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Men’s hockey wins three straight against conference opponents p. 5 Cross country teams race to top-10 finishes in regionals p. 7 Men’s soccer concludes season in fourth place in Ivy League p. 8
Dartmouth football suffers first loss in upset by Cornell, 20-17 p. 4 GRACIE GOODWIN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
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The weekend Roundup
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Compiled by LILI STERN
swimming & DIVING The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams competed ag ainst Harvard University and Cor nell Univer sity in Hanover on Saturday. The men lost to both Harvard (193-105) and Cornell (166.5-133.5), while the women beat Cornell (169-131) but fell to Harvard (191-101). The Big Green men finished the meet with three individual wins. Connor LaMastra ’21 won the 1000m freestyle in 9:23.84, Justin Sodokoff ’21 won on the three-meter diving board with a score of 346.70, and Tim Park ’23 posted a meet-best 46.21 finish in the 100m freestyle. The Big Green also posted several third-place individual finishes in events including the 500m
freestyle, the 200m freestyle, the 200m backstroke and the 400m freestyle relay. Christina Cianciolo ’23 led the women’s team with two individual victories in the 500m and 1000m freestyle. Maggie Deppe-Walker ’21 rounded out the Big Green’s first-place finishes with a win in the 100m breaststroke. The Big Green finished off the meet with a victory in the 400m freestyle relay with a team made up of Mia Leko ’22, Ashley Post ’22, Sophie Smith ’20 and Eleanor Zwart ’22. Both the men’s and women’s teams will continue their seasons at the Big Al Invitational at Princeton University three weeks from now.
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The volleyball team recorded its first weekend sweep of the season with victories over Cornell and Columbia.
On senior weekend, the Big Green volleyball team recorded its first weekend sweep of the season. Dartmouth took down Columbia University and Cornell University in Hanover to finish off the season strong. In Friday’s match against Columbia, the visiting Lions started with the edge before the Big Green came back from a 2-0 deficit to take the 3-2 win (21-25, 32-34, 25-17, 25-18, 15-12). The Big Green’s offensive weapons were in full force, with four players recording double-digit kills and three recording double-doubles. Nicole Liddle ’22 led the pack with 16 kills and added a team-high 15 digs, while Elise Petit ’21 put up 12 kills and 11 digs. Makenzie Arent
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This weekend, the women’s rowing team returned to Cambridge, MA to close out its fall season at the Foot of the Charles regatta. The Big Green brought five boats and raced three in the Varsity 8 race and two in the Novice 8+ race. In the Varsity 8 race, Dartmouth’s A boat finished in eighth place of 16, with the Big Green’s B boat coming in 12th and its C boat bringing up the rear in 16th. In the Novice 8+ race, Dartmouth’s A boat took first place in a four-team race by a hefty 1:40 margin. The B team narrowly missed third, coming in just five seconds behind Boston University. The Big Green will be back on the water in April.
’23 rounded out the double-double trio by recording 12 digs and a staggering 51 assists — a career high for the freshman — to propel the Big Green to victory. On Saturday, the volleyball team took to Leede Arena for senior day and beat Cornell in four sets (25-18, 20-25, 25-21, 25-20). Liddle and Arent again led the Big Green’s stat line, with Liddle putting down a season-high 20 kills along with 13 digs and Arent recording 36 assists. The Big Green will have both of these playmakers back when the team returns to the court next season. The Big Green concludes its season with a 10-15 record, 4-8 in conference play.
m soccer The men’s soccer team finished off its season with a 2-1 loss to Brown University in Providence, RI. While the Big Green fired off five shots on goal to the Bears’ three, Zach Kalk ’20 was the only member of the Dartmouth team to find the back of the net. He did so in the 33rd minute on a penalty kick, netting his fourth goal of the season in the final game of his career. The goal put the Big Green up 1-0, but after that, the team’s offense was stagnant — the visitors took a total of just three shots in the entire second half. The Bears scored in the 45th minute and then again in the 79th for what would be the game-winning goal. The Big Green team finishes its season 3-3-1 in Ivy League play, which is good for fourth place in the Ivy League standings.
