The Dartmouth 11/04/2019

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Men’s hockey opens season with losses at Harvard and UNH p. 5 Men’s soccer in sole possession of second place after beating Harvard p. 6 Cross country teams struggle in Ivy League Heptagonals p. 7

Big Green football shocks Harvard, 9-6, on miraculous Hail Mary p. 4 GIL TALBOT/COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT

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The weekend Roundup

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Compiled by ADDISON DICK, MATT KRIVAN and Lili STERN

w hockey The women’s hockey team played three games this week, losing to the University of Vermont 4-2 on Tuesday and Yale University 1-0 on Friday, before beating Brown University 3-2 in overtime on Saturday for its first win of the season. The Big Green is now 1-3 on the season and 1-2 in conference play.

On Tuesday, Vermont scored three first-period goals, and Dartmouth was never able to catch up. A goal by Gabby Billing ’22 early in the third period cut the deficit to one, but the Big Green could not score the equalizer. An empty-net goal with under 20 seconds remaining made the final score 4-2. Billing and Catherine Trevors ’23 each posted two points on a goal and an assist.

Dartmouth had 20 shots on goal against Yale, but none found

the back of the net. Trevors again led the attack with five shots.

Yale scored the only goal of the game early in the second period; it looked as if Billing tied it up 28 seconds into the third, but the goal was called off because of goalie interference. Hannah Humphreys ’23 racked up a season-high 28 saves in the loss.

The Big Green captured its first win of the season on Saturday against Brown just 54 seconds into overtime on Celine Pietraszek ’23’s first collegiate goal. Lotti Odnoga ’22 led the team with assists. CC Bowlby ’23 scored her second goal of the season while Givanna Foglia ’22 netted her first.

Dartmouth will look to build on the win with a match this week on Friday at Quinnipiac University and another on Saturday at Princeton University.

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The Big Green dropped home matches against Yale and Brown this weekend.

The volleyball team suffered two Ivy League losses this week, falling to Yale University 3-0 on Friday and Brown University 3-1 on Saturday. The team is now 7-13 on the season and 2-8 in conference play.

Despite losing in straight sets to Yale, the Big Green kept the score close throughout the match.

Dartmouth was leading or within striking distance deep into each set, but was unable to hold on. Elise Petit ’21 and Nicole Liddle ’22 led the attack for the Big Green with six kills each, and Bella Hedley ’22 paced the defense with 11 digs. Annemarie Horn ’22 led the team with 16 assists. The final score was

25-18, 20-15, 25-16.

On Saturday, Brown jumped out ahead early in the first two sets and never relinquished their leads.

The Big Green pulled away late in the third set to send the match to a fourth, but it was Brown’s turn to finish strong, winning six of the final seven points to break a 19-19 tie. Liddle and Carly Tower ’20 led the team with 10 kills each. Hedley and Horn again led the Big Green in digs and assists, respectively.

The team has two more Ivy League matches this week on the road against Princeton University on Friday and the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday.

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The men’s hockey team opened its season with road losses to Harvard University and the University of New Hampshire. On Friday, the Big Green fell to No. 19 Harvard by a score of 7-3. Dartmouth fell behind 2-0 in the first period but came back to take a 3-2 lead thanks to three goals in five minutes. Forward Daniel Warpecha ’20 and defenseman Harrison Markell ’22 scored 21 seconds apart, and forward Quin Foreman ’21 gave the Big Green the lead a few minutes later.

The Crimson, however, regained momentum and scored three goals in less than three minutes to take the lead. Goaltender Justin Ferguson ’22 finished with a career-high 30 saves, but the Big Green could not match Harvard’s offense, despite recording 47 shots

on goal.

The team fell to UNH in a heartbreaking defeat on Saturday by a score of 5-4 in overtime. The Big Green received two goals from forward Matt Baker ’21 and entered the final minutes of the game with a 4-3 lead. The Wildcats beat goaltender Adrian Clark ’20 in the final minute of regulation to send the game into overtime. After the Big Green committed two penalties, UNH converted on a 5-on-3 power play with less than 10 seconds remaining in overtime.

