman ’16 added the insurance tally to pace the Big Green (4-4-4, 1-0-3 Ivy) to the

victory.

The Dartmouth women had worked on playing with composure despite excitement coming into games, Friedman said.

“Today we were a little bit more relaxed,” she said. “We always have really high energy and we’re really good at that, but sometimes we just need to calm down a bit, and I think we did a really good job at that today.”

Penn (5-5-2, 1-3-0 Ivy) looked strong at the start of the game,

but Dartmouth soon fell into its rhythm. With 12 minutes left in the half, the Big Green picked up speed and put pressure on the Quakers, with several Big Green players making dangerous runs up the right side of the field.

In the 35th minute, the Dartmouth pressure proved too much for Penn, when Delaney put the Big Green on the board. The tally was created by a sequence SEE W SOCC PAGE SW 4

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XC teams compete in Wisconsin Invite B y CHRIS SHIM

The women’s and men’s cross country teams scored 19th- and 24th- place finishes, respectively, at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational Friday in Madison.

Hosted by the University of Wisconsin, this invitational featured some of the nation’s best cross country teams.

The women’s 19th-place finish marked a downgrade from last season’s impressive 7th-place finish in the same invitational. Last year, Abbey D’Agostino ’14 led the Big Green women by winning the Wisconsin Invitational and setting a new course record. The loss of D’Agostino certainly harmed the women’s chances, but head coach Courtney Jaworski said she was pleased with the women’s performance.

“We knew that it was definitely going to be a very hard-fought race for everyone because all of the teams were so close to each other,” Jaworski said.

“Although we ran slightly faster than last year, because the teams were closer, the ultimate team outcome was lower.”

Dana Giordano ’16 finished 19th overall, leading the Big Green women.

Giordano improved on last year’s 29th place finish, crossing the tape one second faster than she had in 2013.

Captain Sarah DeLozier ’15 and Ellie Gonzalez ’18 also placed in the top 120, finishing in under 21:30.

DeLozier’s time fell off by 13 seconds from last year when she placed 39th.

This year, DeLozier finished 54th.

The Big Green women were the top

Ivy League team in the field, finishing well ahead of Cornell University, Columbia University and Harvard University.

The men’s team finished 24th in the race, led by consistent scoring among its top four runners.

“We had very solid performances by our first four guys, which I was very happy to see, but the gap between our fourth and fifth guys was way too big,” men’s head coach Barry Harwick said.

Captain Silas Talbot ’15 led the scoring for the men’s squad, finishing the 8-kilometer race in 24:32 to take an 84th-place individual finish while not far behind him, three Dartmouth runners finished within a six-second span of each other. Nat Adams ’17, Curtis King ’16 and Brian Masterson ’16 finished in 106th, 114th and 117th respectively. All four of the runners completed the course in under 25 minutes. Julian Heninger ’17 placed fifth for Dartmouth and 218th in the field of 254. The team placed 24th out of 36 teams in the field with 619 points.

Despite a strong finish, Harwick was not completely satisfied with the team’s performance.

“Tim Gorman [’15], who is normally one of our top contributors, had his back spasm in the middle of the race,” Harwick said. “He finished the race, but if he had been where he usually is, we would’ve done a lot better.”

Talbot was pleased with how the

top four men maintained a tight, strong pack throughout the race.

“While I think each of us could have run a few seconds faster, the fact that we finished within 13 seconds of one another over eight kilometers was exactly what we wanted to do in terms of having support throughout the race from teammates,” Talbot said.

Another positive aspect of the race was the Big Green’s strong performance against other Ivy League teams. The Big Green beat Columbia University and Harvard University and finished just one slot below the Princeton Tigers.

“In our first match-up against Princeton for the season, we were nipping at their heels,” Talbot said. “We now know that beating them is well within our team’s ability and the Ivy League title is becoming an increasingly realistic goal for our squad.”

