This Day in Dartmouth History: April 11
4/11/2020 2:00:00 PM | Baseball, Men's Tennis, Athletics
April 11, 2008 — Men's Tennis beats Princeton for the first time since 1997
Early in the spring schedule, Dartmouth had posted promising victories over Boston College and Loyola Marymount, but entered its first home Ivy League match 6-9 overall and 0-2 in conference play. And the Big Green's opponent was a Princeton team that they had not triumphed over in over a decade with the last win in the series coming on April 18, 1997 by a 4-3 margin.
Dartmouth head coach Chuck Kinyon decided to shake up the doubles lineup a bit, and it proved to be beneficial. Although the No. 1 doubles team came up short, Big Green victories on courts two and three brought home the first point to give Dartmouth the lead heading into singles.
Junior Ari Gayer '09 finished up first without losing a set at No. 5, followed by a straight-set victory for rookie Curtis Roby '11 at No. 6 by identical 6-2 scores for a 3-0 Big Green lead. Dartmouth did not give the Tigers a chance to even think about rallying as senior co-captain Mark Brodie '07 clinched the match at No. 1 — 6-3, 6-2 — before Princeton even got on the board.
The Tigers did end up winning two super breakers before the day was done, while sophomore Justin Tzou '10 picked up a victory at No. 3 when his opponent retired leaving the final tally at 5-2 for the Big Green win.
April 11, 2015 — Matt Parisi '15 becomes first Big Green player in 72 years to hit four doubles in a game
The Dartmouth baseball team began the 2015 Ivy League campaign by splitting its eight games against the teams in the Gehrig Division and now was attempting to separate itself from the other teams in the Rolfe Division. That goal started off well with a 3-2, extra-inning victory at Yale in the first game of a doubleheader. Sophomore Michael Ketchmark '17 provided a two-run blast in the fourth, and freshman Kyle Holbrook '18 lofted a sacrifice fly in the eighth to provide the difference and make a winner out of sophomore right-hander Mike Concato '17, who hurled all eight innings and needed just six pitches to retire the side in order in the final frame.
The second game provided plenty of fireworks as the Big Green battered the Bulldog pitching staff for 22 runs to complete the sweep. A two-run single by senior catcher Matt McDowell '15 and a two-run double off the bat of classmate Matt Parisi '15 highlighted a five-run second stanza. Yale got two back in the fourth, which Dartmouth matched in the top of the fifth. Parisi doubled in the sixth and scored for an 8-2 advantage, and after Yale answered with one run of its own, the Green added two more in the seventh as Parisi doubled home another run, making it 10-3.
Dartmouth broke the game wide open in the eighth with a seven spot. Once again, Parisi was in the middle of it by swatting his fourth two-bagger of the game, a feat no Big Green player had accomplished since World War II raged in 1943. Junior Joe Purritano '16 put the stamp on the inning by launching a three-run blast for the 17-3 lead.
Even though Yale equaled that output in the bottom of the eighth with seven runs, the Big Green tacked on five more in the ninth for a 22-10 victory, the most runs for the team in 13 years. Parisi finished the game 4-for-6 with his four doubles along with three runs and three RBIs, Purritano drove in five runs and reached base five times, junior Nick Ruppert '16 scored four runs and MacDowell had four RBIs. Lost in the offensive output was the winning pitcher, freshman left-hander Marc Bachman '18, who tossed 2.1 innings of relief while yielding just one unearned run for his first collegiate victory.
Dartmouth would go on to win all 12 of its games against the Rolfe Division to finish 16-4 in league play and win the division crown by a whopping nine games, and Parisi would earn a spot on the All-Ivy League First Team at shortstop.
