This Day in Dartmouth History: May 5
5/5/2020 2:00:00 PM | Baseball, Women's Track & Field, Athletics
May 5, 2019 — Cha'Mia Rothwell of Women's Track & Field wins three straight 100m hurdles at outdoor Heps
In what proved to be her final Outdoor Heps race, junior Cha'Mia Rothwell took the title in the 100m hurdles at Princeton's Weaver Stadium. In winning the race, Rothwell became the ninth woman in league history to win the event at least three times in her career.
The North Carolina native ran a 13.54 in the rainy conditions of central New Jersey on that Sunday afternoon, winning her eighth career Ivy League title between indoor and outdoor seasons to that point (she would win another at the 2020 indoor meet).
Rothwell was No. 2 in qualifying the day before, but saved her best for last as she overcame the competition to continue her dominance in the hurdles as a member of the Big Green.
May 5, 2019 — Bob Whalen wins his 600th game as Baseball head coach
With the 2019 baseball season winding down, head coach Bob Whalen was on the verge of becoming just the fifth Ivy League head coach in any sport to win 600 games at one school. A modest three-game winning streak featuring a 15-7 victory over Harvard, a 6-4 win at Siena and a come-from-behind 7-5 triumph to start a three-game series with Yale pushed the veteran coach to 599 with seven games still on the docket.
It seems in hindsight, however, that the team wanted to make the 600th victory memorable. But how to do so? Well, the Big Green proceeded to fall behind in each of the next six games — four times in the very first inning — and nearly rallied to win most of them. A four-run ninth came up short against the Bulldogs, a four-run eighth was not enough in an 8-7 loss to his alma mater, Maine, a three-run seventh proved to be all Dartmouth could muster late in an 8-6 loss to Cornell. The Big Red took the second game of the series as well in a pitchers' duel, 2-1, though the Big Green put the tying and winning runs on base in the ninth.
That left Dartmouth with one last chance in the season finale to get the milestone victory for its skipper in his 30th year at the helm, and in a televised broadcast on NESNplus to boot. Another pitchers' duel broke out with neither side pushing a run across the plate over the first five frames. Freshman right-hander Nathan Skinner '22 completed a sixth scoreless stanza in the top half before the offense broke out for six runs.
The Big Green loaded the bases with nobody out when senior right fielder Matt Feinstein '19 came through with a two-run single for the game's first runs. After senior shortstop Nate Ostmo '19 delivered an RBI double, sophomore left fielder Ubaldo Lopez '21 launched a three-run bomb to left for a 6-0 lead.
Cornell managed to dent the scoreboard in the seventh with a run, but sophomore southpaw Max Hunter '21 came out of the bullpen to restore order. He needed just 18 pitches to get the final seven outs to close out Skinner's third win of the season, a 6-1 decision, but more notably Whalen's 600th of his college head coaching career.
May 5, 2013 — Dartmouth Women's Track & Field wins three events at outdoor Heps
At Princeton's Weaver Stadium and on the final day of competition at the 2013 Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championship, the Big Green women's track & field team turned in a three-title effort. Juniors Abbey D'Agostino '14 and Megan Krumpoch '14 combined to win the three event championships in exciting fashion.
D'Agostino not only won the 1500m and 3000m, but did so in new meet records, eclipsing her own marks set the previous year in relative ease. She set a new mark in the 1500m by nearly six seconds (4:17.90 in 2012) as she ran a 4:11.94 during the mid-afternoon event. A little over two hours later, D'Agostino eclipsed the previous standard in the 3000m she had set in 2012 (9:24.64) with a 9:21.79 to win her second straight crown in the event.
Krumpoch, on the other hand, posted her win in the 400m hurdles, which proved to be one of the most exciting events of the day. She crossed the tape in 58.42 seconds, but it was how she got there that was incredible as she tracked down and edged out Harvard's Autumne Franklin (58.70) in the final stretch to take the crown and the 10 points for her team in dramatic fashion.
Krumpoch's performance from that day still stands as the Dartmouth standard seven years later.
