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Fall’s Highs and Lows
A rundown of this season’s ups and downs in Big Green sports p. 8 By Samantha Hussey and Danielle Okonta
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VOLLEYBALL The Big Green played two tight matches this weekend, beating Brown University and losing a nailbiter against Yale University. Dartmouth knocked off the Bears 3-2 (17-25, 24-26, 25-18, 25-16, 15-12) before falling to the Bulldogs on Senior Day, 2-3 (18-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-13, 13-15) to close out the 2016 season. After losing the first two sets to Brown, the Big Green was able to stage a comeback and defeat the Bears 3-2. Emily Astarita ’17 and Zoe Leonard ’19 both had doubledoubles, Astarita with 18 digs and 11 kills and Leonard recording 22
assists and 16 digs. The Big Green dominated the third, fourth and fifth sets to win the match. In its final game of the season, the Big Green fell to Yale 3-2. The Bulldogs took a 2-0 lead, but the Big Green played strong in the third and fourth sets to force a fifth set. Dartmouth and Yale were knotted up at 12-12 near the end of the fifth set before the Bulldogs pulled out the 15-13 win. Maddy Schoenberger ’20 had a double-double with 13 assists and 12 digs. Molly Kornfeind ’17 notched 10 kills while Astarita had 11. Dartmouth finishes the season at 9-16 and 2-12 in Ivy play.
“We are definitely in a rebuilding year, but I’m proud of how positive the girls have been and how much we’ve grown this season as a team.”
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“Our new coaches have an emphasis on skill work, trying to get us better individually every day in practice. I think it’s going to be a good season. We have a big freshman class this year, and they are doing a good job forcing the older guys to bring it everyday in practice.”
-CAMERON SMITH ’18 The Big Green men’s basketball team fell to No. 23 University of Rhode Island on Friday night in the first game of David McLaughlin’s inaugural season as head coach. The Rams (1-0) downed Dartmouth (0-1) 84-61 in front of a crowd of 6,052 at Rhode Island’s Ryan Center. Evan Boudreaux ’19 led the Big Green with a double-double, tallying 14 points and 11 rebounds. Guilien Smith ’19 had 13 points and Ike Ngwudo ’17 had nine points in his first start for the Big Green. E.C. Matthews led the Rams with 21 points in 23 minutes. The Big Green kept the score close in the
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For its last race of the fall, Dartmouth women’s rowing returned to Boston for the Foot of the Charles Regatta on Saturday afternoon. In the women’s Varsity 8 race, Dartmouth entered four boats. Dartmouth’s A boat led the way for the Big Green, finishing in fifth place overall with a
first period until the Rams went on a 9-2 run over the final four minutes. The two teams went to the locker room with Rhode Island up 39-26. Rhode Island opened the second period with a 17-4 run and had leads of 30 on several occasions, but the Big Green brought the final margin down to 23 points. The Big Green shot 35.2 percent from the floor and 33.3 percent beyond the arc. The Rams shot 47.1 percent overall. Dartmouth plays its home opener Tuesday against Fairfield University at 7 p.m.
time of 21 minutes and 28.1 seconds. The B, C and D boats finished 11th, 18th and 21st. In the Novice 8+ race, Dartmouth entered one boat, which placed 11th with a time of 15:48.7. Dartmouth women’s rowing will compete again in April.
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- SARA LINDQUIST ’18
men’s HOCKEY The Big Green men’s hockey team fell to No. 7 Quinnipiac University 6-3 and tied Princeton University 2-2 in two tough ECAC hockey games this past weekend. Dartmouth stands at 2-1-2 and 1-1-2 in ECAC play. The Big Green opened the scoring against Quinnipiac with a Kevan Kilistoff ’19 goal just one minute into the first period. Quinnipiac responded with a power play goal at the 7:48 mark to knot the score at 1-1; a goal from John Ernsting ’19 made it lead 2-1 Big Green at the end of the first period. Quinnipiac scored two goals in the second period to lead 3-2. The Big Green got a goal from Cam
Strong ’20 in the third period, but Quinnipiac’s Landon Smith scored a hat trick in the final frame, and the Bobcats cruised to victory. Quinnipiac outshot the Big Green 5424 and went 3-for-9 on power plays and 8-for-8 on penalty kills. Devin Buffalo ’18 recorded 48 saves on Friday night against Quinnipiac and 22 versus Princeton the next night. Dartmouth tied Princeton 2-2 with goals from Strong, who leads the team with three goals on the season, and Ernsting. Dartmouth’s power play woes continued on Saturday; the team is now 0-31 this season on the power play.
