Baseball Comes Up Short

It was a tough end to the season for the Dartmouth baseball team as Columbia won the deciding game in the Ivy League Championship Series Wednesday before an SRO crowd at Red Rolfe Field, 7-5. All credit to the Lions, who made plays in the field when they had to – including a game-ending double play – and hit with surprising power. Dartmouth coach Bob Whalen said it best afterward when he told the Daily Dartmouth:

"We played well all year long, really consistently, and played well in big games. I thought we played well today, they just played a little bit better.”

Spotted in the crowd were former Columbia football coach Ray Tellier and current coach Norries Wilson. ... Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens was at the doubleheader Tuesday but out of town Wednesday.

The Dartmouth football website has a short release on the naming of Andrew Dete, Alex Rapp and Milan Williams as 2008 captains.

The NCAA's Academic Progress Rate scores been released. Check out the full release here and how check out how Dartmouth and other schools fared here. ... For a Washington Post analysis of the APR concept and how it is working (published on the eve of the APR release), click here.

Just saw the rankings for the Directors Cup, an award honoring schools for achieving success in broad-based athletic programs, both men's and women's. Here's how the Ivy League schools stood through the end of the winter sports season:

• 49. Harvard
• 54. Princeton
• 66. Cornell
• 78. Penn
• 98. Dartmouth
• 118. Yale
• 119. Columbia
• 128. Brown