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M track and field Men’s track and field finished fifth overall in the 2019 Ivy League Heptagonal OutdoorChampionship hosted by Princeton University. The highlight of the first day came from Donovan Spearman ’21, who broke Dartmouth’s all-time record in the 200m by completing it in just 21.11 seconds. Spearman had already set the program record this year with a time of 21.14 two weeks ago at the University of Virginia. Ben Ose ’19 won the decathlon for the second year in a row. This was his third Ivy League Championship, including indoor and outdoor seasons. In his first race of 2019, Henry Raymond ’20 won the 1500m run with a 0.61-second margin over Columbia University senior Sam Ritz. Max Frye ’21 took home the Big Green’s third event championship with a victory in the 400m hurdles. Another impressive sprinter was Parker Johnson ’19, who earned a combined eight of the Big Green’s total 62 points with a fourth place
finish both in the 110m and 400m hurdles. The Big Green’s 4x800m relay team, consisting of Trevor Colby ’19, Nick Feffer ’21, Raymond, and Michael Thurston ’20, finished second but was looking at a potential fourth-place finish. Raymond, who ran the last leg of the race, improved Dartmouth’s position from fourth to second in his run. The battle for first place was tight in the javelin throw. Cole Andrus ’20 ultimately placed second in the event, less than half a meter behind University of Pennsylvania’s Marc Minichello but over four meters ahead of the third-place finisher. Frye, Raymond and Ose landed spots on the first All-Ivy League team. Andrus and the Big Green’s 4x800m relay team netted spots on the second All-Ivy League team. Next weekend, men’s track and field will compete at the New England Championship in New Haven, CT.
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After losing the first two games of its series against Cornell, the baseball team finished its season strong with a win.
The Big Green had a disappointing last week of the season, dropping three out of four games. Against the University of Maine on Wednesday, Dartmouth lost its last non-conference game 8-7. The Big Green trailed 8-3 going into the bottom of the eigth but mounted a ferocious comeback with a four-run inning, three of which Trevor Johnson ’20 brought in when he tripled with bases loaded. Even with the comeback, however, the Big Green was unable to squeak out the victory. Dartmouth continued its habit of getting behind early and scoring runs in later innings in two heartbreaking games against Cornell University on Saturday, losing 8-6 and 2-1. In the first game,
Dartmouth was plagued by four errors. Both Cole O’Connor ’19 and Justin Murray ’22 threw the most innings of their careers, with O’Connor pitching a complete game in the morning and Murray throwing 7.1 innings in the afternoon. On Sunday, the Big Green avoided the sweep with a resounding 6-1 victory in its last game of the season. All six runs came in the sixth inning, highlighted by a three-run homer from Ubaldo Lopez ’21. The win was not only the Big Green’s 15th and final of the season, but head coach Bob Whalen’s 600th of his career. The baseball team finishes off the 2019 season in a tie for last place in the Ivy League with Cornell.
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Women’s track and field finished seventh overall in the 2019 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Championship with 51 total points. Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 starred once again, winning her third straight 100m hurdle. This was her eighth overall Ivy League Heps championship among indoor and outdoor competitions. Julia Valenti ’20 won the pole vault by 0.05m, earning her a spot alongside Rothwell on the first All-Ivy League team. Behind Valenti was Olivia Goodwin ’21, who took sixth. Dartmouth’s 4x100m relay team — Folasade Akinfe
’20, Nicole DeBlasio ’19, Goodwin and Rothwell — placed fourth. The Big Green also had a strong showing in the high jump, with Abigail Burke ’22 and Camille Landon ’21 tying for fourth with 1.70m jumps and Zoe Dainton ’22 placing sixth with a 1.67m jump. In the 800m, Claire Dougherty ’20 took fifth while Julia Stevenson ’20 also placed fifth in the 5000m. Lauren Sapone ’20 earned sixth in the 3000m steeplechase. Next weekend, women’s track and field will compete at the New England Championship in New Haven, CT.
