The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 09/19/2016

09.19.16 Just a Bit Outside with Sam Stockton ’19 p. 7 Hot Takes with Max Zhuang ’19 p. 7

Volleyball sees strong out of conference play p. 8

The Big Green Weekend Roundup p. 2-3, 6

The boys are

back

Football returns to Hanover p. 4-5

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The WEEKEND Roundup

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Women’s soccer

Compiled by JAMES HANDAL and Evan Morgan The volleyball team played in the West Virginia Invitational, taking on Akron University, Winthrop University and West Virginia University this past Friday and Saturday.

Dartmouth fell to Akron on Friday, 3-1 (25-17, 20-25, 17-25, 19-25). Zoe Leonard ’19 had 15 assists while Julia Lau ’17 had 21 digs.

On Saturday, the Big Green fell to Winthrop, 3-1 (21-25, 25-18,

21-25, 24-26) and fell to WVU, 3-0 (22-25, 18-25, 20-25).

Emily Astarita ’17 was named to the All-Tournament team due to her efforts for the Big Green, including five block assists against Akron and nine kills against West Virginia.

After this tough out-ofconference play, the Big Green have a 6-4 overall record. This week, the team will prepare for Ivy League play and host Harvard University on Friday.

VOLLEYBALL Photo by GEOFF HOLMAN /THE BEACON Women’s volleyball team played in the West Virginia Invitational last weekend.

Photo by ANNIE DUNCAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Women’s soccer beat the University of Albany, 3-1 to bring its overall record to 5-2-0.

The women’s soccer team defeated the University of Albany, 3-1, on Friday night at Burnham Field, improving to 5-2-0 overall record. Dartmouth dominated the first half in possession and found a breakthrough in the 41st minute when Bianca Ribi ’18 hit a shot off the post for her first goal in a Big Green uniform, putting the score at 1-0.

Immediately after halftime, the Big Green returned to its offensive push. Brittany Champagne ’18 lobbed a goal to give

Dartmouth a 2-0 lead. In quick succession, Remy Borinsky ’19 hit a hard and low shot to score in the bottom left corner.

In the 81st minute, the Great Danes scored off a rebound, and with a comfortable lead, the game ended, 3-1. Goalkeeper Casey Cousineau ’16 had one save in the contest.

Dartmouth led in shots, 15-3, and corner kicks, 8-3. The Big Green play at the University of Vermont on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Burlington, Vt.

FIELD HOCKEY The field hockey team defeated the University of Vermont, 4-1, on Friday and beat Sacred Heart University, 3-0, on Sunday. The Big Green improve to 3-3 overall.

Dartmouth opened the Vermont game very strong after Joanne Nazareth ’17 and Anna Ewasechko ’18 scored two goals inside of six minutes to lead 2-0. Carmen Braceras ’20 scored in the 11th minute to give Dartmouth a 3-0 lead in the first half.

The Big Green held Vermont in the first half to eight shots, while Dartmouth made 13. In the second half, Heather Zezzo ’17 notched an unassisted goal to bring the score to 4-0.

Vermont scored at 69:23 to cut the lead to 4-1. Overall, Dartmouth outshot Vermont, 21-18. Goalkeeper Emma Plumb ’20 was a minute before her first shutout until Vermont got on the board. Plumb stopped seven shots in the contest.

Dartmouth outshot Sacred Heart, 15-6, and had more penalty strokes at 13-2. Dartmouth will travel to Princeton University to open Ivy League play against the Tigers.

Photo by ANNIE DUNCAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF The field hockey team improved to a 3-3 record after a 4-1 win over the University of Vermont and a 3-0 win over Sacred Heart University.

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football

Photo by LAUREN GRUFFI/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The Big Green’s defense helped the team win its opening game for the 2016 season.

Photo by ANNIE DUNCAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF The football team beat the University of New Hampshire, 22-21.

The football team defeated the University of New Hampshire, 22-21, on Saturday for the first time in 40 years. With the upset win against the 22nd-ranked Wildcats, Dartmouth boasts a 1-0 record.

The Big Green opened the game at Memorial Field with a touchdown pass from Jack Heneghan ’18 to Houston

Brown ’17 to give the Big Green a 7-0 lead. UNH scored three touchdowns in the second and third quarters to take over the lead, 21-7.

