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Two graduating seniors on the Dartmouth baseball team and one incoming freshman have been selected in major league baseball's amateur draft. Outfielder Damon Wright was taken by the San Francisco Giants in the 25th round with lefthanded pitcher Russell Young grabbed by the Cleveland Indians in the 28th. Recruit Kyle Hendricks, a righthanded pitcher who posted a 0.93 ERA at his California high school this year, was chosen by the Los Angeles Angeles of Anaheim in the 39th round. Find Dartmouth's release here.

Keggy, the unofficial Dartmouth mascot, gets a brief mention in this story out of California.

This is kind of fun. Hanover is ranked No. 6 nationally among towns/cities with a population of 5,000 or more for the percentage of the population who walk to work (47.2) by city-data.com. All five towns above Hanover on the list are military bases, and almost every town or city listed in the top 101 is either a base or a college town. Now, I could be wrong but methinks a good, hard look at the methodology used for the study is in order ;-).

The Boston Globe has a story about the veterans President Jim Wright has brought to campus as undergraduates now that they've completed their first year. It's a wonderful initiative and a very interesting story.

Next in a series of recruiting lists – Women's Lacrosse:

• Georgia Bird, D, Kent Place/Summit, N.J.
• Dana Brisbane, M, Hotchkiss/Locus Valley, N.Y.
• Kirsten Goldberg, A, St. Paul's School for Girls/Cockeysville, Md.
• Hadley Lankford, A, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes/Alexandria, Va.
• Erin Massimi, M, Westwood/Westwood, Mass.
• Sarah Parks, A, Centennial/Ellicott City, Md.
• Sarah Plumb, M, Nobles and Greenough/Wellesley, Mass.
• Hilary Smith, D, Hackley School/Bronxville, N.Y.