The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 10/09/15

11.09. 15

FOOTBALL HANDLES CORNELL WITH 21-3 WIN

HOCKEY WINS ONE, LOSES ONE IN THOMPSON ELIZA MCDONOUGH, MAY NGUYEN/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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7 Goals by men’s hockey in win over Brown

19 Second-half points by women’s rugby

2 Goal shutout by men’s soccer to win Ivy League

0 Touchdowns allowed by football against Cornell

Football overcomes high volume of penalties B y alexander agadjanian The Dartmouth Staff

Playing in a nationally televised game for the second straight week, the football team managed to return to its winning ways a week removed from a heartbreaking loss to Harvard University. Despite committing an obscene amount of penalties for the second straight home game that contributed to a sluggish flow for most of the night, the No. 24 Big Green (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) ultimately prevailed over Cornell University (0-8, 0-5 Ivy) by a commanding score of 21-3.

“It looked like we were sleepwalking the first 30 minutes,” head coach Buddy Teevens said about his team’s performance. “I thought we corrected it in the second half, the defense played much better football, offense moved the football more consistently. Turnovers hurt us, kept points off the board. But it was a challenging week getting guys ready to play, and it was certainly reflected on the field.”

With the worst team in the Ivy League pitted against one of the best — and notably against one of the best defenses in the FCS — Friday night’s game certainly got off to a surprising start. With Cornell taking control of the first possession of the game, the visitors and heavy underdogs jumped out quickly with three first down conversions to move the ball down the field, aided by two defensive encroachments — a damaging trend that would continue for Dartmouth throughout the half. Standout senior running back Luke Hagy led the way with 34 yards on four carries, as the Big Red got as far as Dartmouth’s 19-yard line before the drive ended on a failure to convert on a fourth down.

One drive later, however, Cornell began where it left off with its offensive proficiency, starting with a Hagy catch in the flat that went for a 12-yard first down. Moreover, two more defensive encroachment penalties on the home side aided Cornell’s path, as Dartmouth’s early penalty tendencies began to evoke the school-record 17 flags during the

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Football played through a less than stellar start to beat Cornell University 21-3 on national television Friday night.

last home game against Columbia University. After a fourth down conversion, quarterback Robert Somborn completed a 15-yard pass over the middle to the nine-yard line, after which Cornell had to settle for a 30-yard field goal that gave them the first lead of the game at 3-0.

“They moved the football productively in the first half, just [with] time of possession, snaps, but we kept them out of the end zone,” Teevens said about his defensive unit. “We have a tough-minded defense. Obviously our expectations based on performance to date is extremely high, three downs and outs are an expected norm. They made some plays. The Hagy kid, we knew he was a good football player.

They protected their passer, they chucked it around a bit, but they hit a bunch of runs which we haven’t been vulnerable to [up until] this point.”

A lethargic start that entailed an off-kilter passing game defined the Big Green’s play on the other side of the ball. Following a third-down sack to conclude the first offensive drive, a personal foul on the kickoff return before the second possession pushed Dartmouth back 13 additional yards, marking the fifth penalty of the opening quarter.

In the second time with the ball, quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 still could not find his touch in passing plays downfield, overthrowing his receivers on deep throws.

By the end of the first quarter, Cornell had retained its three-point edge, meaning that for only the second time all season — and second consecutive time dating back to last week — Dartmouth trailed after the end of a quarter. Apart from the last 38 seconds of last week’s game against Harvard, the deficit also marked the first time since the first quarter of the first game against Georgetown University that the Big Green trailed all year.

But the offense did not stay off the scoreboard for long, as the running game picked up the slack in moving the football. Four different running options accounted for 59 of the 86 yards traversed on a drive that included three rushing first downs, led by Brian Grove ’16 with four carries for 35 yards on the ground. On a fourth down play from the two-yard line, Ryder Stone ’18 crossed the plane untouched at 9:55 in the second quarter to pull Dartmouth ahead with a 7-3 lead.

As the half wound down, both sides traded turnovers. After a big pass completion from Williams over the midfield found Jon Marc Carrier ’17 — the quarterback’s longest successful throw to that point — Cornell safety Nick Gesualdi popped the ball loose as the Big Red recovered. Following first downs off a pass interference and Hagy run that led Cornell into Dartmouth territory, Somborn — scrambling left and receiving a big hit upon release of the ball — lofted an ill-advised throw that Big Green safety Colin Boit ’18 snatched out of the air.

Retaking possession just over two minutes before the halftime break, Williams and company ensured one last opportunity to pad the lead wouldn’t go to waste. Though getting crunched by the opposing rush on nearly every passing play — which both resulted in a sack and a roughing the passer call — Williams rapidly moved the ball downfield with two big completions. An eightyard throw to a wide open Ryan McManus ’15 with 19 seconds left in the half built a 14-3 advantage, and marked the first touchdown catch of the year for Williams’s favorite target.

