Hendricks, O?Dowd Earn Weekly Honors from Ivy League

HANOVER, N.H. — For the third time this year, Dartmouth junior Kyle Hendricks has been named the Ivy League Pitcher of the Week, while sophomore Chris O'Dowd earned the Player of the Week award this week as well, the Ivy League announced today. It is the fifth career honor for Hendricks and first for O'Dowd.

Hendricks (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) tossed his fourth complete game of the season in a seven-inning, 3-1 win at Harvard on Sunday. The right-hander surrendered just four hits and a pair of walks while striking out nine. The Crimson went hitless with runners in scoring position, with only three opportunities, and over the final four frames, Harvard managed just two base runners, one of which was picked off by Hendricks. For the season, Hendricks leads the Ivy League in strikeouts per nine innings (11.0) and has not allowed more than three runs in any of his eight starts.

O'Dowd (Cherry Hills Village, Colo.), meanwhile, was a force on offense and defense for the Big Green. The catcher hit safely in each of the five games, clubbing the ball at a .444 clip (8-for-18) with a pair of doubles, a home run, six runs and three RBIs while stealing three bases as well. After contributing three hits, a run and an RBI to a 7-1 non-conference win over Hartford last Wednesday, he began a three-run rally with a single in the seventh inning of a scoreless duel against Harvard in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday. He scored twice and stole a base as well in that 6-0 victory. The next day at Harvard, he ripped a double in a 3-1 triumph, then went 2-for-3 with his sixth home run of the season, three runs and two RBIs as Dartmouth rallied from a five-run deficit to win, 10-8. Behind the plate, last year's Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Year gunned down five of the eight Crimson runners that attempted to steal against him.

The Big Green have had eight Ivy weekly award winners this season — the most in the conference with Penn — Others to earn a weekly honor are sophomore infielder Ennis Coble (Atlanta, Ga.) as Player of the Week, senior reliever Ryan Smith (Greenlawn, N.Y.) as Pitcher of the Week, and freshman first baseman/DH Dustin Selzer (Houston, Texas) along with third baseman Jeff Keller (Atherton, Calif.) as Rookie of the Week.

Dartmouth (28-10), with the nation's longest current winning streak at 10 games, has one game left on its regular-season schedule, at Hartford on Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. This weekend, the Big Green will play in its fourth consecutive Ivy Championship Series in search of its third straight conference crown. The series at Princeton takes place on Saturday with a doubleheader at noon and a single game, if necessary, on Sunday at 1 p.m.

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