The Big Green executed a dominating performance in the fourth quarter, scoring a field goal and two touchdowns to win, 22-21. Ryder Stone ’18 ran for 90 yards with a long

Photo by JEFFREY LEE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The tennis team won five of six singles matches against the University of West Virginia during last weekend’s Tribe Invitational.

At this weekend’s Tribe Invitational, the Big Green compiled a 13-6 singles mark to go along with a doubles record of 1-8. Competition did not begin smoothly for the women.

On Friday, the Big Green doubles teams ­— Taylor Ng ’17 and Allison McCann ’20, Jacqueline Crawford ’17 and Racquel Lyn ’20 and Allison Chuang ’19 and Shannon Mukerji ’18 — were swept by the University of Maryland and the host, the College of William and Mary.

However, the Green and White bounced back in singles. Dartmouth took five of six singles matches against the University of West Virginia, winning four of those in three sets.

Saturday brought a lone doubles victory: Ng and Chuyang Guan ’20 downed University of Pennsylvania duo Kana Daniel and Ashley Zhu by a score of 8-4.

Dartmouth pairs Chuang and McCann and Mukerji and Lyn were both tripped up by the Quakers. Mirroring the previous day, the team found more success in singles.

In matches against Liberty University, Ng, Guan and Crawford prevailed in two sets. McCann needed three sets to dispatch her Liberty opponent, while Chuang and Mukerji both lost.

Dartmouth closed out the Invite on Sunday by winning three of its six singles matches against the University of Maryland. Ng, McCann and Mukerji were defeated by their Terrapin opponents, but Crawford, Guan and Lyn each earned two-set victories.

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Heneghan was 22-46 with three touchdowns and two interceptions. Dartmouth had 435 total offensive yards compared to UNH’s 338. Next weekend, the Big Green plays at the College of the Holy Cross on Saturday at 1:05 p.m.

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Ryder Stone ’18 Tailback Calgary, Alberta, Canada Lead the team in rushing yards (375) in 2015; Played 18/20 possible games in his first two years 2015 Doten Award recipient

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Houston Brown ’17 The Woodlands, Texas Top target in the air attack through one game; Surrounded by talent on offense last year but still tied for most TD receptions (4) in 2015

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Lucas Bavaro ’17 Boxford, Mass.

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7 Folarin Orimolade ’17 Burtonsville, Md. Co-captain; All-Ivy League First Team 2015; STATS Preseason FCS All-America Second Team, STATS Defensive player of the Year watch list; Led team in tackles for loss (12) and sacks (8) for second straight year in 2015

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Back in Town yers to graduation last year, Big Green football returned to Memorial Field this past weekend with grit,

vering commitment to the win, grinding out a one-point victory over the University of New Hampshire.

2015 Opening Day Starting Lineup Offense WR 2 Ryan McManus LT 79 Dave Morrison LG 78 Joshua Clark C 63 Jacob Flores RG 58 Niko Mamula RT 68 Zach Davis TE 89 Stephen Johnston QB 10 Dalyn Williams TB 5 Brian Grove WR 1 Victor Williams WR 86 Charles Mack

Defense DE 52 Cody Fulleton NG 99 A.J. Zuttah DE 57 Sawyer Whalen SAM 9 Folarin Orimolade MIKE 30 Zach Slafsky WILL 44 Will McNamara NB 3 Frankie Hernandez CB 27 Vernon Harris SS 7 Troy Donahue FS 41 David Caldwell CB 6 Chai Reece Returning opening day starters are in red

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mong the most crucial components of the 2015 Ivy League-winning championship season was a roster laden with experienced senior players. It paved the way for Dartmouth’s greatest success in 19 years. But it’s for that same reason that 2016 poses so great of a challenge for the program. Ten of the 11 starters that made up one of the strongest defenses in the entire country left Hanover after the 2015 season. Another seven on offense departed as well, including Dalyn Williams ’16, one of the best quarterbacks in Big Green history. And so arises the question that will likely define this team’s season: how do you make up for such losses at every key point on the roster?

This past Saturday night, the Big Green took the first step toward providing an answer.