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A rash of turnovers spoiled a record-setting offensive performance for the Big Green, as the Brown University Bears defeated Dartmouth 24-21 at Memorial Field on Saturday. Dartmouth now stands at 4-5 and 1-5 in Ivy play. The Big Green offense racked up a total of 615 yards — the most in a game since 1925. Jack Heneghan ’18 threw for 440 of those yards to set a new single-game record for the Big Green. The Bears scored the only points of a quiet first quarter on a 1-yard touchdown run. Dartmouth evened things up midway through the second quarter with a matching 1-yard plunge from Vito Penza ’19. The Bears added points on each of their
three drives in the quarter — two more touchdowns and a 52-yard field goal. The third quarter opened 24-7, and the score remained that way as neither team was able to get on the scoreboard. The Big Green staged a comeback in the fourth with touchdown runs from Ryder Stone ’18 and Heneghan, but an onside kick attempt dribbled out of bounds with 1 minute and 47 seconds to play, effectively sealing the game. Heneghan went 37-53 with three interceptions. Hunter Hagdorn ’20 led the Big Green with 13 catches for 171 yards, a new freshman record. Miles Smith ’19 led in rushing for 17 carries for 111 yards.
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Photo by TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF For second straight year, team falls in national quarterfinals.
The Dartmouth rugby team fell to American International College 33-29 in the first round of the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association national tournament, putting an end to the team’s 2016 15s campaign. The Big Green finished the year 7-2 overall. The women had high hopes for this quarterfinal match after defeating the Yellow Jackets 24-22 in their first meeting on Sept. 3. Dartmouth led 17-14 at the half, but two tries from AIC put the team in a hole. The Big Green stormed back to a 29-26 lead with about five minutes remaining, but a Yellow Jacket try and conversion in the final minutes pushed the game out of reach. This marks the second straight year that the Big Green has fallen in the national quarterfinals.
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Women’s hockey played back-to-back home games versus No. 8 Quinnipiac University on Friday night and No. 10 Princeton University on Saturday. Against Quinnipiac, Dartmouth controlled the special teams, capitalizing on its lone power play opportunity with a goal by Eleni Tebano ’17 while killing off all six of Quinnipiac’s power play opportunities. Quinnipiac opened the scoring with a goal midway through the second period. In the third period, 40 seconds after Tebano’s game-tying goal, Quinnipiac’s Kate MacKenzie netted the game-winning goal, giving the Bobcats a 2-1 victory over Dartmouth. The women fared better on Saturday, beating Princeton 3-2 in overtime and earning their first victory of the season — and the first goal of head coach Laura Schuler’s Dartmouth tenure. Outshot 16-7 in the first period, the Big Green nonetheless took a 2-0 lead on goals from Emma Korbs ’17 and Rose Falzone ’20. Princeton scored twice early in the second period to tie the game at two goals apiece. Scoring her second goal in as many days, Tebano propelled Dartmouth to victory, sealing the upset with just under a minute left in overtime. Dartmouth next plays at Maine on Nov. 28.
“I would say this past weekend was the best set of games we have played all season. It is great to see that all our hard work at the beginning of the season and even before is beginning to pay off. We might not have as many wins as we would like as of right now, but you need to start somewhere. If we keep playing like this while making little improvements here and there, it will become a very exciting season to be a part of.”
- HAILEY NORONHA ’18
Photo by ANNIE DUNCAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF The Big Green clinched a share of the Ivy League Championship.
“Unfortunately a lot of our good play hasn’t been reflected in our results in that we’ve dominated a lot of teams so far but haven’t been able to pull out a win. We’ve tied a lot of games and lost a couple really close games, but I think we’ve turned it around enough that we should be able to make a good post-season record.”
-NOAH PARAVICINI ’19 On Saturday, the Dartmouth men’s soccer team played Brown University under the lights at Burnham Field. Winning 2-0, Dartmouth clinched a share of the Ivy League Championship with Columbia University and earned an automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA College Cup. In front of a crowd of nearly 1,000 fans, the Big Green controlled much of the game on
Saturday. Late in the first half, Noah Paravicini ’19 hammered a shot into the top right corner of the goal to open the scoring for Dartmouth. Emmanuel Arteaga ’17 assisted on what was Paravicini’s fourth goal of the season. In the second half, Matt Danilack ’18 headed in his third goal of the season to put the Dartmouth up a comfortable two goals late in the game. Sophomores
Justin Donowa ’19 and Eduvie Ikoba ’19 assisted the play. Brown’s best chance to score came with just 19 seconds to play, but the shot pounded the cross bar, preserving goalkeeper James Hickok ’17’s sixth clean sheet of the season. Dartmouth will find out its opponent in the first round of the NCAA tournament during the selection show on Monday afternoon.
WOMEN’s BASKETBALL The women’s basketball team opened its season this past weekend with a home matchup against Central Connecticut State University. Leading two at the end of the third quarter, Dartmouth held Central Connecticut to just six fourth quarter points on its way to a 61-51 season-opening win. Senior Fanni Szabo ’17 led the Big Green in scoring with 16 points. Forward Isalys Quinones ’19 contributed 11 points and 12 rebounds, while fellow sophomore Emily Dryden ’19 tallied 14 points off the
bench. On Sunday, Dartmouth travelled to Burlington to play the University of Vermont in its second game of the weekend. For the second straight game, Szabo and Dryden led the team in scoring, with 22 and 10 points respectively. Down 21 points with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Big Green battled back but ultimately lost 59-54. The team returns to action next Wednesday when it hosts the College of the Holy Cross.
