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Basketball teams beat Harvard on same night for first time since 2005 WOMEN’S HOCKEY DROPS ROAD GAME
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10 Records broken by swim and dive teams
20 Goals scored by men’s hockey in 13 days
3 Back-to-back first place finishes for track and field
11 Deficit men’s basketball overcame in comeback win
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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016
Women’s basketball defeats Harvard on road by six
By ASHLEY DUPUIS The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth earned a hardfought victory Saturday night over Harvard University on the road in their first league win of the season. Taking the lead in the first quarter with a free throw from Kate Letkewicz ’18, Dartmouth would remain ahead for the majority of the game, resulting in a 70-64 finish. “It’s a great environment,” Letkewicz said of playing in Cambridge. “We have a big rivalry [with Harvard], so it’s really intense and really competitive.” Letkewicz’s explosive play led the Big Green. The sophomore racked up 26 points and 17 rebounds, marking her third career double-double. She shot 9 for 17 from field goal range and 3 for 5 from three-point range. “We talked about getting better and getting our strengths better and Kate is good at a lot of things,” head coach Belle Koclanes said. “She has physicality. She can post up guards and she can post up posts. She can shoot from three and we got her the ball in great positions tonight — credit to her teammates for getting her the ball.” Lakin Roland ’16 continued to impress with consistent play going 5 for 6 on free throws, and putting up 18 points and 11 rebounds, her fifth double-double of the season. Koclanes previously addressed the need for the team to stop competing in spurts and to play consistently. The team clearly showed this improvement. For the first time in the season, Dartmouth outscored its opponents in three quarters. When the Big Green faced the Crimson just two weeks ago, they were outscored every quarter. Improving their field goal percentage from 31.5 to 49.0, Dartmouth’s stats speak to a complete turn-around from their last game. “We competed really hard,” Letkewicz said. “That was just a point of emphasis for us. I think our confidence also really contributed.” Harvard’s performance seemed reminiscent of Dartmouth’s play
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Dartmouth dropped the first match up to Harvard University, at home, on Jan. 9.
from their last meeting. The Crimson attempted a late comeback in the third quarter but to no avail as their early deficits and a persistent Dartmouth defense were too much to overcome. Defensively, Dartmouth shut the Crimson down, allowing only two Harvard players to score in double figures, an improvement from last game’s four players. They also held Harvard’s star player AnnMarie Healy, who averages nearly 15 points per game, to eight rebounds, preventing her from picking up a double-double. The game reached its most crucial moments with 2:29 left to play when Harvard’s Shilpa Tummala made a three point shot, putting the Crimson over the Big Green 63-62. Roland answered quickly following a Dartmouth time-out with a three of her own, helping the Big Green regain their long-held
lead. Harvard remained persistent with Madeline Raster making a free throw with 1:45 remaining in the last quarter, which left the Big Green with only a one-point lead. However, free throws by Roland, Letkewicz and Amber Mixon ’18 in the last seconds of the game sealed a Dartmouth victory. “The first game we got beat on boards and effort play,” Roland said. “So the past two weeks we really focused on boxing out, strong defense and our effort play as a whole.” The program has a lot to celebrate recently with Roland reaching her 1,000th career point against the New Jersey Institute of Technology on Dec. 31, former alumna and player Gail Koziara Boudreaux ’82 donating $2 million to endow the head coach position and now winning a hard-fought victory over Harvard. The team looks to
build off of the foundation laid by previous players and coaches as it strives to earn its 18th Ivy League title this season. “It was a great kick-start to having a successful season,” Letkewicz said. “We saw our potential and what we are capable of. We just need to continue our confidence and trust in the rest of the team. When we are all playing together and contributing, that’s when we see results.” The Big Green hopes to improve upon last year’s season finish of 14-14, in which the team finished sixth in the Ivy League. “We want to end our season positive since last year we broke even,” Roland said. The team will continue their Ivy League play on the road in New York, facing Columbia University on Friday at 7 p.m. and Cornell University on Saturday at 6 p.m.