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w rowing Women’s rowing competed in Worcester, MA, this Sunday for the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges Sprints. Four out of Dartmouth’s five boats qualified to race in the grand final of their events. The Varsity Four B took third, posting an 11-second margin over Temple University. The Varsity Four C also came in third with a three-second margin over the University of Connecticut. The Varsity Four A boat — stroked by Alexandra Kent ’21 and coxed by Mikayla Hubner ’21 — put up the Big Green’s best performance of the event. The boat took second place in the Grand
Final, 5.5 seconds behind Rutgers University and one second ahead of Columbia University. The crew of Second Varsity Eight boat finished last in their Grand Final, falling by five seconds to the University of Tennessee. Although the First Varsity Eight boat did not qualify for the Grand Final, the crew took first place in the Petite Final — just over two seconds ahead of Boston University. The Big Green will be in Camden, NJ on May 19 for the Ivy League Championship to conclude the team’s season.
W lacrosse In the Ivy League tournament semifinals against No. 14 University of Pennsylvania, No. 12 Dartmouth lost 15-14 in a heartbreaker. Despite trailing by four in the latter part of the second half, the Big Green scored five goals to Penn’s two to come within one before the Quakers ran out the clock. Star attacker Kierra Sweeney ’19 scored five goals and midfielder Elizabeth Mastrio ’19
added four more. Even with the loss, which drops Dartmouth to an 11-5 record, the Big Green secured an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament — the first time it has qualified for the tournament since 2013. The Green and White will play the University of Colorado Boulder on Friday at Boston College.
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The softball team finished its season strong with a series sweep of Princeton.
The softball team had a solid finish to its season by going 3-1 for the week and sweeping the weekend series against Princeton University. On Wednesday, in its last road game, the Big Green lost to Boston College 8-2. The Eagles had a great all-around game and were too much for the Big Green, which did not make things easier on itself with three errors. Micah Schroder ’20 was one of the lone bright spots for the Big Green on Saturday, going 2-3 with two RBIs. Despite dropping the game to Boston College, the series against Princeton was a different story. In the first game against Princeton, the Big Green had one of its greatest comebacks of the season. Trailing 4-1 going into the bottom of the sixth inning, Dartmouth scored seven runs to put the game out of reach. McKenna Gray ’21 led the Big Green offensively,
going 2-3 with a home run. Calista Almer ’20 went 2-4 and drove in two additional runs. In the second game, Dartmouth had a dominant performance, winning 12-4 in five innings. The Big Green scored five runs in both the second and fifth innings and were led by Schroder, the potential Ivy League Player of the Year, who went 3-3 with a homer and four RBIs. Yesterday, the Green and White capped off the series and the season with a 1-0 victory over the Tigers in a pitchers’ duel. Tatyanah Castillo ’20 scored the game’s only run on a solo home run in the fifth, and the Big Green relied on scoreless perfor mances from rookie pitchers Madie Augusto ’22 and Brooke Plonka ’22 to fend off Princeton’s offense. The Big Green finishes the season tied for fifth place in the Ivy League with Princeton.
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The men’s tennis team fell in the first round of the NCAA tournament to No. 20 Michigan.
In the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, No. 39 Dartmouth fell to No. 20 University of Michigan 4-2. Dartmouth had a strong start by winning both of the doubles matches and splitting the first two singles matches to go ahead 2-1 with a win by Sid Chari ’22. However, the Wolverines pulled ahead with three consecutive singles match victories
to cement their place in the next round. The Big Green ends a successful season tied for fourth place in the Ivy League with a 15-9 record. However, not the whole team will hang up their rackets, as No. 20 doubles team Charlie Broom ’20 and David Horneffer ’20 look forward to the NCAA doubles tournament later this month in Orlando, FL.
