HANOVER — After splitting a Saturday doubleheader with visiting Brown, the Dartmouth College baseball team’s bats woke up in a big way on Sunday, as the Big Green (9-9, 2-1 Ivy League) took the rubber match, 14-1, to win its first conference series of the season.
Senior Justin Murray got his first win of the year on the mound with seven shutout innings, striking out 10, and he had plenty of run support. Dartmouth scored multiple runs in five innings, including a quartet of three-run frames — all without the benefit of a home run. Senior Kade Kretzschmar got things rolling with a three-run double in the first, junior James House doubled in two more in the third, and the Big Green kept pouring it on from there.
Dartmouth pounded out 19 hits, with sophomores Tyler Cox and Nathan Cmeyla recording three apiece and Kretzschmar, House, juniors Kolton Freeman and Connor Bertsch and sophomore Max Zajec each having two.
In Saturday’s first game, Kretzschmar hit a tie-breaking two-run homer in the seventh that gave the Big Green a 5-3 victory. Senior Nathan Skinner threw seven strong innings to get the win and junior Jack Metzger was perfect for the last two, earning the save.
Dartmouth led in Saturday’s nightcap from the second inning all the way up to the eighth, when the Bears scored four times to win it, 4-2. Senior Trystan Sarcone pitched six innings of shutout ball before Brown rallied against the Big Green bullpen, though it was Dartmouth’s defense that let it down when Kretzschmar’s dropped fly ball led to three runs.
The Big Green head to Penn this weekend.
HANOVER — The Big Green (4-18, 1-2 Ivy League) dropped both ends of Saturday’s doubleheader in their return home, but cruised to a 10-3 victory on Sunday to avoid the sweep.
Saturday’s first game was a back-and-forth affair that featured six home runs, five of them coming in the sixth inning alone. The Bulldogs went deep three times to turn a 4-4 tie into an 8-4 lead, and a pair of Dartmouth blasts weren’t quite enough to complete the comeback in an 8-7 loss. The Big Green fell, 6-2, in the second game, as Yale hit a pair of homers to break a tie in the fifth.
Dartmouth put on a power display of its own on Sunday, with freshman Leila Hennessy and sophomore Mary Beth Cahalan each going yard. Senior left-hander Brooke Plonka went the distance, scattering seven hits and six walks but limiting the damage to three runs, two of them earned. Junior Kate Farren hit two long balls in Game 1. The power surge came seemingly out of nowhere — Farren had hit the Big Green’s only home run of the season prior to this past weekend.
Dartmouth hosts Holy Cross in a Wednesday doubleheader, then heads to Princeton over the weekend.
BOSTON — The Big Green (4-3, 0-1 Ivy League) saw their conference losing streak reach 30 games, dating to 2015, against the No. 15 Crimson on Saturday.
Dartmouth built an early 5-2 lead and maintained it for most of the first half, but Harvard scored four straight goals in the third quarter to break a tie and never looked back.
Fifth-year George Prince and freshman Colin McGill led the Big Green with three goals each.
The Crimson had a 32-20 edge in shots on goal and a 17-15 advantage in face-offs.
Dartmouth’s road only gets harder, as the Big Green welcome No. 7 Cornell to Hanover on Saturday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Big Green (2-5, 0-2 Ivy League) were outscored, 6-1, in the second half as the Bears pulled away on Sunday.
Freshman Katina Christensen and junior Lucy Murray each scored twice for Dartmouth, but after taking a 6-5 lead late in the first half, the Big Green were held scoreless for the next 30 minutes.
The shots on goal were 22-15 in Brown’s favor, although Dartmouth had a 15-8 advantage in the draw control circle.
The Big Green head to No. 2 Boston College on Wednesday night, then are at Harvard on Sunday.
BERLIN, Md. — Senior Mark Turner led Dartmouth with a 1-under par final round as the Big Green finished in the top half of the team standings.
Turner finished in 11th place individually, with senior Charles Petrie tied for 27th, freshman Justin Lee tied for 43rd, and junior Eli Thrasher tied for 81st.
The Big Green will head to the Irish Creek Intercollegiate in Kannapolis, N.C. this weekend.
GULF SHORES, Ala. — Junior Samantha Yao and sophomore Katherine Sung finished first and second, respectively, at the Bama Beach Bash as the Big Green finished third as a team.
Yao’s victory made her the first Dartmouth golfer to win an event in four years. She finished the 54-hole tournament at one stroke over par, with Sung three shots back.
The Big Green will play in the Prospect Bay Intercollegiate in Grasonville, Md. this weekend.
After three straight losses to UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara and Loyola Marymount, Dartmouth (8-6) won the final match of its Spring Break trip, 4-3 over DePaul.
The Big Green won the doubles point on the strength of victories by freshman Alex Knox-Jones and senior Pierce Widdecombe at the No. 2 position, and juniors Anders Gibbons and Dominik Pauli at No. 1. Pauli, freshman Carlos Guerrero Alvarez and sophomore Logan Chang all won their singles matches in straight sets.
Dartmouth opens Ivy League play at Harvard on Saturday.
The Big Green (6-7) went down quietly in their last two matches in Southern California, dropping a 4-0 decision to San Diego State and a 6-1 match against Long Beach State.
Against the Aztecs, the doubles team of freshman Elizabeth Fahrmeier and sophomore Katie Weber gave Dartmouth its only win. Weber was the lone victor against the Beach as well.
The Big Green will be back home to open Ivy League play on Saturday against Harvard.
At Florida State, senior Myles Schreck won the men’s hammer throw and set a personal record of 61.72 meters, the 10th-best mark in program history. Junior Jake Dalton was second and also PRed. Sophomore Derek Elsholz beat his previous best by more than two meters in winning the javelin.
On the women’s side, freshman Joy Enaohwo ran her best time in the 200-meter dash and then ran the third-fastest 100-meter dash in school history, at 11.92 seconds. Junior Emma Cunningham won the long jump with 5.27 meters, also a personal best.
Fifth-year Lily Lockhart posted one of Dartmouth’s top 10 scores all time in both the weight throw and the shot put, while freshman Julia Reglewski now has the program’s third-best result in discus.
At North Carolina State, sophomore Will Daley’s time of 14:02 in the 5k put him 10th in Big Green history.
Dartmouth is off until heading to the Brown Invitational on April 9.