SWIMMING AND DIVING Opening its 2016-2017 season, Dartmouth swimming and diving hosted Harvard University and Cornell University on Saturday. Both the men’s and women’s teams fell to Harvard and Cornell, who placed first and second, respectively. AJ Krok ’19 led the way for Dartmouth men’s diving, placing third on both the 3-meter and 1-meter boards. His score of 324.25 on the 3-meter board qualified him for the NCAA Zone Diving Championship at the end of the season. On the women’s side, Allison Green ’19 placed third on the 3-meter board and second on the 1-meter board. Highlighting the day for Dartmouth men’s swimming, freshman Josh Hendell ’20 won the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9 minutes and 28.31 seconds in his first collegiate meet. He also finished third in the 500 freestyle. Dartmouth’s
A relay — consisting of Will Belmont ’20, John Hall ’20, Henry Patrick ’19 and Tony Shen ’18 — finished third, out-touching Cornell by six hundredths of a second. Shen also finished second in the 200 individual medley, while teammate Henry Senkfor ’18 finished third. Leading Dartmouth women’s swimming, Sam Norton ’20 opened her collegiate career with a narrow victory in the 200 breaststroke. AnnClaire McArt ’18 also had a strong start to her season, finishing second in both the 500 and 1,000 freestyle. In the 400 freestyle relay, Dartmouth’s A team of Sophie Smith ’20, Megan Crook ’19, Melanya Zaraska ’19 and Amy Sun ’17 took second, while the B relay placed directly behind them in third. The teams swim again on Dec. 2 in the Big Al Invitational at Brown University.
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Dartmouth Broadcasting’s game coverage comes to an end of Learfield Sports. Dartmouth Broadcasting came to the table asking a higher rate to The Dartmouth Staff broadcast games, as they made less When fall sports season began, revenue selling advertisements during some Upper Valley community games than selling ads during rock members noticed a change in the music slots at the same time, Ceplikas sports they heard on the radio. noted. A price was set, all parties “[People] left us messages,” said seemed satisfied, and the negotiations Chris Garrett, a 30-year broadcast- concluded successfully: Dartmouth ing veteran who hosts the morning football and hockey would continue show and calls hockey games for to be broadcast on 99Rock. Dartmouth Broadcasting’s 99Rock But in May 2016, Dartmouth . “They asked, ‘Where’s the football Broadcasting approached the athgame,’ ‘how come I can’t get the letic department — now represented hockey game.’” by Big Green Sports Properties, Dartmouth Broadcasting made its Learfield’s new Dartmouth affiliate first official transmission on 1340 AM — with a new proposal, according in 1958 and has been broadcasting to Ceplikas and student general continuously ever since, serving as manager Kevin Patterson ’17. Facthe home for Big Green sports on ing pressure to meet their operating Upper Valley airwaves. On July 7, budget, Patterson, station director the athletic Heath Cole, and department “It was a part of my sports director Abannounced hilasha Gokulan ’18 its decision life. It was something decided that the preto end its I looked forward to viously negotiated partnercompensation was s h i p w i t h every September.” not enough to jusDartmouth tify continuing sports BroadcastThey pre-CHRIS GARRETT, HOST OF coverage. ing in favor sented BGSP a conof a three- MORNING RADIO SHOW tract with compenyear part- 99ROCK sation figures that nership with were “significantly Great Easthigher” than the preern Radio. viously agreed-upon The new numbers, Ceplikas partnership began this fall with live said. broadcasts of Big Green football and At this point, Ceplikas noted, hockey games on ESPN 94.5 FM and BGSP and the athletic department 1230 AM. felt that their options were limited. Unsurprisingly, the decision to end “We infor med [Dartmouth this partnership received criticism Broadcasting] that we could not from alumni of the student organiza- justify dedicating so much additional tion. funding for this purpose,” Ceplikas Listeners, however adjusted and said. “We would have to see if any tuned in to Dartmouth’s new flagship outside stations were able to broadcast station. Dartmouth Broadcasting also our games at affordable rates, or we adjusted, filling sports slots with more would have to rely upon internet music coverage. streaming for football and hockey as But for alumni and listeners we’d been doing with basketball and outside the College, the question other sports.” remained: why had Dartmouth sports After several weeks of silence from left Dartmouth radio? Learfield, Dartmouth BroadcastThe answer boiled down to money. ing finally received word in a June In late 2015, Dartmouth an- email: Big Green sports coverage was nounced it had outsourced its athletic headed elsewhere. multimedia