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FOOTBALL On Senior Day this past Saturday, the Big Green lost a heartbreaking game to Cornell University 2017, spoiling Dartmouth’s undefeated season. A win would have clinched a share of the Ivy League title for the Big Green. The Big Green’s offense was slow coming out of the gate — it did not score until there were fewer than two minutes left in the first half, when Derek Kyler ’21 connected with Hunter Hagdorn ’20 for a 30-yard touchdown. In the first quarter, however, the defense picked up the slack as Isiah Swann ’20 had a pick-six with just 37 seconds left to play. Between the offensive and defensive scores and a relinquished field goal in the first quarter and another with six seconds left in the half, the Big Green went into halftime up 14-6.
On the second play of the second half, Cornell scored a 74-yard rushing touchdown and then was unsuccessful in its two-point conversion attempt. The score brought the Big Red within two, and the score remained 14-12 until Connor Davis ’22 knocked in a 34-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to put the Big Green up by five. On the next drive, however, the Big Red scored a touchdown and had a successful two-point conversion to take a 20-17 lead. The Big Green took the ball back with 5:32 to play, but one unsuccessful drive and an interception later, Dartmouth found itself on the losing side of a matchup with the seventh-place team in the Ivy League. The Big Green will take the field against last-place Brown University in Providence next weekend to again try to clinch a share of the Ivy title.
M HOCKEY The men’s hockey team defeated Yale University and Brown University on the road this weekend to improve to 3-2-1. The wins were the Big Green’s first on the road this season. On Friday in New Haven, the Big Green downed the Bulldogs 4-3. The two teams played evenly for the first 58 minutes of play before Will Graber ’20 scored the game-winning goal with 1:25 left in regulation. Graber was joined by Drew O’Connor ’22, Matt Baker ’21 and Quin Foreman ’21 in the goal-scoring. On Saturday, Dartmouth beat Brown in decisive fashion by a score of 4-1. O’Connor led the Big
Green’s offense with two goals and an assist, while Graber contributed his second goal of the weekend. Brendan Less ’21 found the back of the net for the first time this season. Goalkeeper Adrian Clark ’20 was a staunch backstop, stopping 23 shots and letting just one in. Brown’s only goal came in the second frame, cutting into the Big Green’s 3-0 lead before Dartmouth sealed the deal when O’Connor scored again with fewer than two seconds left in the final period on an empty-netter. The Big Green hosts Colgate University and Cornell University in three weeks to try to continue its four-game unbeaten streak.
w basketball The women’s basketball team extended its undefeated record to 3-0 this week with narrow wins over Merrimack College and Fairfield University. On Wednesday, the Big Green hosted Merrimack and scraped by with a win after dominating for most of the game. Dartmouth held a commanding 20-point lead with less than five minutes remaining before the Warriors went on a 20-2 run. The Big Green held just a 54-52 lead with 1:07 to play, but was able to hold on to escape with a 57-52 win. Annie McKenna ’20 led the Big Green with 14 points, while Paula Lenart ’20 and Elle Louie ’21 each neared double-doubles — Lenart recorded 10 points and eight rebounds and Louie had nine
points and 11 rebounds. The Big Green played its first road game of the season at Fairfield on Sunday and edged out the Stags, 52-51, in a back-and-forth thriller. After entering halftime down 29-25, the Big Green gave up an 8-2 run to open the third. Soon after, however, the Dartmouth women clawed back and went on a 14-2 run of their own. McKenna again led the way for the Big Green with 14 points and six assists. Lenart mirrored her Wednesday performance with another 10 points and eight rebounds, while Asha Taylor ’22 scored a career-high 10 points. The Fairfield game marks the beginning of a four-game road stand. The Big Green will be back on the court at Manhattan College on Dec. 1.
