Sports
The running of Dartmouth sophomore Jim Sapienza and the play of the Big Green women's basketball team were highlights of athletic competition on the Hanover Plain during the past winter. Sapienza had a spectacular winter season. The Louisville, Ky., native set a meet record in the 3,000-meter race at the 36th Heptagonal Indoor Track and Field Championships at Yale and in the process was selected the meet's outstanding performer. Sapienza became the first Big Green runner to capture the 3,000-meter event since 1961, when former Olympian Tom Laris turned the trick. He also became the first Dartmouth athlete to be named the meet's most valuable performer.
"He was just incredible," said track coach Vin Lananna. Sapienza ran the 3,000 meters in 7:56.84 to defeat Harvard's Adam Dixon. At one point Sapienza was bumped by Dixon but managed to regain his balance and outkick the Crimson runner to the tape. "It was the gutsiest performance I have ever seen in my days of track," said Lananna. The race marked the seventh time during the indoor season that Sapienza had set a record.
Following his Heptagonal performance in the 3,000 meters, Sapienza anchored the Big Green's distance medley relay team that won the event in a record time of 9:43.86. Sapienza ran the 1,600-meter final leg in 4:02.2. His teammates included Mike Fadil of Liverpool, N.Y., Randy Young of Agawam, Mass., and -Peter Fenn of Rutland, Vt. Dan Gray of Watertown, N.Y., and Pat Lavery of Arlington, Mass., joined Sapienza and Fadil one week later and finished second to Villanova in a close distance medley relay race at the IC4A meet at Princeton. The Big Green quartet was leading the race until Fadil was knocked over on his leg. Dartmouth was unable to regain the lead despite Sapienza's efforts. The IC4A meet ended the season for everyone but Sapienza, who ran in the two-mile event at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Pontiac, Mich., March 12. Sapienza was named Ail-America for his seventh-place finish in the final at the championships held at the Silverdome. He was the fourth American finisher overall and his time of 8:41.26 set a new Dartmouth record, his eighth of the season.
The Big Green men's track team had a successful winter season. The team was unbeaten in three Ivy League meets and had a 4-1 overall record. Frank Powers, a freshman from Blackstone, Mass., took the 5,000-meter run at the Heptagonal Championships. His time of 14:13.24 set a Coxe Cage and freshman record. Other impressive performances were turned in by Brad Light of Lima, Ohio, with a third place in the pole vault; Matt Jurkoic of North Walpole, N.H., with a fourth in the shotput; Tom Van Zandt of Flemington, N.J., with a fifth in the high jump; Gray with a fourth in the 800-meter event; Lavery with a fifth in the 500-meter event, and Fenn with a fifth in the 1,000-meter race.
The women's track team had a 7-5 overall record. Chris Simmons of Bluefield, W.Va., finished fourth in the three-mile run to highlight the squad's performance at the Women's Eastern Track Championships. Her time of 16:35.8 established a Dartmouth record. Kathy Olney of Waltham, Mass., finished eighth in the 880 meter run.
Women's Basketball
The Dartmouth women's basketball team assured itself of at least a tie for its fourth consecutive Ivy League basketball title with a 54-47 victory over Princeton, and then clinched the championship outright March 4 with an 89-80 win over Yale in Alumni Gymnasium. The Green cagers added some frosting on the cake in the regular season finale by defeating Brown, 80-70. Brown was the only Ivy League opponent to defeat Dartmouth in 12 league games. The victory gave Coach Chris Wielgus her 99th career win. Jayne Daigle of Lebanon, N.H., a candidate for Ivy League rookie of the year, scored a career high of 29 points in the title-clinching Yale game.
Dartmouth, which had an 18-7 overall mark, qualified for a preliminary game of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament as a result of its Ivy League championship. The Green hosted Monmouth College on March 15 in Alumni Gymnasium. "We are delighted to be among the teams in the NCAA tournament," Wielgus said before the encounter. "But we are even happier for the opportunity to host such an event. I know our team will be ready." The winner of the DartmouthMonmouth game was scheduled to play the top team in the East later in the month.
Dartmouth did not fare well in its NCAA contest, losing to Monmouth, the Cosmopolitan Conference champion, by a 77-58 score. The Green trailed by six at the half, but Monmouth went on a 17-2 spree in the second half to win the game going away.
Winning the Ivy League championship was a special occasion for senior Ann Deacon. She has played basketball for Dartmouth for four years and the team has won the Ivy title each time. Deacon's play has been overshadowed for all four years. During her first three years on the team, it was center Gail Koziara who drew the headlines. The center of attention this past winter was Daigle, the 6-2 freshman who topped the team in scoring with 17.1 points and 11.6 rebounds per game. But Deacon is the second leading scorer in Dartmouth women's basketball history and the fourth leading scorer in Big Green basketball history, male or female. Deacon was selected as Co-Ivy League Player of the Year, sharing the honor with Koziara in 1980—81, and was an All-Ivy selection for three straight years. She co-captained the Green team this year and scored almost 14 points per game.