Prior to the team’s last drive, the ground game led the way in amassing more yardage than the air attack. On the other side, a toptier conference rusher in Hagy had already accrued over 60 yards on 14

carries. Sixteen combined penalties in the half — more than one every two minutes and 10 of which were called on Dartmouth — mired the game, however, and set the stage for not the most aesthetically pleasing night of football.

Accordingly, a holding penalty stalled Dartmouth’s first drive of the third quarter and negated a first down pass play pickup. One possession later, the Big Green topped off the scoring for the night.

Predominantly skewing toward the running game, the offense followed the path paved by Kyle Bramble ’16, who had eight carries for 36 yards on the drive. Two passing first downs from Williams that followed proved instrumental as well, as Dartmouth found its way to a goal-line situation. On a second down option play, Williams completely fooled the Cornell defenders that entered the backfield — who tackled the runner without the ball — as the quarterback sped to the right and lunged into the end zone to push the lead to 21-3.

After surrendering one first down on Cornell’s first drive of the second half, the Dartmouth defense returned to its characteristic, intractable self in forcing three straight three-and-outs thereafter.

An interception by defensive back Danny McManus ’17 on the visitor’s final time with ball capped a marked in-game improvement by the defense — particularly after an unseemly first two defensive stances of the game — as noted by star defensive tackle A.J. Zuttah ’16.

“For us, just giving up any yards is a failure, we want to be able to shut everybody out,” Zuttah said.

“When they come out and get yards early, everybody’s panicking a little bit. But I think the coaches did a good job of getting everybody together, getting everybody to calm down a little bit, and we played like ourselves again.”

By the end of the contest, a bal-

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to beat Cornell on national television

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Dartmouth’s defense proved steady yet again as it managed to hold Cornell to just three points.

anced effort by the Big Green offense reigned supreme: both the ground game and air attack surpassed 200 yards on the night, with three different runners netting at least 50 yards.

The defensive unit held its opponent to just 194 yards, and a 9-25 passing

output from Somborn that included a multitude of putrid throws made the defensive job a bit easier for the home side.

Yet amid the bounceback victory — that even then did not showcase the team’s best capability — a wor-

risome habit persisted. Out of the 26 total penalties called in the game, 15 of those flags penalized Dartmouth, which went for 118 yards. The calls impaired the team’s progress on both sides of the ball on Friday, and prevented what should have been a larger blowout win.

Moreover, the excess of penalties hardly stands as an aberration by now: in the last three games — all of which have also marked the closest games of the season — the Big Green have committed an average of 13.67 penalties, an increase from the 8.2 during the first five games of the season.

“It’s unacceptable,” McManus said about the penalties. “As an offense, that’s what’s been hurting us this year. We’ve been shooting ourselves in the foot with penalties and not making the big plays when we need to. So we got to get back in our rhythm as we did earlier in the season, and start taking guys down the field and playing smarter.”

This Saturday, the Big Green will take on Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, at 12:30 p.m. After taking on Brown, Princeton University remains as the only opponent left in Dartmouth’s season schedule.

Men’s hockey wins pair of home games

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Men’s hockey opened the weekend with a 7-3 come-from-behind win over Brown University on Friday night before falling 4-2 to Yale University on Saturday in a game which featured a pair of controversial calls in the final minutes.

After trailing by deficits of 2-0 and 3-1 on Friday, the Big Green stormed back to earn its first win of the young season against Brown. First period goals by Brown centermen Mark Naclerio and Davey Middleton gave the Bears a two-goal lead 13:51 into the first period. Minutes after Middleton’s tally, Alex Jasiek ’19 notched his first career goal to cut the Bears lead in half.

Brown winger Alex Brink responded with Brown’s third goal two minutes into the second, but the Bears were unable to generate any offense against the Big Green for the remainder of the game. Meanwhile, Josh Hartley ’17, Nick Bligh ’16 and Jack Barre ’16 all tallied second-period goals, giving the Big Green a 4-3 edge going into the final period.

The final frame played out similarly to the second as Dartmouth dropped in another three goals in the third period.

Barre and Bligh each found the back of the net again, and Brett Patterson ’16 scored at the 13:12 to solidify a 7-3 win.

James Kruger ’16 earned the win in net, stopping 21 of 24 Yale shots.

“We had a tough first weekend, getting our legs under us,” right wing Corey Kalk ’18 said. “I thought we really came out not so great, but we battled really hard, came back really well and won the game.

We had really good shifts out of everyone,

and everyone was going.”

As the team shifted its focus to Yale on Saturday night, it hoped to maintain its momentum on the back of a 7-3 rout.

