Sports Weekly 10/06/14

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FOOTBALL CRUSHES PENN

MEN’S SOCCER WINS IN 2OT AT PRINCETON

VOLLEYBALL SPLITS WEEKEND SLATE KATE HERRINGTON, KELSEY KITTELSEN, ELIZA MCDONOUGH/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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BY THE NUMBERS

2007 The year of the last Ivy-opening win for the football team.

.104 Kill percentage for the volleyball team in a three-set loss to Yale.

93 Minute when Matt Danilack ’18 of the men’s soccer team scored to beat Princeton.

6 Saves for Tatiana Saunders ’15 in the women’s soccer team’s 2-2 tie versus Princeton.

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Football routs Penn 31-13 to win Ivy opener FROM FOOTBALL PAGE 1

“I think this game really sets us apart as a team from where we’ve been in the past,” Williams said.

The teams scored all but six of the game’s points scored before the 30-minute mark.

The first five minutes gave Dartmouth a scare, as Penn had two successful drives to open the game. On its first drive, Penn’s uptempo offense moved the ball to the Dartmouth 28 where junior kicker Jimmy Gammill missed a 45-yard field goal.

On their next possession, the Quakers struck first with 54-yard touchdown pass to a wide-open tight end, who found a seam down the middle of the Dartmouth defense.

While head coach Buddy Teevens said giving up a big play like that can “take the wind out of you,” he said he was pleased by the poise the team showed in bouncing back from the early setback.

“Our guys were physical and there was a confidence,” Teevens said. “We don’t get rattled as quickly if something doesn’t go well and it’s just ‘okay next snap.’ They’re smart guys and they know what they’re doing but it’s fun to see the confidence emerge.”

Penn sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen would finish the game throwing for 350 yards on 58 attempts, including 15 to senior wide receiver Spencer Kulcsar, though many were short completions. But the aerial frenzy was partially a factor of the Big Green’s dominant defensive front that allowed only 33 rushing yards on the day and tallied four sacks.

“Everyone was flying to the ball, everyone was being extremely tough, extremely physical and that’s something we know we have to carry on throughout the rest of the season,” defensive back Frankie Hernandez ’16 said.

From that touchdown on, the game moved in Dartmouth’s favor. The Big Green struck back quickly, scoring a touchdown on an 11-play drive and never looked back. The drive ended with a two-yard touchdown run up the middle from Kyle Bramble ’16 to tie the game at 7-7.

Bramble would finish the day with 104 yards on the ground for the second 100-yard rushing game of his Dartmouth career.

The Big Green defense picked up where the offense left off as Troy Donahue ’15 made a leaping interception of Torgersen on the Dartmouth sideline on the second play of the next drive.

The offense took over at Penn’s 39-yard line with a chance to go ahead early and capitalized on the opportunity with Williams’s first rushing touchdown of the game. The Big Green quarterback showed his athleticism on the drive with 9-yard touchdown run that started at the right hashmark and ended in the left corner of the north end zone.

Williams had an impressive game, rushing for 53 yards and three touchdowns including a few key third-down conversions. The junior also completed 13 of his 23 passes for 107 yards, showcasing the efficacy of the team’s read-option system. Williams noted that he observed frequent over-pursuit on the back side which allowed him to keep the ball and find open space in the middle of the field.

“He’s always been an elusive kid,” Penn head coach Al Bagnoli said after the game.

Throughout the game, the offensive

line kept its signal caller upright and did not surrender a sack for the first time this season.

The teams traded three-and-outs to start the second quarter before Dartmouth forced another turnover on a muffled snap that Hernandez pounced on at the Penn 42. Williams would finish the drive with another rushing touchdown, this time a 24yard scamper on third and seven where the quarterback read an opening up the middle and had to break a reaching tackle at the 10 on his way to the end zone.

Dartmouth would pull away on the next drive, marching 70 yards and finishing with an 11-yard Williams touchdown run on another read up the middle that finished with him leaping over the outstretched arms of two defenders at the goal line to give Dartmouth a commanding 28-7 lead.

Penn would manage to get the ball within the Dartmouth 10 on the next drive but the defense stiffened and forced the Quakers to settle for a field goal and 28-10 deficit at the half.