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M basketball In a week packed full with games, the men’s basketball team went 3-1, including a 2-1 finish in the River Hawk Invitational at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Last Monday, the Big Green played F lorida Gulf Coast University at home and beat the Eagles 55-49. After entering halftime knotted at 29-29, the Big Green outplayed the visitors in the second to secure a six-point win. Chris Knight ’21 led the Big Green with 13 points. Over the weekend, the Big Green traveled south to compete in a tour nament at UMass Lowell. Dartmouth started off the weekend strong with a 55-46 victory over Merrimack College in which Knight again led the Big Green with 13 points. After trailing for the entire first half and entering the intermission down by six, the Warriors scored just one bucket in the first 10 minutes of the second half. The Warriors’ drought allowed the Big Green to get back on its feet and take a lead as large as ten points. The Big Green would hold onto its
lead for the rest of the game. The Big Green recorded its only loss of the week and its first of the season on Saturday against Jacksonville University. The Dolphins beat Dartmouth convincingly, outscoring the Big Green 57-37. Trevon Ary-Turner ’22 was the only Dartmouth player to score more than seven points — he led the Big Green with 13. Dartmouth revived its offense for Sunday’s game against UMass Lowell, when the Big Green beat the River Hawks 80-75 in overtime. Ian Sistare ’20 led the Big Green’s offense with 15 points, and was joined by Knight, James Foye ’20 and Aaryn Rai ’21 in putting up double figures. After going into halftime up 14 points, the Big Green let its comfortable lead slip away in the second half, giving up 42 points in the second half. In overtime, however, the Big Green was able to pull away to secure the win and improve the team’s overall record to 4-1. Dartmouth will be on its home court again Tuesday as the team takes on Thomas College before hitting the road for five games.
W HOCKEY The women’s hockey team split the weekend against the Rochester Institute of Technology, losing to the Tigers 4-3 on Friday before beating them on their home ice on Saturday, 2-1. In Friday’s g ame, Sara McClanahan ’22 led the Big Green with two goals. Her first was the first of the game, but the Tigers answered to tie things up at one goal apiece. McClanahan tallied another goal before the end of the first period to put the Big Green up 2-1 heading into the second. In the first minute of the second, Celine Pietraszek ’23 netted yet another goal for the Big Green to give the visitors a two-goal lead. The rest
of the period remained scoreless, but in the third period, the Tigers stormed back and scored three goals to secure their 4-3 win. On Saturday, the Big Green came back to RIT’s ice and successfully avenged Friday’s loss. The Big Green let up a goal in the first period before Jess Forcey ’22 answered in the second with her first career goal to tie the game 1-1. A scoreless third period sent the game to overtime, when team captain Christina Rombaut ’20 scored the game-winning goal. The Big Green will play consecutive home games against the University of Maine in two weeks.
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Dartmouth football suffers first loss in upset by Cornell, 20-17 B y DEVAN FINK
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After No. 12 Dartmouth’s (8-1, 5-1 Ivy) monumental victory last week versus Princeton University at Yankee Stadium, head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 reminded his team that the season was not over, that winning the Ivy League required one more victory. The first opportunity would come against Cornell University (3-6, 2-4 Ivy) at home — a game in which the Big Green would be heavily favored. Teevens, however, was not writing off the Big Red. “Enjoy the bus ride tonight, and get back to work tomorrow,” Teevens said at the time. “Cornell played Princeton tough, and we’ve seen that on tape. They’re a scrappy bunch.” And scrappy they were. The Big Red ran into Hanover and stunned Dartmouth with a 20-17 upset, winning a game against a ranked Ivy League team for the first time since 2006, and accomplishing this feat on the road for the first time since 1950. “I just think what our record says — there’s a saying, ‘You are what your record says’ — not these kids,” Cornell head coach David Archer said after the game. “I’m just really super proud of them and how they performed.” Prior to Saturday’s win, Cornell had not beaten Dartmouth since 2008, when the Big Red secured a 37-14 victory at home. Today’s win snapped the Big Green’s 10-game winning streak against the Big Red. “Since I’ve been here, Cornell has always played us tough,” cornerback Isiah Swann ’20 said. “Always. All their kids, no matter what their record is, they’re always a good team on Saturday. As Coach T always says, ‘The team that plays the best on Saturday is going to win the game.’ It doesn’t matter what your record is, or how well you’ve done during the season or what you’ve done, Cornell’s going to come out and play their hardest. They happened to be the better team this Saturday.” From the very first drive, it was evident that Cornell would be playing tough once again. The Big Red threatened immediately, moving the ball 84 yards downfield in 13 plays, but the offense was forced to settle for