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The Big Green avenged the loss on the road, taking the Crimson by six points with a Letkewicz double-double.
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY
Men’s hoops downs defending champ
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Men’s Basketball
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With key players in foul trouble, Malik Gill ’16 and Taylor Johnson ’18 stepped up to sink 21 of 24 second half points.
By ALEXANDER AGADJANIAN The Dartmouth Staff
For the first time since 2008, the Big Green (7-9, 1-1 Ivy) beat Harvard University (9-9, 1-1 Ivy) on its home floor in Leede Arena by a count of 63-50, earning its first conference victory — a victory that is crucial in keeping the team’s Ivy title hopes alive. Falling behind by double-digits against its vaunted Ivy League rival, Dartmouth found itself in dire straits deep into the second half last Saturday night. Plagued by foul trouble that cost two of its top players — Miles Wright ’18 and Connor Boehm ’16 — time on the court and all the while ensnared in a seemingly game-defining offensive drought, the Big Green stood on the precipice of squandering another dominant effort against the Crimson for the second time this season. Yet it was only a matter of minutes until Dartmouth furiously surged back amid a home atmosphere that grew increasingly more raucous by the minute. A pair of unheralded stars off the bench chiefly fueled the deafening comeback, as guards Malik Gill ’16 and Taylor Johnson ’18 led a dominant finish to the game, helping the Big Green outscore the visitors 18-6 over the last seven minutes. “This is the last time the senior class is playing against Harvard, and we never beat them in Hanover,” Gill said after the game. “So to get a win against our rivals, the five-time champions [in the last five years], at home, it’s a great feeling. It’s one of the best feelings I’ve felt in college since I’ve been here.” Evan Boudreaux ’19 offered another stellar effort, leading the team with 18 points and tacked on 13 boards to notch a doubledouble, but the true ascendant performers in the upset win came off the bench — namely in Gill and Johnson. Furthermore, the highstakes context in which they thrived amplified the importance of the duo’s emergence. Having gone scoreless for the first 7:12 minutes of the second half off a 0-7 shooting mark, the Big Green saw a one-point advantage at the break quickly evaporate as Harvard rattled off a 12-0 run to start the new half. Boudreaux finally snapped this cold streak with a pair of free throws, but Dartmouth still trailed 40-29 with under 12
minutes to play. Yet it did not take long for the tides to change. It all started at the 11:28 mark, when Gill scored the team’s first field goal of the half with a driving layup. On the ensuing Harvard possession, the senior grabbed a steal, got fouled and sank two free throws to further narrow the margin. One minute later, another steal by Gill jumpstarted the offense, as the guard created enough space to swing it to Boudreaux who knocked down an open three. “It was just making sure we ran hard cuts, set good screens and took the shots with confidence,” Boudreaux said. “I think those were huge keys to what we did in the second half.” Less than a minute passed before the onslaught reached one of its peaks. With the shot clock dwindling down, Johnson — who, entering with a 3.5 points per game average, hardly represented the first offensive option — pulled up a few feet off the top of the key and drilled a three to the delight of a zealous crowd. The coldblooded trey capped a blazing 12-0 run that saw Dartmouth rebuild a lead at 41-40, the team’s first since its edge at halftime. After the Crimson recaptured the lead momentarily, Gill converted a driving score to pull back ahead, and after Johnson followed another three-point dagger with two free throws, Dartmouth arrived at its biggest lead of the game up to that point at 50-44. “Everyone