rights to Learfield Sports, “With Learfield Sports negotiating one of the nation’s largest collegiate on our behalf, local stations agreed sports marketing companies. In to not only broadcast football and addition to Dartmouth, Learfield hockey, but also men’s and women’s represents more than 120 college pro- basketball, at rates that were comfortgrams across the country, including ably within out budget,” Ceplikas Stanford University, the University said. “We were thankful that these of Alabama and Ivy League foes new arrangements have enabled out Columbia University and the Uni- teams to be covered over the air, even versity of Pennsylvania. In October, if [Dartmouth Broadcasting] could the marketing giant was acquired for not afford to do so.” north of $1 billion. Initially, Chris Garrett remained In the same month, said deputy optimistic that he could continue as athletic director Bob Ceplikas, the voice of men’s hockey. However, negotiations began to preserve the he soon received a call from the relationship between the athletics former Big Green women’s hockey department and Dartmouth Broad- broadcaster. casting with the impending arrival He said, “‘just wanted to let you
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know...[BGSP] just offered me your job,’” Garrett recalled. After 10 years of doing play-byplay for the Big Green, Garrett said it is difficult to step away. “I loved the travel, I loved the trips, I loved the team, I loved the guys, I loved the coaching staff,” he said. “It was a part of my life. It was something I looked forward to every September.” Patterson echoed similar sentiments to Garrett. “On a personal level, the station has been a little disappointed,” Patterson said. “We had a much bigger sports environment before, and now that’s dwindled a bit.” In response to the announcement, Robert Piampiano ’67, a former sports broadcaster on WDCR, wrote letters to Harry Sheehy, the director of athletics and recreation, about his dismay. As a student sports broadcaster, Piampiano covered hockey, baseball and basketball and noted his work provided him with time management and business skills. In a letter he wrote on Sept. 30, Piampiano wrote that it is “hard to accept that this decision was not driven solely by financial considerations, without regard to its detrimental effect on the entire Dartmouth community.” Although from a listener’s perspective, a game broadcast’s most salient features are play-by-play, color commentary and sideline reporting, much more happens behind the scenes. Patterson said students mainly worked to
produce game broadcasts, sitting in casts coaches’ shows and promotional the studio booth and flipping switches material, which 99Rock could not to move from the game broadcast to air. Additionally, men’s and women’s commercials and back again. basketball have begun airing on Kool “That’s not that thrilling,” he said. 93.9 and 96.3. The new arrangement Ultimately, it was a joint decision marks the first time that basketball for Dartmouth Broadcasting to ask has been consistently broadcasted on BGSP for another fee increase, ac- the radio since 2008. Basketball and cording to Patterson. baseball coverage was discontinued “I saw the contract, and our sports when the broadcast tower at Chase director Field was taken down, and [ G o k u - “We didn’t make WDCR 1340 AM was lan] saw money [broadcasting taken off air. the conThe athletic det r a c t , ” games] in the past. It partment was able to reP a t t e r - was kind of a service tain most existing broadson said. casters. Although Garrett “It’s kind to the College.” no longer broadcasts of to her hockey, Wayne Young d e t r i - -KEVIN PATTERSON ’72 is back in the booth m e n t for his 17th year calling that she ’17, DARTMOUTH Big Green football. Stucan’t any BROADCASTING dent broadcaster Michael longer do Kaiser ’18 continues to some of STUDENT GENERAL do color commentary on the stuff MANAGER hockey games alongside that she professional play-by-play signed man Adam Giardino. up wanting to do, but she agreed “We continue to offer opportunithat that contract wasn’t really the ties for dedicated student broadcastbest deal for us.” ers on some radio broadcasts and When BGSP informed Dart- audio streams,” Ceplikas said. mouth Broadcasting of the new As for Dartmouth Broadcasting, arrangement, Cole replied, “Best the group is happy with the higher of luck moving forward with your revenues, even if it means Dartmouth broadcasting. I am confident that this sports cannot be broadcast on Dartdecision will be beneficial to both of mouth radio. us.” “It’s worth a lot more to us to play Neither party appears to be look- ads than it is to play games,” Pating back. terson said. “We didn’t make money In addition to football and hockey [broadcasting games] in the past. It broadcasts, 94.5 ESPN also broad- was kind of a service to the College.”
