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Dartmouth Men's Lacrosse News |
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November 20, 2008
Dartmouth Men's Lacrosse Releases 2009 Schedule
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HANOVER, N.H. Head coach Bill Wilson and the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team
has released its 15-game regular-season slate, which includes five games against
teams that made appearances in the last year's NCAA Tournaments.
"There is plenty of excitement surrounding the 2009 schedule," said Wilson. "With
our team working hard in the off season, a strong schedule definitely adds incentive
to work even harder during the winter months. While the challenging Ivy League
line-up remains front and center in the hearts of our men, they also see the
opportunity
in playing a strong out of league schedule given the current NCAA selection criteria."
Highlighting the schedule for the Big Green is two Final Four teams from a year
ago in Duke and Virginia. Dartmouth will once again make an appearance on Long
Island as the Big Green takes on the Blue Devils from Stony Brook University on
March 28 at 12 p.m. Later on in the season, Dartmouth will travel to Charlottesville
for a matchup with the other semifinalist from a year ago in the Cavaliers. The
two teams will meet on April 18 at 1 p.m.
The season kicks off with two New England teams in the line up. The Big Green
opens the season on Feb. 21 at Hartford, followed by the home opener at Scully-Fahey
Field against new Division I member Bryant at 3 p.m. The month of February comes
to an end for Dartmouth will visit to one of the four NCAA qualifiers from last
season in Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish and the Big Green have met the past five
seasons, including last year when the two teams faced off in Atlanta.
A busy month of March begins with a trip to the neighbors to the north in Vermont,
then the Big Green will be home for matchups with Lehigh and the Ivy League opener
against Brown. The month wraps up with a trip to another Patriot League rival
in Holy Cross and then the Long Island matchup with Duke.
The tough stretch of April, which includes a three-game road slate, starts with
an Ivy League matchup at Penn, followed by back-to-back home games versus Providence
and Cornell. The long three-game road trip kicks off with the Big Green traveling
to Yale, Virginia and Princeton. The regular season comes to an end on May 2 as
Dartmouth hosts Harvard from Scully-Fahey Field.
Duke, Virginia, Notre Dame, Cornell and Bryant were the four teams that competed
in the NCAA tournament a year ago. The Bulldogs competed in the Division II NCAA
Tournament
Source: Dartmouth Athletic Communications
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