... (T)he Big Green sent two equally skilled Green and White squads to the first leg of the Empire Sevens tournament in Stony Brook, New York. The Green team started off the day with a strong 19-0 victory over Stony Brook B and set the pace for the next couple of hours, continuing to a 3-1 finish in pool play. Big Green victories continued with the White squad taking their first game 37-0 over Columbia and going undefeated in their next three matches, defeating Syracuse, Brockport and Stony Brook A. . . .
Seniors Andrew Berson and football converts Sean Ronan and Stephen Dazzo physically dominated the Kutztown side, throwing back multiple waves of attackers.
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It's special stuff when an old friend has success, and that was the case in the fall as former Dartmouth assistant head coach Chris Wilkerson (link) guided the University of Chicago to the UAA football title. The Maroons' reward? Here it is:
Chicago finished with an 8-1 record and now is 14-5 in Wilkerson's two years at the helm.
Here's a little bit more about the Chicago program Wilk is leading:
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The Dartmouth men's basketball team (14-14, 7-7) has accepted an invitation to the CollegeInsider.com postseason tournament. The Big Green will kick off its first postseason action next week after the full field is released following the announcement of the NCAA, NIT and College Basketball Invitational brackets. It will be Dartmouth's first postseason game since the 1959 NCAA's.Yale, Columbia and Brown appeared in the CIT last year with Yale winning four games in the event before dropping the finale against Murray State. Learn more about the CIT here.
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How do you think the Harvard men's basketball team reacted to the end of Dartmouth's win over Yale Saturday night? Read a story HERE and check out the video:
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And finally, for the first time since before Thanksgiving our dirt road is visible. While the town crew lives by the motto, "The blacktop shows before the snow slows," in town, it's different on dirt roads, which they plow but only Mother Nature fully clears. Our driveway? That's been covered since a few days after the Princeton game and remains so.