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Ivy League proposes new legislation to combat early recruiting hurts players, who can become essentially locked into a verbal commitment, well before it is clear if they have the academic or athletic talent to play for the school. A player may enter his junior year feeling safe due to the verbal commitment, only to find out his grades are not acceptable. The legislation also prevents coaches from entering into arms races with other coaches for younger players. Jake Munick, assistant athletic director of compliance, worked on the proposal, noting the adverse effects that early recruiting may have on high school athletes specifically. “The whole intent is that the act of recruiting early, or recruiting freshmen and sophomores...is a detriment to their experience in high school, and their schooling, and their time to develop,” he said. According to a 2014 study conducted by The New York Times in conjunction with the National Collegiate Scouting Association, 36 percent of women’s lacrosse players, 31 percent of men’s lacrosse players and 24 percent of women’s soccer players gave commitments before they were juniors. Several men’s lacrosse players made headlines for verbally committing to play for different colleges, including Brendan O’Neil, who committed to Pennsylvania State University in 2015 in eighth grade, and Joey
Epstein, who committed to play to ranking recruits and predicting for Johns Hopkins University in where they will attend. The Dartmouth 2018. Despite the various levels On Sept. 21, the Ivy League Although The New York of early recruitment in Division proposed new legislation to the Times study discovered only I sports, the call to end the NCAA to combat early recruiting. 5 percent of men’s basketball practice is not a new issue for If approved, the legislation recruits and 5 percent of football coaches. In 2009 and 2012, the would close the various loopholes recruits received and accepted a Intercollegiate Men’s Lacrosse that allow coaches to make scholarship before reaching their Coaches Association proposed a contact with recruits before their junior year of high school, early rule change regarding recruiting, junior year. Instead, recruiting, recruiting is still an issue for these but the NCAA declined to vote especially through phone calls student-athletes. on it. and conversations at sports camps In 2010, Lane Kiffin, the In 2014, Brian Voelker, or clinics, would be prohibited offensive coordinator for the Drexel University’s men’s until Sept. 1 of a student’s junior University of Alabama football lacrosse head coach, wrote an year of high school. team, recruited a 13-year-old open letter, asking high school Currently, coaches are quarterback for the Class of and players and their parents technically barred from talking 2015. Earlier this year, Jesus to “stop the madness” and “put to athletes until their junior Machado, an eighth grade some sanity back in this process.” year, but through a variety of linebacker, received offers However, as Munick noted, technicalities, they may start from the the Ivy the recruiting process as early as U n i v e r s i t y “Shifting the pressure L e a g u e eighth grade. of Alabama, realized the from tournaments and The legislation would prevent Iowa State only way to coaches from giving young U n i v e r s i t y, SATs back a year or two end the issue recruits promises about financial M i c h i g a n would definitely have effectively aid and help with admission. S t a t e is to enact Furthermore, coaches may not U n i v e r s i t y, some advantages.” legislation. talk to players about recruiting at N o r t h Brendan camps and clinics, call or receive Carolina Callahan, -HARLAN SMART ’20, MEN’S a call from younger players. The S t a t e m e n ’ s concept behind this legislation is U n i v e r s i t y LACROSSE PLAYER lacrosse that it tightens up the rules about and West head coach, early recruiting already on the Virginia said that the books, which differ among NCAA University. men’s and Division I sports but allow early Due to women’s recruits to visit campuses through the high lacrosse an “unofficial visit not paid for m e d i a c o a c h e s by the institution” according to coverage for March Madness had voted earlier on proposed the NCAA. and the NCAA College Football legislation that would have The aim of the proposed Bowls, the recruiting process has stopped early recruiting. legislation is twofold. First, the also become sensationalized with “What used to happen in proposal argues early recruiting websites such as ESPN dedicated your freshmen and sophomore year was all about development and growth as an athlete and as a student,” he said. Now, younger athletes are focused more on “where they’re going to college instead of sophomore English,” Callahan noted. Furthermore, the legislation is a necessary step toward ending early recruitment, he said, because it is impossible to ensure coaches would not break the lenient rules in order to gain a competitive advantage by contacting potential studentathletes early. Many of the cases concerning early recruitment come from Division I schools in competitive conferences. Haley Berg, a 14-year-old soccer player, received full scholarship offers from the University of Colorado, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas, schools in the Pac-12, Southeastern and Big 12 conferences, respectively. Currently, the Pac-12 is one of the most successful conferences in the NCAA. Three of its schools — the University of California at ELIZA MCDOUNOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Los Angeles, Stanford University The proposed legislation would enforce rules preventing coaches from contacting recruits before junior year.
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and the University of Southern California — have won the most NCAA Division I championships, followed by schools in the Big 12 and the Big 10 conferences. Yale University is tied for 17th place with the University of Wisconsin, with 28 NCAA championships. The call to curb early recruiting, though, occurs among these athletic powerhouses, too. Former UCLA softball coach Sue Enquist noted that issues have arisen where a studentathlete commits to multiple schools or coaches offer the same scholarship to multiple recruits. Instead, she argues for verbal commitments, which are “honest and transparent.” The New York Times reported that Ivy League coaches avoid recruiting high school freshmen due to the standards for admission. Currently, the Ancient Eight schools do not offer athletic scholarships due to their promise to offer outstanding financial aid in its place. Coaches may only assist prospective athletes with obtaining a financial aid award by contacting the respective school’s admissions and financial aid offices. Callahan also noted the change in recruiting has led parents to become significantly more involved in the process and created more issues if athletes transfer or decommit. For example, some players who commit early to play for a specific coach may choose another school if the coach leaves the program before he or she starts playing. In the announcement for the proposal, Robin Harris, executive director of the Ivy League Council of Presidents, cited the increasing transfer rates in the NCAA as a reason to ban early recruiting. From a coaches’ perspective Callahan also discussed circumstances where an athlete may not develop enough or may suffer an injury. Unfortunately, he said, these circumstances may force a coach to rescind their offer. Harlan Smart ’20, a member of the men’s lacrosse team, also saw some of the issues with early recruiting and the benefits of the proposed rule. “Shifting the pressure from tournaments and SATs back a year or two would definitely have some advantages,” he said. However, Smart also acknowledged that it was good for him personally to know early where he was going to school. Members of the NCAA may vote upon this legislation during its annual meeting in January.