just stayed focused and kept moving the ball, and things started clicking,” Johnson said. Moreover, the offensive explosion was matched by a suffocating display on the other end. Once again, Gill and Johnson spearheaded the effort, as the two guards wreaked defensive havoc on the perimeter, tearing the ball away from Harvard players and constantly disrupting the opposing offense. Gill recorded two steals and Johnson added another during one four-minute stretch, and by the end of the night Gill finished with four. For the senior guard, this defensive lockdown translated to a renewal of sharpness and intensity on the offensive end, a notion echoed by his teammate Boudreaux as well. “We really buckled down on defense,”
Gill said about the latter part of the second half. “We struggled to score coming out in the second half, we were too focused on offense. [But] we settled down, got some [defensive] stops and that propelled our offense.” Seeing itself lose every last drop of momentum, Harvard suffered tremendously from poor free-throw shooting as well. Star big man Zena Edosomwan led the Crimson all night with a crafty and overpowering performance in the paint — finishing with 18 points — but went 2-8 from the charity stripe in the second half, gifting Dartmouth space to grow its lead. For Gill, Saturday’s contest marked the second straight year in which he played a key role in a victory against Harvard. One day shy of exactly a year ago, the senior guard led a similar surge on both the offensive and defensive ends of the court to lead a comeback win in Cambridge. In total by the end of the night, Dartmouth’s bench players outscored Harvard’s 33-13. Gill and Johnson combined to provide 21 of those points — 11 and 10, respectively — all of which importantly came in the last 12 minutes of the game. A combination of airtight defense and sloppy offensive coordination typified much of the night for both sides. In the first five minutes, Harvard had already committed four turnovers, while Dartmouth had three miscues. The Crimson ultimately ended with 14, while the Big Green had overcome 17 miscues of their own. Nevertheless, Dartmouth emerged as the main beneficiary of this defensive scrum of a game and caught fired when it mattered most. “I think it’s good because Harvard has such a history of winning the last few years, and they’re still a good team so it shows that we can play with some good teams,” Johnson said about his team’s triumph. “I think [this win] means we can compete with every team in the Ivy League.” Having avenged a 77-70 defeat to the same Harvard team two weeks ago, Dartmouth will now seek to extend a three-game win streak in completing its five-game homestand. That starts with facing Columbia University at 7 p.m. next Friday, and Cornell University at the same time the next day.
SCHOOL
IVY
OVERALL
YALE COLUMBIA PRINCETON HARVARD DARTMOUTH PENN CORNELL BROWN
2-0 2-0 1-0 1-1 1-1 0-1 0-2 0-2
11-5 13-6 11-4 9-9 7-9 6-9 7-9 5-11
Women’s Basketball SCHOOL
IVY
OVERALL
CORNELL YALE PENN HARVARD DARTMOUTH PRINCETON BROWN COLUMBIA
2-0 2-0 1-0 1-1 1-1 0-1 0-2 0-2
10-6 11-8 12-2 6-9 6-12 11-4 12-4 11-6
Men’s Hockey SCHOOL
ECAC
OVERALL
QUINNIPIAC HARVARD RENSSELAER YALE CORNELL DARTMOUTH ST. LAWRENCE CLARKSON PRINCETON COLGATE UNION BROWN
10-0-3 7-3-3 5-1-6 6-3-3 6-4-2 7-5-0 5-6-1 3-6-3 3-7-2 3-8-2 2-7-3 2-9-2
19-1-5 11-4-3 13-7-6 12-4-4 11-5-3 10-8-1 11-11-2 11-10-3 4-12-2 7-16-2 9-9-6 4-12-3
Women’s Hockey SCHOOL
ECAC
OVERALL
QUINNIPIAC CLARKSON PRINCETON COLGATE HARVARD ST. LAWRENCE RENSSELAER CORNELL YALE DARTMOUTH BROWN UNION
10-1-3 8-3-3 9-4-1 6-3-5 8-5-1 7-5-2 6-5-2 4-6-4 5-7-1 4-7-3 1-11-2 0-11-3
20-1-4 20-3-3 15-4-1 14-5-7 11-7-1 13-10-3 8-11-4 8-9-4 6-13-1 4-13-3 3-16-2 0-20-6
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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016
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Women’s hockey still searches for midseason stride after loss By JAMES HANDAL The Dartmouth
