03.27.17
Senior Spring: men’s hockey player Troy Crema ’17 p. 8 One-on-one with baseball head coach Bob Whalen p. 6 Skiing finishes fourth at NCAA Championships p. 6
Dartmouth spring sports gear up for upcoming season A preliminary look at the spring sports and their expectations p. 4-5, 7 By Evan Morgan and Chris Shim
The Weekend Roundup p. 2-3 ANNIE DUNCAN AND LAUREN KIM/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY
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The weekend Roundup
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017
men’s tennis
Compiled by Mark Cui AND NATHAN ALBRINCK
MEN’S GOLF Over the weekend, Dartmouth men’s golf traveled to Greenville, South Carolina to compete in the three-day Furman Intercollegiate tournament. The Big Green started the tournament well, scoring a three-under-par 285 on day one and trailing leader Georgia Southern University by just six strokes. John Lazor ’19 led Dartmouth with a score of 69 (-3), while Ian Kelsey ’18, Sean Fahey ’17 and Will Bednarz ’20 finished at even par. The Big Green carded a one-over 289 on day two of the tournament, dropping the team into a tie for
seventh place. Bednarz led the way for the Dartmouth, scoring a 71 (-1) for the day. Jeff Lang ’17 eagled the sixth hole of the tournament, eventually finishing at even par. Lazor and Fahey shot 73s (+1) on day two. Competing individually, Riley Griffin ’20 carded an even 72. Dartmouth finished the tournament in 13th place, scoring 876 (+12). Lang posted the best score with a 72 on day three, finishing as the low-scorer for the Big Green overall in the tournament.
WOMEN’S GOLF D a r t m o u t h wo m e n’s g o l f began the three-day Babs Steffens Invitational in DeLand, Florida this weekend. The Big Green finished the day with a 304 (+16), tied for fourth with Xavier University. Jamie Susanin ’17 led Dartmouth with a one-under 71, tied for the best round of the first day with Boston University’s
Zhangcheng Guo. Catharine Roddy ’19 finished right behind Susanin, carding an even 72, good for third-place individually. Jessica Kittelberger ’18 had an excellent day in the second round on day two, shooting one-under par including five birdies to lead Dartmouth to the second-best score of the day with nine-over 297.
Photo by LAUREN KIM/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The men’s tennis team defeated the University of South Alabama in its first ranked win of the season.
On Tuesday, Dartmouth pulled out a 4-3 nail-biter against Louisiana State University. The Big Green claimed the doubles point and proceeded to win the singles matches at the third, fourth and fifth spots to secure the victory. With the match score tied at 3-3, George Wall ’17 soundly defeated LSU’s Nikola Samardzic 6-3, 7-6(3). On Thursday, the Big Green fell to No. 30 Tulane University 4-1 at the City Park
Pepsi Tennis Center. Although the Big Green continued its strong doubles play and claimed the doubles point, the Green Wave swept the singles matches to secure the win. On Friday, the team defeated No. 46 University of South Alabama 4-2 for its first ranked win of the season. The team once against continued its strong doubles play. In singles, Wall clinched the team victory with a final score of 2-6, 6-4, 6-1. The team is now 7-10 overall.
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On March 18, Dartmouth men’s lacrosse traveled to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to face the No. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tarheels, a perennial college lacrosse powerhouse. Though the score was tied 2-2 at the end of the first quarter, UNC eventually pulled away from the Big Green, winning 17-6. Richie Loftus ’18 led Dartmouth with three goals, while Ben Martin ’20 netted two of his own. George Christopher ’20 made 11 saves in 55 minutes of action before relinquishing the net to Griffin Miller ’19, who made his season debut. Three days later, in its final game before conference play, Dartmouth men’s lacrosse fell 11-6 to the United States Naval Academy.
Loftus and Martin continued their strong play, scoring two and three goals, respectively. Loftus also assisted three goals to bring his point total to five on the day. On Saturday, the Big Green hosted Harvard University to begin the Ivy League season. Dartmouth got off to a slow start, surrendering 10 goals in the first half of play. For the rest of the game, the Big Green kept Harvard at bay, only allowing four more goals but eventually falling 14-7. Wiley Osborne ’17 and Jack Korzelius ’18 tallied two points apiece. The loss brought Dartmouth’s record to 1-6 overall and 0-1 in the Ivy League. Dartmouth men’s lacrosse returns to action next Saturday on the road versus Cornell University.
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WOMEN’S LACROSSE Over spring break, Dartmouth women’s lacrosse hosted two of the best teams in the country, No. 4 University of Southern California and No. 5 Princeton University. Against USC on March 17, the Big Green started strong, with Courtney Weisse ’17 scoring the first three goals of the game. Early in the second half, with the team down three, Weisse netted her fourth and Cara DePippo ’18 scored two goals of her own to tie the game 8-8. In the last 25 minutes of the game, the Trojans showed why they are fourth in the nation, holding the Big Green scoreless while putting in 11 of their own, en route to a 19-8 win in Hanover.
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In the conference opener on Saturday, Dartmouth struggled in the opening half against Princeton. Princeton scored eight unanswered goals to start the game and led Dartmouth by nine at halftime. The Big Green responded well in the second half, scoring seven goals, but were unable to overcome their early deficit, falling 18-8. DePippo, Kathryn Giroux ’19 and Kierra Sweeney ’19 each scored two goals for the home team. After beginning the year with four straight wins, Dartmouth’s record now stands at 4-3 and 0-2 in the Ivy League. The Big Green plays Siena College in Loudonville, New York on Wednesday.