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HendricksTakesthePostseason In what became the two greatest victories in franchise history, the Chicago Cubs turned to a pitcher so unassuming that his Twitter bio still refers to him as a right-handed pitcher “in the Chicago Cubs organization.” That’s right: despite posting the best ERA in Major League Baseball this season, Kyle Hendricks ’12 still hasn’t bothered to update this description of himself to reflect his status as a dominating starter, Cy Young frontrunner and World Series champion. In short, 2016 has been good to the right-hander from southern California. In Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, with the Cubs on the verge of returning to the World Series for the first time since 1945, manager Joe Maddon handed the ball to Hendricks, and Hendricks delivered a gem. 7.1 innings. Zero runs. Two hits. Six strikeouts. Hendricks, known to his teammates as the Professor, was dealing. After giving up a one out single in the top of the eighth, Hendricks walked off the mound to a thunderous ovation from the Wrigley faithful. The Professor
had done his job. He walked off the mound the way he always did: eyes down, cap brim low, arms relaxed at his sides. He raised his hand for a moment to acknowledge the roaring crowd. With Hendricks, there is never any emotion. He is consistently calm, whether he strikes out five consecutive batters or gives up five runs (not that he’s giving up even one run very often these days). After the Cubs scored two in the bottom of the first, it felt as though the team had a stranglehold for the remainder of the game because of its starting pitcher. Throughout the night, even the best of the Los Angeles Dodgers hitters appeared off-balance and uncomfortable, perpetually struggling to square up pitches and seldom ever making hard contact. The pressure was firmly on Hendricks. He played for the best team in baseball, yet he was running up against Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers’ starting pitcher who most baseball fans would describe as the greatest pitcher of this generation. While Kershaw faltered under the bright lights of the clinching game, Hendricks, in his characteristic way, did not flinch. Maddon needed him to get the ball to his bullpen with a lead, ideally pitching five or six strong innings. Hendricks responded with a dominant performance, passing the ball to the pen up 5-0 and only needing to record five outs to send the Cubs to the Fall Classic. After the Cubs fell behind 3-1 to the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, its prospects appeared bleak, and it looked as though Hendricks may not get another shot to pitch, having shut out the Indians in his Game 3 start only to watch the bullpen allow the Indians to take a
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1-0 lead to win the game. However, excellent starts by Jon Lester and Jake Arrieta opened the door for Hendricks to get one final, winnertake-all start. In many ways, it looked like the perfect recipe for success: the Cubs would send baseball’s most unflappable pitcher to the mound in what may have been the biggest game in the sport’s history. By the time Hendricks got the ball, a lead-off Dexter Fowler home run had already given the Cubs a 1-0 lead. The Professor would take control from there. Hendricks only went 4.2 innings this time and did allow one earned run, but he left the game with the Cubs in complete control. It seemed a strange move to pull Hendricks so early. He pitched well and appeared to have plenty left in the tank, but Maddon decided he had seen enough. This choice nearly blew up in Maddon’s face. The Chicago bullpen was unable to shut the door, squandering a huge late lead and sending the game to extra innings, but you already know that story. Jason Heyward fired up the Cubs with a rousing speech from somewhere deep in the bowels of Progressive Field. Ben Zobrist ripped a double to score Albert Almora Jr. Miguel Montero drove in Anthony Rizzo. Carl Edwards Jr. and Mike Montgomery tag-teamed the ninth, and the Cubs won their first World Series since 1908. If they hadn’t been able to stage
that 10th inning rally and had failed to take back the lead and clinch the game and the series, the Cubs’ wily manager would have taken intense criticism, particularly for his choice to lift Hendricks so early. However, while these bullpen missteps did cost Hendricks the chance to be the winning pitcher in Game 7 of the World Series, they did not cost the Cubs the win. Once again, throughout his start and even in the dugout once his job was done, Hendricks did not show any emo-
tion, at least not until the final out had been recorded. Hendricks has been baseball’s breakout star of 2016. He went from the anonymous “RHP in the Chicago Cubs organization” to the ace of a historically good rotation. He started and dominated in the two biggest games in Cubs’ history. I think it’s pretty safe to say, Hendricks can finally update that twitter to “RHP for the Chicago Cubs” because I don’t think he’s getting sent down to Triple-A Iowa any time soon.