On defense, a habit of frequent player rotation from 2015 reaped benefits, as the unit maintained its sound play largely by stymying its opponent. Offensively, it was far from a perfect night, but Jack Heneghan ’18 led the offense well and captained the largest deficit overcome in the game’s fourth quarter in program history. For the first time in 40 years, Dartmouth defeated its in-state rival the University of New Hampshire, winning the Granite Bowl, 22-21.

Dartmouth on defense While the quintessential last-gasp drive will prove the more enduring memory from Saturday’s win, the Big Green’s defense was what truly carried the team to victory. While the offensive unit experienced growing pains on the field, Dartmouth replicated a good amount of its 2015 defensive effort in Saturday’s game.

Though the Big Green yielded 338 yards to the Wildcats, defense allowed just two touchdowns worth of points — one of the scores came on a pick six — and repeatedly clamped down on UNH’s offense when it tried to cross midfield. Moreover, it was only on UNH’s last drive of the half — an 86-yard one — and second drive of the third quarter — an 88-yard one — that the Dartmouth defense yielded touchdowns or any points for that matter.

As UNH seemingly settled into an offensive groove in the second half, the defense responded emphatically. Over the next four Wildcat drives, the Big Green forced three 3-and-outs and revived Dartmouth’s chances with a red zone interception. The unit followed that up by stopping UNH at midfield with under a minute left to end the game.

The effort typified the general flow of the game — the defense rose to the occasion, keeping the team in the game and granting the offense second chances.

In retrospect, losing 10 of 11 starters is a bit deceptive. Head coach Buddy Teevens continuously employed a very liberal rotation scheme on defense last year. Players like

Lucas Bavaro ’17, Charlie Miller ’17, Danny McManus ’17 and Brandon Cooper ’17 may not have been starters in name, but solid performances from these backups, who saw their fair share of action, became the standard en route to an Ivy title. So it comes as little surprise that this group remains primed to excel once again in 2016. Saturday night against the Wildcats showcased just that. Secure tackling, tight pass coverage, forced turnovers, sacks and stops behind the line of scrimmage were still the norm.

The one starter who returned on defense was Folarin Orimolade ’17, the 2015 team leader in sacks who earned a 2016 AllAmerican second team selection. While not bringing down the quarterback on Saturday, the senior still embodied the disruptive force he’s always been, leading the team with nine tackles against UNH. Dartmouth on offense Following up on Williams’ illustrious career was never going to be easy, but Heneghan showed some promising signs starting for the first time under center. Passing for 229 yards in the air and accounting for all three of his team’s touchdowns, the junior connected with his receivers well in sticking to short passes and throwing more along the sidelines than across the middle of the field.

His biggest problems came when the UNH defense brought pressure, as both of Henehgan’s interceptions resulted directly from pass rushers making contact with him.

Most intriguingly, Heneghan also was very productive on the move. He ran for 80 yards, which evokes the dual threat capacity

of his predecessor. Resulting in five rushing first downs, the junior’s mobility allowed for effective scrambling after broken plays and on designed quarterback keepers, as well as rollouts and fake handoffs that kept the opposing defense off balance.

By the end of the night, Heneghan assumed a substantial workload in the offense.

He was a part of 74 percent of offensive plays and directly involved in 16 of the 19 times Dartmouth moved the chains. “[Heneghan was] a calming influence when you heard him on the sidelines, and that impressed me, he’s never been there before but he was in complete control,” Teevens said. “He ran for 88 yards on the ground. A lot of people will say he’s not Dalyn, well, no, but he picked up opportunistic yards, he made some plays, he’s established himself.

He can be more consistent over time, but first time out of the box, [I’m] very proud of him, especially the way he finished.”

The quarterback position certainly left a glaring void transitioning from 2015, but so too did the wide receiving corps. With the departure of the seniors responsible for gaining 67 percent of receiving yards last year, the emergence of Houston Brown ’17, who caught 99 yards and scored a touchdown, as a central target was imperative on Saturday in acclimating his new quarterback to the offense. The senior caught a 16-yard first down pass on the first play from scrimmage in the game, and followed that by playing an instrumental role in nearly every drive downfield.

Receivers Emory Thompson ’18 and Charles Mack ’18 also developed a nice rapport with their quarterback later after grabbing critical late fourth quarter touchdowns.