Baseball On Tuesday, March 21, Dartmouth defeated the University of Chicago 19-11. Michael Ketchmark ’17 led the Big Green with a career-high five hits and six RBIs. Although Chicago held an early 10-8 lead after the third inning, the Big Green responded by scoring an astounding eight runs in the eighth inning. On Wednesday, the team fell to BethuneCookman University 9-2. Despite an early 1-0 lead for the Big Green, the Wildcats totaled 10 hits and took advantage of a couple of key errors to put the game out of reach. On Thursday, the Big Green defeated the University of Southern Maine 9-1. Matt Feinstein ’19 and Kyle Holbrook ’18 led the team’s offensive
burst with three hits and three runs respectively. The following day, the team squeaked by the No. 26 University of Central Florida 4-3. With the game tied at 3-3, Feinstein scored the winning run in the top of the ninth due to an error. On Saturday, the Big Green again defeated UCF, this time by a score of 4-1. Pitcher Michael Danielak ’16, who has now won all four of his starts this season, only allowed six hits while pitching eight strikeouts through eight innings. Chris Burkholder ’17 closed out a scoreless ninth inning to secure the win. The Big Green was denied a series sweep on Sunday. UCF scored 15 unanswered runs to take the final game of the series, 15-0. The loss ended the Big Green’s three-game win streak.
TRACK & FIELD
Photo by SAPHFIRE BROWN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF The men’s and women’s track & field teams competed in North Carolina State’s Raleigh Relays this past weekend.
On Friday and Saturday, the men’s track & field team competed in the non-scoring North Carolina State’s Raleigh Relays at Paul Derr Stadium. The highlight performance was Justin Donawa ’19’s 15.38 meter/50-5.5 foot triple jump, a height five inches better than the second-place collegiate finish. In the javelin event, Cole Andrus ’20 took fourth with a throw of 63.45 meters. In the pole vault, Max Cosculluela ’17 finished in second by clearing 4.61 meters. In the high jump event, Alex Frye ’17 finished in third with a 1.95 meter jump.
The women’s team also competed in NC State’s Raleigh Relays. The highlight performance was Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17’s first-place finish in the 1500-meter run, recording a time of 4:18.25. Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 secured an impressive fourth-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.99 seconds. In the pole vault event, Julia Valenti ’20 took fifth with a height of 3.65 meters. In the javelin, Moriah Morton ’17 recorded a distance of 43.19 meters, securing her fifth-place finish.
Photo by SEAMORE ZHU/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF The softball team defeated the University of California, Riverside 5-2.
On Tuesday, the Big Green dropped both of its games against Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles 8-0 and 19-2. In the first game, LMU took control after scoring six runs in the fourth inning off Breanna Ethridge ’18. The Lions also dominated the second game, taking a commanding 19-1 lead by the bottom of the fourth inning. On Friday, the Big Green dropped both of its games a g a i n s t B r i g h a m Yo u n g University 4-0 and 5-1 in the first day of the UCLA tournament in Los Angeles. The Big Green struggled to score, recording two and five hits in the first and second games, respectively. In the second game, Ethridge recorded an impressive six strikeouts and just one walk,but allowed a three-run homer in the seventh inning. On Saturday, the team split its two games, falling against the University of the Pacific 14-5 but defeating the University
of California, Riverside 5-2. In the first game, the Tigers scored five runs off Morgan Ebow ’20 in the bottom of the first inning and cruised on to an easy victory. In the second game, the Highlanders led early 2-1, but the Big Green rallied to tie it up at 2-2 by the end of the sixth inning. In the top of the seventh, an RBI through Karen Chaw ’17’s single and two RBIs through Chloe Madill ’17’s double secured the Big Green’s victory. The impressive performance marked the Big Green’s first victory of the season. The team concluded their west coast trip with a 4-2 loss to University of California, Los Angeles, which is currently ranked 15th in the country. Dartmouth and UCLA traded runs until the fourth inning when UCLA took a 3-1 lead. Alyssa Jorgensen ’17 singled in the seventh inning to bring the lead to 3-2, but the Big Green was not able to close the gap.
WOMEN’S tennis On Thursday, the No. 39 Big Green defeated powerhouse California State University, Long Beach 4-3 for the first time ever. The team got off to a blazing start with two doubles wins and a win at the No. 6 singles position, but
Long Beach rallied to tie the overall match score at 3-3. In the deciding match at the No. 2 singles position, Jacqueline Crawford ’17 delivered by defeating Long Beach’s Julie Gerard in a thrilling 7-6(7-4), 3-6, 6-2 match.
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By Evan Morgan
Men’s Heavyweight Rowing
Men’s Track and Field
The Heavyweight rowing team is looking forward to the upcoming spring racing season. Coming off of a strong spring season last year, the team hopes to return to the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, where they placed 14th last year. The team lost some key members of their fastest boat, including Bobby Moffitt ’16, Brad Plunkett ’16 and Greg Zales ’16. A successful fall racing season, however, revealed some new freshmen who could be making an impact. Joseph Carleo ’20 sat in the seventh seat of the championship boat at Head of the Charles. Also making an impact in the freshman rowing squad are Weston Gordon ’20, Mark Levinson ’20 and William Berkowitz ’20. Head coach Wyatt Allen is excited about the team’s outlook given the team’s progress over the fall and in the winter. “As a group, we saw fast times and solid results in our fall racing,” Allen said. “The majority of our team made significant gains in their fitness over the winter, and if we can capitalize by finding the same chemistry and grittiness they raced with in October and November, we should take a big step forward in 2017.” Over the winter, several of the men competed in the C.R.A.S.H.-B. sprints World Indoor Rowing Championships. Senior captain Spencer Furey ’17 won the overall championships with a time of 5:54.6. Right behind him in second was teammate Nevin Cunningham ’17 with 5:56.2, and in sixth was Scott Ortlip ’17 with a time of 6:02.5. Expect these three to be leading the way for the team on the water this spring. The focus of this season will be qualifying for the IRA Regatta from June 2 to 4 and improving on last year’s performance, as well as a strong performance at the EARC Sprints Regatta on May 14.