a short field goal after Swann broke up a pass in the end zone. Cornell’s opening drive was so lengthy that it seemed likely the Big Red would be going into the first intermission with the lead. Cornell outgained Dartmouth by a wide margin in the first, generating 114 yards of total offense to Dartmouth’s 55. The scoreboard, however, displayed something different. As Cornell’s third offensive play on their second drive broke down, Big Red quarterback Richie Kenney made a poor read, throwing a pass that almost appeared intended for Swann, who returned the interception 69 yards for a touchdown. It was Swann’s fourth career pick six, a new school record. The score put the Big Green up 7-3 at the end of the first. The defensive battle continued in the second, as the two teams traded punts on the first three drives of the quarter. With just over seven minutes left in the half, cornerback Darren Stanley ’21 brought in the Big Green’s second interception of the day on an overthrown pass by Kenney. Following the pick, the offense started rolling for the first time all afternoon, moving the ball all the way to the Cornell 22-yard line. Dartmouth’s pursuit for points appeared to be in jeopardy after quarterback Derek Kyler ’21 was sacked, setting up a crucial fourthand-14 from the 30. It didn’t matter. The offense more than converted, with Kyler finding wide receiver Hunter Hagdorn ’20 for the 30-yard touchdown. It was quite the spark for the offense, which had struggled to move the ball all throughout the half. At the end of the first half, 47 percent of Dartmouth’s total passing yards came on that one play alone. Cornell responded with another short field goal, after driving the ball 65 yards in just 1:46 to make it an eightpoint game at the half, with Dartmouth leading 14-6. Then, on their second play from scrimmage to begin the third quarter, the Big Red found paydirt for the first time. A 74-yard touchdown run from running back Harold Coles brought the game within two, and a failed two-point conversion kept the score at 14-12. The offensive sluggishness
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The Big Green struggled offensively against Cornell on Saturday, managing only one touchdown and a field goal.
subsequently resumed. Six straight punts followed Coles’ touchdown, with neither team moving the ball more than 21 yards in any individual drive. The inability to score was due just as much to poor offense as it was to good defense. Both quarterbacks struggled to do much of anything — Kyler had a couple of overthrows on long passes, while Kenney completed just three of his seven attempts in the quarter, averaging just over three yards per attempt. And, after putting together the best drive of the quarter which moved the Big Green inside Cornell’s 20 for the first time in the game, Kyler lost a fumble stretching for a first down with just under two and a half minutes left in the third. “We were just inconsistent,” Teevens said. “You hit a big play, and then you’d take a tackle for a loss. You had a ball tipped — normally it would be a safe pass for us, and it was knocked down. You had an errant throw, those things happen. I would say that it was a collection of things. It was just a domino effect, things kept happening that haven’t happened to this point.
We were not clean in our execution on either side of the football, and it cost us.” In the fourth, a combination of Kyler and freshman quarterback Nick Howard ’23 put together an 11-play, 56-yard drive, resulting in an important 34-yard field goal from Connor Davis ’22. With the kick, Dartmouth went up 17-12, forcing Cornell’s hand on offense. No longer would a field goal allow the Big Red to take the lead, but Kenney responded with a 24-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Owen Peters on the following drive, and a conversion on the two-point attempt put them up by three with just 5:32 to play. “We had a corner and a post,” Kenney said. “The safety bit a little bit too much on the corner, left the middle of the field open. It was play action, so it tucked the backers down, and Owen Peters made a great catch over the middle.” Kyler then had two different drives to reclaim the Big Green’s lead, but as was the theme all afternoon, the offense couldn’t score. An interception with just
1:46 left in the game sealed Dartmouth’s fate. “We were playing for rings today,” Swann said. “The energy was up. It was a championship game for us. We had opportunities — didn’t take advantage of them.” Now, Dartmouth will turn its attention to its final contest of the season: a date with Brown University (27, 1-5 Ivy) in Providence next Saturday. Potentially concerning are injuries to three important players: Quarterback Jared Gerbino ’20, running back Caylin Parker ’20 and defensive lineman Jackson Perry ’19 all left Saturday’s game due to injury. Teevens expressed different levels of certainty about whether these three players will return to action. He seemed most certain about Gerbino’s status, saying that he will probably play next week. Dartmouth can still clinch a share of the Ivy League title with a victory, but the Big Green would still need Harvard University (4-5, 2-4 Ivy) to beat Yale University (8-1, 5-1 Ivy) in New Haven in order to win the title outright.