The Dartmouth women’s ice hockey team lost 2-0 to Harvard University this past Saturday in Boston, extending its winless streak to 12 games dating back to Nov. 27. The Big Green fell to 4-13-3 overall and 4-7-3 in ECAC play while the Crimson improved to 11-7-1 overall and 8-5-1 in conference play. In Ivy League play, Dartmouth currently stands fourth at 2-3-1 and Harvard second at 4-2. Starting out the game strong, the Big Green’s Laura Stacey ’16 tested Harvard netminder Emerance Maschmeyer after Ailish Forfar ’16 won the faceoff early on in the first period. Despite the start, Harvard put pressure on the Big Green and Karly Heffernan tallied a goal at 9:02 with the assist from Dani Krzyszczyk. Harvard continued to dominate and outshot the Big Green 14-4 to end the first period. “There is effort and consistency within the group and defensively, we’ve done a really good job these past five games only given up three [games] versus really tough teams,” head coach Mark Hudak said. “I think we’re still trying to get healthy,
as we haven’t play with a full roster in three months so, maybe next weekend, the team needs to work on our scoring, change our lineup and get a little spark.” In the second period, the Crimson came out strong taking shots on Robyn Chemago ’17, and the persistent pressure led to Harvard’s second goal coming early at 2:11 by Lexie Laing, assisted by Abbey Frazier. The Big Green fired back offensively with a power play at 4:11, forcing Maschmeyer to make a few saves to keep the Crimson on top. Dartmouth dominated the latter part of the second period after a strong start by the Crimson, and both took 11 shots each in the period. “We just need to continue to work hard and dig down even deeper to capitalize on our chances, which I think will make the biggest difference in our outcome at the end of the game,” Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17 said. “We need to somehow find the back of the net more and we just need to keep battling and working hard and stick to our game plan.” Chemago was able to block the Crimson shots in the beginning of the third period and tallied 15 saves in the period. The Big Green put
pressure on Maschmeyer with shots by Lindsey Allen ’16 and Forfar midway in the third period. The Big Green was unable to capitalize on a second powerplay starting at 15:49 and put six skaters on the ice with an empty net, but ultimately the team could not beat the Harvard goalie. “Its been pretty tough lately as we can’t seem to pull out a win and are struggling to score but I think we are doing the little things right and it is just a matter of time before things start clicking for us,” Stacey said. “We had a pretty good second and third period, shots wise, but just couldn’t seem to find the back of the net.” Overall, the Big Green tallied 23 shots on goal with respect to Harvard’s 40. Harvard was 0-1 on the power play while Dartmouth was 0-2 when up a player. Chemago had 38 saves, while Maschmeyer turned away all 23 shots on goal across 60 minutes of play. “Robyn played another great game, and I also think the team played a great game in front of her as a lot of the Harvard shots looked quite dangerous. She will make those saves that she needs to,” Hudak said. The Big Green has eight games remaining with four games against
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Despite Robyn Chemago ’17’s 38 saves, the Big Green fell to Harvard.
Ivy League opponents Princeton, Yale, Brown and Cornell Universities. “I am excited for the rest of the reason as I know we are so much better than the results,” Ottenbreit said. “Our team is very close and works really hard and has the ability to win. So I am looking forward to these two weekends at home
coming up, especially [three of the four] games being Ivy [League matchups]. It will be a battle and I believe our team will turn it around and dig deep to find a win and turn this season around for the second half.” The Big Green next takes on Princeton on Friday, Jan. 29 at Thompson Arena at 4 p.m.