After pausing for finals, the men’s track and field team geared back up for the outdoor season during spring break. The team left March 14 for North Carolina, where it competed at the Bob Davidson Spring Kick-Off and the Raleigh Relays. The outdoor season adds a different mix of events where Dartmouth has been strong in recent years. Throwers Lucas Ribeiro ’19, Colin Minor ’18 and Tim Brennan ’17, among others, should continue to find success in the shot put, hammer and discus. In the javelin, Ben Colello ’18 and Cole Andrus ’20 will look to fill the shoes of Jacob Shippee ’16, the then-senior who notched the second-farthest throw in the Ivy League last season. Nico Robinson ’17 and Ben Ose ’19 should perform even better in the decathlon than in the heptathlon, in which they finished second and third, respectively, at Indoor Heps. The graduation of senior distance runner Joey Chapin ’16 was also a blow to the team, but the Big Green can expect Daniel Salas ’17 to represent it well in Chapin’s top event, the 10,000-meter run. Most events remain the same between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Corey Muggler ’17, who took fourth place in both the triple jump and long jump at Indoor Heps, figures to be a force in the spring. Muggler’s partner in the triple jump, Justin Donawa ’19, won the event at the Raleigh Relays and will be a name to watch in the outdoor season. Also on the field, Second Team All-Ivy League pole vaulter Max Cosculluela ’17 will look to translate his indoor success to the outdoor arena. Jumps, throws and multi-events scored many of Dartmouth’s points in the 2016 Outdoor Heps, and 2017 will feature more of the same. Cornell University and Princeton University will likely dominate this year’s event, as they have for the past decade, but Dartmouth stands a chance to match or better its fifth-place finishes from the past three years. “I like to think we can build on the momentum we established during indoors,” head coach Barry Harwick said.
COMINGS AND GOINGS Key losses: William Moffitt ’16 Key additions: Joseph Carleo ’20
Women’s Rowing Coming off a successful fall season, women’s rowing looks to contend for a qualifying spot for the NCAA National Championships this year. Head coach Linda Muri seems encouraged by the team’s progress this past fall and winter. “We’re looking forward to improving on last year’s results,” Muri said. “We had a very solid indoor training season – lot of personal records on the ergometer – so that’s encouraging. I thought we were looking a lot better this past fall, so we’re ahead of the game.” Last year, the team placed sixth at the Ivy League Championships. Although the team lost Caroline Allan ’16, Mackenzie Garrity ’16, Audrey Landis ’16 and Sarah McGowan ’16, among others, to graduation, the team returns “We have a very to action with a strong freshman class that has energetic and driven already made a name for itself in freshman class, and the fall. Look for Lilienne Sexton ’20, Elisabeth Fa w c e t t ’ 2 0 we’re looking for them and Samantha Hawley ’20, all to add a little spark.” of whom rowed as part of the B crew at the Foot of the Charles last November, to t h r i v e t h i s -HEAD COACH LINDA MURI season. “We have a very energetic and driven freshmen class, and we’re looking for them to add a little spark,” Muri said. “I expect some of [the freshmen] to be in the top boats.” Muri will be looking to Rebecca Conway ’19, who won the C.R.A.S.H.-B. sprints World Indoor Rowing Championships with a time of 6:58.0, to lead the way. The team will hope to set the tone for the spring season at the Doc Hosea Invitational on April 2, where they will race against 10 of the top teams from the northeast, according to Muri. It will then turn to a full slate of regular season races in preparation for the Ivy League Championships on May 14. Muri believes that given the strength of the conference, the top three or four teams at Ivies should qualify for NCAAs. “If we can make it into the top half at the Ivies, that would be really significant,” Muri said.
Men’s Golf Men’s golf will be looking to make some noise in the spring. Leading the way for the men are John Lazor ’19, Ian Kelsey ’18 and Sean Fahey ’17. Kelsey returns after a strong fall which saw him as Dartmouth’s low-scorer three of four times during the season and with a second place finish at the Ivy League Championships last year. After a strong freshman campaign, Lazor, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year “There are better and winner of the Yale Invitational, is turning in a very teams on paper, but strong sophomore campaign. our sport is settled on The team lost Charles Cai ’16, who placed ninth the course.” at the Ivy League Championships in his senior year. But freshman Will Bednarz ’20 has -HEAD COACH RICH already started to make an impact for the team, PARKER including as the low-scorer for the Big Green on the second day of the Furman Intercollegiate. Head coach Rich Parker said that this year’s Ivy League Championships are the team’s primary focus. “We have a talented a group of kids and the countdown has begun to the Ivy Championship,” Parker said. The team is currently ranked sixth in the Ivy League in the polls, but Parker is confident in his team. “There are better teams on paper, but our sport is settled on the course,” he said.