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Dartmouth athletes find success on the field and in the classroom
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Dartmouth offers its athletes the opportunity to play at a competitive NCAA level while engaging them in an academic community as rigorous as it is rewarding. Last week, a large number of Dartmouth’s athletic teams won Academic Progress Rate Public Recognition Awards — honors bestowed upon teams who land in the top 10 percent of APR’s scoring. APR rewards teams for maintaining high rates of “academic eligibility” and “retention” among their players. With 18 Big Green teams earning this award, Dartmouth tied Brown University, Columbia University and the College of the Holy Cross for the most teams honored. The Big Green’s APR awards are in line with Dartmouth studentathlete recognition in years past. Dartmouth has topped the NCAA in student-athlete Graduation Success Rate in six of the past seven years, with a 99 percent GSR — the percentage of students who graduate within six years of starting college — for athletes who enrolled in 2011. Eighteen of Rower Sophie Kamhi ’21, an English major, is on the College’s Third Honor Group, and plans to complete an honors thesis. Dartmouth’s 24 varsity teams had a 100 percent student-athlete GSR for the U23 world championships in Blanchet said she and her teammates times the skiers take their tests on the Switzerland last year, work hard to excel in more than just road, with coaches proctoring. as of th e finished in the top 10 athletics. “When I am in season, and I think most recent “There’s definitely a in every one of her “There’s definitely a really good most people on the team are like this r a n k i n g s , really good culture races this past season culture of working hard as athletes ... your focus gets narrowed down a a n d o n l y u n t i l t h e N C A A and working hard as students,” little bit,” Blanchet said. “So, during o n e t e a m of working hard as championships and Blanchet said. “Everyone on the team the fall and the spring, I’m trying to fell below 95 athletes and working was recently named is really engaged in their classes and balance school and friends and skiing, percent. t o t h e N a t i o n a l definitely puts a lot into school as well and then in the winter ... skiing and T h i s hard as students. C o l l e g i a t e A l l - as a lot into skiing.” school are what I do.” article takes a Everyone on the team Academic Ski Team The academic grind carries on Balancing these responsibilities is look at three is really engaged for the fourth time at full force during athletes’ seasons difficult, but, according to Blanchet, it athletes who in her career. She while their sports demand more is part of what makes the experience have been in their classes and said she is currently from them. Much of the Nordic of competing for the Big Green particularly definitely puts a lot working on her senior team misses the first week of class unique and rewarding. s u c c e s s f u l i n t h e i r into school as well as a thesis, examining each winter for the U.S. Cross “I wouldn’t want it all the time, how flooding varies Country Ski Championships, and but it is cool to just have that time a c a d e m i c lot into skiing.” by season in U.S. NCAAs invariably overlap with finals, of being hyper-focused,” she said. p u r s u i t s , mountain regions. according to Blanchet. To ensure Rower and English major Sophie though many T h e w o m e n’s she is prepared to accommodate this Kamhi ’21 echoed Blanchet’s others share -LYDIA BLANCHET ’19 Nordic team has schedule, Blanchet said she emails sentiments about the athletics i m i l a r l y consistently produced her winter term professors each fall academic balance, emphasizing impressive résumés and challenging schedules. Olympians and All-Americans. All to let them know which weeks she how much thought and effort goes Lydia Blanchet ’19, a Nordic skier four classes had a skier land on the will be away. Sometimes exams can into budgeting her time effectively. and earth sciences major, qualified podium in a race last season, but be rescheduled, she added, but other “If I want to, let’s say, go to
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meetings on a Wednesday night, or do something with my friends, then I have to make sure I’ve woken up well before my 9L, prepped for class [and] done all my work, because I know I’m going to have practice for three hours in the afternoon,” Kamhi said. “It requires a lot of planning in advance, and honestly, being willing to say ‘no.’” On top of regular practices, lifts and regattas, Kamhi said she still finds time for academics. Though she is yet to officially apply, she plans to complete an honors thesis in English and is hoping to do research with the English department this summer. Kamhi is on the College’s Third Honor Group. David Emanuels ’19, a biomedical engineering major who walked on to the football team his freshman fall, described a day in the life of a student-athlete. During football season, Emanuels has morning lift
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Women’s rugby player, Margot Généreux ’21, pictured second from left, presented a project in her ENGS 21, “Introduction to Engineering” class.