The rain-soaked second half saw much less offense — each team managed just a field goal.

After getting a 37-yard field goal in the third, Penn’s last major op-

portunity came on the Quaker’s first drive of the fourth, where the team marched 69 yards to the Dartmouth six, only to see a Torgersen pass to the goal line bounce off his receiver and fall into the hands of Brandon Cooper ’17 at the five for the second interception of the game.

The teams played in the rain from start to finish, conditions that might have limited the Dartmouth passing attack but also created an entertaining atmosphere, players said.

“As a defensive guy, I’ve always loved playing in the rain,” Hernandez said. “Making hits, everyone’s sliding around. It got everyone a little more fired up. It was really exciting, it was a great time.”

The team next plays at Yale University (3-0, 1-0 Ivy), who have looked to be one of the strongest teams in the Ivy League so far. The Bulldogs have scored more than 40 points in every game this season, including a 49-43 upset victory over the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

“This is huge, now we control our destiny,” Williams said. “Our morale is high, we’re confident and we’re ready to face Yale. It’s fine and dandy to be excited about this win, but we have a game coming up in another week, and we have to prepare that way.”

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Though the Dartmouth defense allowed nearly 400 yards, it forced three turnovers and held the Quakers to 13 points.

Men’s soccer keeps rolling with 2-1 win

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The men’s soccer team edged past Princeton University 2-1 on Saturday with a set piece connection in extra time between Matt Danilack ’18 and Gabe Hoffman-Johnson ’14.

The Big Green (5-2-1, 1-0-0 Ivy) opened its Ivy League schedule with an important road win, the team’s first Ivy-opening win since 2011 when players earned a share of the conference title. The game marked

the Big Green’s third straight win.

Dartmouth has rolled through the opposition recently, tallying five wins and a tie in its last six games. This streak is the Big Green’s best since the 2010 season, when Dartmouth strung together six straight wins en route to the final 16 of the NCAA tournament.

In the 93rd minute, Matt Danilack headed the ball into the back of the net to give Dartmouth the golden goal victory after the team

controlled most of the ball game.

Matt Danilack’s goal was his third of the season, tops among the Big Green.

“It’s a great feeling,” Danilack said. “Overall, a great team win against Princeton who we haven’t beaten in 12 years.”

Danilack’s older brother, Hugh Danilack ’15, also plays for the Big Green. Matt credited their closeness SEE M SOCC PAGE SW 4

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Women’s soccer ties Princeton on the road B y emily wechsler

The women’s soccer team wrestled to a 2-2 draw at Princeton University Saturday, keeping both squads’ Ivy loss columns empty.

The team’s third straight overtime game featured 13 saves and 34 shots. Despite holding the lead twice, the Big Green (3-3-3, 0-0-2 Ivy) could not snatch a win against the Tigers (2-3-3, 1-0-1 Ivy).

The Big Green came out firing, notching quality chances from the word go. In the first 10 minutes, the Big Green quickly tallied three shots without conceding any to the Tigers.

After the barrage of chances, leading scorer Lucielle Kozlov ’16 notched an assist in the 13th minute, sliding the ball across the end line to Corey Delaney ’16, who deposited the ball inside the post for her first goal of the season.

“I’ve been looking for that goal for a while for the season, so it was really exciting to get that one in the net,” Delaney said. “It was a good team goal.”

About 10 minutes later Dartmouth gave up a penalty kick, which Princeton sophomore Tyler Lussi converted on to tie the game.

“Being a goalkeeper, you don’t really want a penalty called against you because the chances of you saving it are very slim,” Tatiana Saunders ’15 said, “But I think the team’s response to the penalty kick was phenomenal. We scored just a few minutes later, and that’s the best response that we could have as a team.”

Princeton kept its foot on the gas pedal after knotting the contest at one, notching four shots to zero for Dartmouth over the next 10 minutes.

The momentum swung back in the Big Green’s direction quickly, as Tasha Wilkins ’15 scored off a two-v-two play with Jessica Lukas ’17 in the 36th minute — just one minute after the senior entered the game.

Lukas dribbled down the left side of the

field and crossed it to Wilkins, who found the back of the net for her third goal of the season.

