HANOVER — After limiting spectators to just preapproved guests of coaches and student-athletes since Dec. 22, Dartmouth College is opening Leede Arena and Thompson Arena to students, faculty and staff, effective Tuesday.
Dartmouth students, faculty and staff will need a current, valid Dartmouth ID to get inside Leede Arena, home of the Big Green men’s and women’s basketball teams, and Thompson Arena, home to the men’s and women’s hockey programs.
All spectators will be required to wear masks while inside the venues and are prohibited from bringing in outside food. Concession stands will remain closed. The new policies are to be in place through at least Feb. 1, according to a Dartmouth Athletics news release.
Attendees will also have to present proof of either full vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative PCR test within 72 hours of the event.
Three other indoor venues — Karl Michael Pool (men’s and women’s swimming and diving), Berry Sports Center (men’s and women’s squash) and Boss Tennis Center (men’s and women’s tennis) — events will continue to be closed to all except player and coach guests on a pass list.
HANOVER — The Big Green opened the season with a win over Army on Saturday at the Boss Tennis Center.
Dartmouth (1-0) took the doubles point as freshman Chloe Yoo and sophomore Lexi Dewire won, 6-4, at No. 3 and freshman Elizabeth Fahrmeier and sophomore Katie Weber won, 6-3, at No. 1.
Yoo made quick work of the Black Knights’ Carolyn Ahn, 6-0, 6-1, at No. 5 singles. Army won the next two matches at No. 4 and No. 3 to tie the score 2-2, with Dewire and Weber both falling in straight sets. But Dartmouth got 6-3, 6-3 wins from junior Jennifer Gadalov at No. 6 and junio Chidimma Okpara at No. 1 to clinch the victory.
Junior Ashley Hess outlasted Army’s Caroline Vincent 6-3, 3-6, 10-8 in the only three-set match of the day.
The Big Green are back in action on Jan. 22 against St. John’s.
HANOVER — The Big Green (8-11, 2-10 ECAC Hockey) twice rallied from a goal down to tie the game Friday, but the Bulldogs took the lead midway through the third period and added an empty-net goal late.
Freshman Lauren Messier scored Dartmouth’s first goal on a power play in the second, her sixth of the year, with seniors Gabby Billing and Lotti Odnoga assisting. After Yale went back in front before second intermission, the Big Green equalized again early in the third on freshman Laura Fuoco’s fifth goal of the season on an assist from junior Currie Putrah.
Junior goaltender Hannah Humphries made 31 saves in the losing effort.
Dartmouth heads to Harvard on Tuesday evening.
HAMDEN, Conn. — The No. 2 Bobcats took a two-goal lead in the first period and held on from there to defeat the Big Green (3-10-1, 2-6-0 ECAC Hockey).
Dartmouth’s lone goal came in the second, the third of the year for freshman Sean Chisholm. Sophomore goaltender Clay Stevenson had a great night, making 47 saves and allowing just two goals. Quinnipiac sealed the game with a late empty-netter.
The Big Green are back home this weekend, welcoming Clarkson on Friday and St. Lawrence on Saturday.
Dartmouth (4-11, 1-3 Ivy League) squandered a halftime lead in a 78-68 loss to the Quakers at the Palestra on Saturday, then came home Monday night and saw its comeback attempt fall one point short in 60-59 defeat to the Crimson.
Against Penn, graduate guard Brendan Barry led the way with 16 points and fifth-year forward Aaryn Rai added 11. The Big Green led by as many as 10 in the first half before letting it slip away.
Two days later, Dartmouth spotted Harvard a 13-point first-half lead and kept chipping away. But Rai’s jumper in the paint as time expired didn’t find the bottom of the net and the Big Green dropped to seventh in the Ivy League. Junior forward Dame Adelekun had 14 points against the Crimson and freshman guard Ryan Cornish pumped in 13.
Dartmouth hosts first-place Princeton on Saturday.
The Big Green (1-14, 0-3 Ivy League) were held to single-digit points in each quarter in Saturday’s 55-31 loss to Penn, then were outscored by 21 in the first quarter en route to a 96-62 loss at Harvard on Monday.
Sophomore forward Rosie Jennings had nine points for Dartmouth on Saturday, and junior forward Emma Koch had 10 rebounds. Jennings again led the way against the Crimson with 13 points on 5-for-7 shooting. Sophomore guard Mekenna Boyd added 12.
Dartmouth heads to league-leading Princeton on Saturday.
The Big Green’s men’s and women’s teams each dropped matches in Princeton, N.J. on Saturday and in Philadelphia on Sunday. Both were shut out by the No. 3 Tigers, and the No. 11 men (3-4, 0-3 Ivy League) were shut out by the No. 1 Quakers as well. The No. 12 women lost 6-3 to No. 9 Penn.
Dartmouth is back home this weekend, hosting Cornell on Saturday and Columbia on Sunday.
CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine — Racing for the first time in 22 months, Dartmouth finished second at the Colby Carnival, 100 points behind Vermont.
The Big Green women’s Nordic freestyle team came in first in the 20-kilometer race and earned 132 points, while the men’s team was second with 115. Both alpine slalom teams took third, while the alpine giant slalom teams struggled, with the men finishing eighth and the women sixth.
What was originally scheduled as a three-day event was reduced to two due to extreme cold temperatures on Saturday. That canceled the Nordic 5K classic races.
Dartmouth is in action again this coming weekend for the St. Michael’s Carnival in Jeffersonville and Huntington, Vt.