This Day in Dartmouth History: May 1
5/1/2020 2:00:00 PM | Baseball, Women's Lacrosse, Athletics
May 1, 2011 — Women's Lacrosse ends defending national champ's 28-game win streak
In the final game of the regular season and with the Ivy League title and its spot in the conference's postseason tournament all locked up, the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team could have sat back and taken it easy.
That was not the case in this exciting contest that saw junior Sarah Parks '12 score the game-winning goal with eight seconds left to defeat No. 1 Maryland, at Scully-Fahey Field, 9-8. The win for 14th-ranked Dartmouth snapped the Terrapins' 28-game win streak, knocking the defending national champs from the ranks of the unbeaten in the final day of the regular season.
This Senior Day was special as the Big Green moved to 8-0 on their home field with the thrilling win, while picking up just their second win ever against Maryland and first since 2005.
Maryland jumped out to an early 2-1 lead, but Dartmouth responded with four straight tallies, two by Parks, to take a 5-2 advantage into the intermission. In the second half, the Terrapins came out on fire, scoring five of the first six goals to reclaim the lead, 7-6. After senior Kat Collins '11 knotted the score with her game-high fourth goal, Maryland went back in front with 12:23 to play.
That set the table for some late-game heroics as sophomore Hana Bowers tied the game at eight with 4:44 on the clock before Parks put her game-winner in the back of the net in the waning seconds.
May 1, 1954 — Charlie Feltman '55 no-hits Army in a 6-0 victory
It wasn't necessarily the prettiest game one could see as the two teams combined to issue 10 walks and commit nine errors (five by the Dartmouth defense) that led to two unearned runs to cross the plate for the Big Green. But those stats don't diminish the junior's accomplishment on the mound, one of 10 no-hitters in program history and one of just three since Babe Ruth called his shot against the Chicago Cubs in the 1932 World Series.
Any time Feltman got into trouble, whether from his four walks, his wild pitch or the miscues behind him, he always found a way to subdue the Cadets at the plate and not only keep them off the scoreboard, but also keep them from reaching safely by a base hit. He struck out six batters during his masterpiece and stranded eight runners on the afternoon.
Dartmouth took the lead in the third with three runs, added two more in the fifth and finished the scoring with one more in the sixth. Junior center fielder John Mansfield '55 was the hitting star of the game with a single, double (the lone extra-base hit of the game), run scored and two RBIs, while third baseman John Stoughton singled, scored two runs and drove in two.
Head coach Bob Shawkey could not help but be a little jealous of his hurler. The former big leaguer never threw a no-no in his 15-year career during which he won 195 games — primarily for the New York Yankees — but did come close in 1919 with a pair of one-hitters against the Athletics and the notorious White Sox.