The Big Green will now turn its attention to its first home stand of the season. The team will host No. 9 Quinnipiac University on Friday night before playing Princeton University on Saturday evening.

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The football team kept its perfect season alive on a last-second Hail Mary to beat Harvard University 9-6 on Saturday. The Big Green is now 7-0 on the season and 4-0 in Ivy League play.

The Big Green offense struggled for most of the day, but came through when it mattered most on a 96-yard touchdown drive with under a minute remaining. Harvard appeared to seal the victory with a strip sack of quarterback Derek Kyler ’21 with just over a minute to play deep in Dartmouth territory, but the Big Green defense forced a turnover on downs to give the offense another chance. Kyler led the team down the field, completing two passes to Hunter Hagdorn ’20 and another to Drew Estrada ’20 — which set them up at the Harvard 43 yard line with six seconds to play. On the final play of the game, Kyler escaped the Harvard pass rush and launched a pass to the endzone that was tipped by two defenders and caught by Masaki Aerts ’21.

The game had been dominated by the defenses

up until the final drive. Harvard got on the board first with an opening-drive field goal, but the next score would not come until a Dartmouth field goal with 59 seconds remaining in the first half. Starting quarterback Jared Gerbino ’20 left the game late in the first half with an injury and would not return.

Harvard kicked another field goal on their first drive of the second half, and the 6-3 score held until the final play.

Jack Traynor ’19 led the Big Green defense with 13 tackles, and Niko Lalos ’20 added seven tackles and the team’s only sack. Although it was another strong performance for the defense, the Big Green gave up 102 rushing yards to Harvard’s Devin Darrington, which snapped a 26-game streak of not allowing a 100-yard opponent rusher.

Next Saturday will be a matchup of undefeated teams, as the Big Green faces off against Princeton University at Yankee Stadium in New York City with the top spot in the conference rankings on the line.

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cross country The men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to New York City on Friday to compete in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship.

Both teams finished in last place.

Lauren Sapone ’20 led the way for the women with a time of 21:39 on the 6k course, earning her 15th place overall and falling just short of AllIvy League honors. Julia Stevenson ’20 was the next Dartmouth runner to cross the finish line at 22:04, putting her in 30th place. The Big Green’s other top scoring times came from Diana Vizza ’20 (22:18, 42nd overall), Claire Dougherty ’20 (22:30, 46th overall) and Breanna Glover ’22 (22:31, 47th overall). The

team totaled 174 points.

Owen Ritz ’21 finished first for the men, clocking in at 25:43 on the five-mile course to earn 35th place among all runners. The Big Green’s next four runners followed shortly after; Sam Morton ’21 finished at 25:49 (39th overall), Ben Matejka ’21 at 25:51 (40th overall), Quinn Cooney ’20 at 25:53 (42nd overall) and Reed Horton ’19 at 25:56 (44th overall). The team scored 197 points, a disappointing result following last year’s third place finish in this event.

Both teams will try to put their last-place finishes behind them on Nov. 15 at the NCAA Northeast Regional in Buffalo, NY.

W soccer w tennis The women’s tennis team finished its fall season schedule with the annual Big Green Invite. The Big Green played host to Yale University, the University of Massachusetts and St. John’s University.

On Friday, Dartmouth won a singles and doubles match against Yale en route to winning four of 14 matches on the day.

On Saturday, the Big Green improved its singles results, winning four of seven singles matches and two of five doubles matches. The doubles teams of Racquel Lyn ’20 and Nicole Conard ’22 as well

as Catherine Cable ’20 and Ashley Hess ’23 both defeated teams from St. John’s.

The Big Green finished the meet going 5-4 in singles matches on Sunday, with Conard, Lyn, Chuyuang Guan ’20, Allison McCann ’20 and Paripovic all winning their matches. McCann and Guan won in straight sets.