Women’s and men’s swim and dive finish first, second at home By MAX ZHUANG The Dartmouth
The Big Green men’s swimming and diving team broke a total of six records and placed first in nine events during this weekend’s Dartmouth Invitational at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center. Placing second overall in the meet, the men’s team scored 1,140 points to Boston College’s 1,272 points. Meanwhile, the women’s team took first place overall with 1,141 points, breaking four records over the weekend. “We wanted to win all the overall invitational and the associated dual meets,” head coach Jim Wilson said. On the first day of competition, the Big Green started hot — sharing five first place finishes between the men and women. Both the men and women placed first in the 500-yard freestyle event with Molly Brickman ’19 finishing at 5:00.27 and Bruno Korbar ’18 at 4:33.90. Next, Melanya
Zaraska ’19 received first place in the women’s 200-yard IM at 2:08.11, while Kendese Nangle ’16 broke her own meet record set three years ago in the women’s 50-yard freestyle (23.87) with a first place finish (23.83). “This meet gave us all an opportunity to see where we were at at this point in the season,” Tony Shen ’18 said. “We also swam in remembrance of the passing of our friend Tate. We all wore caps with his name on them.” At the end of the first night, the men’s 400-yard medley relay A team won the event (3:25.71). Comprised of James Verhagen ’16, David Harmon ’17, Misha Tovmashenko ’18 and Delaney Hall ’19, the foursome pushed the men’s team into first place. “I thought it was excellent to see people have so much energy,” women’s team captain Charlotte Kamai ’16 said. “This was also the last meet of the season for some of the swimmers.” At the start of the second day,
Logan Briggs ’16 swam away with first in the 400-yard IM (4:03.67) beating Boston College’s Taylor Cortens by more than four seconds. Led in the early stages of the meet by Verhagen, who broke pool and meet records in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke, and Tovmashenko, who broke pool and meet records in the men’s 200-yard freestyle, the team looked to keep its lead. However, even after the first place finishes contributed by Harmon, Tovmashenko, Verhagen and Briggs, the men’s team was playing catch up to BC through the second session of the meet. The Big Green’s men’s team had 720.5 points to BC’s men’s 752.5. The women’s team was determined to win as well. “Last year, the [women’s] team lost to the Northeastern [University] [women] by just one point,” Megan Crook ’19 said. “We knew we needed to place first and third in the last relay event to get our revenge.”
First, second and third place finishes in the 200-yard freestyle were all captured by Dartmouth swimmers AnnClaire MacArt ’18 (1:52.37), Brickman (1:52.76) and Olivia Samson ’16 (1:53.34). “Winning the relays was a great way to end the meet,” Kamai, who also won the women’s 100-yard freestyle in pool and meet record-setting fashion (51.17), said. The women’s team made revenge seem easy. The 400-yard freestyle relay A team of Nangle, Crook, Samson and Kamai finished first (3:31.37). The B team, comprised of MacArt, Amy Sun ’17, Amber Zimmerman ’19 and Zaraska stole second (3:34.08) ahead of all other A teams. Wrapping up the meet, the Dartmouth men’s 400-yard freestyle relay team made up of Tovmashenko, Korbar, Jack Long ’17 and Brandon Boval ’18 touched in first place breaking the meet record at 3:06.12, more than a second ahead of the old record set in 2012.
“I’m really proud of our team,” Kamai said. “We performed and celebrated the seniors afterwards recognizing our four years on the team. Afterwards, all the ’17s also did combined speeches about Tate at the memorial. I’m really proud to be a part of this team and excited for the rest of the season.” At the Karl Michael Pool for the third session, Brett Gillis ’16 placed first on the 1-meter diving board (303.45) and 3-meter (334.10). AJ Krok ’19 also finished fourth in both the 1-meter (254.25) and 3-meter (254.25).The women’s diving was lead by Allison Green ’19 who finished fifth on the 1-meter (241.85) and eighth on the 3-meter (196.80). “It definitely meant something to me since it was my last home meet as a senior,” Gillis said. “It was my last good opportunity to use our own boards.” The swim and dive teams next take to the pool at the University of Connecticut on Jan. 30.