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The Big Green defense kept UNH at bay for most of the first half.

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men’s Golf

Men’s Cross-Country

In the first tournament of the fall, the Cornell Invitational, Dartmouth finished eighth of 14 teams competing. Ian Kelsey ’18 shot a team-leading 222 (+9) in three rounds on the par-71 course. The tournament was held in Ithaca, N.Y. Kelsey finished the weekend in 15th on the leaderboard, with teammate Sean Fahey ’17 (223) right behind in 17th. John Lazor ’19 shot a 225 and led the team with 10 birdies. Will Bednarz ’20 finished with a 230 in his collegiate debut, and Jeff Lang ’17 with a 232.

The team began the tournament in 10th after shooting 312 on Friday. Saturday saw the Dartmouth men shoot 297 — one of the biggest round-to-round improvements of the tournament — followed by a 295 on Sunday.

The Big Green tied for eighth with Temple University, 25 shots behind winner Cornell University.

Dartmouth will take to the links next weekend as host of the Quechee Club Collegiate Challenge.

TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF After finishing near the middle of the pack at Cornell, the Big Green looks forward to hosting visitors this weekend.

Sailing Dartmouth sailing had a busy weekend, sending competitors to four regattas across New England.

At the Nevins Trophy, in Kings Point, N.Y., the Big Green was 13th in a 20-team field. Saturday’s southerly breezes allowed for 10 races to be run in each division.

Dartmouth’s A crew finished with four top-ten finishes on Saturday, and the B crew with three. Westerly winds powered six more races on Sunday, and Dartmouth added four more top-five finishes.

After leading for brief stints, Dartmouth took second in the Massachusetts Institute

men’s soccer of Technology’s Hatch Brown Trophy. The B boat opened the regatta with four top-five finishes, but the C squad performed best for Dartmouth. In 17 races, they earned four victories and three second place showings en route to a total score of 100.

Yale University took the early lead from Dartmouth and held on for the victory.

In the Stu Ross Trophy, hosted by Connecticut College, Dartmouth finished in the middle of the 18-team pack. The Big Green’s B boat was the fourthbest crew in the regatta, finishing with eight top-ten finishes and score of 69 through 12 races.

Meanwhile, the A boat scored

151, and Dartmouth settled for ninth place.

Dartmouth also finished in the middle of the field at the University of Vermont’s Callagy Ross Trophy. Saturday did not bring favorable racing conditions to Lake Champlain, and the day was called due to safety concerns. Winds were lighter on Sunday, allowing for six races to be run in each division. Dartmouth had five top-five finishes and took sixth overall out of 12 teams. Boston College finished as the winner of the first Callagy Ross Trophy.

The Big Green returns to the water next weekend for multiple events.

women’s cross country

Dartmouth’s freshmen led the way at the Coast to Coast Invitational on Friday as Dartmouth took second place among 13 schools.

Diana Vizza ’20 ran in 17 minutes and 46 seconds and Georgia Fear ’20 in 17:53 to make their collegiate debuts in style, placing 10th and 11th in the 116-woman field. Close behind in 17th was Olivia Lantz ’19 (17:58).

On Friday, men’s cross country shouldered its way through a field of 15 schools to take the crown at Boston College’s Coast to Coast Invitational. The Big Green bested top-flight teams from the University of Arkansas and Providence College, ranked sixth and 20th respectively in the most recent U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association poll. Seniors Daniel Salas ’17 and Matt Herzig ’17 were Dartmouth’s top performers, finishing third and fifth among 122 competitors. Redshirt freshman Quinn Cooney ‘19 followed up his win in last weekend’s Dartmouth Invitational with a ninth-place showing. Rounding out Dartmouth’s top five were seniors Connor Clark ’17 (11th) and Nathaniel Adams ’17 (12th). All five clocked a sub-five-minute pace along the 8-kilometer course. Julian Heninger ’17 (19th) and Kyle Dotterrer ’18 (31st) also ran for the Big Green but were unscored. The victory gives the Dartmouth men two wins in as many weeks, following a victorious effort in the Big Green Invitational.

Bridget Flynn ’18 (18:06), winner of the Dartmouth Invitational last weekend, took 19th, and Lauren Sapone ’20 (18:10) finished in 22nd place.