and gets in an hour of homework in before 2:30 p.m., after which practice, showering and dinner push the rest of his studying to 8:30 p.m. “I have to be much more diligent about how I go about balancing school and sports,” he said. Emanuels has thrived academically during his time at Dartmouth, earning honors as a Rufus Choate scholar — meaning he is in the top five percent of the Class of 2019. He also earned himself a spot on the Google Cloud Academic All-America second team. During his off-terms, Emanuels has continued to explore his academic interests, with multiple internships in STEM fields. During his sophomore winter, Emanuels did clinical research with the vascular surgery team at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Preceeding this, he interned at the vaccine and infectious disease department of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle the summer after his freshman year. “I was doing research on how
two different infections, like lung infections, can produce different cytokine expression responses in patients, as well as doing an ELISA test to test different blood serum samples for specific antigens as part of a larger research project that had been going on for over a year at the time that I was there,” he said. Academic success goes beyond individual achievements from students on Big Green sport teams, exemplified by 17 players from the national championship-winning women’s rugby team being named Academic All-Ivy players for this past fall. Each of these players had a minimum GPA of 3.7 and appeared in a least two Ivy League Conference Rugby games. Dartmouth players made up 37 percent of the 46 women selected in total. With Big Green sports teams and athletes consistently recognized for their academic achievements, there is reason to believe success on the field will continue to be met with success in the classroom.
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with Sam Stockton ’19 Pucks in Deep: One-on-One with Ailish Forar ’16, Part Two This week’s Pucks In Deep features the second part of my exclusive interview with Ailish Forfar ’16. Forfar recently began working for Yahoo! Sports Canada after studying sports media at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is a veteran of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, having played the 2018-19 season alongside Laura Stacey ’16 for the Markham Thunder. Just last week, she was one of over 200 women’s professional hockey players to announce a one-season boycott of North American women’s hockey leagues, aiming to force the creation of a singular league with adequate resources to promote a sustainable future for the sport. After talking last week about moving on from Dartmouth and life in the CWHL and its closure, we discuss life on the media side, hockey culture and her goals in covering her lifelong sport. How do you see the path forward for women’s hockey? Do you think the National Women’s Hockey League will become a joint United States-Canada league, and how would you react to that? AF: My personal opinion, and I think it’s a lot of the other players’ opinions too, is that you need one league for everyone to play in. That’s a non-negotiable factor. That needs to be the method. Maybe the CWHL thought that if we make this bold gesture, the NWHL would make their bold gesture and also realize that the only way forward is for the NHL to give us proper sponsorship. What the NHL did was see that and say, “Hey NWHL, we’ll give you the $50,000 we were giving the
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CWHL, and everything’s good.” And that’s not good. $50,000 isn’t enough. It’s disappointing that that’s the kind of the response the NHL had. I don’t think that’s the right answer, and if that’s the only thing moving forward in September, that’s going to be disappointing. I won’t play in it because, first of all, there’s no team right now that’s close enough to me, and secondly, I just don’t think that’s the answer. One league is great, but you need the right league that’s going to actually further women’s hockey — a league that’s going to make the hard and tough decisions. Nobody’s jumped to the NWHL because they know that’s not the sustainable move. I know someone like Stacey is probably just distraught. I’m okay to retire, but I know she’s not. You can’t just move on and be like, “I’m going to move to Buffalo.” It doesn’t work like that. I hope that she has an option that’s sustainable. It has been suggested that the NWHL will be moving teams into Toronto and Montreal. If you got that opportunity, would you be interested in that, or do you feel pretty committed to the media side at this point? AF: It kind of depends. If the NWHL does expand to Toronto and they have communicated with those CWHL teams and made a little bit of a partnership and everyone feels good about it, I’m sure I’m not gonna make that team. There’d be one team for 20 Olympians, and obviously, I wouldn’t be on that roster. In a perfect world, if I had an opportunity, I would continue playing, but at the same time, I’ve got to think realistically. I was a bottom player in the CWHL this year with six teams, so if there’s only one or two teams, all those girls from all over will take those teams over, but I would be 100 percent excited to see that. I would love to watch a team with all those Olympians on the ice; that’s the best hockey you could see. The NWHL said they would expand to Montreal and Toronto, but they didn’t communicate with those general managers and coaching staffs that run those teams. Those organizations have fan bases and coaches and ice times. I think you need to wonder why they wouldn’t have those conversations. There are a couple gray areas, but I’m sure
