Hanover — The Dartmouth College women’s lacrosse team is heading back to the Ivy League tournament for the first time in five years.

The Big Green clinched a spot in the four-team conference championship by routing Yale, 17-4, at Scully-Fahey Field on Saturday. Dartmouth (10-3 overall, 5-1 league) locked up one of the four spots in the tournament with one league game to play and the opportunity to host the championship still very much in the air.

Ellie Carson had four goals and teammates Kierra Sweeney and Katie Bourque netted three each for the Big Green. Dartmouth tallied four of the game’s first five goals, putting the contest away with an eight-goal run that spanned halftime.

Dartmouth has maintained a 10-goal lead in all five of its home games this season. Kathryn Giroux helped that happen by claiming nine of 13 draws from Yale counterpart Izzy Nixon in a matchup of two of the league’s top faceoff artists.

Kiera Vrindten needed just five saves for the win. Dartmouth hosts UMass Lowell in nonleague play on Wednesday, then visits Brown on Saturday in its Ivy finale.

Colby-Sawyer 17Maine Maritime 4

New London — Sierra Schuster had six goals and an assist to lead the Chargers (8-5 overall, 4-2 NAC).

Nicole Lavigne added three goals, an assist and 10 draw controls. Molly Mulcahy had two assists and is now fourth all time in program history with 44 helpers. Carli Chiodo and Bailey Starr each added a goal. Maine Maritime scored 31 seconds into the game to take the early lead before Colby-Sawyer answered with eight straight goals to take control.

The Chargers visit Lyndon today to conclude the regular season.

Baseball

Yale 10, Dartmouth 3Dartmouth 3, Yale 1

New Haven, Conn. — Jack Fossand tossed six innings of three-hit ball and Austen Michel followed with a three-inning save as the Big Green took the nightcap to gain a doubleheader split with the Bulldogs at Yale Field.

Dartmouth (10-18-1, 6-4-1) scored in the first and fourth frames of the second game and could have given Fossand even more support. As it turned out the senior didn’t need it, holding league-leading Yale (16-16, 10-4) to just two singles over the first four innings and retiring 10 straight Bulldogs at one point.

Yale tagged Fossand for a solo homer in the fifth but had no success against Michel, who earned his sixth save. Michael Calamari, Steffen Torgersen and Bennett McCaskill delivered RBIs for the Big Green.

The Bulldogs jumped on Dartmouth starter Cole O’Connor in the opener, scoring four times in the first inning for all of the runs they’d need. The teams play their rubber game today at 1 p.m.

Softball

Harvard 6, Dartmouth 5 (11)Harvard 4, Dartmouth 1

Allston, Mass. — The Crimson recaptured the lead in the Ivy League standings by outlasting its archrival in an 11-inning opener before completing a doubleheader sweep.

Shortstop Rihanna Rich ended the three-hour opening game with an RBI single in the bottom of the 11th inning for Harvard (20-12, 13-4). The Big Green (15-16, 9-5) built a 4-1 lead, keyed by RBIs from Taylor Ward and Micah Schroder and a two-run double from Tatyanah Castillo. The Crimson rallied each time, catching Dartmouth in the sixth by answering a Schroder home run with an Erin Lockhart RBI sac fly.

Dartmouth’s offense had less success in the nightcap, getting only a solo homer from Morgan Martinelli.

Columbia’s two-game sweep of Princeton on Saturday bumped Dartmouth from first to third in the league standings. The Big Green and Harvard close their three-game series this afternoon.

Men’s Tennis

Dartmouth 4, Penn 0

Hanover — The Big Green (19-5, 5-1) will go for at least a share of the Ivy League championship this afternoon after blanking the Quakers on the Thompson Arena outdoor courts on Saturday.

Roko Glasnovic and Casey Ross earned a 6-0 win at second doubles while the No. 1 tandem of Charlie Broom and David Horneffer earned a 7-6 decision to take the doubles point. Dan Martin, Peter Conklin and Broom then rolled to straight-sets wins in singles to clinch the match.

