Hanover — Dartmouth College athletic director Harry Sheehy named Jennifer Williams as the Big Green’s new softball coach on Friday.

Williams comes to Dartmouth from MIT, where she’d been the head coach for the past eight seasons. Williams had a record of 168-122-1 during that time, going 122-46-1 since 2015. MIT was 38-11-1 last year, breaking 18 team records and winning its first NEWMAC championship.

“I am looking forward to working with the team and staff at Dartmouth to develop, mentor and seek excellence in the coming season and beyond,” Williams said in a news release. “Dartmouth softball has a solid foundation as well as great potential, and I’m honored to be the next head coach to move the program forward.”

Prior to Williams’ days at MIT, she was an assistant coach at Southern New Hampshire University, where she worked with pitching staff, infielders and with hitting instruction.

Williams graduated from Middlebury College in 2007. She was a four-year pitcher for the Panthers and graduated as the program’s all-time career leader in wins (32), complete games (41) and innings pitched (327⅓).

Dartmouth softball is coming off a solid 2018 campaign, with a 22-18 mark and a loss to Harvard in the Ivy League Championship series.

Men’s Tennis

Dartmouth at Regionals

Princeton, n.j. — Dartmouth won all six of its matches on the first day of the ITA Northeast Regional Championship.

Sid Chari, John Speicher, Casey Ross and Roko Glasnovic all recorded straight-sets victories in singles play for Dartmouth. In doubles, Ross and Peter Conklin won, 8-7 (2). Glasnovic and sophomore Dan Martin won their doubles match, 8-3.

Dartmouth returns to action today.

Women’s Tennis

Peng Drops Match

New Haven, Conn. — Dartmouth’s Jingyi Peng fell in the opening match of the ITA Northeast Regional Championship.

Peng lost to Columbia’s Christine Wan, 6-0, 6-2. Dartmouth will play in the Brown Invitational this weekend.

Volleyball

Yale 3, Dartmouth 0

New Haven, Conn. — The Big Green were swept by the Bulldogs, losing all three sets by scores of 25-19.

Dartmouth dropped to 6-10 overall, 2-4 in the Ivy League. Elise Petit had eight kills, two digs and two blocks for the Big Green. Corinne Cox had 13 assists. Zoe Leonard had 10 digs. Tola Akinwumi and Francesca Meldrum each had three blocks.

The Big Green visits Brown today at 5 p.m.

Cross Country

Dartmouth Women Fifth,Men Ninth at Penn State

University Park, Pa. — The Big Green women scored 186 points on Penn State’s six-kilometer Blue-White Golf Course route to place fifth out of 28 teams at Penn State’s National Open.

Junior Georgia Fear led Dartmouth with a 23rd-place finish in 21 minutes, 11 seconds. Big Green teammate Lauren Sapone also ran a 21:11 but was deemed 26th in the order of finish.

Penn State (62), Michigan State (82), Georgia Tech (143) and Princeton (182) outpaced Dartmouth.

The Big Green men took ninth in their race on a 5.2-mile course. Pat O’Brien was the top Dartmouth finisher (30th place, 25:40), with Quinn Cooney close behind (33rd, 25:42).

Dartmouth posted 245 team points. Virginia won the meet with 61 points, topping Eastern Kentucky (77).