there are things I don’t know about. To move into the media side of things, I’m interested in what it is you want to bring as a member of the hockey media. I feel like there’s been this sense that hardcore hockey fans are unwilling to bring in new people and as a result they’ve diminished the sport’s popularity. Does that dynamic influence the way you want to discuss the game? AF: I think you’re right on the ball with that. For me growing up, I didn’t see a lot of female presence on television covering the sports that I liked. That’s one of the things that made me feel like there’s an opening there. I played NCAA, U Sports and represented my country at times. I had those opportunities to play on a big stage with the best players. So I think I bring the perspective of what it’s like to play and what it’s like to be a fan. I’ve had the opportunity to coach a bit with Ryerson, which, for me, brings a valuable different discourse to the conversation in terms of what I want to do. I just want to be part of that newer wave of media: being able to be personable and approachable and also real. I think some people are worried about the image of the broadcaster, and I think that image is going away. Fewer people are watching the traditional television markets than are watching social media or recaps online. That’s why Ryerson was such a great opportunity to learn — because
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they immerse you in that change that’s happening in media. My Dartmouth background, being an English major, gave me that concrete core, and now, I’ve got the new media sense from Ryerson. You’ve been involved as an athlete and a member of the media simultaneously. Do you think that’s something we will start to see more of out of the NHL? AF: I hope so. I’ve seen the league has done the “Cup Confidential” this playoffs, where they’ve given David Pastrnak or Brad Marchand the Instagram account for like five seconds and they say a couple things. Every time I’ve been like, “Aw, that’s so cool.” There’s Mitch Marner with his ice cream at the pregame meal. It’s stupid, but it’s cool to see they’re doing some of it. It’s an untapped market with hockey players. It’s a special type of person, an aura about you. It’s cool to see that side. BizNasty (Paul Bissonette) has always been my favorite in terms of how real he is. There are times when it’s a bit vulgar, but I love the way he makes fun of himself. More athletes should try to find a way to be themselves authentically. I think Kendall Coyne is a cool example. She’s starting to do some more stuff with NHL analysis. Good for her. She may not be BizNasty, but she’s being herself and very intelligent. When there are more of us getting the chance to do that, we can really let our personalities show. Every time I see it, I think that it’d be so cool
to have that as an everyday thing. I definitely agree with you there. Do you think that’s something that hockey culture, which is probably more conservative than all of the other major sports with the possible exception of baseball, will allow for or is ready for? AF: You won’t really know until you do it. You always get mixed reviews, especially with those 50-year-old guys who want to tear everything apart — doesn’t matter if you’ve been covering hockey for a hundred years or for one week at Yahoo! Sports. No one’s ever going to agree with what you say. That for me was a learning lesson working in this industry. You’re never going to get a 100 percent success rate, but you start working on that portfolio. I think those traditional viewers are on their way out, and the millennials or Generation Z people might connect more with that personal approach of new media. That will drive more viewership. The 50-yearold guy who has been watching hockey and thinks he knows everything is always going to get in the way, but you have to say that’s one demographic, and there might be 10 other demographics that this might land with. I think you have to take that challenge, and the sport will benefit from being a little more away from the way it’s always been. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
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The No. 39 men’s tennis team’s season came to a close this Friday in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Dartmouth competed against No. 20 University of Michigan in Waco, TX, losing 4-2. The Big Green finished its 2018-19 season 15-9 in a tie for fourth place in the Ivy League. The night began with significant victories for Dartmouth in the doubles portion of the match. Charlie Broom ’20 and David Horneffer ’20 won the first match 6-3. Going into the tournament, the Broom and Horneffer pairing was ranked No. 20 in the nation. According to Horneffer, he and Broom are playing together in doubles for the second year and have taken a more disciplined approach this season — which paid off in improved consistency on the court. To give the Dartmouth men’s team the lead before heading into singles, Dan Martin ’21 and John Speicher ’21 also came up with a 6-4 win over Michigan’s Brown and Tishman. Dartmouth suffered four losses in singles to move Michigan ahead and