The decision leave Dartmouth and Columbia tied atop the league with matching 5-1 marks, which includes a 4-3 Big Green win over the Lions last weekend. Dartmouth hosts Princeton in its season finale today; Columbia takes on Yale in its final contest as well.

Women’s Tennis

Dartmouth 6, Penn 1

Philadelphia — The Big Green (11-10, 4-2) won its third straight match, besting the Quakers (9-12, 2-4) at the Hecht Tennis Center.

Dartmouth controlled the doubles point as Julia Schroeder and Abigail Chiu won, 6-0, at No. 1 followed by a 6-2 decision at No. 3 for teammates Allison Chuang and Madison Hwang. Schroeder got singles started with a straight-sets win at No. 2, to which No. 1 Kristina Mathis, No. 3 Chiu, No. 4 Racquel Lyn and No. 6 Chuyang Guan added victories, the latter two in three sets.

Dartmouth visits Princeton today.

Women’s Golf

Roddy Two Back at Ivies

Jackson Township, n.j. — Junior Catharine Roddy sank five birdies during the second round of the Ivy League Championship, finishing with a 1-over-par 73 that moved the Big Green golfer to within two shots of the lead with one round to play at Metedeconk National.

Harvard’s Michelle Xie tops the leaderboard at 4-over 148 through 36 holes, one better than Brown’s Brittany Park. Roddy shared third with Yale’s Jennifer Peng. Dartmouth’s Jessica Kittelberger retained a spot in the top 10 with a 4-over 76 for a piece of 10th place.

Brown (614) has a three-shot lead on Princeton and Harvard. Dartmouth is nine strokes back at 623.

Men’s Golf

Dartmouth Cuts Strokes

Elverson, Pa. — The Big Green shaved 15 strokes from its first-day tally but still remains in the bottom half of the field at the Ivy League Championship at the Old Course at Stonewall.

The Big Green turned in a team 302 in Saturday’s second round and is alone in sixth place at 619, a stroke behind Brown. Yale (298) and Harvard (292) share the team lead at 598, with Cornell eight strokes behind.

Dartmouth’s Ian Kelsey had one of the best rounds of the day, carding a 2-over-par 72 that left him in a six-way tie for 10th place at 11-over 151.

Women’s Rowing

Big Green Sweeps

Boston — Dartmouth crews swept to wins in four races over Boston College, Rhode Island and Bates on the Charles River.

Katie Erdos coxed the Big Green’s first varsity to a victory in 6 minutes, 55.48 seconds, winning by more than 14 seconds over URI. Dartmouth’s second varsity also won easily, beating BC by 10 seconds.

Dartmouth hosts Cornell on Saturday in the Parents Cup race, the Big Green’s sole event on the Connecticut River this season.

Men’s Rowing

Dartmouth Lights Fall in Durand Cup

Hanover — Finally competing in warmer temperatures and under blue skies, the Big Green lost to visiting Yale in the Durand Cup.

The Bulldogs entered two boats in the third varsity eight and took the top two spots. Dartmouth took third in 6:00.23. The Big Green took second in the second varsity in 5:53.03, just seven seconds behind Yale’s winning time. Dartmouth finished 12 seconds back in the first varsity race.

The Big Green hosts Columbia today at 9 a.m. for the Subin Cup.

Heavies Second at Brown

Providence, r.i. — The Big Green heavyweights placed second to host Brown and ahead of George Washington at the Atalanta Cup races.

Dartmouth claimed one of the four races, taking fourth varsity in 6 minutes, 3.39 seconds in the day’s first event. Brown claimed the remainder, topped by a seven-second margin of victory in the first varsity.

The Big Green has two races remaining before May’s Eastern Sprints, beginning with a visit from Syracuse on Saturday in the Packard Cup.