Lillian Anderson ’19 and Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 went unscored for the Big Green.

Over the 6-kilometer course, Dartmouth’s top runners finished with a 24-second spread.

The Invitational was won by national powerhouse Providence

College, currently ranked third in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association poll.

The team will next travel to Lehigh University in Lehigh, Pa. to compete in the 43rd Annual Paul Short Run on Oct. 1 before returning to Boston to race in the New England Championship on Oct. 8. The team hasn’t competed in the Paul Short Run since 2013.

Men’s soccer tied the University of Massachusetts Lowell on Saturday night, 1-1. With its third tie of the season and its third 110-minute game, the Big Green now stand at 1-1-3 while the River Hawks remain undefeated at 6-0-1. Dartmouth came out of the attack and found a goal when Matt Greer ’18 nodded a cross from Matt Danilack ’18 to lead, 1-0, in the sixth minute of the game.

However, the Big Green was unable to increase its

lead after Greer’s goal. UMass Lowell dominated the end of the first period and got a penalty kick goal in the 41st minute to tie the game at 1-1. Neither team was able to find the back of the net in the second half, and each team created few chances to score.

In double overtime, neither Dartmouth or UMass Lowell was able to find a winner. James Hickok ’17 had four saves in the contest. Dartmouth hosts the University of Hartford on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

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In 2015, the Chicago Cubs relied on Jake Arrieta, the ace of their pitching staff, and its young and supremely talented core of position players, to carry the team to a 97-win regular season and a wild card berth in the National League Championship Series.

The team’s effort was heavily rewarded. Arrieta took home the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in the National League.

Kris Bryant, the Cubs’ brightest young star, earned Rookie of the Year, and their manager Joe Maddon was named Manager of the Year.

Each of these award recipients

is back, and this year’s Cubs boasts the best record in baseball while locking up the National League Central crown. However, instead of being led on the mound by Arrieta, Dartmouth’s own Kyle Hendricks ’12 is the one who has been the team’s best pitcher all season.

Hendricks’ WHIP of 0.96, 15-7 record and MLB-best ERA of 2.03 have lifted him to the front of the National League Cy Young Race.

On Tuesday night, he took a nohitter into the ninth inning in St. Louis before Cardinals’ outfielder Jeremy Hazelbaker led off the bottom of the inning with a home run on an 0-2 change-up that hung over the plate longer than Hendricks wanted. The Cubs’ righty was three outs away from a historic outing but ended up continuing a trend he has set over the course of the 2016 season. Last night was just the latest in an ever-growing string of long and highly effective outings from Hendricks.

To most baseball fans, Hendricks’ transcendent 2016 campaign came out of nowhere. He posted an impressive 2.46 ERA over 13 starts in 2014 but regressed in 2015 over the course of a full season. He is on a league minimum contract, yet he has been as good as any pitcher in baseball in 2016.

The best way to understand how Hendricks has become such a dominant force from the rubber for the Cubs is to compare him to two other pitchers: one a former Cub who now has a plaque in Cooperstown to his name and the other, a rival in the Cy Young race.

Hendricks has thrived in an era of hard throwers despite a fastball that seldom cracks the 90 mile-per-hour mark. He also does not lean on the strikeout the way contemporaries like Max Scherzer or Madison Bumgarner do. Instead, Hendricks derives his success from excellent command and a devastating change-up. This style bears a striking resemblance to that of Greg Maddux, who, while best known for his time in Atlanta, sandwiched his Braves’ tenure between two stints on the North Side.

Like Hendricks, Maddux never threw hard. By the time he retired, his fastball sat in the mid-eighties.

However, Maddux thrived using a circle changeup that was perhaps the best changeup baseball has ever seen. He was so accurate with his pitches that Los Angeles Dodgers’ great Orel Hershiser said he could “throw a ball in a tea cup.”

While Hendricks may not be at Maddux’s level yet — few pitchers are — his accuracy and change-

up have earned him the right to be compared to the hall of famer.

His Cubs teammates even refer to him by Maddux’s old nickname, the “professor.”

The fact that the velocity on Hendricks’ fastball is slow relative to that of his peers is irrelevant because the pitch’s role within his arsenal is as a set-up for his elite change-up. Hendricks doesn’t need to throw his four-seam or sinker hard. He needs to throw those pitches often enough that hitters cannot sit on his changeup, and that is exactly what he does.