The teams’ focus now shifts to the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships on Nov. 1 in Princeton, N.J., where both teams will look to claim Ivy titles.

“This Wednesday, we’ll do our only track session of the fall where we run faster than race pace,” Harwick said.

“It’s a good physical workout and a good confidence booster, and if we execute that workout well, we can head to the start line feeling good and ready to race.”

At Heps, the women will toe the line at 11 a.m. for the 6-kilometer race, and the men will line up an hour later to complete the 8-kilometer race.

Men’s soccer falls 2-1 to Penn at home B y Kourtney Kawano

Despite a valiant second-half effort, the men’s soccer team took its first Ivy League loss, 2-1, against the University of Pennsylvania Saturday. This match marked the 63rd time the Big Green (7-4-1, 2-1 Ivy) was pitted against the Quakers (6-6-0, 2-1 Ivy), the defending Ivy-League Champions. It was an unfortunate end to Dartmouth’s fourgame home stand at Burnham Field.

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“It was definitely disappointing,” head coach Chad Riley said. “But the team really picked it up in the second half, took a lot of shots and held the other team to only two shots during that period.”

The Big Green started the game in its usual fashion with an aggressive front and a quick defense capable of converting its opponent’s offensive passes into playmaking assists for shots. Dartmouth and Penn each took a corner kick in the first six minutes before an error by the Quakers gave the Big Green a penalty

kick that allowed Gabe Stauber ’15 to send the ball into the left corner of the net and put the home team up, 1-0, in the seventh minute.

The kick, Stauber said, was a good opportunity for the team to get started.

“We haven’t gotten a lot of PKs this season,” Stauber said. “But I had a nice set up, and it’s always great to get the first goal of the game.”

Dartmouth kept pressure on the Quakers and followed with another shot on goal a minute later by Gabe Hoffman-Johnson ’14 that soared just wide of the net. In the 35th minute, Penn equalized off of a corner kick, with freshman defender Sam Wancowicz pounding a one-timer into the back of the net.

“It was unfortunate to get scored on by a corner,” goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland ’16 said. “Our defender headed it and it deflected into the other team’s player and wound up in the back of the net, and that’s unlucky.”

Even with three fouls called on the away team in the remaining ten minutes of the first half, the Big Green could not score again. A high shot by Alexander Marsh ’17 in the 43rd minute missed the mark, and the period ended with a tied score.

The Big Green came out of halftime determined to strike first and armed with the support of a rowdy homecoming crowd. The team began the second period with another strong start as Jonathan Nierenberg ’18 took a shot on goal in the 47th minute. But Penn could adjust to Dartmouth’s intense offense, and in the 58th minute, the Quakers scored their second goal of the night off of a give-and-go dribbler that went just past Cleveland, putting the away team up by one.

This started a race against the clock for the Big Green. The team took shot after shot in the remaining 32 minutes of regulation play. Hugh Danilack ’15 and Matt Greer ’18 were both blocked on their shots before the Quakers were penalized with two yellow cards in the 76th and 77th minutes. Dartmouth tried to make plays off of the awarded free kicks, but shots by Stauber and Nick Rooney ’15 could not find the back of the net. The Big Green remained relentless in its pursuit to send the match to overtime. Dartmouth kept the ball in the Penn zone for much of the second half, denying the Quakers any shots after their second SEE M SOCC PAGE SW 4

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RUNDOWN Football SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