Women’
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OTSPOTS
RC sprints, IRA regatta
PHOTOS BY SAPHFIRE BROWN AND LAUREN KIM
Men’s Tennis
Women’s Rugby
At this point last spring season, the men’s tennis team was 12-7 and headed for its first NCAA tournament appearance since 1997. Today, the men ended their spring break trip and are 7-10. The team has lost six of seven matches against ranked teams. What happened between 2016 and 2017? Here’s part of it: Brendan Tannenbaum ’16 and Dovydas Sakinis ’16 are gone. Tannenbaum earned All-Ivy first team honors in a 2016 doubles campaign that saw him and partner George Wall ’17 hit the national rankings for their final five matches. Sakinis was one of the best players in program history. The Siauliai, Lithuania native was named Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Region Player of the Year his senior year. He peaked at No. 18 in the nation. Now both have graduated, and the team is feeling the impact. Last season, Ciro Riccardi ’18 held down the No. 2 position while Sakinis took on other teams’ top players at No. 1. Now that Riccardi has taken over No. 1, he is 5-11 overall and winless in four matches against ranked players. Max Fliegner ’18 has spent much of the season in the No. 2 spot and seen his record drop to 5-9 after going 16-5 last season. The decline has been most pronounced at No. 1 and No. 2, but Dartmouth’s winning percentages are down at every position in singles and doubles. Even so, the season is not without bright spots. Dartmouth has played two of its ranked opponents, the University of Memphis and University of Minnesota, to slim 4-3 losses, and the Big Green concluded spring break with a 4-2 win over No. 46 University of South Alabama. Charlie Broom ’20 has impressed at No. 3 and No. 4, amassing an 11-3 record in dual match play. In the Ivy League, only Yale University is ranked, and though Dartmouth has the worst record of the Ancient Eight, the team could surprise. Another NCAA tournament bid might be out of the question, but the men’s tennis team can still make things interesting in conference play.
Dartmouth returns to the women’s rugby scene as the reigning Ivy League champions in the fifteens this past fall and will look to capitalize on their success to improve on last year’s fourth place finish in the Ivy League Sevens tournament. The team lost top contributors in Yejadai Dunn ’16 and Tatjana Toeldte ’16 but brought in 15 freshmen. Expect Isabel Boettcher ’20, Danielle Ramsay ’19, Frankie Sands ’19 and Kat Ramage ’19 to lead the way for women’s rugby this spring. The three upperclassmen were recognized as All-Americans, with Morgan McGonagle ’18 receiving an honorable mention. Boettcher led the team in points in the fall with 10 tries and two assists. Ramage was second on the team in scoring and among the best in the nation with over 20 successful conversions in 2016. Dartmouth kicks off the season against Brown University, before contesting the Ivy 7’s Championship on April 23 and the NIRA Varsity 7’s Championship on April 30, both in Hanover. The team will then head to State College, Pennsylvania to play in the Penn State 7’s Tournament and with luck will close their season at the USA Rugby College 7’s National Championship in late May and the Collegiate Rugby Championships in early June.
Women’s Golf The Big Green women’s golf team has placed last in the Ivy League on three separate occasions during head coach Alex Kirk’s four seasons at the helm. If fall results are any indication, the team could fare better this season. Dartmouth impressed with two early-season top-five finishes. The Big Green beat out Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and Brown University in the Princeton Invitational, its second tournament of the fall. Ivy League foes Columbia University and Yale University finished ahead of Dartmouth in first and third, respectively. The next weekend, the Big Green went on to best Princeton, Penn and Brown in the Yale Invitational, though Dartmouth was nipped by Columbia, Yale and Harvard. Multiple Big Green golfers stood out during fall play. Maddie Nelson ’20 made a big first impression in the Dartmouth Invitational when she tied for fifth overall. Catharine Roddy ’19 was the top Dartmouth golfer at Princeton. And at Yale and Delaware, Julia Calbi ’19 led the team. Meanwhile, at this weekend’s Babs Steffens Invitational in DeLand, Florida, Jamie Susanin ’17 shot a one-under 71 on the first day, tied for best first round in the field of 62. Roddy was one shot behind in third. Further spring results will make matters clearer. But as it stands, the Big Green looks to be a good bet to beat at least Brown in the Ivy Championship, and Dartmouth could be within striking distance of other opponents.
LAST TIMES OUT
2016: seventh in Ivy Championship 2015: seventh in Ivy Championship
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Key losses: Yejadai Dunn ’16 Key additions: Isabel Boettcher ’20, Becca Jane Rosko ’20
Women’s Track and Field When the women’s track and field team stepped into Leverone on the Monday after Indoor Heps, the scoreboard clock was already ticking: 69 days until Outdoor Heps. “The mindset is we really don’t have time to rest,” head coach Sandy Ford-Centonze said. In 2016, the team graduated its latest batch of national talent: Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16, first-team All-American high jumper, and Dana Giordano ’16, a first-team AllAmerican in the 1500-meters. After losing a talented crop of seniors, the team may slip slightly from its fifth-place showing at the 2016 Outdoor Heps, but the Big Green should not be counted out. Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 won the mile at Indoor Heps, and she figures to pick up where Giordano left off in the 1500m. Multi-eventer Maria Garman ’19 can’t quite soar to Whitehorn’s heights, but she has the skills to place in the top five in the high jump. Elsewhere on the field, Julia Valenti ’20, who finished third in the pole vault at Indoor Heps, should be able to continue her success in the spring. “The mindset is we In the throws, Dartmouth’s best hopes are Amelia Ali ’19 and Melissa Dunham really don’t have ’17, the latter of which placed sixth in time to rest.” the discus at the 2016 Outdoor Heps. Olivia Wiener ’19, a second-team All-Ivy performer in the javelin in 2016, should -HEAD COACH SANDY continue to shine for the Big Green. FORD-CENTONZE On the track, Dartmouth will be competitive, but not dominant. After earning sixth in the 500-meters during Indoor Heps, Claire Dougherty ’20 looks to be similarly competitive in the 400-meters. Bridget Flynn ’18, coming off a sixth-place finish in the 800-meters at Indoor Heps, figures to be a solid performer in the same event during the outdoor season. Garman, who turned in a fifth-place performance in the Indoor Heps pentathlon, figures to put up solid numbers in the heptathlon during the outdoor season. Electric freshman Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 was the x-factor in the indoor season and will likely continue to set records in the spring. At the Bob Davidson Spring KickOff over spring break, she ran the 100-meter hurdles in a Dartmouth-record 13.69 seconds. She will also continue to compete in the long jump for the outdoor season after winning the event at Indoor Heps. Even with Rothwell’s heroics at Indoor Heps, the Big Green took sixth this year, down from third last year. The team may slip a spot or two at Outdoor Heps as well, from fifth place in 2016. SEE SPRING SW 7