The Big Green will not return to competitive action until the winter, when it will resume play with a home matchup with Boston College on Jan. 18.

field hockey This weekend, the Dartmouth field hockey team went 1-1 in their games against Harvard University and the University of Vermont in its second to last weekend of play of the season.

On Saturday, the Big Green headed to Cambridge, where the team took on Harvard and lost 7-1. Jocelyn Wulf ’20 netted the Big Green’s lone goal in the second quarter. The Crimson’s offensive efforts were led by Bente van Vlijmen, who recorded four goals on the day, cementing Harvard’s win.

Following Saturday’s loss, the Big Green headed back north to take on UVM on the Catamounts’ home field.

The Big Green won Sunday 3-2, ending a seven-game losing streak. Katie Spanos ’20 opened scoring in the 27th minute, but the Catamounts answered just two minutes later to tie up the game. Then, in the 37th minute, another goal from the home team put the Big Green behind, but Wulf answered less than a minute later with her second goal in two days. In the 51st minute, Holley Cromwell ’23 netted the game-winner for the Big Green, solidifying Dartmouth’s first win since September.

Next weekend, the Big Green will host Cornell University on Chase Field in the team’s final game of the season.

The women’s soccer team was unable to capture its first Ivy League win on Saturday, losing to Harvard University 2-0. The Big Green is now 9-6-1 on the season and 0-5-1 in conference play.

Harvard scored in the third and seventh minutes, and Dartmouth was never able to get back in the game despite leading in total shots 13-9. None of the Big Green’s six shots on goal found the back of

the net, but a 19th minute strike by Mollie McGorisk ’20 just missed off the crossbar. Allie Winstanley ’23 led the team in shots and shots on goal, with four and two respectively.

Izzy Glennon ’22 had three shots and one shot on goal. Goalkeeper Mariel Gordon ’21 had five saves in the game.

The Big Green plays its final match of the season on Saturday against Cornell University.

m soccer The Dartmouth men’s soccer team downed the Harvard Crimson 3-1 this weekend to move into lone possession of second place in the Ivy standings.

The first of the Big Green’s goals came from Patrick Murphy ’21 in the third minute of the game. The Crimson scored just five minutes later, and the score remained tied until the 44th minute, when Zach Kalk ’20 netted one to put the Big Green ahead. In the 50th minute, Ohad

Yahalom ’22 added the insurance goal, and the Big Green held onto its 3-1 lead for the rest of the game.

Murphy and Yahalom’s goals were career firsts, while Kalk recorded his second ever. On the defensive end, goalkeeper Alex Budnik ’22 held down the fort, ending the game with six saves and just one goal allowed.

Next Saturday, the Big Green play Cornell University in the team’s final home game of the season.

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Big Green football shocks Harvard, 9-6, on miraculous Hail Mary B y DEVAN FINK

the opportunity to make a play on the ball.

“It’s kind of funny because, before In sports, every successful season the play, Hunter Hagdorn, one of our comes with its fair share of breaks, receivers, he says, ‘You can’t get sacked, and the No. 14 Dartmouth football you just gotta give us a chance,’” Kyler team certainly got one of its own on said. “That’s what we’re coached to do, Saturday in Cambridge. and it stuck with me. It was in my head.

With just six seconds left on the As I was scrambling around, I was like, clock, the Big Green sat at Harvard ‘Holy cow, I can’t get sacked.’ As soon University’s 43-yard line, down 6-3. as I figured I had enough space, I just After escaping pressure from the tried to launch that thing.” defense, quarterback Derek Kyler The heroics on Saturday were ’21 fired a bullet into the end zone not just confined to that single play. just before taking a hit. The ball was Following a fumble by Kyler, the tipped by two Harvard defenders Crimson had the ball on the Dartmouth and ultimately found the hands nine-yard line with just 1:19 to play, of wide receiver but a defensive Masaki Aerts ’21 for stand on fourththe game-winning “It was pretty crazy — I and-goal from touchdown. With was supposed to roll the two yard the 9-6 victory, the line gave the ball Big Green (7-0, 4-0 out to the right, which back to Kyler Ivy) continued its I did, and then there and the Big perfect season and Green offense was an unblocked Harvard (4-3, 2-2 one final time.

