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Snow is no problem for the Dartmouth baseball team, which is getting plenty of traction. With yesterday's 6-0 win over North Dakota State in Winter Haven, Fla., the Big Green raised its record to 7-0. Dartmouth, which has enjoyed back-to-back shutouts, is the last unbeaten Division I team in the nation.The Big Green faces Division III Vassar today but before you go chalking up an 8-0 record remember, this is baseball and more than in just about any sport a DIII team on a given day can beat a good DI team. Vassar, by the way, is 3-0.
Dartmouth is once again among the Others Receiving Votes in the NCAA.com Top 30 poll released yesterday.
The Big Green isn't mentioned in the Baseball America Top 25, but pitcher Cole Sulser gets a nod in the publication's latest College Top 25 Chat.
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Former Dartmouth football assistant Scott Sallach, who was in Hanover from 1998-2002 before moving on to Princeton, will be back coaching tight ends at Mississippi State after all. He'd been moved from TE coach to a desk position this winter and now has been moved back. Find a story here.
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Former Harvard standout Desmond Bryant '09 has signed a $34 million contract with the Cleveland Browns. An undrafted free agent, the defensive lineman played the past four years for the Oakland Raiders. The Harvard Crimson has a story about an up-and-down journey to stardom that included both a year's suspension at Harvard for breaking unspecified team rules, and another year lost to academics.
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Speaking of Ivy Leaguers and the NFL, Penn defensive end Brandon Copeland, offensive lineman Joe Bonadies and punter Scott Lopano all took part in Villanova's pro day on Monday. The Daily Pennsylvanian blog The Buzz updates how they did.Penn is already in the second week of spring practice. Week 5 opponent Bucknell is slated to tee it up for the first time Friday and Week 2 opponent Holy Cross will be on the field Saturday. Dartmouth begins spring drills on April 9.
Ah yes, Holy Cross. Some interesting thoughts about the Crusaders' game against Dartmouth being at night on the Holy Cross message board including this one:
Tough to make the Dartmouth game a day trip w/the game at 7:30- won't be over until 10:30 and the trip back to the Woo is around 2.5 hours. You can probably go 90 from Lebanon all the way to Concord, but in the dead of night, no thanks.Gotta watch out for those pesky moose ;-)
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A final thought . . .Interesting that The Dartmouth, which has ceased publication during spring break, had an online update on men's ice hockey and now one on the Orozco murals being named a national historic landmark. Still nothing, however, on the departure of a coach who won a school-record 12 Ivy League championships in 28 years in Hanover. The paper will surely have something about former women's basketball coach Chris Wielgus when regular publication resumes but it will be old news at that point.
