SPORTS ROUNDUP

All about Athletics

Monumental Memento

>>> When baseball coach bob Whalen registered his 500th career win, at Brown on April 20, he didn’t even keep the game ball. Instead, the souvenir went to pitcher mike concato ’17, who pitched a four-hit shutout in the 7-0 victory. “i wanted mike to have it,” says Whalen. “his family could not have been more gracious that I should have it, but what he did was huge for our team, and it was his first win.”

A Winning Idea

>>> alumni donors have pledged $7 million to endow head coach- ing positions in men’s hockey, men’s heavyweight rowing, wom- en’s rowing and women’s alpine skiing. “at its core great coaching is simply great teaching,” said director of athletics and recreation harry sheehy. “these endow- ments will increase dartmouth’s ability to attract and retain the best coaching talent.” the college now has 10 endowed coaches.

On Target

>>> the college Fencing club emerged from the national cham- pionship in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the top club team in the coun- try for the second consecutive year. The weekend featured more than 40 teams and 700 athletes and, for Dartmouth, upsets galore and tears of joy. In other spring sports news, men’s rugby won its seventh consecutive Ivy title with a 52-3 defeat of Harvard in april; women’s sailing earned its second consecutive Sperry Top-Sider national championship in Maryland; the Softball team won its first Ivy championship by taking two of three games from Penn; and the baseball team captured its seventh straight Red Rolfe Division title before losing to Columbia in the Ivy Champion- ship in New York City.