Over 60 percent of his pitches are either four-seamers or sinkers, and the result is that hitters never know exactly when the changeup is coming. It is this confusion that propelled Maddux into the Hall of Fame, and it is the same crafty pitches that currently put Hendricks on track for the Cy Young. By keeping hitters guessing, Hendricks has held opponents to just a .173 batting average against his change this season.

On top of his change-up and his two forms of fastball, Hendricks mixes in a curveball, which is far from the knee-buckling breaking ball of Clayton Kershaw. While Hendricks seldom uses his curve, almost every time he does, it is a strike. This success is not because

Hendricks throws the best curveball in baseball. It is because he is as good as any pitcher in baseball at keeping hitters off balance.

Currently, Kershaw is the most dominant pitcher in baseball.

He posts a gaudy strikeout-towalk ratio on the strength of his dominating “stuff.” In this regard, Hendricks cannot claim to rival the Dodgers’ ace. Kershaw would likely be the runaway favorite for the Cy Young if not for injuries.

However, while Hendricks may not throw a curveball as well as Kershaw does, both boast similarly low numbers of deep fly balls while forcing hitters into a high number of infield pop outs. This roughly equates to giving up relatively few home runs while providing his infielders with the opportunity to convert easy outs on pop ups in the infield.

While Hendricks began at a considerable disadvantage in the race to win this year’s Cy Young race given that he was an unknown when the season started, he has pitched his way to the forefront of the list of potential winners. By the time the off-season rolls around, watch for Hendricks to collect some new hardware as well as an upgrade on his league-minimum contract to keep up with his dominant performance in 2016.

Mixed realities in the world of sports

Sports are commonly thought of as an escape from life’s problems. Fans often view professional athletes as characters in a story rather than normal people in the “real world.” It’s why we care so much when Steph Curry is spotted at Starbucks getting a s’mores frappuccino or Buffalo Bills head coach Rex Ryan roots for Donald Trump.

The “Stick to sports!” mentality tends to be the usual response. We find fault when athletes or team staff aren’t doing what we think they should be doing. Imagine a job that requires you to hand over a record of all the emails and texts you ever sent. Oh, you wouldn’t like that request and refuse it?

Tom Brady refused, and now he’s serving a four-game suspension.

We treat sports entirely differently from any other industry and profession. When we find our favorite

athletes colliding with “real world” problems, those stories are easy to ignore. No more.

This week, the story that is both equally as dangerous as it is important to sports is the Derrick Rose rape case. The gist of the story is that on Aug. 26, Rose’s ex-girlfriend filed a civil suit, accusing Rose and two of his friends of rape. Rose’s defense say that the case is a simple money grab. But the judge denied Rose’s motion to throw the case out and set the trial to start on Oct. 4.

I honestly don’t know if Rose will be found innocent or guilty.

He has dodged questions from the press regarding consent. His defense focused on “smearing the victim” after presenting Jane Doe’s instagram pictures as “sexually suggestive.” Additionally, a settlement still remains on the table that would close the case, removing it from public and legal scrutiny.

The entire story is heartbreaking and hard to believe since many fans just want Rose to be back out of court and on the basketball court. However, until all the facts of the case have been revealed, I can’t root one way or another.

2:31 p.m. Sept. 12, Browns place RG3 on injured reserve — It’s the end of another era of quarterbacking in Cleveland after Robert Griffin III fractured the coracoid bone in his left shoulder.

He almost lasted the whole game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

5:30 p.m. Sept. 16, The Buffalo

Bills fire offensive coordinator Greg Roman — After starting the NFL season with two straight losses, the Bills fired its offensive coordinator. Head coach Rex Ryan defended the move as his own “without question.” Could Ryan will his way into football relevancy again? This season is a make or break year for the slug-like head coach who needs to push the Bills from being an 8-8 team to a serious playoff contender in order to keep his job. Unfortunately, I think it’s very likely the Bills will slide to 0-4 with the Arizona Cardinals and New England Patriots as their next two opponents. Their odds don’t get that much better as the season goes on. Therefore, it’s only a matter of time before Ryan is out of Buffalo.