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Skiing finishes fourth at NCAA Championships By SABENA ALLEN
The Dartmouth Staff
It wasn’t a national championship, but it was enough to be satisfied — for now. The Dartmouth ski teams took fourth at the 2017 NCAA Skiing Championship, hosted by the University of New Hampshire from March 1 to 4. The event was dominated by Western schools: the University of Utah won the championship with the University of Colorado and University of Denver coming in second and third. The Big Green had entertained title aspirations in the weeks leading up to NCAAs. However, the fourth-place finish was still Dartmouth’s best showing since 2012. “I think there are mixed feelings,” alpine skier Thomas Woolson ’17 said. “Getting fourth was great for us. We were really excited to be back in the mix. We could kind of hang with the teams, even though we weren’t necessarily competing for a title the whole time. At the same time, we definitely had higher expectations. After how well we did in the east all season, we wanted
to be competing to win a title.” The men’s alpine team was the highest-scoring Big Green squad. Brian McLaughlin ’18 earned all-American honors by placing third in the giant slalom, while teammates Tanguy Nef ’20 and Woolson both placed in the top 10 in the slalom. McLaughlin looked to be on his way to a great score in the slalom but went down in his second run. “Men’s alpine came in and wanted to win events and win the alpine portion,” McLaughlin said. “Alpine is pretty tough considering that you’re competing against extremely good skiers. Two of the skiers had been competing in World Cups this season. It’s really hard to compete at such a high level and to maintain consistency.” Consistency issues were not limited to the men. The women’s alpine team started off on the wrong foot in the giant slalom. Kelly Moore ’18 skied into 12th place, the highest of the day after Foreste Peterson ’18 could not finish the second run. But the women came back strong on their second day of competition with a team-high 81 points in the slalom. Peterson was third in the event, with Alexa Dlouhy ’19 behind in
ONE ON ONE with Bob Whalen
By SAM STOCKTON The Dartmouth Staff
Bob Whalen officially entered his 28th campaign at the helm of Big Green baseball in late February when the team began its annual southern sojourn to escape the New England cold and kick off its season. During his tenure, the Big Green has taken home two Ivy titles, as well as 11 Red Rolfe Division crowns, and sent 26 players into professional baseball. This year’s team is looking to continue in that winning tradition. While the team often struggles in the early season, playing against top-tier opponents who have often been playing games long before Dartmouth begins its season, the Big Green gotten off to an impressive 10-6 start, winning every series they have played in, besting The Citadel, the University of Central Florida and University of Miami, Florida — then ranked 17th in the nation. Over the weekend, the Big Green wrapped up its series win
over UCF and then began the journey back to Hanover for its regular slate of games, with Ivy League series on weekends and nonconference match-ups sprinkled in during the week. On Wednesday, the team will travel down to Hamden, Connecticut to take on Quinnipiac University before playing double headers against the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University away from Red Rolfe Field. Tell me about how the start to the spring season has been going. BW: I never like to compare teams year-to-year. Each team has its own chemistry that it needs to develop. When we are down here, it’s just a great environment. We are playing in good venues and good stadiums. It’s fun for our kids. That being said, we still need, like every team, to get better at every phase of the game every day, and so we’ve been working at it. We work out in the morning before we start every series to get acclimated to the ballpark and the stadium. We’re trying to
sixth. The men’s Nordic team also started off slow, with none of the three Dartmouth skiers cracking the top 10 in the 10-kilometer classic. On the last day of competition, however, Fabian Stocek ’17 and Luke Brown ’18 both placed in the top 10 in the 20-kilometer freestyle as the men scored 66 points. Women’s Nordic had a top-10 finish from Lauren Jortberg ’20 in the 5-kilometer classic. However, in the 15-kilometer freestyle, Dartmouth was shut out of the top 15. According to Jortberg, Abby Drach ’20 and Lydia Blanchet ’19 battled illness throughout the competition, and the team’s performance suffered as a result. Blanchet was unable to start the 15K freestyle. Dartmouth skiers faced stiff competition, especially from Western schools, which draw talented domestic and foreign skiers. “We knew the level, we knew kind of where we needed to be, but we also thought that if we had our best day, we definitely could be competing with them,” Woolson said.
Dartmouth competed against our consistency.” Wester n skier s early in the M o s t o f t h e B i g G re e n’s season in nonskiers can college events, expect to return a c cordin g t o “To win a to NCAAs m en’s a l p i n e championship you’ve soon. Stocek head coach and Woolson got to have the speed, will g raduate Peter Dodge. “ We w e r e but you also have to this year, but mu c h b e t t e r the other 10 have the consistency at NCAAs members of a g a i n s t t h a t so that when you D a r t m o u t h ’s competition,” get that one-shot NCAA team he said. “We will return to w e r e b e t t e r championship race, competition p r e p a r e d you can pull it off.” next season. against them T h e than we had fourth-place been earlier in -MEN’S ALPINE HEAD finish caps a the [season].” resurgent season COACH PETER DODGE Despite for Dartmouth. competing The Big Green against the won the eastern foreign talent conference title o f We s t e r n and lost only public schools, one car nival Dodge is optimistic about future during 2017. The team is heading NCAA championships. into next year in a very strong “To win a championship you’ve position with so many returning got to have the speed, but you also skiers. With a little luck, an NCAA have to have the consistency so championship, the first since 2007, that when you get that one-shot could be in the near future. championship race, you can pull “All four teams have to perform,” it off,” Dodge said. “I think we Dodge said. “If we can do that, we just need to work a little bit on have a good shot.”
