Dartmouth junior Abbey D'Agostino won another national championship last night with a five-second victory in the 5,000 meters at the NCAA Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. Needless to say, her 15:28.11 time set a school record.
Dartmouth has won two women's NCAA individual championships ever, and D'Agostino has both of them. Last spring she won the NCAA 5,000 outdoors.
A seven-time, first-team All-American (that's a lot of hyphens ;-), D'Agostino runs again at the NCAAs in tonight's 3,000.
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The other good news for Dartmouth yesterday was a win for the men's basketball team over Cornell, 76-62. Center Gabas Maldunas scored a career-high 28 points as the Big Green won its second Ivy game in its last three tries to improve to 4-9 in the Ivies and 8-19 overall. Dartmouth closes out tonight against Columbia, an up-and-down team it beat in New York City on Feb. 10.The news wasn't as good for the men's hockey team (13-12-5, 9-9-4 ECAC), which lost to Harvard in the first game of the playoffs, 2-1, at Thompson Arena. The Big Green will try to stave off elimination tonight.
Nor was the news good for the women's basketball team, which lost to Cornell for the second time in four days, 60-48, to fall to 6-21 and 4-9 in the Ivy.
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Keep an eye out the imminent the announcement of a night football game at Memorial Field next season. Last fall the Big Green opened with a night game against Butler and hosted Harvard in a 5 p.m. kickoff. The Butler game drew 9,089 and Harvard 10,138. Attendance at day games: Penn 5,873, Sacred Heart 3,473 and Brown 3,439.
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Tom Lewis '45, who lettered on the gridiron for Dartmouth in 1947 after playing a couple of years at Navy and returning from the war, has been inducted into the Haverford School Athletic Hall of Fame. Find a blurb here.