11:09 a.m. Sept. 17, Ravens assistant coach Clarence Brooks dies — 65-year-old Brooks, a defensive line coach for the Baltimore Ravens dies of esophageal cancer.

10:30 p.m. Sept. 17, University of Louisville’s Lamar Jackson is college football’s new demigod — First, before I say anything else about college football, I’d like to mention the incredible win by Dartmouth this Saturday over the University of New Hampshire.

Aside from the Big Green, college quarterback Lamar Jackson has caught my eye as an electrifying player to watch. If you don’t know who he is, I’ll tell you right now that Jackson looks to be the next big thing in college football.

We’re talking about “the second coming of Michael Vick,” Vince Young and Johnny Manziel-type level of star. On Saturday, Jackson led the humiliation of most recently ranked No. 2, Florida State Seminoles, winning 63-20. Jackson went from an unproven, but still promising freshman last year to the current Heisman frontrunner.

The kid is good, and I think he’ll get better.

1:03 a.m. Sept. 18, Canelo Alvarez knocks out Liam Smith — Canelo Alvarez has quickly become my favorite boxer. In Houston’s AT&T Stadium on Saturday, Alvarez knocked out the undefeated Liam Smith from Britain in front of 51,420 fans. It was brutal and expected, given the 12-1 odds of the fight. Alvarez has only lost once before in

his professional career to Floyd Mayweather. From the way he sort of just lumbers around in the ring before finding a brilliant combination to his surprisingly high pitched voiced, Canelo is a beast and in the most lovable way.

The orange-haired Mexican super fighter is the ring’s number eight pound-for-pound boxer. If Canelo versus Golovkin ever comes to fruition, it will undoubtedly be one of the largest fights next spring. If it ever happens, I’ll take Canelo over Triple G everytime.

2:01 a.m. Sept. 18, the New York Met’s deGrom out for the season — the Mets must make their playoff push without stud pitcher, Jacob deGrom. It’s unfortunate news for the Mets as deGrom will need surgery for a flare-up in his pitching elbow.

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Volleyball team has strong opening with first-year coach

By MATT YUEN

The Dartmouth Staff

In just a mere three weeks, Dartmouth’s women’s volleyball team (6-4) has already accumulated half as many wins as it did last season (12-11). The Big Green closed out five of their six wins thus far in straight sets, already beating their 2015 record of sweeping only two games. With such a promising start and 15 matches left in this season, the team is currently on par with a promising trajectory. The question thus remains: why is the women’s volleyball season finding success so early on in this season compared to last year’s?

In 2015, the Big Green fell two points short from tying for the Ivy League championship. Once again, obtaining the title remains a realistic

goal for the team. This year, the new recruits are not the only new change introduced to the team. Following the departure of Erin Lindsey, the team also has a new coaching staff, including head coach Gilad Doron and assistant coaches Eyal Zimet and Tara Hittle.

“People [on the team] are taking this change as a refresh on volleyball,” cocaptain Emily Astarita ’17 said. “Fresh and new things are always exciting.”

And the differences between Doron’s and Lindsey’s coaching style are already starting to emerge. “[This year] is a little less analytical and little more like learning the game for ourselves and sort of teaching through understanding the game,” Astarita said. “Instead of just saying, ‘You need to be in this position at this moment,’ it’s more like, ‘Just think

about where you should be and what makes sense in certain plays.’”

Doron’s valued qualities can be simplified to four Rs: respectful, responsible, resourceful and resilient.

The athletes should be respectful toward each other, the community, the teachers and the staff, he said. They should be responsible for their health and academics as well as resourceful and get help as needed to balance academic and athletic priorities. Lastly, they must be resilient when dealing with shortcomings and grow from these experiences.

“We try to preach every day small little things of what it takes to be a successful person. Period,” Doron said. “And along the way, a successful volleyball player at Dartmouth.”

Doron’s vision for the team culture

is starting to resonate with the players, with Astarita crediting the coaching staff with creating a positive vibe.

So far, the team has the wins to back up the new approach’s efficacy.

But being able to respond to losses is equally important. On Sept. 9, the Big Green suffered a decisive 3-0 loss against the United States Military Academy at Leede Arena in its first match of the Dartmouth Invitational.

