Sports
The 72nd edition of Dartmouth Winter Carnival was a memorable occasion for John Donnelly, Chris Wise, and Maryjane Whitten. Donnelly, a member of the Dartmouth hockey team, assisted on three goals in Friday night's 6-5 loss to Princeton. That gave him 32 points for the year, the most ever for a Big Green defenseman. Wise, a senior from Killington, Vt., and captain of the Dartmouth alpine ski team, finished first in the slalom to record his first carnival victory. Whitten, a sophomore from Springfield Gardens, N.Y., gave two fine carnival performances for the women's basketball team. She sealed a 62- 60 victory over Pennsylvania with a steal and free throw with one second remaining in the game, and then scored a collegecareer high of 18 points as Dartmouth defeated Princeton, 77-59.
Hockey
Donnelly, a 22-year-old senior from Edina, Minn., was the recipient of the Roland C. Booma '30 Rookie of the Year Award as a freshman, when he scored nine goals and 19 assists in 31 games. He was an All-Ivy defenseman during his freshman and sophomore years. Coach George Crowe, realizing that Donnelly's natural talent was at center, switched him to that position last year. Donnelly responded by notching 10 goals and picking up 25 assists in 26 games, to lead the team in scoring. But injuries have decimated the Big Green hockey team this season and Crowe was forced to move his talented player back to defense. Donnelly had scored seven goals and 25 assists in 21 games through the carnival weekend. His 32 points surpass the previous record of 31 held by Ron Dove 77 and Rusty Ingersoll '60. Donnelly's 81 career assists put him in fourth place on the all-time list, which is headed by Bill Riley '46 with 110 assists in 71 games. Ross Brownridge '8O stands second with 96 and Cliff Harrison '51 third with 84. Donnelly's 114 career points place him twelfth on the all-time scoring list.
The Big Green skaters bounced back from the Princeton loss to defeat Cornell, 7-4, on Saturday night of carnival weekend. The victory featured two-goal, oneassist performances by Doug Hirsch, a sophomore from West Deal, N.J., and Bruce Cullen, a junior from Kelowna, British Columbia. Although the Green has seen its hopes for a post-season playoff spot fade, the victory over the Big Red kept its hopes alive for the Ivy League title. Dartmouth had a 9-11-1 record overall, but its league mark stood at 3-3. League-leading Princeton held a 4-3-1 mark and was trailed by Yale at 4-2-0. Harvard and Cornell had records of 3-2-1 and 3-3-1, respectively. Brown was resting in the league's cellar with a 1-5-1 mark.
The Dartmouth hockey team's record has been admirable, considering the number of injuries that has riddled the squad. The icemen lost six skaters for the season because of injuries. Brien Jacobson, freshman defenseman from Needham, Mass., was one of Crowe's top four defensemen at the start of the season. He suffered a ruptured spleen. Mike Collette, a junior winger from Pawling, N.Y., underwent knee surgery, as did Mike Palmer, a junior defenseman from Danvers, Mass. Tom Norton, a sophomore center from Dorchester, Mass., was knocked out of action with calcium deposits in one thigh. Dan Bourque, a sophomore defenseman from Dieppe, New Brunswick, was sidelined by knee surgery. And Scott Borek, sophomore winger from Swampscott, Mass., was lost for the season when he suffered a neck injury in the January game against Yale.
Borek's loss was one Dartmouth could ill afford. He was the team's leading scorer when he collided with the boards with only 18 seconds left in the 9-4 loss to the Elis, and suffered a neck contusion.
Compounding the injury problem was the loss of seniors Mark Ardagna and Peter Lavery for portions of the season. Both players suffered shoulder separations. It was feared at first that Lavery would be lost for the season, but he bounced back from the injury and resumed play. Lavery is the only three-sport Division I athlete in the country, according to a Sports Illustrated survey. He has earned three varsity letters in football. He will pick up his fourth letter in hockey this winter and is expected to become a rare eleven-letter major sport recipient following this spring's baseball campaign.
Skiing
Dartmouth's men and women skiers were hampered a bit this year in getting ready for the winter carnival circuit. There was no snow in Hanover. Despite this handicap, the skiers stayed in shape with dry-land practice and trips to areas making snow for the alpine skiers and to upstate New York and Canada for Nordic competitors.
