The victory improves the Big Green's mark on Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park to a mind-boggling 56-7 since it opened in 2009. (Note: Dartmouth's stadium is ranked third-nicest in the nation among "small" venues behind only the facilities at Miami University and UNC-Greensboro in a review by College Baseball Today.)
Dartmouth opens the Ivy League baseball season this weekend with a pair of twinbills at Penn Saturday and at Columbia the next day.
In the video below Mike McCune '92, the sports anchor at WCAX TV in Burlington, Vt. – and a starting offensive lineman on two Ivy League championship Dartmouth football teams – offers up a look at the Big Green's solid victory.
Click arrow to play. (Courtesy WCAX)
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| Junior Jeff Keller does an interview with CBS affiliate WCAX out of Burlington, Vt. |
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WCAX also has video of Vermont's stunning 16-15 double-overtime victory against No. 15 Dartmouth in women's lacrosse. It was the Catamounts' first win over the Big Green in 10 tries dating back to 1993. Dartmouth is now 6-3 while UVM improved to 5-6.
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It was nice to see a good representation of football players in the stands at yesterday's baseball game. A reminder that BGA Premium's full coverage of spring practice begins on April 9. And if you are looking even further ahead, the preseason begins five months from today. (In case you are wondering, players from more than 500 miles away will report for the preseason on August 26 while the others are expected one day later.)
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Did I miss it or has The Dartmouth still not written a single word about the departure of the coach who won more Ivy League championships than any coach in school history? Women's basketball coach Chris Wielgus won 12 Ivy titles and was the only active coach in the Wearers of the Green, the school's de facto Hall of Fame. A search has begun to find a replacement for Wielgus, who coached Dartmouth for 28 years over two stints in Hanover.
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Without a wrestling team at Dartmouth you may have missed news of one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of the sport at the college level. In a much ballyhooed match against the defending NCAA wrestler of the year from Penn State, Cornell's Kyle Dake last week became the first grappler in NCAA history to win four national championships at four different weights. He's just the third wrestler ever to win four NCAA championships. Click here for a story and interview with Dake.
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Ignoring the reviews we went to see the movie Admission last night. (How's that for a teaser?)
The movie revolves around a Princeton admissions officer played by Tina Fey. For the record, Fey and the character played by Paul Rudd were Dartmouth classmates (as noted in this review).
I may be wrong about this but I seem to recall Dartmouth is very strict about allowing movie companies to film on campus. Princeton may want to revisit its own rules in the aftermath of this flick, which doesn't exactly flatter the school.
