This Day in Dartmouth History: April 6
4/6/2020 2:00:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey, Softball, Women's Lacrosse, Athletics
April 6, 2013 — Women's Lacrosse wins battle of ranked teams, downing No. 16 Cornell
Junior goalkeeper Kristen Giovanniello '14 made several key saves and finished with 10 as 18th-ranked Dartmouth improved to 4-0 in Ivy League games thanks to a 9-5 home win against 16th-ranked Cornell.
The victory was the 13th straight home win against the Big Red for the Big Green dating back to the 1984 season and the seventh straight win against the team from Ithaca in five years including Ivy League Tournament matchups.
Senior Hana Bowers '13 scored four times in the game, pushing her streak of multi-goal games to 14, a stretch that began in the 2012 season.
Cornell led 2-1 just seven minutes into the game and then never again as Dartmouth scored four straight to end the half and then never looked back in the defensive battle.
Giovanniello picked up the win in the contest, the 31st of her career.
April 6, 2012: Big Green Open Dartmouth Softball Park with a 1-0 Triumph Over Penn
Dartmouth softball opened the gates to its brand new $3.1 million ballpark for the first time on this date eight years ago and the team came away with 1-0 victory over Penn.
Freshman Kristen Rumley came away with a complete-game shutout in the circle, striking out 10 batters while allowing just two hits and a walk.
Senior Hillary Barker hit the first-ever home run at the venue, clobbering a pitch over the fence in the third inning for the game's lone run.
Since the inception of the Dartmouth Softball Park, the Big Green have had their fair share of success, winning three Ivy League championships, which is tied with Harvard for the most in the conference since the park opened.
The ballpark includes wrap-around seating for 400 fans, sunken dugouts, bullpens, batting cages, a press box, a scoreboard and an artificial FieldTurf playing surface with superior drainage capacity.
April 6, 2007 — David Jones '08 and Dan Shribman '07 receive national honors in men's hockey
Thanks to an outstanding 2006-07 season with the Big Green, junior David Jones '08 was named a First Team All-American by the American Hockey Coaches Association during the Frozen Four in St. Louis. Jones posted 44 points on 18 goals and 26 helpers in his third and final season in Hanover.
Not only was Jones an All-American, but he also became the first Dartmouth player to be a top-10 finalist for the Hobey Baker dating back to the award's inception in 1981. Jones was just the third Dartmouth player to earn first-team honors in the previous three decades, joining Lee Stempniak '05 in 2003-04 and Ross Brownridge '80 in 1979-80.
Jones was ECAC Hockey's leading scorer with 31 points in 22 games, earning unanimous first team All-ECAC in the process, plus was named the unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year.
The inaugural Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award, established by the Hockey Commissioner's Association to honor a "consummate team player and team builder," was also presented at the Frozen Four with senior Dan Shribman '07 earning the honor. Hines, a former Army captain, was killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan in September of 2005. He was a four-year letter winner for the Black Knights hockey team, graduating in 2003 after serving as co-captain in his senior season.
In the spring of 2006, Shribman took the term off to travel to South Africa where he volunteered in several townships as a teacher and a soccer coach. Since the trip was not through Dartmouth, Shribman took the classes he was going to miss before he left, doubling his workload during the hockey season.
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