The men's ski team will be hard pressed to repeat its carnival performance this winter. The top skier from 1981—82, Gale "Tiger" Shaw, a sophomore from Stowe, Vt., will spend the season racing in Europe. Wise's one-hundredth-of-a-second victory in the slalom at CannOn Mountain in Franconia during the Dartmouth Carnival helped the Green to finish third in the competition. Vermont captured first place in both the men's and women's events. The Vermont men earned 296 points to finish 50 points ahead of Middlebury. The Green earned 235 points to finish well ahead of New Hampshire at 182.
The Dartmouth women's ski team made a good showing at Winter Carnival, finishing second to UVM. Dartmouth trailed Vermont by 13 points and finished almost 10 points ahead of third-place Middlebuly. Sarah Millham, a sophomore from Gilford N.H., won the first run of the slalom at Cannon Mountain and finished second overall. The cross-country relay team finished third at the Hanover golf course when Nordic captain Eliza Deery, a senior from Marblehead, Mass., outsprinted her University of New Hampshire opponent to the finish line. Leslie Thompson, a freshman from Stowe, Vt., tied for the fastest time of the day in the relay competition. During the week after carnival, she competed in the World University games in Bulgaria.
Track
Sophomore Jim Sapienza's brilliant performances have highlighted men's track, which ended its dual meet season with a record of 4-1 overall and 3-0 Ivy League. In the win over Columbia and Brown, Sapienza set his sixth indoor College record, running the 1000 meters in 2:26.80, to better Peter Fenn's old mark by .71 seconds. Then, against Harvard, he won the 5000 meters in 13:52.70 to lower his own record by 21 seconds. He now holds every indoor record from 1000 meters up, except the 1500, which is Fenn's star event. Ahead for the trackmen are the Heptagonals at Yale and the Intercollegiates at Princeton.
Basketball
Whitten's efforts in the women's basketball team's double victory during the carnival weekend put Dartmouth in control of its,own destiny, as it pursues a fourth consecutive Ivy League championship. The victories gave the Green a 7-1 conference record and a full-game lead over its nearest rivals, Yale and Brown, with just six games remaining in the regular season. Whitten scored 13 points and hauled in 11 rebounds against Pennsylvania, before hitting for the career high 18 points against Princeton. She also had seven rebounds against the Quakers. "Maryjane is intimidating both defensively and offensively as a power forward," said Coach Chris Wielgus of the 6-1, 19-year-old. "She can drive, rebound and shoot from outside, but needs to work on her intensity and footwork. Her potential is limitless."
Whitten played only three games during the 1981—82 season before leaving the team to concentrate on her studies. During those three games, she was the team's leading rebounder. Whitten had played in 13 of the Green's first 19 games this winter and was scoring an average of 8.1 points per game. Freshman Jayne Daigle of nearby Lebanon, N.H., continued to be the leading scorer and rebounder on the team. She is nationally ranked in rebounding and has appeared in the top 15 on a weekly basis. She pitched in with 20 points and 12 rebounds against Pennsylvania and 11 points and six rebounds against Princeton.
The Dartmouth women's hockey team still had a shot at the Ivy League title after splitting a pair of road games at Princeton and Cornell. The team had an 11-5 overall mark and a 4-2 record in Ivy play. The men's basketball team had won five of 20 games and had posted a 1-7 mark in league competition. Other teams and their records to date: men's swimming, 2-4 in the EISL and 3-3 overall; women's skiing, 1-1 in the Ivy League and 5-5 overall; men's squash, 0-3 in the Ivy League and 3-8 overall; women's squash, 1-3 in the Ivy League and 4-5 overall; and men's gymnastics, 1-1 in the Ivy League and 2-3 overall.
Chris Wise '83, captain of the Dartmouth alpine ski team, showing the form that won the WinterCarnival slalom event.
Sophomore Mary jane Whitten starred in two Carnival weekend victories.
Three assists in the Carnival game with Princeton gave John Donnelly (right) a record season pointtotal for a Big Green defenseman.
