For the first time since President Dwight D. Eisenhower occupied the Oval Office, the Dartmouth College men’s ice hockey team has started a season 4-0-0.

After picking up wins over Harvard and Stonehill to open the season, the Big Green knocked off No. 15 Quinnipiac 4-2 on Friday, the program’s first win over a ranked opponent since January 2020.

Coach Reid Cashman’s squad followed that up with a convincing 5-1 triumph against Princeton on Saturday, outshooting the Tigers 26-19 in the win. The pair of victories marks the first time Dartmouth has beaten Quinnipiac and Princeton in the same weekend since they became travel partners nearly 20 years ago.

Dartmouth last opened 4-0-0 in the 1957-58 campaign.

The Big Green, now ranked 17th nationally in Cashman’s fourth season on the bench, will host No. 6 Cornell on Friday at 7 p.m. at Thompson Arena before welcoming Colgate to Hanover on Saturday night.

Here’s how Dartmouth’s other programs fared this past week:

Football back in the win column

Propelled by the performance of its specialists and a 21-point second quarter, Dartmouth knocked off Princeton, 26-17, in a nationally televised affair Friday night. The win kept the Big Green (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) tied with Harvard (7-1, 4-1) atop the Ancient Eight standings with just two games remaining on the docket.

For the fifth time this season, a Dartmouth specialist earned special teams player of the week honors as well. This time the spotlight fell on senior punter Davis Golick, whose career-long 62-yard punt was the longest by a Big Green punter since 2008.

Dartmouth, now ranked No. 24 in the country following the victory, will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to face Cornell on Saturday in its penultimate clash of the 2024 season.

Equestrian narrowly beats Sacred Heart

Dartmouth, the top-ranked team in the National Collegiate Equestrian Association’s single rankings, eked out a win over Sacred Heart to close its fall season on Sunday.

The Big Green and Pioneers were tied 5-5 after the flat and fences competitions, needing the combined raw score to determine the winner. Dartmouth edged out Sacred Heart by four points, 808-804, to take the match and remain unbeaten.

Freshman Elise Stephens picked up wins in both the flat and fences phases of the meet, earning two critical points for the Big Green. Sophomore Samantha Takacs’ 88 points on fences earned her most outstanding performer for that phase of competition.

Men’s basketball knocks off Sacred Heart

Ryan Cornish posted his first career double-double and Cade Haskins poured in a team-high 20 points as Dartmouth survived a poor shooting day to beat Sacred Heart, 81-76, on Saturday.

The win moves the Big Green to 2-0 early in the 2024-25 campaign, the first time the program has opened the season with consecutive wins since the 2019-20 season.

At 5 p.m. on Wednesday night at Leede Arena, Dartmouth will host Albany (1-1), a team that was pegged to finish seventh in the America East preseason poll.

Women’s basketball opens 2024-25 season with win

Hosting Keene State on Friday night at Leede Arena, Dartmouth opened the season with a resounding 98-47 victory. It’s the program’s first season-opening win since 2019.

Coach Linda Cimino, now in her second year leading the Big Green, saw three starters — Victoria Page, Zeynep Ozel and Olivia Austin — score in double figures. Cimino’s squad jumped out to a 21-4 lead in the first quarter and never looked back, entering halftime with a 21-point advantage. Dartmouth, which shot 29.3% from 3-point territory last season, hit 15 of its 33 attempts from beyond the arc in the win.

The Big Green, who start the season with a five-game homestand, will play their first NCAA Division I opponent Wednesday night when Albany (1-0) comes to Leede Arena.

Women’s ice hockey still winless

Dartmouth is still looking for its first win of the season after a pair of narrow defeats at Thompson Arena last weekend.

The Big Green, which took a 1-0 lead in the third period off a goal from Cally Dixon, fell in overtime 2-1 to No. 7 Quinnipiac on Friday night.

On Saturday, Dartmouth traded goals with Princeton, but ultimately dropped an eighth consecutive game in a 4-3 loss.

The Big Green will try to secure their first win of the 2024-25 campaign when they travel to New York for games against Colgate and Cornell this weekend.

Women’s volleyball drops both weekend contests

After splitting their two games the previous weekend, a win over Columbia stopping a four-game skid, the Big Green fell in both of their road matchups this weekend.

Facing Yale, the top team in the Ivies, Dartmouth was swept in straight sets on Friday. Early runs from the Bulldogs in each of the three sets created too big a hole for the Big Green to climb out of.

Dartmouth then made the short trip from New Haven, Conn., to Providence, R.I., to face Brown, where coach Kevin Maureen Campbell’s squad lost in a five-set thriller. After taking the opening set 25-18, the Big Green dropped the next two before responding with a 25-20 win in the fourth set. The Bears ultimately emerged victorious, though, winning the fifth-set tiebreak, 15-9. Senior Piper Stevens and junior Kauany Gutz were the stars for Dartmouth, each notching a double-double.

The Big Green will host Princeton and Penn at Leede Arena this weekend to finish regular season play.

Women’s tennis finishes fall season

Competing in the ITA East Sectional Championship, Michela Moore and Peyton Capuano’s doubles run came to an end in the second round, a straight-set defeat to a pairing from Duke ending their time at the tournament.

Dartmouth hosted the Big Green Invitational over the weekend as well, welcoming Yale, UMass, Rutgers and Wisconsin to Hanover to close its fall season. Freshman Sam Grosjean had a good weekend, notching singles wins over players from Rutgers and UMass on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Grosjean also picked up a doubles win alongside junior Valentina Cruz, beating a duo from Yale, 6-0.

Swimming/diving teams wrap up Princeton meet

Dartmouth’s swimming and diving squads opened the season in New Jersey on Saturday, facing Princeton and Brown.

The men’s and women’s teams lost both meets to the Tigers and Bears, respectively. Still, several men’s and women’s swimmers set personal-best times in their events, including the performances of freshman Maddie Blackwell and sophomore Samantha Li in the 200 medley relay and senior Alex Ye’s 100 breaststroke.

Men’s soccer falls to Harvard, misses Ivy tourney

Dartmouth needed a win in its regular-season finale to assure a berth in the Ivy League tournament. A draw would keep that postseason dream alive but would be contingent on results elsewhere in the conference.

The Big Green got neither.

Dartmouth conceded a pair of second-half goals to Harvard on Saturday in Cambridge, Mass., in a 2-0 loss. The defeat likely ends the 2024 season for the Big Green, who finished sixth in the Ivy League table with seven points.

Sailing season wraps with Young’s individual effort

While the team’s fall competition wrapped earlier this month, senior Sarah Young represented Dartmouth at the Women’s Singlehanded National Championship in St. Petersburg, Fla., over the weekend.

Young, who qualified for the event after notching a third-place place finish at the NEISA Singlehanded Championship in September, finished in fifth at the competition, jumping up one spot on the second day.

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