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The Dartmouth daily has a story about tailback Dominick Pierre needing only 209 yards to become just the third Big Green player to rush for 2,000 career yards. The other two Dartmouth standouts to surpass that plateau:Nick Schwieger '12 – 3,150
Al Rosier '91 – 2,252
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The Daily Pennsylvanian writes about why fans of Dartmouth's next opponent have to keep Penn's loss to Villanova last Saturday in perspective.From the story:
(W)hile other Ancient Eight teams match up with weaker opponents like San Diego, Georgetown or Monmouth, the Quakers are doing their very best to challenge themselves before beginning Ivy play. Teams get better by playing more talented opponents, not by destroying a lowly Hoyas team.
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Holy Cross quarterback Peter Pujals is the National Freshman of the Week for his play against Dartmouth in the estimation of The Sports Network. From TSN:Pujals started at quarterback against Dartmouth Saturday and was the Crusaders' deadliest weapon. The freshman completed 25-of-37 pass attempts for 290 yards and two touchdowns and no interceptions, while carrying the ball 17 times for 125 yards and two scores. He led Holy Cross back from a first- quarter deficit (14-0), in the third quarter (21-14) and in the fourth (28-21). Pujals was named the Patriot League rookie of the week for the second straight week in Week 5. He orchestrated a late-game, 67-yard drive that set up the game-winning field goal with 51 seconds left in the 31-28 triumph.
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Former Dartmouth jayvee quarterback and Miami Marlins infielder Ed Lucas '04 finished his first big league season on a high note, hitting .341 over his final 10 games and .321 in September. He closed out the year with a .256 average, 14 doubles, one triple, four homers and 28 RBIs in 94 games.
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The Sports Network poll has just one Ivy League team receiving votes this week and one former Dartmouth rival making a surprising appearance:37. HarvardThe NCAA Coaches poll includes the same two teams:
46. Sacred Heart
31. Harvard(Even with its quarterback completing just 13 of 30 passes, Sacred Heart improved to 5-0 last weekend with a 16-0 win at Week 5 Dartmouth opponent Bucknell.)
34. Sacred Heart
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The Roar Lions blog Ivy League football power rankings:1) Harvard
2) Brown
3) Princeton
4) Yale
5) Dartmouth
6) Penn
7) Cornell
8) Columbia
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The Harvard Crimson has a lengthy story about the impact of the school's cheating scandal on athletics.
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Welcome to October!BGA Premium has had stories every day now for 43 consecutive days and given the trip to Butler, the night game against Holy Cross that went on forever thanks to TV, and pulling together three stories the next day, I'm a little beat. Yeah, I'm whining ;-)
I wasn't terribly interested in sitting in my home office writing Optimist-Pessimist yesterday so I grabbed a chair, my laptop and a cold drink and crossed our dirt road to park myself at our neighbor's barn. It was 70 degrees with clear blue skies on about as gorgeous a day as you'll ever see. Here's the office of BGA yesterday:
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