Ivy) fell just short of Harvard player, so that With exactly one playing Ivy League threw everything off.” minute to go, no spoiler. timeouts, and “It was pretty the ball at the crazy — I was -DEREK KYLER ’21 Dartmouth four, supposed to roll Kyler led the out to the right, team downfield which I did, and then there was an in just six plays to set up the gameunblocked Harvard player, so that winning Hail Mary pass with just those threw everything off,” Kyler said after final six ticks on the clock. the game. “I had to improvise a little “The odds definitely weren’t in our bit. Honestly, I’m not sure how I got favor, but we practice the two-minute out of that. Once I got out, I just threw drill every week,” Kyler said. “We’re it up into the crowd, which is what we pretty confident in our up tempo are coached to do, and then hoped for offense. I’ve been in situations — not a tip to one of our own players. That’s quite the same situation — but similar exactly what happened, and we were situations throughout the year. We felt very fortunate for that.” confident. Just keep chipping away, Wide receiver Drew Estrada ’20, and then just put ourselves in a good who had a 22-yard reception to set up position at the end.” the Hail Mary pass, was just as shocked The Big Green were lucky to even by the final play as the rest of the team. be in that situation. For the first time “I was kind of in shock at first,” this season, the offense struggled.

Estrada said. “I was just hoping Masaki Dartmouth only generated a total of held onto the ball. It was an incredible 273 yards, a season low. The team felt play from Derek to give us enough time the loss of quarterback Jared Gerbino to get down the field. Masaki came in ’20, who exited the game in the second clutch with the catch. Just a crazy way quarter with an injury. The Big Green to end the game.” had scored at least 28 points in each Just as fortunate, if not more so, was of its first six games, averaging over 40 Kyler’s escape just prior to delivering per game. But on Saturday, the nine the ball downfield. Had he been points on the board were the fewest a sacked, Aerts would never have had Big Green football team has scored in The Dartmouth

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The large crowd of Dartmouth students who made the trip down to Cambridge went wild at the end of the game.

a win since 1996.

“It just shows everyone that we’re never out of the game, and our defense is always going to keep us in [the game],” Kyler said. “They played great.”

The Dartmouth defense was indeed superb, bending but never quite breaking. Harvard only generated 304 yards of total offense, went just four of 15 on third downs, and only scored once after reaching the red zone, on a 38-yard field goal in the third quarter.

The Crimson did have control for the vast majority of the game, even if the score was relatively close. Harvard chewed the clock early; Dartmouth had just three drives in the first 20 minutes of the contest. The Big Green did not score until a 42-yard field goal from Connor Davis ’22 with just 59 seconds left in the first half, a kick which knotted the game at 3-3.

The offensive stalemate continued well into the second half, but after Harvard clung to a 6-3 lead for the majority of the third and fourth quarters, it appeared as if the Crimson would be spoiling the Big Green’s

perfect record.

“Harvard’s a great coached program,” Kyler said. “It’s always going to be close, in my opinion, when we square off with each other. They had a good scouting report on us. They were showing things that they hadn’t shown before. They came in with a good game plan — not that we didn’t — but they probably executed better than we did.”

But the Dartmouth offense did finally click at the very end of the game, giving the Big Green its first win in Cambridge in 16 years.

“It took forever to come down,” head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 said of the Hail Mary play in his postgame press conference. “Then it’s, ‘Did that really happen, or am I dreaming?’ To see the joy in the eyes of the players and in the stands ... I’ve never been involved with a game like that where you win on a final, desperation pass.

We’ve thrown a bunch up but never caught one.”

Dartmouth now looks ahead to next Saturday, which undoubtedly features the most important game on the schedule: a matchup with undefeated

Princeton University (7-0, 4-0 Ivy), which will likely be the de facto Ivy League championship. Since the conference does not permit postseason play, the path to the conference championship will run through the winner of next week’s game.