The 5-7 guard came to Dartmouth • Westwood (Mass.) High School and named a high school All-American. was named Ivy League rookie of the ye a freshman when she scored 17.6 po per game, second best in the league, A sophomore she pumped in 16 points po. game en route to the Player-of-the-Ye selection. "It really meant a lot to me to be selected by the league's coaches," sai. Deacon. A lot of schools were interested in Deacon while she was going to high school, but she's glad that she selected Dartmouth rather than a larger university. "I used to have regrets," she conceded. "Basketball used to be the most important thing in my life, but the time I have spent here at Dartmouth has taught me there are things much more important than basketball."
Staff Changes
There will be some new faces in the halls of Alumni Gym and on the sidelines next fall. Seaver Peters, a member of the College administration since 1959 and athletic director for the past 16 years, announced on February 20 that his resignation would take effect June 30.
Men's basketball coach Tim Cohane and Dud Hendrick, coach of the men's lacrosse team and the women's soccer team, also announced their resignations during the winter. Cohane announced that he was resigning at the end of the current season after handing out awards at the team's break-up banquet. "During the last week of the season, it just became apparent that it was in the best interest of the program that I move on," said Cohane, who came to Dartmouth from Manhattanville as Gary Walters' replacement four years ago. During that time, Big Green teams posted a dismal overall 3,0-74 record. The team was 10-48 in Ivy play. This winter's squad was 3-11 in the league and 7-19 overall. The highlight of the season ws a 76-66 upset win over Pennsylvania, a team Dartmouth hadn't defeated in 15 years. Paul Anderson, a junior center from Jamestown, N.D., scored a career high of 41 points, three points shy of Paul Erland's single game scoring record set in 1971.
"It was a mutual decision to leave," Cohane said. "It would have loved the opportunity to see it through, and to see the results of our work next year. But I think it was in the best interest of the program and the institution to make a change." The season was not a happy one for the Dartmouth basketball team. Co-captain Kevin Jones left the team during pre-season practice and the problems just multiplied. Sophomore Tim Hassett also left the team before the season began. Derek Sells, Shaun Tobin, and Rick Lewis quit the team in January. Brian Burke, the squad's second leading scorer, left the team in early February.
There was no enjoyment for the coaches or the players in this situation," said Cohane, who explained there were four factors involved in the problems. "First was the fact that the team was losing. Without question, had we won in January, none of this would have happened. Secondly the level of talent was so even that somebody was naturally going to be upset for being left off the traveling squad. Also, several kids placed their own success above that of the team. And I think when you take those three and add to it that our program was built around a disci pline and hard work approach, it was difficult for the kids to accept, given the other factors."
Hendrick said he resigned from his two coaching positions because he was unable to handle both his business affairs and the demands of the women's soccer season in the fall. Hendrick and his wife are ownerproprietors of a country inn in Maine. Hendrick coached the lacrosse team for the past 13 years and had coached the women's soccer team for the past three years. His resignation will take effect June 30.
Sports Briefs
• The Dartmouth men's and women' s ski teams combined for seventh place in the 1983 NCAA championships held in Bozeman, Montana, in March. Utah won the title with 696 points, followed by Vermont with 650. Next in order were Wyo ming, Colorado, Middlebury, and New Mexico. The Big Green's Jordie Macomber '85 took second in the giant slalom and fifth in the slalom. Co-captain Chris Wise '83 was sixth in the slalom.
• Only a short while before going to the NCAA meet, Dartmouth skiers were in Sophia, Bulgaria, as members of the United States team in the World University Games, competing in cross-country, jumping, and the biathlon. John Morton, the Green's head ski coach, served as a biathlon coach.
Freshman Leslie Thompson placed an impressive 15th in the women's 10-kilometer event. She also came in 17th in the five-kilometer race and was part of a U.S. relay team that finished fourth among 12 countries.
In the biathlon, a combination of crosscountry racing and rifle marksmanship, Dartmouth was represented by its senior Nordic captain Todd Willmert, sophomore Glen Eberle, and former Nordic captain Kirk Siegal, a 1982 graduate. In the 20-kilometer event, Eberle finished 14th and Siegal 21st. Willmert, who broke a rifle stock, was unable to finish. With rifle repaired, Willmert managed a 13th-place finish in the 10-kilometer biathlon with Eberle 17th. In the men's biathlon relay, with each skier in a team of four racing 7.5-kilometers, the U.S. quartet placed fifth in a close contest, with Dartmouth skiers Eberle, Siegal, and Willmert making up three-quarters of the U.S. team.
For the Big Green skiers at the World University Games there was a special Dartmouth bonus when the American team was honored with a reception at the U.S. Embassy in Sophia. The American ambassador to Bulgaria turned out to be Robert Barry '56.