surrender the win, but Sid Chari ’22 had a strong outing on his court, defeating Connor Johnston 7-5, 6-1. Ranked No. 69 in singles in the country, Broom took his match to three sets before falling 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Playing in the No. 6 position, Casey Ross ’21 also kept his match close before his opponent ultimately clinched the point in the third set. Despite the Big Green not advancing into the next round of the NCAA tournament, the team had finished the regular season strong with a home win against Harvard University last Saturday. Last year, Dartmouth won a share of the Ivy League title for the first time since 1997, but the story this season was different. After a strong spring break performance in which the Big Green went 4-0 and won the Rice Invitational, Ivy League play started slow with a loss against
Princeton University before the team bounced back with three straight wins against the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and Yale University. The week before the Harvard match, the team lost to No. 16 Columbia University and dropped a close match to unranked Cornell University. After these losses, the Big Green knew the season was on the line going into the match against Harvard. “If we [won], we were in; if we lost, we were out,” said Peter Conklin ’21. “It was a little bit of pressure, but all the guys on our team thrive in that situation.” Horneffer echoed Conklin’s sentiment. “We tried to treat it as another match and not press too much,” he said. It was this determination and resilience that carried the Big Green throughout the season and gave it the chance to compete in the tournament. During the season, Dartmouth’s doubles teams contributed crucial victories for the team’s success. The Harvard game was no different, with Conklin and Ross putting the Big Green ahead going into singles. In singles, Broom and Chari won 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 and 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 in their respective matches. The win was extra sweet, as Harvard was the only Ivy League loss for the Big Green during last spring’s championship season. Despite losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament like last year, according to Horneffer, the team saw improvement in its play since its 2018 showing — and with more and more exposure to these big time games, the Big Green can use its experiences to build for next year. Horneffer said the team approached NCAA Regionals this year with a more confident and relaxed mindset after last year’s matchup against the University of Oregon. Without any players graduating, Dartmouth’s cohort of strong players will move into the 2019-20 season with more confidence and skill. “They have learned from the last couple of years what it really
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The doubles team of Charlie Broom ’20 and David Horneffer ’20 will compete in the NCAA doubles tournament later this month.
takes to be that next level team, and we hope that the experience and what we have learned will turn into action,” said head coach Chris Drake. M a ny i n d i v i d u a l s o n t h e Dartmouth men’s tennis team had great success this season. In his freshman season, Chari became a prominent figure in Dartmouth’s singles play, making him an exciting prospect for next season. In the Ivy
League, Broom, Horneffer and Martin were named First-Team AllIvy. Broom received the accolade for both singles and doubles, which he was also honored with last year. Broom’s partner, Horneffer, was named for his doubles performance, also for the second consecutive year. Martin, who was Second-Team last year, improved to First-Team All-Ivy in singles this year. Despite the NCAA tournament
coming to an early end for the Big Green, the season is not over for Broom and Horneffer, who will return to action at the NCAA doubles tournament later this month. As one of the best doubles teams in the country, the pair automatically qualified and is the first Dartmouth doubles team since 1976 to accomplish this feat. The tournament will take place May 20-25 in Orlando, FL.
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The Dartmouth Staff
Per the old adage, baseball is a game of inches, and Dartmouth learned this lesson the hard way in its final week of competition. The Big Green lost three nail-biters, falling to the University of Maine 8-7 on Wednesday and losing to Cornell University 2-1 and 8-6 on Saturday. But the team rebounded to end its season on Sunday, winning 6-1 to give 30-year veteran head coach Bob Whalen his 600th career win. With the season officially in the books, the Big Green finished 15-26 and tied with Cornell for last place in the Ivy League, marking a disappointing season for a squad predicted to finish third in the conference before the season. In a season with multiple injuries to key players and a handful of brutal losses, things did not fall into place in Hanover. Even in a challenging final week, however, there were a number of bright spots, mostly on the mound. Captain Cole O’Connor ’19 pitched a complete game in his final outing in green, surrendering seven earned runs in nine innings in the first game against Cornell. For O’Connor, it was a sentimental outing given that it marked the end of an amazing career with the team. “I just tried to stay in the moment and focus on pitching, taking things one pitch at a time,” O’Connor said. “That’s the best way I know how to get better and compete.” Justin Murray ’22, who started the second game against Cornell, said that O’Connor has been a tremendous mentor in helping him adjust to college baseball. “He’s been such a huge help with the mental aspect of the game,” Murray said. “He’s been very successful for four years, so he knows what he’s doing.” Given what O’Connor has meant to the program, losing his final start, especially in such a close game, was