get better, but I have to say, right out of the chute, we have played very consistently. Our guys have done a really good job of playing a complete game. Our lineup has done a good job of creating a little more length than we’ve had. Our ability to score some runs has taken some pressure off of our pitching and defense, so our kids have played together very well. We still need to be better. We’re trying to get better, but I’m very proud of the way our players have played up to this point.
an everyday game. It’s not like going Saturday to Saturday in football and studying a lot of film. It’s about getting better in every phase of the game consistently and understanding that we go from the spring trip where you play every day to the conference schedule where you play on the weekends. Those games are obviously of paramount importance, so you focus on fundamentals and making sure that whatever your philosophy is in preparing your team that you’re consistent with that. What you spend time on in practice has to be consistent with what you tell them our priorities are. Today, we didn’t do any defense because we couldn’t get on the infield, so we worked on the short game offensively — bunts, moving runners and some situational hitting, which you don’t always have time to do in pregame batting practice.
What would you say has been the highlight of the season so far? BW: I don’t really look at it like that. The highlight has been not picking one phase of the game over another. The highlight is that we haven’t lost a series yet. We won two out of three in our very first weekend against Division I, scholarship programs. Shutting out [University of Miami, Florida] a nationally-ranked team, on the road twice in a three game series is probably the obvious moment to point to. From a competitiveness standpoint, that’d be it. What do you have to do to carry over the success you’ve had thus far into the rest of the season? BW: Well, if I knew that, I’d be in the stock market. Baseball’s
Could you talk about what those priorities and philosophies are? BW: Just fundamental stuff, I’m not going to get into a lot of detail, but I’m a big believer in just playing the game hard and competing and focusing on the mental side as much as the fundamentals of the game. The fundamentals of the game of baseball don’t change, but how you teach them and how you coach them does change. We’re
constantly trying to find new ways to improve their fundamentals. We’ve played pretty consistently. Our kids have thrown strikes. For the most part, we’ve done a pretty good job of playing defense when you consider that we’re one of the only teams at Dartmouth where you practice your entire preseason on a different surface than you compete on. You think about all the other sports, they practice on the same surface and facility where they play all their games, and we don’t. Eighty percent of baseball is on the ground, because better defensive play is the best way to help your pitching so you don’t expose them to more batters faced, which will lead very directly to saving more runs. The kids have done a great job. I’m really happy with how hard they’re working. If you could summarize the season thus far in just a sentence or two, what would you say? BW: I’m very pleased with the fact that we’re playing complete games. We’re not playing well for four or five innings and then losing the second half of the game. I’m very pleased with the way the players are competing. This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017
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Women’s Lacrosse
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In the span of two months, the Big Green women’s lacrosse team graduated one of its best-ever players in Jaclyn Leto ’16 and lost its head coach amid allegations of misconduct. Expecting a slump after the tumultuous offseason? Think again. T h e wo m e n’s lacrosse team won its first four games and had a shot SAPHFIRE BROWN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF at cracking the Inside Before a three-game slump, the women’s lacrosse team won its first four. Lacrosse top 25 before losing its last three in a row. However, the last two losses came against the University of Southern California and Princeton University, the No. 4 and No. 5 teams in the nation. The Big Green has a good chance to get back on track against 1-7 Siena College on Wednesday. The Big Green has scored 89 goals this season and allowed the same number from its opponents. Dartmouth is now scoring 12.71 goals per game, a big improvement on the 9.0 goals the team averaged last year. With scoring machine Leto gone — she tallied 53 alone last year — the offensive output is now spread more evenly. Five members of the Green and White have double-digit goals. Courtney Weisse ’17 leads the team with 19, already well past the 13 she scored last year. In the absence of Leto, “even some of the older girls on the team are going through a process of finding their confidence in their game and shooting more than they’ve ever shot before and taking more opportunities in games,” head coach Danielle Spencer said. “We’re kind of going through the growing process for some of those girls who will eventually be threats for us.” The team has averaged nearly 15 more shots per game than 2016, while Big Green opponents have averaged almost 10 more. Spencer named two things driving up the numbers: more aggressive play from Dartmouth and an NCAA rule change implementing a 90-second shot clock. Now, a confident but frustrated Dartmouth team heads into a grueling month. During the next three-week stretch, the team will play two games per week against the likes of No. 11 University of Pennsylvania, No. 19 Boston College and on-the-bubble Harvard University. In the games to come, Spencer aims to further increase the offensive output and tighten up on defense. But for a team that is already 0-2 in the conference, even that might not be enough to make the Ivy League tournament. Dartmouth will likely need wins against Yale University, Brown University and Penn to have a shot at the postseason — and a victory over Harvard wouldn’t hurt either.
