Dominating the Opposition

FALL was a successful season for Big Green women. From season's start, field hockey coach Mary Corrigan had her squad's sights fixed on the first official Ivy League championship. That goal was realized in the final week of the regular season. Dartmouth had defeated Brown, 50, on October 26 to clinch at least a share of the title. But second-place Pennsylvania stood in the way of an outright championship. The women traveled to Philadelphia to meet the Quakers on the host's wet artificial surface. The conditions dampened Dartmouth's powerful game and resulted in a 1-0 deficit at halftime.

But the Green rallied in the second half as Alison Hibbert of Hingham, Massachusetts, took the ball away from a Penn player at the 50-yard line, broke down the field and fired in the equalizer at the 19:30 mark. Dartmouth dominated the rest of the game and returned to Hanover with the 1-1 tie and sole possession of the Ivy championship. The Green finished the regular season with a 10-1-3 record, which included more wins than any previous College field hockey team. Connecticut inflicted that only loss on the Big Green. In Ivy League play, Dartmouth posted a 4-0-2 record.

Post-season play was a disappointment for the field hockey team. Seeded fourth in the EAIAW tournament at Springfield College, Dartmouth was defeated 1-0 in the quarter-finals by the host college. Earlier in November, the Green had defeated Springfield, 3-1. The loss killed Dartmouth's hopes of competing in the AIAW national championship at Princeton. Last year, the women played in the nationals and were ranked tenth in the U.S. at season's end.

The Dartmouth women's tennis team continues to dominate its opposition in New England. The netwomen captured their third consecutive New England Intercollegiate Tennis Championship against 45 teams during October. Coach Chris Clark's doubles team of Jody Awad of Weston, Massachusetts, and Kate Rugen of Stafford Springs, Connecticut, easily won the doubles title by upending a team from Brown, 6-1, 6-1. Pam Banholzer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who won the singles title as a freshman, advanced to the finals this year before falling to a player from Harvard, which finished second in the tournament. Overall, the Green netwomen finished the season with a 5-1 mark.

The women's cross-country team compiled a 6-2 overall record, but had a disappointing sixth place finish in the Ivy championships in Philadelphia. Toni Cook of Fairbanks, Alaska, finished 13th out of more than 100 runners. The women's soccer team finished fifth in the Ivy League tournament, posting an overall 4-9 mark for the season.

Charging to the championship (from left): Hibbert, Remsen, Jackson, and Eldredge.