The Big Green women’s soccer team made program history over the weekend, winning their first Ivy League Tournament after defeating the Princeton Tigers 1-0 on Sunday in Princeton, N.J.
The victory gave Dartmouth the conference’s automatic bid into the Women’s College Cup, 64-team NCAA Division I championship tournament, where the squad will appear for the first time in two decades.
The Big Green will face off with the fifth-seeded Arkansas Razorbacks (9-4-4) of the Southeastern Conference in a first-round matchup on Friday at 7 p.m. in Fayetteville, Ark.
Like Thursday’s 1-0 semifinal win against Columbia, it was the goal scoring of Stephanie Lathrop, a sophomore who transferred to Dartmouth from Purdue, that made the difference for the Big Green.
With around 27:30 left in the second half, Lathrop knuckled a free kick from just outside the 18-yard box around a wall and into the back of the net to give her squad a 1-0 lead.
The Big Green held off a furious comeback effort in the final minutes by Princeton, the team that handed head coach Taylor Schram’s squad its only Ivy League loss this season. Sunday’s win against Princeton was Dartmouth’s first since 2013.
For their performances in the Ivy League Tournament, Lathrop was named the Most Outstanding Player and was also named to the All-Tournament Team, along with the Big Green’s Ola Goebel, Lourdes Lauterborn, and Anna Leschly.
Lathrop, Goebel, and Leschly made the All-Ivy First Team. Leschly was also named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, and the coaches were named the Ivy League Coaching Staff of the Year.
Men’s hockey remains unbeaten; Stavroff and Foley earn ECAC honors
The Big Green picked up another pair of wins, first by dispatching Colgate, 4-1, at Thompson Arena on Friday. Hayden Stavroff had a goal and two assists, and CJ Foley had a goal and an assist, while Ryan Schelling and Cam MacDonald each scored a goal in the matchup.
Dartmouth kept the momentum going on Saturday, hosting No. 17 Cornell and picking up a 2-1 win. Stavroff scored in this matchup as well, and so did Matt Fusco.
Stavroff was named ECAC Forward of the Week and Foley ECAC Defender of the Week for their efforts.
The Big Green are now 4-0 overall and 2-0 in conference play.
Cross-country athletes earn All-Ivy honors
Eric Sankey for the men and Katherine Strong for the women earned academic All-Ivy honors.
Sankey recently placed 40th (25:52.2) at the Ivy League Championships, while Strong placed 28th (22:02.8).
Women’s hockey splits games with Harvard
The Big Green had their first matchup of the season with Harvard on Friday at Thompson Arena. The game ended 1-1 in regulation and the Big Green won the shootout on a goal from Izee Powell.
Mia Buonarosa had Dartmouth’s lone regulation goal, which Shae Messner and Sydney Putrah assisted.
Friday’s tie was followed by a 3-0 loss to Harvard on the road on Saturday.
Dartmouth is now 2-5-1 overall and 2-3-1 in conference play.
Men’s swimming and diving opens with two meets
The Big Green dropped matchups with Princeton (228-72) and Brown (157-143) at home over the weekend. Dartmouth’s best performance came from Jacob Turner, who beat both Brown and Princeton in the 400-meter IM (3:55.43).
Dartmouth edged Brown in the three-meter dive thanks to McCoy Lyman, and the 200-meter medley relay thanks to Andrew Chou, David Kushnirsky, William McClelland, and Colton Rasmussen.
They also picked up wins over Brown from Yan Dvoretskiy (200-meter freestyle), Chou (100-meter backstroke, 100-meter butterfly), and Turner (200-meter butterfly, 200-meter breaststroke).
The Big Green are 0-2 overall and 0-2 in conference play.
Women’s swimming and diving opens season
Dartmouth dropped its home matchups against Princeton (228.5-71.5) and Brown (198-102) over the weekend.
The Big Green had wins over Brown in the three-meter dive from Maggie Lambdin and in the 200-meter medley relay from Sena Bozkurt, Kathy Jia, Lane Murray, and Samantha Li.
They also had a win over Princeton in the 100-meter breaststroke from Jia.
The Big Green are 0-2 overall and 0-2 in conference play.
Women’s basketball beats BU, falls to Albany
Dartmouth headed on the road to Boston, Mass., on Friday to open its season against BU and came away with a 52-50 win.
Alexandra Eldredge and Cate Macdonald led the way offensively for the Big Green with 14 points each. Olivia Austin was a presence on the glass with nine rebounds.
The Big Green then traveled to UAlbany on Monday, where it suffered its first loss of the season, 65-41. Austin was Dartmouth’s leading scorer with 16 points.
The Big Green are 1-1 overall.
Men’s basketball loses season opener
Dartmouth hosted Marist on Sunday to open the season, and the Big Green found itself on the losing end of a lopsided 75-56 final score.
Kareem Thomas was Dartmouth’s leading scorer with 20 points, and Brandon Mitchell-Day had a double-double with 10 points and 13 boards.
Women’s tennis hosts Big Green invite; Orlins falls at ITA Sectionals
After her performance at New England Regionals, Alexandra Orlins qualified for ITA Sectionals and competed on Thursday. She fell against Clemson (4-6, 6-1, 3-6).
On Friday, the Big Green invite began. Dartmouth picked up wins against Rutgers in singles from Lauren Han (6-4, 4-6, 10-5), Josephine Lombardi (6-3, 6-4), Valentina Cruz (6-3, 6-3), and Audrey Feng (6-2, 6-2). Dartmouth also had a doubles win from Sam Grosjean and Lombardi (6-3).
The Big Green did not fare as well in singles play on Saturday, with just two wins. Lombardi had a win against UMass (7-6, 3-6, 12-10), as did Brooke Hess (6-3, 6-1).
In doubles, Han and Lombardi won against Rutgers (6-4), Han and Orlins defeated UMass (7-5), Grosjean and Cruz (6-4), and Feng and Elise Wong (6-4) also picked up wins against UMass.
Dartmouth closed out the fall season on Sunday with wins from Feng against Rutgers (6-4, 7-6 (4)) and Grosjean against Brown (3-6, 7-6 (1), 10-6).
Volleyball drops two in a row
On Friday, Dartmouth welcomed Brown to town but suffered a 3-0 loss (19-25, 13-25, 12-25)
The Big Green then hosted Yale on Saturday in what was their final home game of the season and fell 3-0 (17-25, 11-25, 20-25). Dartmouth is now 7-15 overall and 4-8 in conference play.
Men’s soccer ends season with a loss
Dartmouth hosted Harvard on Saturday to close its season and suffered a 3-1 loss.
Olly Spicer had the Big Green’s lone goal.
The Big Green finished 3-8-3 overall and 2-5 in the Ivy.