But rather than allow the loss influence its performance in the rest of the match-ups, the women’s volleyball team regrouped and defeated Central Connecticut State University, 3-2, and Niagara University and the University of Hartford in straight sets.

Co-captain Kaira Lujan ’16 said the women’s ability to overcome defeat stemmed from being able to show

composure in tight situations.

“You’re not going into any match with the feeling like, ‘This is a match we can win’ or, ‘This is a match we’re going to lose,’” Lujan said.

Doron’s goals and aspirations are shaking up Dartmouth’s culture with athletics as a whole.

Lujan said Doron has been pushing to increase the amount of enthusiasm among fans at games.

“He’s all about getting people to games and making it a fun place to be,” Lujan said. “I don’t think there has been as much focus on cultivating that before.”

Up next, the Big Green will open conference play with a match against Harvard University, the 2015 Ivy League Champions, at Leede Arena on Friday. The game will start at 7 p.m.

Walk-on athletes find success in men’s and women’s rowing

By MAXWELL KANEFIELD The Dartmouth Staff

As fall gets underway, the rowing team heads back onto the Connecticut river, hoping to take the next step toward success and prominence. The team is powered by the athletes who row in the top boats, which typically feature individuals who have competed in rowing at a high level for a

long time. But unlike most Division I sports, the Dartmouth rowing teams rely heavily on athletes who are not recruits but walk-ons.

Although some sports have various technical aspects that require years of practice to perfect particular skills, rowing is a fairly simple sport to learn.

“You do the same motion over and over and over again,” said

Linda Muri, women’s rowing head coach. “We try to take advantage of that, because you can pick it up if you are someone with an athletic background.”

This is not the case for other sports such as hockey, soccer, lacrosse or basketball, which rarely feature players who pick up the sport as late as high school or even college. While it is not impossible to start as an adult,

the skill sets required for those sports who have competed in the sport for often necessitate playing and special- years, that is typical for these athletes. izing them from a young age in order Muri said walk-on rowers will take to be successful at the college level. about two years before coming into However, certain sports such as row- their own. At that point, she said, it ing or track and field work in almost is difficult to identify the athletes who the opposite way. In sports that are were recruited and those who were mainly dependent on raw strength not. and natural physique, it is usually However, men’s lightweight coach challenging to determine when and Sean Healey has a different team how athletes will develop. That’s why philosophy regarding walk-ons. To it’s not necessarily a disadvantage to him, the recruited athletes drive start rowing in the program’s college. success. Because In fact, Muri “You can pick it up if of the nature of called rowing a you are someone with the sport and late entry sport its dependence and naturally an athletic on physical a bit different background.” strength, the from sports that new recruits can rely on technical step into boats -LINDA MURI, WOMEN’S skill. and make an im“Rowing you HEAD COACH mediate impact can start in high because of the school, and some years of experipeople have not fully developed,” she ence they bring. The sport may also said. “So you’re trying to figure out attract athletes with a running or ‘who can make it happen.’” skiing background, but they need to This means that key contribu- also pick up the technical side, Healey tors can emerge down the road and added. compete alongside recruited studentEven if Healey relies on recruits athletes in top boats. The team’s top to drive the lightweight program, it is boats at NCAA championships the not uncommon for walk-ons to ramp past two years had walk-ons who had up the competition for the Varsity 1 no prior experience. and 2 boats, the top boats that race Muri preached patience as the for the team. This year. Robert Van key to success and detailed the long Voorhis ’18 is shining as a top rower process that begins every fall with who walked onto the team in 2014. a team of recruits and walk-ons — Van Voorhis, who Healey described some of whom have never taken a as a natural athlete with a knack for stroke in the water. Muri introduces “boat feel,” will be competing for a new rowers to the sport through spot in the team’s top boat. He and modified practices early in the season the rest of the lightweight team will to help teach them the right stroke have until the team’s first competiand prevent injury. At the end of tion to prove themselves worthy of the fall season, all rowers will get the the top slot . chance to compete in the novice race All three Big Green rowing teams to determine whether they feel they will open the 2016 fall season on Oct. are on level footing with the more 22 with the Head of the Charles race experienced rowers. in Boston followed by the Princeton Although some walk-on rowers Chase at Princeton University on may not perform as well as those Oct. 30.