HARVARD DARTMOUTH PRINCETON YALE

2-0 2-0 2-0 1-1

5-0 4-1 3-2 4-1

PENN BROWN COLUMBIA CORNELL

1-1 0-2 0-2 0-2

1-4 2-3 0-5 0-5

Men’s Soccer SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

HARVARD DARTMOUTH PENN PRINCETON BROWN COLUMBIA CORNELL YALE

2-0-1 2-1-0 2-1-0 1-1-1 1-1-1 1-1-1 1-2-0 0-3-0

8-3-1 7-4-1 6-6-0 6-3-3 3-4-5 4-5-1 8-4-1 1-9-2

Women’s Soccer SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

HARVARD COLUMBIA PRINCETON DARTMOUTH YALE CORNELL PENN BROWN

3-0-1 2-1-1 2-1-1 1-0-3 1-1-2 1-3-0 1-3-0 0-2-2

7-3-2 4-3-3 5-2-4 3-3-4 6-5-0 5-3-2 5-3-2 5-5-2

Volleyball SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

YALE HARVARD DARTMOUTH PRINCETON COLUMBIA BROWN PENN CORNELL

6-1 5-2 4-3 4-3 3-4 3-4 3-4 0-7

10-6 12-4 13-5 9-8 7-9 8-11 6-12 3-14

Field Hockey SCHOOL

IVY

OVERALL

COLUMBIA CORNELL DARTMOUTH PRINCETON HARVARD BROWN PENN YALE

3-1 3-1 3-1 3-1 2-2 1-3 1-3 0-4

10-4 8-4 5-8 4-9 8-5 8-4 5-7 2-10

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B y katie jarrett The Dartmouth Staff

I sat down with Alex Adelabu ’15, striker for the men’s soccer team, Wednesday after the team’s 3-1 loss to then-No. 23 Boston University.

Adelabu, who leads the team in goals and points this season (five and 13, respectively) earned Ivy Player of the Week honors after two goals in three games for the Big Green.

On Saturday, the team lost its first Ivy game of the season, 2-1 to the University of Pennsylvania.

How did it feel to earn Ivy League Player of the Week?

AA: I think the big thing is that we’re winning. My sophomore year, I got it twice, and we didn’t have a really good record, so it didn’t really matter that I was doing well individually, but its good to have both the team doing well and to be doing well individually.

How’s the season going?

AA: Up until last night it was going well. We’ve been playing really well.

I think the freshmen came in and stepped up really big. We have a really balanced squad, so that allows us to play different squads for different games. It’s also nice that other people can step up and contribute.

Has there been anything lately that has helped you be so successful scoring?

AA: Just the talent around me. That makes my life easier. In past years, it’s just been me, but now other teams have to worry about other players on our team, so that gives me more space.

Do you have any personal goals for the rest of the season?

AA: I want to score more goals.

There are six more games and hopefully we can make the tournament, but I just want to score more goals and put in more assists as well.

As a senior on the team, have you had to take on a different role?

AA: I think in past years, when you get in tough situations in games, you look to the older guys to pull the team through, and now guys are looking up to you to do that. Also, off the field, you have to help the younger guys as far as maintaining and managing their bodies and taking the time to actually get ahead in studies. Especially when Ivy season rolls around, those are the midterm weeks, so you have to get ahead and give advice like that. We have a lot of seniors as well, so I don’t feel like

I have to do everything, so I think that’s good in that sense.

After the season ends, is there anything on campus that you want to do that you haven’t been able to do as an athlete?

AA: I want to do some acting. I did that a little bit my freshman year, so I’m hoping I can go back into that.

I also need to learn how to swim.

I like playing pick up basketball as well. During my internship, I played a lot with my coworkers so I’ll probably go down and play some pick up basketball.

Did you ever play basketball in high school?

AA: I played in middle school. I traveled a lot, though. I had just gotten here from Nigeria so I would just pick up the ball and run around with it. They called travel on me a lot, so I quit.

Is there any professional player that you look up to as a role model?

AA: I support Arsenal Football Club. Thierry Henry used to play for them, and I really like him. He’s fast like me, so I try to play like him.

Growing up, I watched them a lot.

He plays for New York Red Bulls now. I kind of look up to him, but that’s just in terms of playing soccer.

You can’t really look up to people in terms of their lifestyles, because their experiences are different. I think playing-wise I look up to him, but there are so many good players.