Peruvian Andes Expedition
An expedition to the Cordillera Blanca, the major range in the Peruvian Andes, is planned by the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club for this summer. An experienced, four-man team will tackle some of the highest peaks in the Andes, all over 20,000 feet, and will attempt an unclimbed ridge on Nevada Chopikalki, 6,345 meters high.
The Dartmouth climbers will be Dougald Mac Donald '82, Randy Day '82, Eric Bates '83, and Michael Woolley '85. All four engaged in serious climbing this past summer. Mac Donald was in California climbing Half Dome in Yosemite and several peaks in the Cascades. Day toured many of the country's classic climbing areas, including several 14,000-footers in Colorado, Yosemite, the Cascades of Washington, and Mt. Ranier. He has been to the Cordillera Blanca before and on that trip achieved an ascent of the 20,000-foot Nevada de Copa.
Bates last summer spent a month on Mt. Logan, Canada's highest peak. His party climbed to the summit plateau at 18,200 feet to do research, but their bid for the summit was cut short when supplies ran out. Woolley, the youngest of the group, spent two months climbing in the Alps. His ascents included the West Face of the Dru, the North Face of the Droites, and Mt. Blanc by the Freney Pillar, some of the most difficult routes in the Alps.
During the remainder of Dartmouth's spring term, the climbers will be busy rounding up funds for the expedition. Although lightweight, it will be costly. The students are pinning their hopes on the American Alpine Club's Youth Expedition Fund, the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club itself, and former members and others who have been supporting mountain climbing at the College. The equipment they assemble will belong to the Club for future expeditions.
The Coming Month
BASEBALL April 10, Boston College; 12, at Vermont; 16, at Navy; 17, at Princeton; 20, New Hampshire; 23, Columbia; 24, Pennsylvania; 26, at Springfield; 30, Brown; May 1, Yale; 4, Holy Cross; 7, at Cornell; 10, at Massachusetts; 12, Northeastern; 14, Harvard.
MEN'S LACROSSE April 13, Middlebury; 16, at Pennsylvania; 20, Williams; 23, Cornell; 26, Adelphi at Wilton, Conn.; 30, Brown; May 3, at Massachusetts; 7, at Princeton; 10, New Hampshire; 14, Harvard.
WOMEN'S LACROSSE April 14, New Hampshire; 16, Princeton; 18, Middlebury; 21, at Massachusetts; 23, Yale; 27, Plymouth State; 30, Pennsylvania at Swarthmore; May 1, at Cornell; 3, Vermont; 5, at Harvard; 11, at Williams. MEN'S TENNIS April 15, Columbia; 16, Pennsylvania; 22, Brown; 23, Yale; 29-May 1, New England Championships at Yale; May 6, at Army; 7, at Cornell.
WOMEN'S TENNIS April 12, Harvard; 14-17, Middle States Tourney at Trenton, N.J.; 23, Cornell; 28, at Brown; May 1, at Princeton; 6-8, Eastern Championships.
MEN'S TRACK April 16, at Brown with Harvard; 23, Princeton; 29—30, Penn Relays; May 1, Dartmouth Invitational; 7—8, Heptagonals at Cornell; 13-14, New England Championships at Boston College.
WOMEN'S TRACK April 12, Smith and Vermont; 16, Harvard and Brown; 24, at Bowdoin with Maine, Bates, Colby, and New Hampshire; 28—29, Penn Relays; May 1, Fitchburg Invitational; 7-8, Ivy Championships at Cornell; 14, Union.
MEN'S GOLF April 16, West Point Invitational; 18, at Springfield with Bridgeport; 23-24, Ivy Championships at Dartmouth; 26, at Holy Cross, 28-29, District I Championships at Hartford; May 6, Brown; 7, Williams; 10, at Harvard.
WOMEN'S GOLF April 9-10, Penn State Invitational; 16, Yale Invitational; 18, at Amherst; 22-23. Rutgers Invitational; 26, Amherst; 30-May 1, New England Championships at Amherst; 4, Springfield MEN'S CREW —April 23, at Boston University with Rutgers (Bill Cup); 30, Brown; May 7, at M.I.T. with Wisconsin (Cochrane Cup); 15, EARC Sprints at Worcester.
WOMEN'S CREW —. April 16, at Yale with Boston University; 23, Radcliffe; 30, at Pennsylvania with Princeton and Williams; May 7, at Cornell, 15 EAWRC Sprints at New Preston, Conn.
Sophomore Jim Sapienza, Dartmouth's ace distance runner, shown leading in the final lap of thedistance relay at the Dartmouth Relays in January. He has set eight College records and gainedAll-America rating with his 8:41 .26 performance in the two-mile run at the NCAA indoor trackand field championships at Pontiac, Mich., last month.
Paul Anderson took personal charge in the final10 minutes of the game against Penn, scoring25 points to give Dartmouth a 77-66 win. Thevictory ended a 30-game Penn win streak overthe Big Green. Anderson's 41 points for thenight were just three shy of the all-time Dart-mouth single-game record.