To top it off, Dartmouth and Princeton will be commemorating the 150th anniversary of college football.

The first college football game was played on Nov. 6, 1869, between the Princeton Tigers and Rutgers University. Dartmouth and Princeton will mark this commemoration by playing their game at Yankee Stadium in New York City.

“I’m very excited for it,” Estrada said. “It’s cool that we get to play at a stadium like that. I’m looking forward to the stadium and the atmosphere, and it should be a lot of fun.”

Kyler, too, recognizes how neat the experience will be.

“I think the atmosphere is going to be crazy,” Kyler said. “We have to do our best to treat it like every other game, go about our game plans, and do what we’re coached to do every single play.”

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Men’s hockey opens season with losses at Harvard and UNH B y Olivia MORTON The Dartmouth

The men’s hockey team opened its season with two tough road losses to Harvard University and the University of New Hampshire.

The weekend began in Boston, where the Big Green looked to avenge a preseason loss to the Crimson just weeks prior. The game was off to a rough start after an early goal by Harvard’s Jack Rathbone.

The deficit grew 12 minutes into the first period with a second Crimson goal from Colton Kerfoot. Despite the score, the Big Green outshot the Crimson 18-12 in the first period but struggled to find the back of the net.

The second period, however, told a completely different story. Daniel Warpecha ’20 started off the blitz with an early goal, quickly followed less than 20 seconds later by a point shot scored by defenseman Harrison Markell ’22 to tie the game early in the second period. The Big Green took the lead minutes later after

a passing play between captain Brendan Demler ’21, Quin Foreman ’20 and Drew O’Connor ’22 ended with a strong finish from Foreman.

Unfortunately for the Big Green, the home team began its own threegoal run halfway into the period, bringing an end to Dartmouth’s time on top. The second period ended with Harvard in the lead, a score of 5-3.

“Something happened there mentally, we just kind of hit a block and couldn’t get past that,” Demler said.

The third period was fairly back and forth, each team dominating the ice for a couple minutes at a time. Unlike their first meeting, power plays, though occurring, did not dominate the outcome of the game and neither team scored with special teams. Harvard extended its lead in the closing minutes of the game after the Big Green pulled goaltender Justin Ferguson ’22 in a last ditch attempt to close the gap in the score as Dartmouth unfortunately conceded an empty

net goal. The final goal came in the final minute from Harvard’s Nick Abruzzese, and at the buzzer the score stood 7-3 in favor of the home team.

“We were a lot better team Friday night than we were two weekends ago, but we still just have to put it all together,” Demler said when comparing their preseason scrimmage against Harvard to this weekend’s matchup.

After the loss to the Crimson, the Big Green set its sights on the Wildcats of UNH on Saturday.

This game was a thriller, with UNH coming out hot and scoring within the first 30 seconds; forward Ryan Blankemeier ’20 responded just under two minutes later with a shot that went under review before being ruled a goal and officially tying the game early into the first.

“We played the game exactly how we wanted to play it. We responded well to their opportunities; when they scored, we scored right back,” Demler said. “We were able to rebound really quickly from

their opportunities and shift the momentum back our way.”

Another second period spurt with goals from Jeff Losurdo ’22 and Matt Baker ’21 took Dartmouth into a 4-2 lead which they carried into the third. UNH was able to tie it up, however, after a goal 7:41 into the third frame and a power play in the last minutes of the game, leading to a late goal that took the game into overtime.

A pair of penalties late into overtime caused a 5-on-3 power play, and UNH was able to capitalize once again, sending the Big Green home with its second loss of the season.

The Big Green will look to even out its record with games against No. 9 Quinnipiac University and Princeton University next weekend, both of which will be at home at Thompson Arena.

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Big Green volleyball lost two tough matches at home this weekend.