The Big Green is coming off one of its best starts to the season, posting a 10-6 record playing against top teams including University of Miami, Florida, ranked 17th in the nation, as well as the University of Central Florida and The Citadel. This year’s .625 winning percentage is among the best Dartmouth has ever posted after spring break in the past 50 years. Part of the team’s early success can be attributed to impact freshmen Trevor Johnson ’20 , Henry Eilen ’20 and Michael Calamari ’20. Johnson was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the week of March 13. Michael Ketchmark ’17, Matt Feinstein ’19, and Kyle Holbrook ’18 have also contributed for the team following the loss of Duncan Robinson ’16, Thomas Roulis ’16 and Nick Ruppert ’16. Robinson was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the ninth overall round, while Roulis was named to the All-Ivy League First Team and Ruppert was given an All-Ivy League Honorable Mention. How can Dartmouth expect to fare in its next 25 games? As it stands today, the Big Green has the best non-conference record in the Red Rolfe division and the second-best non-conference winning percentage in the Ivy League. Through the first 16 games of the season, Dartmouth is batting .306 and holding opponents to an average of .260. Last year, the Big Green averaged .253 to its opponents’ .273. In 2016, Dartmouth lost the Rolfe division crown for the first time in eight years. This season, the team looks equipped to take the mantle back.
Softball The start to the 2017 season has been rough for softball. With a record of 1-18-1, the team will look to turn things around in the remaining games of the season. The team is coming off of a difficult spring break, which saw them win one game against University of California, Riverside but lose six games at the Loyola Marymount Invitational and four additional games after the tournament. Dartmouth lost star shortstop Katie McEachern ’16, who was twice named the Ivy League Player of the Year and named to the NFCA Northeast All-Region First Team as a senior, as well as pitcher Morgan McCalmon ’16, who was the Ivy League Player of the Year in 2014. The team returns, among others, Karen Chaw ’17, who was named First Team All-Ivy, as well as Maddie Damore ’17, Morgan Martinelli ’19 and Lourlin Lara ’18, all of whom were named Second Team All-Ivy in 2016. Damore leads the team with a .340 batting average in the 2017 season, with freshmen Calista Almer ’20 and senior Alyssa Jorgensen ’17 also making an impact at the plate this season. Next up are Ivy League opponents Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania on March 31 and April 1, respectively, before turning to North Division opponents Brown University, Yale University and Harvard University. Last year, Dartmouth finished the season 27-15 overall, with a 15-5 conference record, placing second in the North Region.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Key losses: Katie McEachern ’16, Morgan McCalmon ’16 Key returners: Karen Chaw ’17, Maddie Damore ’17
COMPARING RECORDS This season: 10-6 This time last season: 5-12
Men’s Lacrosse The men’s lacrosse team took the field in February hoping to put 2016 in the rearview mirror. So far, the Big Green’s record hasn’t shown much improvement. Dartmouth went 1-13 last season, its lone victory a 13-12 triumph over the University of Michigan. Following a 14-7 loss to Harvard University on Sunday, the team — picked to finish seventh in the Ivy League preseason poll — is now off to a 1-6 start. The team returned all of its double-digit “It takes a little while goal-scorers from the 2016 campaign, including to get your sea legs All-Ivy honorable mention midfielder Jack Korzelius ’18, but the Big Green also has a lot of under you, but at this youth. The squad added 12 members from the point, we’re looking Class of 2020, and seven of those freshmen have played in all seven games this season. Ben Martin at [the freshmen] to ’20 has 10 goals and 11 points, and Harlan draw on their game Smart ’20 follows Martin with nine points. experience.” Captain Jack Connolly ’16 described the start of the season as a learning process while the younger players -CAPTAIN JACK CONNOLLY became accustomed to the system and speed of Division I play. “It takes a little while ’16 to get your sea legs under you, but at this point, we’re looking at those guys to draw on their game experience in the first six games and kind of consider them to be experienced players,” Connolly said. The Big Green has bettered its defensive numbers from last season. In 2016, Dartmouth trailed the rest of the Ivy League, allowing 12.58 tallies per game. Through the first seven contests of this season, Dartmouth has allowed 12.14 goals per game, fifth in the conference. Netminder George Christopher ’20 has started all seven games, boasting a .475 save percentage. However, the back of the net continues to elude the Big Green, just as it did last year. The team’s 7.43 goals per game are an improvement from 6.36 last season, but that mark is still worst in the Ivy League by more than three goals per game. Shot quality is likely part of the problem. Dartmouth is scoring on just 20.4 percent of its shots, last in the league by a wide margin. Can the Big Green make the Ivy League tournament for the first time in program history? If the youngsters turn a corner and the offense begins to fire on all cylinders, perhaps — but next year is a more likely target.