The first half ended with the Big Green up 2-1, though the Tigers tallied 10 shots to Dartmouth’s six. The Tigers also had six corner kicks in the first half, to the Big Green’s zero. Saunders notched four saves in the first half.

“We did a nice job of beating people out wide, and the runs in the box were very good to allow us, with the cross, to eliminate the keeper, and then people were real composed in the finishing,” head coach Ron Rainey said. “It was exciting to get those chances.”

Princeton continued to heap on secondhalf pressure, outshooting the Big Green 8-3 in the half. The Big Green was efficient with its chances, as all three of the team’s shots hit the target. But senior goalkeeper Darcy Hargadon stood tall, stopping each shot she faced in the half to keep the game close. The best chance the Big Green had was a 49th minute chance by Kozlov, but Hargadon turned it aside.

Lussi scored her fourth goal of the season in the 62nd minute to tie the game back at 2-2, where it would stand through 100 minutes of play.

The Big Green picked up the pressure in the second overtime, notching four shots, but Hargadon and the Princeton defense turned them away to preserve the tie.

The match, which Rainey said was not abnormally physical, featured several Princeton cards, including a red card to senior Gabrielle Ragazzo. Rainey attributes these cards to good plays by Delaney that beat the Princeton players, leading them to foul her.

Now just past the season’s halfway mark, the Big Green is looking to turn its even record into a winning one. The team has a week to prepare for its Saturday match-up against Yale University at home, where

Dartmouth has not lost since October 1, 2012.

Rainey said the team will watch film of the Bulldogs to see how they are playing, and will work on better defensive play in the 18-yard box.

“I think it [the season] is going great,” Saunders said. “Its our first season with Ron and I think he’s doing great things with this team. We’re getting shots on goal we’re possessing the ball, we’re dominating these teams and, as the season goes on, we’re going to start finishing and getting more goals. I think the team is really excited about the transition with Ron, and I think the next half of the season is going to be great. I think we’re going to finish our chances and continue to be strong defensively.”

The second half of the Big Green’s season will unfold over the next month in a packed Ivy schedule that ends Nov. 8. The team waspositioned similarly this time last year, when it was 1-1-0 in the Ivy League and 4-4-1 overall. The team ended 4-3-0 in conference.

“We want to put together a full 90 minutes, both offensively and defensively, to where we can play that great game and get some of those results,” Rainey said. “We want to win some of those close Ivy League games for sure.”

Delaney said she is optimistic about how the team is performing.

The Big Green will take on Yale under its home lights Saturday at 7 p.m.

“Yale is a phenomenal team,” Saunders said. “They just tied Harvard, who won the Ivy League and ended up going 7-0. Every Ivy League game is gonna be a battle and I think we are disappointed with losing to Sacred Heart, tying Brown, tying Princeton, and I really think we’re going to use that energy and disappointment to really get us motivated for this week of practice leading to the game because we’re hungry.”

Volleyball splits weekend slate v. Yale, Brown

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The volleyball team finished the weekend at home with a five-set win over Brown University and a straight-set loss against Yale University. On Friday, the Big Green (11-3, 2-1 Ivy) came back to beat the Bears (6-9, 1-2 Ivy) in five sets, but could not carry the momentum into Saturday evening’s game against Yale (6-6, 2-1 Ivy).

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Yale is the four-time defending Ivy League champion and has only dropped five Ancient Eight contests in those four years. The Bulldogs dropped a five-setter on the road at Harvard University Friday

night for their first Ivy loss of the year.

On Friday, teams started the match with back-and-forth play before Dartmouth broke away on a 4-0 run in the middle of the first set, which ended 25-17 in favor of Dartmouth.

Sets two and three featured improved defense by the Bears as they managed comeback wins, 25-23 and 25-20, despite late runs by the Big Green.

Brown also started strong in the intense fourth set with a run that put the team ahead, 16-10. Dartmouth fought back and claimed the lead at 20-18 with a service ace by Lucia Pohlman ’15 and a kill by Paige Caridi ’16. Determined to end the game, the Bears responded with three straight points but were denied by three kills and a combined block by Emily Astarita ’17 that ended the set 26-24.