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Men’s soccer in sole possession of second place after beating Harvard B y ANNA MAY MOTT The Dartmouth Staff

The men’s soccer team traveled to Cambridge last weekend to for an in-conference match-up with Harvard University. The contest ended 3-1 in the Big Green’s favor, awarding the team another three points in the Ivy League standings.

After its home game against Columbia the week before ended in a stalemate, the team knew it needed a win at Harvard, as the Big Green tries to chase down Yale University in the hunt for an Ivy League championship. Going into Saturday’s game, Dartmouth was in a three-way tie for second place with Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. With this win, the Big Green separates from the pack, as Princeton and Penn both left their weekend contests with only one point.

As for Harvard, they’re currently last in the league, with no conference wins so far this season. In fact, the Crimson was shutout in its last six games. This record put Dartmouth at risk of underestimating their opponents, especially considering a goal-hungry Harvard wouldn’t go down without a fight.

“I think it can be easy to overlook a team like that, or not really come into the game with the same intensity,” said captain Braden Salvati ’20. “I thought we did a good job putting the record behind us and not including that in our mentality.”

The Big Green certainly started with intensity, scoring in the game’s third minute. In the sixth game of his Dartmouth career, Patrick Murphy ’21 received a midfield pass from Ohad Yahalom ’22, found a hole in Harvard’s defense and rushed the net for his first career goal, uncontested.

A little over five minutes later, Dartmouth fouled Harvard near its net, resulting in a Crimson penalty kick. Willem Ebbinge made the goal, snapping Harvard’s nearly monthlong goalless streak. This would also make Saturday the first time since 2014 that a Dartmouth-Harvard contest hasn’t given either team a shutout.

After the Crimson goal, Dartmouth

struggled to maintain the dominance it had seen in the first minutes of the game. Harvard, bolstered by the longawaited goal, fought back hard.

But with 30 seconds left in the first half, the Big Green regained the lead.

David Alino ’23 sent a cross to Zach Kalk ’20, whose one-timer found the back of the net. This gave Kalk his second goal of the season, and his second game-winner.

Dartmouth took the field in the second half with new energy. Five minutes in, Yahalom received assists from Salvati and Mothibi PennKekana ’22 and found the back of the net for his career first. Yet despite the padding, Harvard refused to let the Big Green relax for the remaining 40 minutes.

Crimson challenged Dartmouth’s offensive output, overtaking them in shots to end the game 12-11, with eight shots on goal to Dartmouth’s five. Nonetheless, Dartmouth stayed patient, avoided fouls, and fended Harvard off for the 3-1 win after 90 minutes of play.

“To Harvard’s credit, they didn’t stop fighting,” said head coach Bo Oshoniyi. “They had a belief about them, and they were grinding … and put us to the test there in the second half.”

Harvard’s fight gave goalkeeper Alex Budnik ’22 another chance to shine this season, as he matched his career high, reproduced from the contest against Columbia the weekend before, ending the game with seven saves.

After this win, not only has the Big Green emerged uncontested in second place in the conference, but it maintained its two-point gap with firstplace Yale. There are two conference games left in the season for Dartmouth to try and close that gap.

“We gotta hope they lose,” Oshoniyi said frankly. “That’s kind of out of our control. Our thing is just to keep it tight and keep pressure on them. They have some tough games coming up, and so do we.”

Next weekend, Dartmouth will return home to face Cornell University, which currently sit in fifth place with a conference record of 1-2-2. The weekend after that,

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After fighting to a scoreless tie with Columbia at home last week, the Big Green defeated Harvard on the road on Saturday.

the team will conclude conference play in Providence against Brown University, following the fourth-place Bears’ contest against Yale. Yale will face Princeton for its final game, and the Tigers are currently tied for third with a record of 2-1-2.

In the week leading up to next

Saturday’s matchup, according to Oshoniyi, the team is looking to work hard in the hopes of improving the consistency of its play in order to maintain dominance for the full 90 minutes. Salvati said the team will also expand on the solid performance of its defense in order to lock down its net

and really limit scoring opportunities from the opposing offense, “Honestly, at this point in the season, all we’re really concentrated on is ourselves,” Oshoniyi said.