SIGNIFICANT DIGITS Goals per game: 10-6 Shot percentage: .204
THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS
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Senior Spring: Troy Crema ’17, the bounce-back kid By JONATHAN KATZMAN The Dartmouth Staff
We all heard it as kids — if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. It’s a cliche that resonates with Troy Crema ’17. “My father put me on skates when I was 3 and I actually hated it,” Crema said. “Believe it or not, I fell pretty hard on my backside the first time I ever went out there and decided that I did not want to skate again.” But thanks to his father, Ken, and his newfound fascination with the game of hockey, Crema did not hang up his skates quite yet. With the North York Knights Under-6 team in need of new players, the 5-year-old Crema was enthusiastic about the opportunity to play youth hockey and asked his father to sign him up. “My dad took me to [Toronto] Maple Leafs games frequently when I was little, and I remember being captivated by the pace of the game,” Crema added. “I credit my dad for most of my success because he was not just the first one to put me on skates, but he has always been a person I can go to for advice throughout my career.” As his youth hockey career progressed, Crema was faced with a daunting decision that confronts most talented young hockey players in North America. As a 15-year-old with serious National Hockey League aspirations, Crema wanted to start on his road to the pros. Ultimately, he entered the Canadian Hockey League’s Ontario Hockey League, a typical stop for players on the way to the minors and the NHL. The decision had a catch, however. The NCAA considers the CHL a professional league, as many CHL players receive player stipends and have already signed entry-level contracts with NHL teams. Any player who sets foot on the ice in a CHL game is thus ineligible to compete in NCAA competition. After being drafted by the OHL’s Saginaw Spirit in his minor midget year and performing well in camp, Crema’s professional dream seemed within closer reach than ever. An untimely spleen condition, however, would put the dream on hold and ultimately changed the course of Crema’s hockey career. He would have to bounce back. Sixteen years old and undecided about his path back to the ice, Crema attended a tryout for the
Brampton Capitals, a Junior “A” team participating in the Ontario Junior Hockey League. One of hundreds of players at the tryout, Crema made the team and quickly became the Capitals’ go-to center, recording 39 points in 48 games. It was also during this season that Crema first appeared on the radar of Eastern College Athletic Conference foes Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University and Cornell University, while also receiving attention from storied NCAA programs Notre Dame University and Pennsylvania State University. Ironically, Crema had yet to hear from Dartmouth. Intrigued by the possibility of playing at the highest level of collegiate hockey and pursuing a coveted degree at a top American university, Crema turned down Saginaw and began his journey to the NCAA ranks. It was a journey, Crema now notes, with an unpromising beginning. “I played at a prep school showcase in Boston a few weeks after my 16-year-old season ended,” Crema reflected with a laugh. “I was weeks out of my season, and I felt absolutely terrible out there.” Heading into his 17-year-old season not yet committed to a college program, he got his break at a showcase in Mississauga, Ontario where he caught the eye of thenDartmouth assistant coach Dave Peters. “I remember my coach coming into the locker room after a game and telling me that a college coach wanted to speak with me,” Crema recalled. “I shook Coach Peters’ hand, heard his Boston accent, and he asked if I wanted to commit after I told him my grades and SAT scores. I knew that Dartmouth’s academics were outstanding, and the coaching staff was allowing me to come in as an 18-year-old when most NCAA freshman players are typically between 19 and 21. I still had NHL aspirations, so coming in young was a huge advantage.” Crema’s Dartmouth career got off to an auspicious start, as the newcomer recorded his first goal in just his second collegiate game against Brown University. He made his biggest impact in a game at thendefending national champion Yale University, netting two tallies and helping the Big Green to a 4-1 victory. A high ankle sprain, however, would limit Crema’s total ice time during the season to just 14 games.
His second season in Hanover my best, leave everything on the ice. remembered as a player who did had a similar feel. After tweaking the With the help of my teammates, I whatever it took for his team to win. same ankle in a preseason scrimmage, had confidence that I could break Another moment, less flashy Crema missed the team’s first 16 out this season.” than the Michigan goal but no less games and saw action in just 12 important, illustrates Crema’s impact And break out he did. contests overall. Despite recording In the team’s first contest of the on the team. On Jan. 28, with less than just one goal and three assists in the season, a 3-2 upset of then-No. 11 a minute to go in the second period limited action, Crema’s presence University of Michigan, Crema against ECAC foe Cornell, Crema had a positive impact on the Big carved out a place in Dartmouth won a vital faceoff. That set up the Green, which went 4-0-0 when the hockey lore. He tallied the game Cam Roth ’19 goal that began the Big sophomore recorded a point. His winner with 49 seconds to go Green comeback. Dartmouth went presence did not go unnoticed by before jumping into the boards on to a 4-2 victory over the then-No. Dartmouth head coach Bob Gaudet and celebrating with his teammates 14 team in the nation. ’81, who had high expectations for his in front of a sold-out crowd at Crema leaves Dartmouth as the third-year center, finally injury-free, Thompson Arena. program’s active leader in goals (27) as Crema’s junior season approached. “I’ll never forget that goal,” Crema and second to Grant Opperman It was at this point that Crema said. “We had been on the ice for a ’17 in points with 59, having led the began to make his mark on the long shift and probably should have team with 29 points during his senior Dartmouth score sheet, finishing come off. As [Carl] Hesler [’18] made season. One of just three Dartmouth fourth on the team with 19 points in 34 a great pass to Corey [Kalk ’18] cross- players to skate in all 31 games this games. After moving to wing on a line ice, I looked at the bench to see if I season, he also leaves Hanover as a with seniors Brad Schierhorn ’16 and would come off, but decided to join member of the All-Ivy League first Nick Bligh ’16, Crema got hot and the rush. Corey made a move in the team and all-ECAC third team. enjoyed a three-game scoring stretch, zone and I just fired a low shot after It’s quite a resume for a kid who playing a key role in ECAC playoff the puck bounced to me.” took a tumble his first time on skates. wins against Colgate University and Crema developed a knack for As Crema weighs professional hockey Yale as the Big Green advanced scoring crucial goals all season. He led options following graduation in June, to the ECAC semifinals. He also the Big Green with five game-winners, there is no doubt that his grit and banged home one of Dartmouth’s a total that was tied for seventh-best ability to bounce back from obstacles biggest goals of the season, an in the nation. But his contributions will serve him well. And if at first he overtime winner against Rensselaer to this past season go beyond well- does not succeed, he will try … and Polytechnic Institute in February as timed goals. Instead, he should be try again. the Big Green fought to secure fifth place in the ECAC standings. The Toronto, Ontario native entered his final campaign more motivated than ever. “I really wanted to build on the end of my junior season,” Crema noted. “I did two-a-day training sessions, working out in mor ning and skating in the afternoons, all summer long and tried to come back in the best shape possible. I wanted to be a leader on the team and somebody who the freshmen could look up to. My mentality COURTESY OF TROY CREMA was just to try Troy Crema ’17 wrapped up his Dartmouth career with 27 goals and 59 points.