This Day in Dartmouth History: April 24

April 24, 2011 — Peter Williamson '12 of Men's Golf wins his second individual Ivy title

It had been close to two decades since the Ivy League had a player win multiple titles and the conference championship. But junior Peter Williamson '12 was up to the challenge, picking up medalist honors for the second time in three years by besting the field on the par-71, 6,606-yard course at Galloway National Golf Club nine years ago.

Williamson opened up a three-stroke lead in the opening round, shooting what turned out to be the low score of the championship with a 2-under 69. Conditions proved to be more difficult the next day as the Hanover native carded a 78 (+7), but he wasn't the only one that struggled as he found himself still in the lead by a stroke ahead of Penn's Scott Williams and two ahead of Columbia's Brendan Doyle.

The third and final 18 started off well for Williamson as he made par on each of the first eight holes before sinking a birdie on the par-5, 539-yard ninth. The back nine was not as kind, however, beginning with a bogey on 10, which was followed up by double bogeys on 13 and 15 to fall out of the lead behind Williams and Yale's Tom McCarthy, who had eagled 11 to go to 4-under on the day. But a triple bogey on 13 and a double on 15 knocked Williams out of contention, and McCarthy bogeyed three of the final six holes. That left the latter a stroke behind Williamson, who recovered after his sputters to finish off his victory with a 10-over 223.

By virtue of winning the title, Williamson was named the Ivy League Player of the Year, and sophomore teammate Andrew Jankoski earned a spot on the All-Ivy League Second Team after tying for 11th. As a team, Dartmouth wrapped up the championship in fourth place, a stroke ahead of Princeton and five in front of Harvard, while Yale won the title by 20 strokes.

April 24, 2001 — Baseball wins highest-scoring game since the 19th century

Just 19 years ago, Dartmouth baseball welcomed St. Anselm to town for a mid-week non-conference battle on the diamond. And battle they did as the two teams combined to rack up 45 runs in the game, the most in any Big Green contest since 1896. Fortunately for Dartmouth, it came out on the winning end of the slugfest, 28-17.

The game began innocently enough as sophomore David Lopez '03 did not allow a run in the top of the first. The Big Green put the first runs of the game on the board in their half thanks to RBIs from sophomore Jason DaCosta '03 and senior Brian Nickerson '00. After the Hawks tied the game in the second, Dartmouth scored four times with the big blow a two-run blast off the bat of senior Mike Levy '01.

Again St. Anselm answered with two runs, but a solitary tally in the third and five more in the fourth — four coming on a grand slam by senior reserve catcher Andrew Cronin '01 — seemingly blew the game open with the Green leading, 12-4. After the two teams traded runs in the fifth, the Hawks rallied in the sixth with four runs, knocking Lopez from the game.

But Dartmouth wasn't done as eight hitters came around to score in the bottom half with the help of a couple of errors. The first two runs scored on a miscue in the field, then the current Philadelphia Phillies general manager, shortstop Matt Klentak '02, stroked a two-run double. Freshman Scott Shirrell '04 and sophomore Mike Mileusnic '03 added RBI singles, and Nickerson brought the final two runs of the frame with a single, making it a 21-9 advantage.

Although St. Anselm scored four times in both the seventh and ninth innings, the Big Green plated two in the seventh on a Shirrell two-run double and five in the eighth on a three-run shot by senior Chris Miranda '01 and a two-run double by Levy, who finished the game 3-for-4 with three runs and six RBIs.

Every starter had at least one hit and 10 different players scored at least twice with Cronin touching home plate five times while also driving in five. Both Nickerson and Shirrell had a team-high four hits as well.

None of the seven pitchers was safe in this game as each surrendered at least four runs, though junior Michael Brown '02 was the only one to give up fewer earned runs (2) than innings pitched (2.1).