“That’s all we can control is how we play against Cornell, and how we match up and play against Brown.”

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Cross country teams struggle in Ivy League Heptagonals B y ELIZABETH WILSON The Dartmouth

This weekend, the men’s and women’s cross country teams t r av e l e d t o Va n C o r t l a n d t Park in New York to compete in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. The men’s and women’s teams both finished eighth overall at the competition.

The men’s team finished the race with a total of 197 points. The Big Green had a strong start; coming through the 2.1 km checkpoint, Sam Morton ’21 and Ben Matejka ’21 were in 13th and 14th place with splits of 6:08.5, and only 1.7 seconds behind Harvard University’s junior Hugo Milner, who led the pack.

Only 0.9 seconds behind his two teammates, Owen Ritz ’21 was in 20th place in the pack.

At the 4.1 km mark, Dartmouth had fallen two places overall, from fifth to seventh. Morton still led for the Big Green, sitting in 20th place, and was 11.8 seconds behind the leader. By the time the five mile race

was finishing, the Big Green had gained 67 points from its standing at the 2.1 km split. The team’s top finisher was Ritz, with a time of 25:43.7. Ritz was 35th overall, and finished 1:11.7 behind Kenny Vasbinder, the Columbia University senior who took the top spot in the competition. Behind Ritz for the Big Green were Morton and Matejka in 39th and 40th. In 41st with a time of 25:53.5 was Quinn Cooney ’20, followed by teammate Reed Horton ’19 in 42nd at 25:56.4. Other competitors for the Dartmouth team were Nick Feffer ’21 in 43rd, Dom Repucci ’20 in 48th, Jake Winslow ’23 in 65th and Andrew Thompson ’23 in 67th. Patrick O’Brien ’21 was in 75th, and Will Eaton ’22 did not finish the race.

The men’s team was 16 points behind Brown, which finished in seventh place. The University of Pennsylvania took the top team spot with an overall score of 62 points, followed by Harvard close behind with an overall 65 points and Princeton University with 68.

Columbia had the top individual finisher of the competition but came in fourth with 85 points, followed by Yale University, Cornell University and Brown University.

This performance is not one that would have been expected from a men’s cross country team that has previously been highly competitive in the Ivy League. Last year, the men’s team finished in third place in the competition.

The women’s team finished the race with 174 total points. At the 3.1 km mark, team captain Lauren Sapone ’20 was the leading runner for the Big Green, in 11th place.

Eight seconds behind her in 26th was Julia Stevenson ’20. Claire Dougherty ’20, Breanna Glover ’22 and Dianna Vizza ’20 came into the first split in 40th, 44th, and 45th. By the 5.1 km mark, Sapone had fallen two places to 13th, Stevenson to 27th and their next closest teammate, Vizza, in 42nd.

At the end of the six-kilometer race, Sapone was 15th, with a

final time of 21:39.1, 53 seconds off of the first place finisher, Yale University’s junior Kayley Delay.

Stevenson finished the race in 30th with a time of 22:04.2, and Vizza closed close behind with a time of 22:18.6 in 42nd. Dougherty and Glover finished closer together with times of 22:30.2 and 22:31.3, coming in 44th and 45th in the standings. Other competitors on the Dartmouth team were Rachel Ludwikowski ’21 in 49th, Samantha Ford ’23 in 51st, as well as Corinne Robitaille ’23. Senior Lauren Archer finished with a time of 23:08.7 in 64th. Abigail Brazil ’21 was 67th, Anya Hirschfeld ’23 was 73rd and Margaret Tuthill ’20 did not finished the race.

The women were 43 points behind the Brown team, which placed seventh overall, and 117

points behind the top finisher, Columbia. Harvard and Penn tied at 89 points, with the tiebreaker second place finish going to Harvard, who had the second place individual finisher. Princeton was fourth, one point behind Penn. Despite having the first place individual finisher, Yale came in fifth overall, followed

by Cornell and Brown.