Cristiano Ronaldo is another one who just wants to succeed and works hard in that sense, so I look up to him as well.

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precision passes. Meredith Gurnee ’17 transferred the ball on a slide to Melanie Vangel ’18, coming up the right side of the field. Vangel advanced a few yards before sending a flat ball across to Delaney in the center of the box. She onetouched the ball just to the side of Penn senior goalkeeper Katherine Myhre and into the back of the net.

A multi-goal game seemed unlikely going in to the match. Both teams had shown strong defenses and averaged just one goal per game offensively. Dartmouth entered the game with an average goals against of less than one per game.

Yet Dartmouth scored again early in the second half. A corner kick by Kendall Kraus ’15 arrived in the box but was sent up the middle by a Quaker head. Friedman took one touch to control the ball and then sent it across the goal into the upper 90. Myhre could not even attempt to stop it.

“I love how the team came out in the second half,” head coach Ron Rainey said. “Because they did the three things [we talked

about at halftime] and it gave us a lot of good possession and a good goal to start the half.”

Dartmouth had several more excellent chances in the second half but could not capitalize. These included a header off a free kick that sailed over Myhre’s hands but was just cleared by a Quaker defender and a free kick from just outside the top corner of the box that Friedman sent high.

Penn returned the favor, nearly scoring as the clock ticked past the 87th minute. A corner kick was controlled at the top of the six-yard box. During a scrum, the ball nearly made it to the back of Dartmouth’s net, but a tight Big Green defense managed to just clear the ball wide.

The final 10 seconds of the game brought a countdown from fans. After the whistle blew, the happy Dartmouth team jogged over to the cheering fans.

“Three points feels a lot better than one,” Friedman said. “There was a lot going on yesterday [for Homecoming], but we couldn’t do a lot of it because we had to rest

up for today, but it was obviously worth it.”

Rainey is in his first season with the Dartmouth women and experienced both his first bonfire and first Ivy win this weekend.

The team will enjoy some time off before preparing for its next match against Columbia University. Rainey said the team will look at film of the Lions before the game Saturday and will practice on Scully Field, which is field turf like the artificial turf Columbia plays on.

“We’ll get the kids thinking about that surface and about what it takes to play on that,” Rainey said. “The ball tends to roll farther and more quickly on artificial turf, changing the dynamic of through balls and of maintaining possession of the ball.”

Delaney said that the team is looking to build on a good performance on Saturday against the Lions next weekend. The Lions sit at 2-1-1 in the Ancient Eight, just one point above the Big Green.

The game is slated to start at 4 p.m. Saturday in New York.

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goal. Hoffman-Johnson took three shots in the remaining five minutes but also could not score, leaving Dartmouth a goal short and on the wrong side of a 2-1 score line.

“This loss kind of stings,” Stauber said. “We outplayed them in the second half and just couldn’t finish our chances, which was

tough.”

The Big Green outshot the Quakers, 13-7; nine of Dartmouth’s shots came in the second period. The Quakers received three yellow cards while Dartmouth received none. The home team also led in corner kicks, 5-4.

The men will have a full week before traveling to New York to

play Columbia University.

“After some disappointment at home, it’s not bad to play away,” Riley said. “Columbia will be tough, but we’re still in such a strong spot in the league that we need to take advantage of the opportunity that is still there.”

The game will start at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

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We chatted again after the team’s loss to the University of Pennsylvania.

What didn’t go well in the game?

AA: I think we’re pretty unlucky.

They had only one shot in the second half and they scored from it. We didn’t really take our chances, and I’m guilty of that. I had a number of chances that on another day I could’ve done better on. We can’t change it and we have to keep it in perspective. I’ve watched the game over and over and over again. It’s one of those things that doesn’t get out of your body and you think about everything you could have done better. But we have a week off before Columbia. Hopefully we can go there and put together a really good performance.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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The men’s soccer team fell in the Ivy League standings with a 2-1 loss against Penn.