Dartmouth aims for a home run
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It's not exactly deja vu after all these decades, but seeing the Dartmouth ski team back as reigning Eastern champions, poised perhaps to win its first NCAA title in 49 years, only returns skiing to its earliest days in this country. When the sport was considered cutting edge and daredevil enough to scare the parent generation out of its wits, ...
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HANOVER, N.H. -- The New Hampshire Wildcats did as projected yesterday -- rolling over Dartmouth, 56-14 -- leaving Big Green coach Buddy Teevens to quip, ``Sometimes I wished we were watching them on TV rather than lining up against them."
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New Hampshire receiver David Ball isn't trying to run past Jerry Rice into the record books as much as leap over him. A high school basketball and high jump champion, Ball pulled down a jump ball in the corner of the end zone for his third touchdown of the first half Saturday, tying Rice's all-time Division I-AA mark of 50. Ball sat out much of the second half as the Wildcats beat Dartmouth 56-14.
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Duxbury's Week 1 loss to Whitman-Hanson seems a long time ago. Aaron McFadden ran for two touchdowns yesterday, and the Green Dragons (3-1) limited Hanover (2-1) to three first downs in a 33-0 victory, Duxbury's third win in a row.
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The Walpole Rebels made themselves feel right at home yesterday at Boston College's Alumni Stadium as they wore down the Brookline Warriors and ran away with a 28-3 victory. &quot;This field is great. It was cool to play here,&quot; said senior running back and tri-captain Jeff Cuqua about the opportunity to play on BC's field.
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The University of Massachusetts displayed resourcefulness in rallying past Maine, 3-2, in the opener of their best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series last night.
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UMass-Boston hasn't had a great start to the hockey season, but a retooled Beacons team beat Fitchburg State, 6-2, last night in the first round of the Codfish Bowl at UMass-Boston's Clark Athletic Center to earn a spot in tonight's championship game.
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Massachusetts made sure its first home game against a defending national champion was one to remember. The Minutemen stunned seventh-ranked Connecticut 61-59 on Rashaun Freeman&#39;s layup with 4.3 seconds to play Thursday night.
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CHESTNUT HILL -- You'd think that if your team generated 50 or more shots in a game, your team would win.
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Boston College junior Nathan Gerbe found a spot he really liked last night, on the edge of the right faceoff circle, just to the left of Harvard goalie Kyle Richter.
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J.T Wyman broke a 2-2 tie with 1 minute 38 seconds remaining in the third period to spark Dartmouth to a 3-2 victory over Boston University last night at Agganis Arena in a game that originally was scheduled for Dec. 13 but was postponed because of inclement weather.
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When No. 6 Dartmouth travels to No. 4 Foxboro tonight, it will be a matchup of two vastly different football teams, with their only similarity being proximity in the rankings.
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ABINGTON - The playing conditions may have been wet, but Abington was determined to control its destiny in its quest for the South Shore League title against Norwell last night.
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BILLERICA -- Perhaps the loudest statement to come out of Shawsheen's 48-0 drubbing of previously undefeated Minuteman came as Ram coach Al Costabile was addressing his squad following the game.
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The bus ride to the airport in Warwick, R.I., was a raucous one for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team yesterday afternoon. Over and over, the team watched the highlight from Thursday night when Rashaun Freeman hit the go-ahead basket against Connecticut and then leapt into the crowd with 4.3 seconds left on the clock.
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KINGSTON, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island's 27-24 victory over the University of Massachusetts yesterday at Meade Stadium was the sort of game the 4,376 on hand for Homecoming Day could savor.
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Katie Weatherston scored her fourth hat trick of the season, scoring two goals on the power play and one shorthanded, as the second-ranked Dartmouth women's hockey team defeated the fifth-ranked University of New Hampshire, 3-1, last night at the Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H.