The Spring Season
THE Dartmouth baseball team had a difficult spring, losing 25 of its first 31 games. But first-year coach Fred Kelley found some bright spots among the losses. "My junior captain Gary Masse played outstanding ball and provided good leadership on a team with a poor record. He has done a fine job although our record doesn't reflect it," Kelley said just before the end of the season. "I have also been pleased with the progress of the freshmen on the team including Barry Ryan, a catcher, Dave Shula, a third baseman, and three pitchers, Jeff Kemp, Joe Nicosia and Lee Carson. I'm proud of the attitude of the kids - no one on the team gave up. We hope to get on the winning track next year."
AGNES KURTZ, women's lacrosse coach and an assistant athletic director, likes to point out the differences between men's and women's .lacrosse. And it's easy to see which one she prefers. "Differences? There are no similarities," according to Kurtz, who has been with Dartmouth for six years.
"The women," she says, "have no boun- daries; they have ten men and we have 12; we iine up goal to goal and don't have off-sides; women are not allowed to have body contact - we can hit their sticks but not their bodies; we don't have time outs or substitutes except for injuries. The men have gradually changed the rules over the years. Our goals are 100 yards apart. The men's are 80 yards apart."
Kurtz likens the men's lacrosse game to slow playmaking basketball and the women's game to fast break basketball. "Some people feel it's the most beautiful game they've seen because there are so few fouls and breaks in the action. We're playing more like the Indians used to play," she asserts.
During the five seasons Dartmouth has fielded a women's lacrosse team, the squads have achieved a 23-19-1 record. Early in May the team had a 3-4-1 mark. "Every game we play is close," adds Kurtz, who is also responsible for scheduling and coordinating the women's intercollegiate athletic program at Dartmouth. "The team has definitely improved each year, but our record has stayed about the same."
Karen McKeel, a freshman, is the team's leading scorer, and Ellen Remsen, a sophomore, is the team's leading defenseman. Remsen was a member of the New England All-College first team and was on the U.S. Reserve Team last season. Kurtz also praised captain Lea Boiling for her "good and very steady play" during her four years at Dartmouth.
Kurtz is looking ahead to 1980 when the Ivy League schools will play women's lacrosse on a round-robin schedule.
DARTMOUTH athletes gathered some individual honors during the spring term. Joe Henley finished second individually in the New England District I golf tournament with a 36-hole total of 154 to qualify for the NCAA championship, which was held in Eugene, Oregon, earlier this month. The Dartmouth captain and senior Jack Kiernan, who shot 158 for the 36 holes, led the Green to a second place finish in the district tournament at Yale. The Elis finished first, 18 strokes better than Dartmouth.
Ken Jansson and Charlie Nadler won individual titles at the 1978 Outdoor Heptagonal Meet in which Dartmouth finished seventh. Jansson won the hammer throw and Nadler triumphed in the 800-meter run.
Freshman Alison Hibbert defeated classmate Pam Banholzer in the all-Dartmouth singles final of the Ivy League/Seven Sister Tennis Tournament in April. In doubles competition Jody Awad, also a freshman, and Thayer Wendell, a junior, teamed to win the title. The Dartmouth women's tennis team took the tournament title by 11 points. The team won the New England Intercollegiate Women's Tournament in the fall.
Two former Dartmouth football players will have a shot with the New York Jets of the National Football League. Gregg Robinson, a three-year starter at defensive tackle for the Big Green, went to the Jets in the sixth round of the professional football draft. Kicking specialist Nick Lowery was overlooked in the draft but later signed with the Jets as a free agent. The last Dartmouth player drafted by the NFL, Reggie Williams '76, is a starting linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals.