disappointing. However, O’Connor’s final start was his first career nine-inning complete game, and it took only 113 pitches. “He threw really well, much better than the score would suggest,” Murray said. Murray followed up O’Connor’s outing with a pitching gem, throwing 7.1 two-run innings. In a season where he expected to primarily star as an infielder while mixing in some innings on the mound, he excelled as one of the team’s primary three starting pitchers. He finishes his first-year campaign with a decent 5.93 ERA and five starts in which he surrendered two or fewer runs. “It’s just being confident and adjusting to the game,” Murray said. “Coming from high school to college is going to be different, so just learning from [my coaches] and working at every day is key.” Offensively, it took some time for the Big Green to hit its stride in both games. Dartmouth was down 5-0 in the top of the fourth inning in the first game, and though the team nearly came back by scoring six runs, the Big Green ultimately fell short. Still, every player in the starting lineup registered a hit, with Nate Ostmo ’19 hitting a two-run homer in the seventh and Trevor Johnson ’20 knocking in two with a single in the fourth. In the second game, runs were harder to come by. Cornell pitcher Jonathan Zacharias was outstanding in 6.1 onerun innings, and the bullpen was able to slam the door on a Dartmouth rally in the bottom of the ninth. Ostmo singled with two outs before Ubaldo Lopez ’21 was hit by a pitch, but Steffen Torgersen ’19 struck out to end the game. “We were squaring a lot of balls up,” Bryce Daniel ’22 said. “Part of it was just unlucky. But you have to give their pitcher credit — he pitched a great game.” Daniel joined first-years Kade Kretzschmar ’22 and Ben Rice ’22
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The Big Green lost two of three games this weekend to Cornell, ending the season tied in last place in the Ivy League.
in the lineup for the opener, with the three of them combining for five hits. With talented senior hitters like Matt Feinstein ’19, Ostmo, Sean Sullivan ’19 and Torgersen on the way out, the underclassmen will have big shoes to fill next season. “For the class as a whole, I think we’ve done a good job of competing, but there’s a huge learning curve that comes with adjusting to DI college athletics,” Kretzschmar said. The best part of the weekend came yesterday, when Dartmouth broke a scoreless tie with six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Feinstein plated the first two runs with a single and Ostmo doubled another run home. Lopez dealt the biggest blow, crushing a three-run homer. Nathan Skinner ’22 — who has already won Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice, was brilliant, pitching 6.2 innings of o —e-run ball before Max Hunter ’21 finished out the win. Before the Cornell series, the Big Green took on Maine on Wednesday in a game that played out very similarly
to the first Cornell game. Maine took a huge lead early, and Dartmouth’s late rally came up just short. Dartmouth scored four in the bottom of the eighth, including three from Johnson basesclearing triple, but the team needed five runs to tie the game. Maine slammed the door in the ninth en route to victory. Dartmouth did a great job with runners in scoring position, plating seven of the 12 runners who reached base. However, starting pitcher Alec Vaules ’20’s struggles were too much to overcome, as he gave up six runs — five earned — in his three innings. Trystan Sarcone ’22 had a solid four-inning, two-run relief appearance before Jack Schmidt ’21 and Zac Bygum ’19 each pitched a scoreless inning, but their efforts ultimately proved futile. The Big Green finishes with an 8-13 Ivy League record. While there were some bright spots, including important wins over Harvard University and Yale University and series victories against Princeton University and Brown University, the season did not go
Dartmouth’s way. The 21-inning loss to the University of Pennsylvania on April 6 still stands out as the most brutal loss of the season, as Dartmouth ended up getting swept handily in the series after its exhausting Saturday contest. With the Class of 2019 in line to receive their diplomas next month, it is time for the Big Green to turn its attention toward the 2020 season. It will not be easy to replace stellar seniors like O’Connor, Ostmo and Torgersen, but one positive for next year is that Dartmouth will not lose many of its pitchers, with the notable exception of O’Connor. Murray and Skinner both have three more years’ worth of games to start, and key relievers Hunter, Jonah Jenkins ’21 and Sarcone should all prove effective weapons out of the bullpen. The team will lose some offensive contributors, with three-quarters of the team’s starting infield being seniors. “I think we’re going to be a lot better as a freshman group and as a team next year,” Kretzschmar said. “It’s hard not to be excited for these next few years.”