“We just wanted to kind of build on it, and I thought we did — we played a great game against a really good team,” head coach Bob Gaudet said. “I thought we deserved a much better fate.”

The Big Green came out flying in the first period, out-shooting the Bulldogs 12-5 and earning a 2-0 lead by the end of the period. Barre registered his third goal of the weekend, with an assist from Grant Opperman ’17, just 55 seconds into the game. The Big Green proceeded to kill a pair of Yale power plays without surrendering a single shot.

“We were the better team,” Gaudet said. “We moved the puck, we put pucks to the net and we played with a lot of passion.”

With just over four minutes to play in the period, Troy Crema ’17 tipped a Ryan Bullock ’16 shot past Yale goaltender Alex Lyon. The goal came on the heels of a two-on-one opportunity for Bligh and Jasiek, who had just finished serving a minor for too many men on the ice.

In the second period, the Bulldogs were able to answer the Big Green’s first period offensive outburst with two goals of their own. The first coming on a power play opportunity for Yale after River Rymsha ’18 was sent to the box for cross-checking.

With just seconds remaining on the minor penalty, Yale center Stu Wilson pounced on a loose puck and buried it to put the Bulldogs on the board.

Dartmouth netminder Charles Grant ’16 made a series of impressive saves to preserve the Dartmouth lead. He was

able to smother a chance without his stick 11:45 into the second and just afterward waffle-boarded aside a chance for Yale winger Cody Learned off an impressive toe drag.

Ten minutes after Wilson’s goal, Yale junior Mike Doherty sent a brilliant crossice pass to Chris Izmirlian, who corralled the pass before firing a wrist shot past Grant.

“In the second period, they had a bunch of power plays, and we didn’t really get much,” Gaudet said. “They had us back on our heels a little bit. [It was] a tie game going into the third period, but I thought we had been playing really well.”

The Big Green was unable to convert on a pair of early third-period power play opportunities and soon found themselves shorthanded again. With Bullock in the box, Bulldog center Ryan Hitchcock batted a puck out of the air for a power play goal. The Big Green immediately protested, arguing that the puck had been played by a high stick, and the play was reviewed.

Replays showed that the puck had indeed been hit well above the allowable level, but Eastern College Athletic Conference rules stipulate that a review can only use an overhead camera for replays.

Consequently, the officials had no perspective to determine whether Hitchcock’s stick was too high, and the goal was upheld.

“They took a shot, the guy in front deflected it and it went up in the air,” Grant said. “I reached over my head to catch it, and somehow it went in. I guess their guy sticked it in somehow over my head.”

The second controversial call came SEE HOCKEY SW 4

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RUNDOWN Football SCHOOL

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HARVARD DARTMOUTH PENN PRINCETON YALE BROWN COLUMBIA CORNELL

5-0 4-1 4-1 2-3 2-3 2-3 1-4 0-5

8-0 7-1 5-3 5-3 5-3 4-4 2-6 0-8

Women’s Soccer SCHOOL

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PRINCETON HARVARD BROWN COLUMBIA PENN CORNELL DARTMOUTH YALE

6-0-1 5-1-1 3-3-1 3-3-1 1-2-4 2-4-1 1-3-3 1-6

13-3-1 8-7-2 7-7-2 7-8-1 6-4-6 9-4-4 8-4-4 4-10-2

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DARTMOUTH HARVARD BROWN COLUMBIA CORNELL PRINCETON PENN YALE

6-0 4-2 3-1-2 3-3 2-4 1-3-1 1-3-1 0-4-2

11-4-1 8-6-2 9-5-2 9-5-1 4-11-1 8-5-2 3-9-2 1-13-1

Field Hockey SCHOOL

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PRINCETON PENN CORNELL HARVARD COLUMBIA DARTMOUTH BROWN YALE

7-0 5-2 5-2 4-3 3-4 2-5 1-6 1-6

10-6 13-3 11-6 9-8 9-8 7-10 7-10 3-14

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HARVARD PRINCETON DARTMOUTH YALE PENN COLUMBIA BROWN CORNELL

9-3 8-4 8-4 7-5 5-7 5-7 4-8 2-10

13-9 13-8 11-10 12-9 11-13 7-14 10-14 6-16

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just moments later. With a little over two minutes to play, Kalk appeared to register the game-tying goal on a puck that bounced off his leg and in.

The goal was immediately waived off as the officials ruled Kalk had kicked the puck into the net, and after a lengthy review the call on the ice was confirmed.

“We lost the draw, but we won the battle to the puck,” Kalk said. “[Bligh] shot it out in front, and I got tackled from the defenseman, no kicking motion, and it went off my leg and in. I didn’t even know it hit me until it was in the back of the net. The [referee] made a call, and that’s the call that stays.”