The fifth set was neck and neck until Dartmouth broke through and went up 13-7. Brown came as close as one point thanks to a five-point run of its own, but

the Big Green sealed its victory, 15-12, with a kill by Sara Lindquist ’18 and an ace by Julia Lau ’17.

Caridi led the match with 19 kills, while Astarita added 16 and Kaira Lujan ’16 finished with 11. Dartmouth out-blocked Brown 15-6.

Saturday’s match saw Dartmouth pitted against the Yale Bulldogs, who swept the Big Green, 3-0.

The first set began evenly. But the Bulldogs gained momentum and tied the set three times before capturing the lead with a 7-0 run that put them up 24-17. The Big Green could get within four points before Yale closed the set at 25-21.

The Bulldogs’ use of tip shots continued to stump the home team in set two, as they took a commanding lead off of a 4-0 run. The Bulldogs maintained that lead, as kills by Pohlman and Molly Kornfeind ’17 brought Dartmouth within SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE SW 4

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RUNDOWN Football SCHOOL

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YALE PRINCETON DARTMOUTH HARVARD

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

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

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HARVARD COLUMBIA PRINCETON CORNELL BROWN DARTMOUTH YALE PENN

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

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PRINCETON DARTMOUTH COLUMBIA YALE HARVARD BROWN PENN CORNELL

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CORNELL COLUMBIA DARTMOUTH PRINCETON BROWN HARVARD PENN YALE

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

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B y katie jarrett The Dartmouth Staff

This week I sat down with Kirby Schoenthaler ’15, a wide receiver and kick returner for Dartmouth’s football team. Schoenthaler set a school record for kickoff return yards in a single game against the University of New Hampshire last weekend with 198 and was named the Ivy League special teams player of the week for his performance.

ing an impact with my teammates.

What are you most looking forward to this season?

KS: Probably just making the most of every opportunity on the field. It’s my last season and with the injuries I’ve had last year, I’ve realized to cherish every opportunity on the field, every practice, every game.

How did it feel to be named Ivy League special teams player of the week?

KS: It was a big honor, but like any award like that, it was a team effort.

Do you have a favorite NFL or college team other than Dar tmouth you’ve always followed?

KS: My dad is from Iowa, so I’m a big Hawkeyes fan.

How about setting a Dartmouth football record?

KS: There’s such a long history with the Dartmouth football program. So many great players have played here. So it’s a special recognition, but it was a team effort.

If you could meet any football player, who would it be and why?

KS: Peyton Manning. He’s obviously a good leader on the field and he seems like he would be a fun guy to hang out with off the field.

What has been the difference maker for you this season?

KS: Just finally being healthy. I struggled with injuries last season, so I’m just glad to be back on the field with the guys and happy to be out there everyday and playing with them.

Have you always been a receiver?

KS: No, I was a quarterback my whole life until I got to Dartmouth.

My freshman year, I switched to receiver and started returning kicks my sophomore year. I wasn’t able to last year because of injuries, but I’m back there again this year. My whole life I’d been a quarterback, so that was a little bit of a transition once I got here, but I’ve enjoyed it so far.

How does this win over Penn impact the Ivy League as a whole?

KS: Penn is usually one of the top two teams in the league, so this win gives us confidence to know that we can compete with anyone in the Ivy League. The challenge from here on out is to play to our potential for each of the seven remaining games.

Who were the difference makers in the game?

KS: Our defense as a whole played an outstanding game. Troy Donahue [’15] and Brandon Cooper [’17] each had big interceptions at key moments in the game. Our front seven also did a great job of shutting down their running attack.

Can you talk a little bit about your injuries and recovery?

KS: Last year I had a shoulder deal and a freak appendix situation.

I just had bad luck. The training staff has been good and the strength and conditioning coaches have worked with me a lot. I knew I was going to be ready for this season, and, this being my senior year, I was just excited to have one last run at it. So far, I’ve been healthy, and I’m hoping to continue mak-

Is that pretty common to switch from quarterback to receiver in college?

KS: Yeah I think that’s probably the easiest transition to make.

When people ask me, quarterback to receiver is probably easier than receiver to quarterback, so it was a pretty easy transition and the coaches really helped me along the way.

