Monday, February 20, 2006

Women’s Hockey takes slap shots at ECACHL opponents

By Jordan Rose, The Dartmouth Staff

Coming into last Sunday’s contest against the Cornell Big Red, assistant captain Catherine Ethier ‘07 said the Dartmouth’s women’s ice hockey team was looking to give the six members present from the Class of 2006 a nice going away present on Senior Day. More »

Men’s hockey splits weekend with win over Colgate

By Andrew Sloan, The Dartmouth Staff

The importance of the goalie was on full display this weekend as the Dartmouth men’s hockey team played what were unquestionably the most important two games of its season. More »

Women’s basketball loses first Ivy contest to Brown

By Jennifer Yu, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth women’s basketball team has not won a game against Brown (15-8, Ivy 9-1) on the Bears’ home court in more than five years. And on Saturday, Brown ruined the Big Green’s perfect conference record for the second consecutive year as Dartmouth failed to put the ball in the basket enough and walked away with its first loss of the season. More »

Ligety ‘09 admires Olympian, brother

By Nate Niparko, The Dartmouth Staff

As Ted Ligety stood atop the podium in Torino, the shadow he cast in the spotlight fell on more than the Croatian to his left and the Austrian to his right. Seven thousand miles away, Charly Ligety ‘09 watched his brother become an Olympic champion in the men’s combined downhill from his dorm room in the River. A skier at Dartmouth, Charly’s alpine success will now be measured against an Olympic champion. More »

Ski team places second at Williams

After finishing third in every Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association carnival this year, Dartmouth’s ski team improved with a second place showing at the Williams Carnival. The University of Vermont won with 775 points, while Dartmouth took second with 716.5, just one point ahead of third place Middlebury. More »

Club Corner

Dartmouth men’s (Pain Train) and women’s (Princess Layout) ultimate Frisbee teams went to Las Vegas, Nev., over Winter Carnival weekend to play in Trouble in Vegas, a tournament featuring some of the top collegiate teams in the country. Overall, 64 men’s and 32 women’s programs competed. More »

Men’s basketball tops Ivy foes

By Kyle Jazwa, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team (5-18, Ivy 3-7) had not scored two consecutive victories this season, but that all changed this weekend during a thrilling two game homestand. Dartmouth first downed Yale (13-11, Ivy 5-4) with a 72-64 and then took out Brown (8-15, Ivy 4-6) 58-46. More »

Straight from the Mule’s Mouth

By Sam Rendall, The Dartmouth Staff

The Winter Olympics are over in less than a week, and while a lot of people can’t wait for NBC to get back to its regular programming, I’m not looking forward to it. More »