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A New Hope And just like that, we’ve reached the final stop of a long and arduous journey: the last edition of NMW. Over the past two months you have witnessed an incredible narrative play out before your very eyes. You’ve seen my GPA slowly descend along with my sanity and the intelligibility of this column. You’ve seen your favorite columnist put up the good fight against the blatant censorship by the fascist superiors of The Dartmouth. Heck, you’ve even seen my notorious inability to adhere to deadlines, as this column is once again three hours past its due time. But what you don’t see is the action that goes on behind the scenes. If only you could break the fourth wall and look at he who writes this column, a haunting sight
awaits you. A mighty titan who was once a paragon of excellence and success has lost the fire in his eyes. A shell of his former self, even his once renowned hair has started to thin and recede, adding new meaning to The Great Recession. Your beloved columnist has hit rock bottom, where the only consistency in my life is that I can’t get any lower from here. But it doesn’t matter how many times I’m knocked down, but rather how many times I get up. And from the ashes I will rise, for I very clearly see the light at the end of the tunnel: this column. I started this column because I was tired of the dystopian censorship in the newspaper. Whenever I added in the smallest inkling of humor, I was bound to have my wrist slapped by the nefarious editors. Apparently it’s “unprofessional” to make innuendos about lacrosse sticks when covering sports. Ridiculous. I didn’t believe these flagrant lies for even a second. They just couldn’t handle me because I shone too bright. So I took a stand for all the voices oppressed by “professional” and “common etiquette,” whatever these contrived social constructs even mean. I created NARP Meets World and embarked on an epic adventure of vigilante justice and freedom of speech, knowing fully that I would be inciting a war against the establishment. And just like that I had done the impossible: I had created a
sports column about anything but sports, and the response has been tremendous. Each day I am constantly encouraged by the kind words of my fans. “Your column makes no sense,” “You’re literally a tool,” “Keep up the good work of being an idiot!” Music to my ears, my friends. But I remember in particular the defining moment of this column’s journey. “For three years I have not read a single thing from The D,” Daniel Jung ’18 said. “But I tell you, I have read all your articles and I love them.” I had to bite my tongue to hold back the tears welling up in my eyes. It’s really no surprise why my column has become such a hit in such a short amount of time. There is something intrinsically seductive about the rebellious nature of this very column. Writing a column in the sports section that has nothing to do about sports is the quintessential manifestation of sticking it to the man, and the taste of rebellion is intoxicating. But as we rally behind the stirring message of this column, we have undoubtedly encountered fervent resistance from the establishment. As I mentioned in my last column, the editors at The Dartmouth have been fighting tooth and nail to make me include sports in this column. But worry not, my friends, for I have not forgotten the very purpose for which this column was created. In
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the face of adversity, I have kept to my roots and continued to write nonsensical columns each week. And as week 10 looms around the corner, I must admit that I have exhausted all the spirit to fight within me. I no longer have it within me to put up the fight against the administration and the Man. And as I slowly crumble down to a pile of ashes, encumbered by the rigorous demands of Hanlon’s paradise, I can fade away with a smile on my face knowing that we have won
the good fight. My friends, we have won the battle, for the entire hierarchy of The Dartmouth has been replaced by the perfect team of lackadaisical clowns and Kourtney Kawano ’18, who I know will publish almost everything I write. If you think this column has been egregious so far, get ready for next term because NARP Meets World is NOT ending and it’s going to be wild. Lest the old traditions fall, my friends.
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016
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SAILING AT BOSTON, MASS. ALL DAY
Varsity sports see repeat championships, tough seasons this fall By SAMANTHA HUSSEY and DANIELLE OKONTA The Dartmouth
Women’s Soccer At the beginning of the season, the women’s soccer team defeated Iona College 3-0 at home on Burnham Field. Charlotte Easy ’20 shot the first goal less than 20 minutes into the game, and Meredith Gurnee ’17 scored shortly after. The team followed with another dominating performance in the second half, including a goal by co-captain Holly Patterson ’17. Overall, the team took 18 shot attempts to Iona’s five, maintaining the upper hand throughout the matchup. On homecoming weekend and Senior Day, the soccer team fell to rival Harvard University 0-2. No team had the upper hand for most of the first half, but the Crimson broke the scoreless draw in the 36th minute when Rachel Garcia shot a loose ball past Dartmouth’s goalkeeper Casey Cousineau ’17. The women attempted five shots in the second half, but Harvard kept its defense strong and managed another goal from Margaret Purce. A year ago the women tied Harvard 1-1, but this season the team was unable to win and improve its conference record. Men’s Soccer The men’s soccer team earned its honorable share of its third consecutive Ivy League Championship title with the 2-0 win over Brown University. The men dominated most of the game, outshooting the Bears 10-5 with Justin Donawa ’19 and Emmanuel Arteaga ’17 taking several shots on goal respectively. Right before the end of the first half, Noah Paravinci ’19 gave the men the lead with a goal. In the second half, Matt Danilack ’18 added another goal to the scoreboard for the men. Similar to its 2014 season, the men will share the title, but will compete in the NCAA College Cup due to its win over Columbia University earlier this season. While the men did not lose too many games overall this season, the team lost a pivotal game against Harvard University during Homecoming weekend, which could have ensured the team sole ownership of the Ivy League Championship. Both teams entered the game tied at the No. 1 position within the league. With the game scoreless late in the second half, the match appeared poised to go into overtime, a scenario which the Big Green has utilized to its advantage
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The men’s soccer team won its third consecutive Ivy League Championship title.