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for some of his success.

“It’s a lot of fun to play with my brother, we played together in high school,” [Matt] Danilack said. “He’ll be gone next year and we’ll miss him, but, for now, it’s a lot of fun.”

The Big Green has a well-balanced attack, with 10 different players scoring and no player notching more than three goals yet this year.

2010 was the last season where the Big Green had more unique scorers. The balanced approach also presents a marked contrast from past seasons when the Dartmouth scoring attack was fronted mostly by one star attacker, Alex Adelabu ’15 over the past two seasons and Lucky Mkosana ’12 the season before that.

“We played a little too defensively in the second half,” said senior defender and co-captain Hugh Danilack ’15.

The Big Green outshot the Tigers (3-3-2, 0-1 Ivy) 15-11 for the game, but Princeton’s junior goalie Ben Hummel turned Dartmouth away all but once in regulation. Hummel’s six saves were the third most of his career.

The team’s win in its Ancient Eight opener was its first win at Princeton’s Myslik Field since 2002.

Though Dartmouth faced a 10-4 deficit in corner kicks, the team’s only allowed goal in the game was a penalty kick by Princeton’s Cameron Porter in the 64th minute. Porter, a senior striker for the Tigers, leads the team in goals with five in the

team’s eight games.

The Big Green was penalized for fouling Porter in the box following a Tiger corner kick. Despite the barrage of corner kicks, the Tigers only managed to notch three shots on goal, two of which Dartmouth’s goalie Stefan Cleveland ’16 turned away. Cleveland has only allowed more than one goal twice this season.

The Big Green took the lead early in the 13th minute with a break finished by Colin Heffron ’15. Heffron’s goal from 22 yards out was his second tally of the season, one behind his three goals last season.

The team looks to extend its six-game unbeaten streak against Central Connecticut State University at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Burnham Field.

Offense comes up short for volleyball FROM VOLLEYBALL PAGE SW 3

four points at 20-16. This surge was short lived as Yale answered with a convincing offense that closed the set at 18-25.

The third set also started closely as the Big Green took a 4-3 lead before the Bulldogs surged ahead, winning 10 of the next 12 points to take a 13-6 lead. Dartmouth came within two points of Yale after a block by Pohlman and Alex Schoenberger ’15 brought the score to 17-15, but a late 7-0 run by the Bulldogs increased the score disparity to nine as a Yale kill ended the game, 25-16.

No one on the home team scored in double digit kills. Astarita finished with eight, while Caridi contributed

seven and Kornfeind added six.

The Big Green could only manage a .104 kill percentage, including a .068 mark in the third set. The Big Green’s 31 team kills were offset by 19 errors. By contrast, Yale posted a .272 percentage with 47 kills to 16 errors.

“Our team just didn’t execute as well as we wanted to tonight,” said Lau, who finished the game with 14 digs.

Dartmouth finished with seven team blocks to Yale’s four, and Kayden Cook ’16 led the team with 18 assists while Stacey Benton ’17 added nine.

This was the first Ivy loss for the Big Green, whose league season kicked off last week.

“An early loss isn’t going to affect us in the big picture, as long as the team comes back in practice,” head coach Erin Lindsey said. “We have to get better every day, and that’s where our resilience comes in with the mindset that we have to do that.”

The team is looking ahead to get back into the top spot in the Ancient Eight but faces the challenge of playing two away games this week.

“We know what it means to be on the road,” Lau said. “We know how to play in different settings, so I think this will be a chance for good playing and good competition.”

The team will travel to New York for a weekend doubleheader against Columbia University on Friday and Cornell University on Saturday.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: SETTING ME UP

What’s something most people don’t know about you?

KS: Probably that I enjoy watching the NBA more than the NFL. Some guys on the team take exception to that, especially Troy Donahue [’15], who gets really upset whenever I try to bring up the NBA instead of talking about the NFL. I give him a hard time about that, but I enjoy watching the NBA. I’m from Oklahoma, so the Thunder is the only professional sports team we have, so that’s all I really have to hold on to.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Yale snapped the volleyball team’s four-game winning streak snapped on Saturday.