With just under a minute to play, Yale junior Frankie DiChiara added an empty-net goal to seal a 4-2 Bulldog victory.

“Just a couple bounces that went their way late in the game and also in the second period,” Grant said.

“Hockey is a game of bounces — most coaches will tell you that — and the bounces just didn’t go our way tonight.”

The Big Green felt it deserved a better result than the 4-2 defeat.

“We didn’t get the breaks tonight,” Gaudet said. “I thought we played very well in the third. It was a couple of really controversial calls at the end that can go either way, and both of them went against us. You have to be persistent and persevere, and I thought we fought right down to the

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TUESDAY LINEUP

ONE ON ONE

WITH EVAN BOUDREAUX ’19

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This week, The Dartmouth spoke with 6’8” freshman forward Evan Boudreaux ’19 of the men’s basketball team. Boudreaux was a three star high school recruit who had offers from Iowa State University, Boston College and Bucknell University — among others — before committing to Dartmouth.

In the team’s season-opening exhibition game against Keiser University, Boudreaux recorded 11 points on 50 percent shooting and led the team with seven rebounds in a team-high 24 minutes.

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Controversial calls cost the Big Green a potential victory against Yale University.

final buzzer.”

Beyond the two controversial reviewed goals, the game saw a tremendous disparity in penalty calls.

On Saturday, Yale was awarded seven power plays compared to Dartmouth’s two.

“We had to wear out some of our guys killing penalties, and some of our guys who don’t kill penalties don’t get on the ice very much, so some of our offensive guys were sitting,” Gaudet said. “Some guys who don’t kill penalties were sitting for long stretches.

The flow of the game really changes with the amount of penalty calls.

We don’t have the flow there for our offensive guys. I’d much rather play

a five-on-five game.”

Despite the tough loss, the team remains confident moving forward.

“I thought we had a lot of good bright spots, and I think we look good,” Kalk said. “We’ve been playing really well, the goaltending has been great and young defensemen have been playing great. Everyone has been chipping in, and I think we’re going to have a good season.”

The Big Green will begin a sevengame road trip next weekend with games against Princeton and Quinnipiac Universities. The team will not play at Thompson Arena again until a Jan. 2 date with Robert Morris University in the annual Ledyard Classic.

What made you decide to come to Dartmouth?

EB: I have a family history here. My mother graduated in ’82, and my brother graduated last year. I also love the coaching staff here. I had always been comfortable with the school and the coaches, and I think we have the chance to do something special here.

What have you enjoyed most so far on campus?

EB: The camaraderie and the closeness of the campus. I think it’s a really cute college town, and being able to walk around on a fall day is great.

When did you start playing basketball?

EB: I’ve been playing since I was really young. I think I first picked up a ball when I was either two or three.

When did you realize basketball was something you wanted to pursue at the collegiate level?

EB: Really early, probably when I was in middle school or grade school. I realized that playing basketball was what I wanted to do, and from that point on it was my one goal.

Do you or did you play any other sports?

EB: I played football when I was in high school.

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A split record over the weekend moved the Big Green into a tie with Union College in the ECAC Hockey standings.

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What was the recruiting process like?

EB: It was kind of crazy for me, but Dartmouth made it clear that I was a priority and that they wanted me. I always felt like I could trust [head] coach Paul Cormier, so it was really easy to

commit here.

How was your first collegiate game experience against Keiser University?

EB: It was different. When the lights come on and the bleachers are down and everything, it’s a lot different from practice — and it was a lot of fun. It’s a lot of fun to play against someone else.

Just to put on the jersey is great. It was kind of a learning experience because it’s such a big jump from high school to college. It takes those first couple of minutes to get used to it.

How did it feel to be able to contribute so well to the team in your first game?

EB: I’ve always been kind of proud of myself for rebounds in particular, that’s something I try to do all the time, and it felt good at the end of the game to have those stats.

What are some of your long term goals for basketball at Dartmouth?

EB: I definitely think we can win the Ivy League championship. That’s my main goal because we haven’t done that since the 1950s. Additionally, I want to bring the program to a really good place where everyone on campus is really excited about it and wants to come to the games.

What are your goals heading into your first season?

EB: Personally, I want to play a lot of minutes and be on the court a lot, but as a team, we want to win as many conference games as we can and challenge for the Ivy League title this year. I think we have the seniors and the leadership to do that too.

What are you looking forward to this winter term?

EB: I’m looking forward to the [basketball] season getting started, to be traveling all the time with the team and to have the snow come down finally.

How has being a student-athlete at Dartmouth been so far?

EB: So far it’s been great, I love it so far.

I’m really close with the freshmen who I came in with, and the team’s really close. They’ve been great helping me get acclimated to campus and everything.

This interview hes been edited and condensed.