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Men’s hockey wins three straight against conference opponents B y OLIVIA MORTON The Dartmouth
The Dartmouth men’s hockey team is now 3-2-1 on the season after winning its last three games against Princeton University, Yale University and Brown University. Last Saturday, the Big Green faced off against Princeton in one of the most anticipated games of the season: the tennis ball game. The tradition began in the early ’90s and is believed to have begun after a Princeton student threw a tennis ball at a Big Green goaltender after the Tigers’ first goal, leading Dartmouth students to later respond by flooding the ice with tennis balls after Dartmouth’s first goal of the game. Though the tradition has caused some controversy over the years, it continued strong in Thompson Arena this year. In what has historically been a competitive matchup, the Big Green came out on top this time, 3-1. After surviving an early tripping penalty, the Big Green was off to the races, with Will Graber ’20 scoring an early goal after winning a faceoff and capitalizing off a rebound from a shot by Drew O’Connor ’22. The shower of tennis balls was almost immediate, with neon yellow Wilsons bouncing sporadically off the ice as the Dartmouth student section erupted. “It’s obviously super fun to score the tennis ball goal, good to go to the student section, good to go to the fans,” Graber said. “We love the tennis ball tradition — it brings a ton of energy. Everyone is super excited for that game every year.
It’s just fun to have the building going and people you know in the stands.” After a brief delay to clear the tennis balls from the ice, play was fairly back and forth but Dartmouth maintained the lead. Though the Big Green suffered from committing penalties throughout the first and second periods, the Tigers were unable to convert any of their six power-play opportunities; Princeton did score a goal, however, seconds after Matt Baker ’21 returned from time in the box for a tripping penalty. The goal brought the game to a tie for the first time since Graber’s goal. The Big Green dominated the next 10 minutes, and while it did not manage to score on a 5-on-3 power play, Graber came in clutch again with his second goal of the game during his 100th career game for the Big Green. With just over six minutes remaining in the third period, Graber took a pass from Quin Foreman ’21 and found the back of the net to give the Big Green the lead again. Less than one minute later, Daniel Warpecha ’20 scored Dartmouth’s third goal of the night off a scrum in the box and a misplay from the Tigers’ goaltender. The Big Green held onto its lead and came out with its first win of the season. More recently, the team headed down I-95 this past weekend to face off against two huge Eastern College Athletic Conference and Ivy League opponents, Yale and Brown. The Big Green took both games, beating the Bulldogs 4-3 and the Bears 4-1. Against Yale, the team struggled to take the lead, but fought hard to stay in
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The tennis balls came out in full force after Will Graber ’20’s first goal against Princeton last weekend.