The rugby team won its second consecutive Ivy League Championship title.
several times this season. However, in the 79th minute, the Crimson’s Sam Brown received a pass and fired a hard shot that passed James Hickok ’17. With the 1-0 loss, the men dropped to 3-1-1 in conference play. Although Harvard later had to end its race to the Ivy League title, the loss affected Dartmouth nonetheless.
against the United States Military Academy on Oct. 9. The Black Knights headed into the matchup 0-1 and soundly defeated the Big Green 12-63. Dartmouth scored an early try and conversion in the sixth minute but could not continue its offensive push before the Cadets responded with 46 points in the second-half of the game.
in conference 0-7. A highlight of the season was its non-conference win over the College of the Holy Cross on Oct. 26. Morgan Philie ’18 and Carmen Braceras ’20 each scored a goal to clinch the 2-1 win, one, on a corner play and the other on a redirect off of a rush. With this win, the Big Green broke its seven-game losing streak.
Cross Country The men’s and women’s crosscountry teams posted a strong showing at the Dartmouth Invitational, where they both finished first, scoring 16 and 15 points respectively. In the Dartmouth Invitational, Quinn Cooney ’20 made his first collegiate appearance and led the Dartmouth pack, coming in third with his time of 25 minutes 16.01 seconds. On the women’s side, the Big Green dominated the field. Bridget Flynn ’18 led the pack of eight runners who finished the course first. The men’s team finished 13th at the New England Championship Meet, posting 318 points for the 8-kilometer run. Dominic Carrese ’19 finished first for the Big Green, but failed to make the top-25. Despite competing against larger schools, the women did not perform as well at the Indiana State Pre-National Invitational, finishing in 27th place with 679 points, 586 points behind the University of Colorado, who finished in first. Helen Schlactenhaufen ’17 finished 84th overall with a time of 21:19.2.
Sailing The sailing teams started their seasons on a high, with Sailing World ranking them on its weekly poll. The team has performed fairly well this fall, including a first place finish in the Hoyt trophy race in Providence, Rhode Island, out of 18 teams. However, during the 74th Pine Trophy regatta, the Big Green, could not defend its title for a third consecutive year, finishing fourth with 68 points. Represented by Erik Weis ’18, Duncan Wiliford ’18, Charlie Lalumiere ’17 and Nate Greason ’17, the team finished behind Yale University, Harvard University and Roger Williams University.
Tennis Racquel Lyn ’20 and Taylor Ng ’17 defeated Cornell University’s Priyanka Shah and Mariko Linuma 8-7 to qualify for the semifinal round of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. On that same day, Ng also defeated Yale University’s Madison Battaglia in singles 6-3, 6-4. At The Dartmouth Invitational, the men’s tennis team went 25-8 overall, with a 17-4 streak in singles and 8-4 in doubles. Max Schmidt ’17 and David Horneffer ’20 both went 5-0 while Max Fliegner ’18 and Joey Haig ’19 finished 5-1 in their matches. Included among the wins are Roko Glasnovic’s ’19 win over Amherst University’s Justin Sun 6-1, 4-6 and Horneffer and Schmidt’s 8-7 win over Yale University’s Ziqi Wang and Stefan Doehler. Football After finishing the first quarter four points below Towson University, the football team scored two touchdowns and a field goal in the second and third quarters and played solid defense in the first to defeat the Tigers 20-17. Charlie Miller ’17 and Jeremiah Douchee ’17 helped seal a Big Green win after blocking a 22-yard and a 56yard field goal attempt, respectively, in the fourth quarter. Miller and Isiah
Swann ’20 surprised the Tigers with some key interceptions and two fourth down stops. This game also marked Folarin Orimolade’s 19.5 career sacks, putting him at fifth all-time for Dartmouth’s football program. In its opening Ivy League match against a team that shared part of last year’s Ivy League Championship title, the men suffered a devastating loss to the University of Pennsylvania 37-24. The Quakers opened the match by scoring twice in the first quarter alone before the Big Green put itself on the board with a 27-yard field goal by David Smith ’18. Penn maintained its dominating offensive performance, scoring another two touchdowns in the second quarter. Before the end of the first half, Ryder Stone ’18 scored a 2-yard touchdown to bring the score to 28-10. Despite scoring two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, the Big Green could not salvage enough points before the clock ran out. Rugby Defending its Ivy League title for the second consecutive year, the rugby team defeated Harvard University 14-5 on Nov. 6. The women headed with several wins behind them, including the semifinal matchup against Brown (45-14). Despite failing to score in the first half of the game, the women regrouped and managed to score two tries, one of which came from a penalty try from Isabel Boettcher ’20. Kat Ramage ’19 delivered a conversion to bring the score to 7-5 in favor of the Big Green. In the 70th minute, Ramage followed up with a key pass to Frankie Sands ’18, who ran 20 yards for the team’s second try. The women suffered a tough loss
Field Hockey This season proved to be a tough one for the Big Green as they finished last in the Ivy League Conference with an overall record of 4-13 and
Volleyball Despite many close matches, a definite low for the volleyball team is its last-place standing in the Ivy League, based on its 2-12 conference record. Despite the season outcome, a highlight for the Big Green was its big win against Cornell University 3-2 (20-25, 25-15, 24-26, 25-22, 15-13) on Oct. 14. With this victory, the women broke an eight-game losing streak. Additionally, during the first set of the Cornell match, Emily Astarita ’17 recorded her 1,000th kill, becoming the sixth Big Green volleyball player in program history to reach the milestone.