Weekend Wrap

Long-snapper Shane Peterlin's pro aspirations get a mention in the Dartmouth Sports Weekly. Talking with former punter Brian Scullin at yesterday's baseball game he reported Peterlin has his underhanded fastball really humming right now.

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With apologies to the guys in uniform, the catch of the day at yesterday's baseball game was made by football wide receiver/quarterback (or is it quarterback/wide receiver?) Timmy McManus. Sitting halfway up the stands alongside the first base line, McManus had a foul ball fly well over his head, bonk off the bricks above Karl Michael Pool and directly back to him where he calmly one-handed it.

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From an obit in the San Francisco Chronicle for Peter Bogardus '51:

Mr. Bogardus also played freshman football and started for the following three years as a lineman on the Dartmouth varsity team. In his senior year, the Ivy League Dartmouth Big Green played a rare game against the much stronger Michigan team at Ann Arbor, and lost 27-6, which Mr. Bogardus considered an honorable defeat.

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TriCities.com has an update on former Dartmouth corner Chris Laws '97, a promising player from Tennessee whose football career was ended by injury, but who went on earn an MBA at Harvard. (link)

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More good spring news for Dartmouth athletics as Peter Williamson became the first Ivy League men's golfer since 1993-94 – and just the seventh ever – to win two conference individual titles. Williamson, a junior who crossed the street from Hanover High to attend college, also was named the Ivy League Player of the Year. (link)

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Exciting times on the baseball diamond yesterday as Dartmouth rebounded from last week's disappointment at Yale with a doubleheader sweep of Brown. Thanks to Harvard's split with Yale, Dartmouth can move back into a tie for the Red Rolfe Division lead with a sweep of today's rescheduled twinbill with the Bears. (link)

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This just in on the Dartmouth women's rugby team:

The Women's Rugby team heads to Buffalo this week to play in the USA Rugby National Round of Sixteen. They are preparing for possibly the toughest pool in this year's tournament, as perennial National Championship match participants Penn State and Stanford will both be there. Dartmouth (#9) faces Stanford (#8) at 10 a.m. on Friday, and Penn State (#1) squares off against University of Northern Iowa (#16) at noon. Winners play at noon on Saturday, losers at 10 a.m., to determine the Final Four team from this pool. Follow the team during the match on twitter (dartmouthwomensrugby.com).

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David Coulson of College Sporting News delivers some pretty effective body shots to the NCAA in a column spun out of the organization's fight against the North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname.