This Day in Dartmouth History: May 3
5/3/2020 2:00:00 PM | Baseball, Men's Tennis, Women's Lacrosse, Athletics
Four years ago, it was announced that the Dartmouth men's tennis team would be making its first NCAA appearance since 1997.
Still in their practice gear and crowded into their team room in the Boss Tennis Center, the Big Green heard their name called in the NCAA.com selection show as one of the teams in the field of 64. Ten days later, they would head to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to take on Tulane.
The last time the Green made it to the big dance was almost two decades prior. Dartmouth wrapped up that season with an overall record of 17-5 and 8-1 in Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association (EITA) matches to win the conference final.
The Big Green closed the 2015-16 regular season on April 23 with a 4-0 victory over Harvard, ending up with an 18-8 overall record and a 6-1 mark in Ivy League play to finish second in the league standings.
May 3, 2013 — Women's Lacrosse wins double-overtime thriller in Ivy League Tournament semifinals
Dartmouth advanced to the Ivy League Tournament Championship Game for the second time in as many years, thanks in large part to the play of senior Hana Bowers '13.
Bowers scored a free-position goal with 1:22 left in double overtime to propel the third-seeded Big Green to an 11-10 win over second-seeded Princeton at Penn's Franklin Field. Seven years later, it remains the longest game played in the decade-long history of the Ivy League Tournament.
For Bowers, the goal was her fifth of the afternoon as well as her sixth point.
Both teams had their opportunities to win the game either at the end of regulation or in the final seconds of the first overtime, but came up short, setting the scene for Bowers to put an exclamation point on an outstanding day and punch her team's ticket to the title game.
May 3, 2009 — Baseball shuts out Cornell to win rubber game of the Ivy League Championship Series
Robert Young '10
In 2009, the Dartmouth baseball team had the Ivy League's best record in conference play for the second straight year to win the Rolfe Division and host the Ivy League Championship Series. Now the Big Green were looking to brush away the disappointment of coming up short in against Columbia in 2008 with Cornell coming to Hanover for the best-of-three series that determined which Ancient Eight squad would earn the league's bid to an NCAA Regional.
Dartmouth overcame a 6-0 deficit in the opener to rally for an 8-6 victory, and for good measure, turned the second known triple play in program history. In the second game, the Green once again rallied from a six-run deficit, but Cornell returned the favor to win a 14-12 slugfest and force the decisive third game.
The drama of a winner-take-all game faded quickly, however, as Dartmouth jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first and slowly pulled away while freshman right-hander Kyle Hendricks '12 mowed through the Big Red lineup. The future Chicago Cub pitched 7.1 innings of shutout ball before exiting, scattering eight hits and three walks while striking out nine to improve his record on the season to 6-2. Sophomore Dan Ternowchek '11 relieved him in the eighth with two on, one out and a 10-run lead, then promptly got a pair of ground balls to end the threat. In the ninth, sophomore closer Ryan Smith '11 surrendered a leadoff single before retiring the next three hitters to close out the 10-0 victory.
Senior Mike Pagliarulo '09, son of the former big leaguer by the same name, led the Big Green offense with three hits plus scored three runs and drove in another for the game's first run. The biggest blows came from senior third baseman Johnathan Santopadre '09 who drove in four runs with a pair of home runs, and junior Jim Wren '10 also had four RBIs.
Dartmouth traveled to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, four weeks later for the NCAA Regional, suffering a tough loss to the host Tar Heels before bowing out in a loss to Kansas.
May 3, 2001 — Baseball prevails in playoff against Brown to take the Rolfe Division title
A year after winning its first division crown, the 2001 Dartmouth baseball team was on the verge of defending its title when the Big Green won the first three games against Harvard (two in extra innings). A victory in the fourth and final game of the series would seal the deal, but the Crimson had other ideas, blanking Dartmouth, 10-0, allowing Brown to finish tied atop the standings with an identical 12-8 record in conference play.
But since the Big Green won the season series from the Bears, three games to one, Red Rolfe Field served as the venue for the one-game playoff with the winner advancing to the Ivy League Championship Series.
Junior Lawrence Fey '02 got the call to pitch the playoff game, but Brown touched him for a run in the top of the first. Dartmouth didn't stay down for long, however, rallying to take the lead in the second with a one-out error opening the floodgates. A wild pitch with the bases loaded brought home the first Big Green run, and junior shortstop Matt Klentak '02 rapped out an RBI single for the lead. Another miscue in the field plated another run, and sophomore Jason DaCosta '03 ripped a two-run knock to center to make it a 5-1 game with four of the five runs being unearned.
In the fourth, freshman Scott Shirrell tripled and scored on another DaCosta base hit. Senior Brian Nickerson '00 led off the seventh with a two-bagger, took third on a grounder to short and trotted home on a sacrifice fly off the bat of senior Chris Miranda '01 to finish the Dartmouth scoring on the day. DaCosta finished the game 3-for-5 with three RBIs, and Shirrell scored a pair of runs.
Fey shut down the Bear bats after that first-inning tally and departed only after allowing his second run of the game in the eighth. Junior John Velosky '02 recorded the final five outs to finish off the 7-2 win as Fey picked up his fifth win of the season.