The Big Green’s eighth place result is a fall from its performance last year. In the 2018 Heptagonal championships, the women were second place overall, that time with a team score of 88 points.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will now prepare for the NCAA Northeast Regional on Nov. 15 in Buffalo, NY in hopes o f a d va n c i n g t o t h e N C A A Championship on Nov. 23, which will take place in Terre Haute, IN.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2019

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY

SPORTS

Women’s tennis concludes fall season with Big Green Invite B y EMILY LU

The Dartmouth

The annual Big Green Invite this weekend concluded the fall season of the women’s tennis team.

Dartmouth hosted Yale University, the University of Massachusetts and St. John’s University in round robin play, finishing 11-14 in singles and 4-6 in doubles.

Dartmouth also played in the Brown Tour nament, Harvard To u r n a m e n t , I TA N o r t h e a s t Regionals and Brown Invite before heading back to the Boss Tennis Center to host this weekend’s action.

While the team was usually split up at the previous competitions, they played together at the Big Green Invite for the first time. The end of fall is really only another beginning: fall matches help to prepare the team for the winter and spring terms, when Ivy League play begins.

“[Like] the rest of the fall competitions, we have an opportunity to represent Dartmouth and kind of see where we’re at in terms of what we’re doing in practice and trying to do as a team,” said head coach Bob Dallis.

The fall season also serves as a transition period for the newer players on the team. Among the group of 12 this year, four are freshmen.

“My mindset has been to work on really developing who I am as a college tennis player and working on certain aspects of my game that I might not have focused on in junior tennis, such as my net game,” said Ashley Hess ’23.

The three-day Big Green Invite began on Friday afternoon with Dartmouth first facing Yale in both singles and doubles play.

Sophomore duo Jingyi Peng ’22 and Nina Paripovic ’22 dominated their

Bulldog opponents with a 6-1 win.

Catherine Cable ’20 fell 6-1 in the first set of her singles’ match before storming back to win the remaining two sets 6-2 and 6-1.

“I found my groove and was able to stay positive the whole time,” Cable said. “I think that makes a huge difference because it’s easy to get down on yourself. [You have to] believe you can come back — that you’re playing to win rather than playing not to lose.”

The team found success in the three matches it played against UMass on Friday, with Emily Zhou ’23 capturing a 6-4, 6-2 game. The doubles team of seniors Cable and Chuyang Guan ’20 demonstrated their experience with a 6-3 victory.

On Saturday, the Big Green won two doubles matches and four singles matches, playing teams from each of the three schools. Chidimma Okpara ’23, Nina Paripovic and

Guan all defeated their opponents from SJU in singles play. Co-captain Allison McCann ’20 won a set then dropped the second before clinching her match against Yale with a commanding 6-0 final set. Doubles action saw co-captain Raquel Lyn ’20 and Nicole Conard ’22 nab a 6-3 win while facing SJU players.

Freshman and senior duo Cable and Hess also communicated well to come out 6-1 against SJU. “My goal was just to implement in what we’ve been working on in practice with doubles in terms of net movement and good first serves, and I think we did that well,” Hess said.

Dallis echoed those sentiments, specifically emphasizing “working on serving to create an advantage.”

Dallis further acknowledged the team’s focus in their approach to the game.

“My expectations never change,”

he explained. “The expectations are how we’re going to compete, how we’re going to represent Dartmouth, and how the women on the team are going to play for each other.”

On Sunday, the Big Green finished the meet going 5-4 in singles matches. Conard, Lyn, Guan, McCann and Paripovic all took home victories, with McCann and Guan winning in straight sets. Cable was able to win her first set against Yale but dropped the next two.

The Big Green looks to continue its momentum into the winter season, which ramps up quickly after winterim with a match against Boston College on January 18.

“Fall’s pretty individual, and competing as a team is really fun,” Cable said. “This next season, [I’m excited for] going out and competing for oneness and who we are as Dartmouth women’s tennis rather than individuals.”