the game, scoring in response to each of the Bulldogs goals. The Big Green eventually gained the lead off of a quickrelease slapshot goal from Foreman nine minutes into the third period. Yale responded with four minutes remaining in the game, but the Big Green was not deterred. Graber once again came up with a huge goal with 1:25 remaining in regulation, and Dartmouth held on to that lead to come out on top with its
second Ivy League win of the year. Warpecha, who scored in the big game against Princeton last Saturday, reflected on the team’s strengths this weekend and goals for the rest of the season. “Our team scoring has been great off the get go, being something that we struggled with last year — and this year it’s been great,” Warpecha said. “A big thing we can improve on is obviously our discipline, minimizing the amount of penalties we take — I think that’s the big one. I also think that playing a full game is important — at least how the ECAC is and a lot of college hockey, if you take five minutes off a lot of things can go wrong. But I think we’ve done a pretty good job of playing 50-55 minutes hard.” The team carried the momentum from New Haven down to Providence, where the Big Green beat the Bears 4-1 on Saturday evening. The Big Green asserted its dominance from the start, with two first period goals from Brendan Less ’21 and O’Connor within minutes of each other. The second goal from O’Connor came during a power play
off a perfect passing pattern. Dartmouth furthered the gap with a goal in the first 30 seconds of the second period from, Graber once again, who intercepted a Brown pass and quickly took advantage of his opportunity, slamming a shot into the top of the net. Graber has scored four goals in the Big Green’s last three games. Brown responded with a goal late in the second, but that was not enough to spark a comeback, and the Big Green held onto its lead for the remainder of the game, with O’Connor scoring his second goal of the game on an open net to end the game with Dartmouth on top, 4-1. “The overall trend of our team right now, we’re off to a really good start, and I think that speaks to our team and our ability to play a very mature game,” Warpecha said. “Obviously being on the road the goal is to get some points out of it, but being able to get a weekend sweep, those two wins — its huge.” Now 3-1-1 overall in ECAC play, the Big Green men’s hockey team takes a two week break for finals and Thanksgiving. Dartmouth will return to action at Thompson Arena on Dec. 6 against Colgate University.
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with Evan Griffith ’18 Th’20 The Redshirt Senior: Where in the World is Evansville? There’s been a little more than one week of action in the college basketball world, but that one week has been enough to completely divert my attention away from college football season. The University of Georgia is somehow ranked in the top four of the College Football Playoff rankings? Eh. Chase Young’s suspension has been reduced to only two games? Not that much of a big deal. There’s been enough time to evaluate many of these teams, but
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before I start my rambling… Ken tu c k y j u s t l o s t to th e University of Evansville. At home. Favored by 25 points. If anyone doesn’t know where Evansville is, the school is in Evansville, IN, a city on the southeasternmost tip of Indiana near the border with Kentucky. The Evansville Purple Aces play in the Missouri Valley conference, the conference which features NCAA postseason regulars University of Northern Iowa and formerly Wichita State University. Fo r c o n t e x t , l a s t s e a s o n , Evansville finished with a 11-21 record, last in the Missouri Valley, and Evansville has not made the NCAA tournament since 1999. Not only that, but Kentucky had won 52 consecutive games against unranked opponents in Lexington. This game was the third-largest upset in terms of point spread in the last 15 years, the highest being, interestingly, Kentucky losing to Gardner-Webb University in 2007, blowing a 26.5 point spread. This was a big blow for Kentucky, which became the first team to lose to an unranked opponent at home while being ranked No. 1 in the
AP Poll. However, here’s my bold prediction for the rest of the season: Kentucky will win the NCAA Tournament this season. It’s early, but this situation is similar to what happened to Ohio State University’s football team in 2014, the first season of the College Football Playoff. In 2014, Ohio State was ranked highly to start the season, but suffered its first loss at home to an unranked Virginia Tech team in the second week of the season (That Virginia Tech team would go on to finish with a 7-6 record). Ohio State would go on to win the rest of its games in that season to enter the College Football Playoff as the fourth seed. The Buckeyes would then go on to upset topranked Alabama University in the Sugar Bowl and then upset the No. 2 University of Oregon in the championship game. The similarities are there: A top-ranked team losing at home early to a team it had no business losing to. Ohio State also had to deal with a slew of injuries that season. Starting quarterback Braxton Miller would go down early in the season with an injury, paving the way for backup quarterback J.T. Barrett to finish most of the regular season.
