Class Note 1941
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This spring the Dartmouth baseball team made it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 22 years. (They ended up losing to North Carolina and then Kansas in the Chapel Hill Regional, May 29 to June 1.) A recap of the team’s record: This was Dartmouth’s sixth appearance in the NCAA, but first since 1987. That Big Green squad defeated Michigan in the first round before faltering the next two games to Fordham and Rider. Back in 1970 Dartmouth won the District I playoff to advance to the College World Series for the only time in the program’s history. All told, the Big Green has a 6-10 record in the NCAA Tournament.
We have the following information from the athletics office, released just before the tournament. Dartmouth earned the Ivy League’s automatic berth in this year’s tournament by defeating Cornell in the Ivy Championship best-of-three series, two games to one. In order to play in the championship series the Big Green outgunned Brown in the Rolfe Division by one game with a league-best 16-4 mark. Since dropping its first eight games of the season Dartmouth has not lost consecutive games. The Big Green also rattled off 13 straight victories, the third longest in school history, with 11 coming against the Ivy League. On 16 occasions the Dartmouth bats have put at least 10 runs on the board, and 15 times in the last 26 contests. The squad set school records with 339 runs, 43 home runs and 19 triples.
On the mound Dartmouth will rarely beat itself by walking opposing hitters—the team has the lowest walks per innings in the country at 2.27. The defense has been stellar of late, committing just three errors over the last eight games for a .990 fielding percentage. Overall Dartmouth has a respectable .962 fielding percentage and has turned a school-record 48 double plays. The Big Green has not allowed an unearned run since April 26 and just two in their last 12 games.
—Dick Jachens, 730 Osprey Ave., Apt. 404, Sarasota, FL 34236; (941) 365-4980
Sept - Oct 2009
This spring the Dartmouth baseball team made it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 22 years. (They ended up losing to North Carolina and then Kansas in the Chapel Hill Regional, May 29 to June 1.) A recap of the team’s record: This was Dartmouth’s sixth appearance in the NCAA, but first since 1987. That Big Green squad defeated Michigan in the first round before faltering the next two games to Fordham and Rider. Back in 1970 Dartmouth won the District I playoff to advance to the College World Series for the only time in the program’s history. All told, the Big Green has a 6-10 record in the NCAA Tournament.
We have the following information from the athletics office, released just before the tournament. Dartmouth earned the Ivy League’s automatic berth in this year’s tournament by defeating Cornell in the Ivy Championship best-of-three series, two games to one. In order to play in the championship series the Big Green outgunned Brown in the Rolfe Division by one game with a league-best 16-4 mark. Since dropping its first eight games of the season Dartmouth has not lost consecutive games. The Big Green also rattled off 13 straight victories, the third longest in school history, with 11 coming against the Ivy League. On 16 occasions the Dartmouth bats have put at least 10 runs on the board, and 15 times in the last 26 contests. The squad set school records with 339 runs, 43 home runs and 19 triples.
On the mound Dartmouth will rarely beat itself by walking opposing hitters—the team has the lowest walks per innings in the country at 2.27. The defense has been stellar of late, committing just three errors over the last eight games for a .990 fielding percentage. Overall Dartmouth has a respectable .962 fielding percentage and has turned a school-record 48 double plays. The Big Green has not allowed an unearned run since April 26 and just two in their last 12 games.
—Dick Jachens, 730 Osprey Ave., Apt. 404, Sarasota, FL 34236; (941) 365-4980