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Barrett would then be sidelined with an injury which caused thirdstring quarterback Cardale Jones to start for the College Football Playoff. Kentucky has not had injury trouble, but freshman Tyrese Maxey is playing well for coming off of the bench, so that similarity is there as well. Kentucky will most likely win the SEC, as the only real challenger to the Wildcats right now is Florida which, although I thought the Gators would be a Final Four contender, has started off slow and even lost to in-state rival Florida State. Although Kentucky is the clear favorite to win the SEC, the Evansville loss will probably stick in the minds of the committee, meaning Kentucky will potentially be ranked lower than the team should be. By that point, it will all come together. Let me take my tinfoil hat off so I can explain what’s going on. Well, during the Backyard Brawl between the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University, a game which West Virginia won 68-53, the announcers inadvertently dug up a tidbit about Duke University head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Coach K apparently met with one of West
Virginia’s players, freshman Oscar Tshiebwe after an AAU game in Las Vegas when Tshiebwe was still in high school. That, according to NCAA rules is a violation. We’ll see if anything comes out of this. In Ivy League news, Dartmouth won its first game of the University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawk Invitational this weekend against Merrimack College 55-46, but dropped its second game against Jacksonville 57-37. Only scoring 37 points in a game is never a good strategy, so we’ll have to see how the team responds. In more news of my predictions being wrong, Harvard University dropped another game to Buffalo University 88-76 this past weekend, a team that Dartmouth upset in its season opener. Harvard now sits at 3-2, and it’s looking like the path to the NCAA tournament won’t be as easy as the media thought at the beginning of the season for the Crimson. Meanwhile, the University of Pennsylvania has emerged as a challenger for the top team in the Ivy League with its season opening win against Alabama. With opportunities for signature wins against Villanova University and Providence College, the Quakers could make a run.
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Cross country teams race to top-10 finishes in regionals B y MATT KRIVAN The Dartmouth
The men’s and women’s cross country teams bounced back after disappointing performances at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships last week to place in the top 10 at the NCAA Northeast Regional in Buffalo, NY. The men placed sixth out of 34 teams, while the women came in eighth out of 37. Despite their strong finishes, neither team earned a qualifying bid for the NCAA championships next week. The men’s 10k and women’s 6k races were relocated to a road course due to snowy and muddy conditions. “The meet was supposed to be held on a golf course by the University of Buffalo, but they got seven inches of snow in the week leading up to the race and they just could not get the course safely runnable,” said men’s head
coach Barry Harwick. “So, they moved the course to a road race on the University of Buffalo campus, which has never happened in the 28 years I’ve been at Dartmouth.” The last-minute change in the location of the race came as a surprise to the runners — but, after replacing their spiked shoes with flat shoes that were more compatible with road racing, the teams excelled. “One thing we tried to keep in mind was that the change from the scheduled course to the roads would probably mess with a lot of people’s heads,” said women’s team captain Lauren Sapone ’20. “So we just tried to keep in mind that it’s still the same distance and the same people we race with and try to let it mess with our heads less than other people’s.” Harwick also said he believed his team handled the sudden change well. The women’s team, led by its
upperclassmen, scored 263 points. Sapone ended her collegiate career on a high note, finishing first for the Big Green and 20th overall with a time of 20:09. This marked the second-straight year that Sapone earned all-region honors. Sapone was followed closely by Rachel Ludwikowski ’21 who came in 31st place with a time of 20:21. Three seniors accounted for the Big Green’s other scoring times: Claire Dougherty ’20 came in 61st (20:56), Diana Vizza ’20 came in 69th (20:58), and Julia Stevenson ’20 came in 83rd (21:11). The men’s team scored 228 points. Sam Morton ’21 paced the team with a time of 29:26, good for 23rd place overall and a spot on the All-Northeast Region Team. Reed Horton ’20 was next to cross the finish line for the Big Green with the 34th-best time of 29:41. Quinn Cooney ’20 placed 40th with a time of 29:46 and was followed closely by Owen Ritz ’21, who placed 43rd
with a time of 29:48. The race for the final scoring position for the Big Green came down to the wire, as Ben Matejka ’21 beat out teammate Nick Feffer ’21 by less than a second to claim 88th place and the fifth-best time for the team. Both teams got revenge against some Ivy League rivals after coming in last place at the Heptagonal championships last week. “ T h ey f e l t t h at t h ey h a d underperformed at the Heptagonal championships, and they were determined not to let that happen again and it showed in the way they raced,” Harwick said. “They worked together as a group and they were very aggressive. I am not surprised that our results were tremendously better.” The men’s team edged Brown University, Columbia University, Cor nell Univer sity and Yale University to come in second among Ivy League teams. The Big Green trailed only first-place Harvard
University. The women had less success against Ivy League schools due to higher finishes for Harvard, Cornell, Columbia and Yale. The Big Green finished well ahead of Brown, which came in 16th place. “I think our team has a lot of potential moving forward and definitely hit a lot of bumps in the road with injuries, but I think we have all come away from the season learning a lot,” Sapone said. The meet marks the end of the season for each team. Automatic bids for the NCAA championships were awarded to the top-two finishers at regionals, and the Big Green did not receive individual or team at-large bids. However, Dartmouth’s top-10 finishes mark a positive end to the senior’s collegiate careers and are encouraging for next year’s teams. “I think that this year’s team ended on a high note, but I certainly think that next year’s team will be even better.” Harwick said.
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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2019
SPORTS
Men’s soccer concludes season in fourth place in Ivy League B y KAITLYN LEES
The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth men’s soccer (6-8-2, 3-3-1) ended its season on Saturday with a 2-1 loss on the road at Brown University (4-9-4, 2-2-3). A couple of weeks ago, the team was chasing down the Ivy League championship. The Big Green entered the game in lone possession of second place as a Dartmouth loss to Cornell University and a Yale University win over Brown last weekend clinched the title for the Bulldogs and knocked the Big Green out of championship contention. After Saturday’s loss, however, the Big Green finish the season in fourth place in the Ivy League standings. Last season, Dartmouth dominated Brown at home with a 4-0 win. This was Dartmouth’s first road loss to Brown since 2009. Despite not having the Ivy League title to play for, goalkeeper Alex Budnik ’22 said that the team was still motivated to provide a strong end to the season for the school, the seniors and the whole team. For seniors Henry Baldwin ’20, Will Chisholm ’20, Zach Kalk ’20, Braden Salvati ’20, Jesse Scanlon ’20 and Henry Stusnick ’20, Saturday was their last time competing for the Big Green. Head coach Bo Oshoniyi said that against Brown, the team played slightly different from usual on restarts and corner kicks — a change which he thought the Big Green was able to execute well during the game. Oshoniyi said he thought Dartmouth played some of its best soccer in the first half, and indeed the Big Green started out the game strong, with five shots in the first 30 minutes compared to the Bears’ three. In the 33rd minute, the Big Green
was able to take the early lead. Kalk was able to score on a penalty after Clayton Molter ’23 was tackled in the box. Playing in his last game for Dartmouth, Kalk had his fourth goal of the season, rounding out his third consecutive game in which he has put points on the board for the Big Green. However, there was an important momentum shift right before halftime. Brown took advantage of a throw in and scored with only 22 seconds left in the first half, and the Bears capitalized on this momentum in the second half. “I think really we were the dominant team,” Budnik said. “We were on the upper foot for both the first half and the second half. It was a little bit unfortunate that we couldn’t go into half time up 1-0.” In the second half, Brown fired seven shots to the Big Green’s three. The game remained tied between the two teams until Brown was able to score the deciding goal with 12 minutes left. Molter and Henry Baldwin ’20 both had two shots during the game while Dawson McCartney ’21 and Kalk each had three. Ohad Yahalom ’22 also had a solid effort. Dartmouth ends the season with a 6-8-2 overall record and a 3-3-1 conference record. The Big Green’s season featured wins against Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University; a tie with Columbia University; and losses to Yale, Cornell and Brown. Budnik expressed disappointment with how the season ended. “There were points where it looked like we were a really good team and the season was headed in the right direction.” Budnik said. “But as it is
KYLE SPENCER/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
The men’s soccer team lost its final game of the season on the road against Brown on Saturday.
with most teams, you have your road bumps, and I think our road bumps game at difficult times in the season.” Similarly, Oshoniyi characterized the season as up-and-down, with the team struggling to find consistency. He said he believes the team has a strong group of returning players. Mothibi Penn-Kekana ’22 forms a part of the strong returning core. Penn-Kekana was just named one of the New England Soccer Journal’s 10 breakout players in New England Division I soccer. “We’re going to really grow from this season and gain a little more consistency in our results and how we play,” Oshoniyi said.