HANOVER — Following a loss to a top-10 Vermont squad during the week, the Dartmouth College men’s soccer team picked up its second straight Ivy League victory on Saturday night with a 1-0 win over Columbia at Burnham Field.

Senior midfielder Eric Sachleben’s first goal of the season in the 35th minute was all the Big Green (5-5-3, 2-2-0 Ivy League) needed. Fellow senior midfielder Garrett Socas had the assist, and sophomore goalkeeper Costi Christodoulou made four saves while keeping his sheet clean.

The victory came four days after a 3-0 loss to the 10th-ranked Camamounts in Burlington.

“In terms of the team, we’ve worked super hard all season,” Sachleben said. “We’re finding our footing now and we’re really coming together in the second half of the season. I’m super excited to see what we have in store for the last few games.”

Dartmouth is at Cornell on Saturday.

WOMEN’S SOCCER Columbia 1, Dartmouth 0

NEW YORK — An 86th-minute goal by the Lions’ Shira Cohen was enough to send the Big Green (8-5-2, 1-3-1 Ivy League) to a defeat on Saturday. Senior goalkeeper Charlotte Cyr made three saves for Dartmouth.

“It was a typical Ivy League battle,” Big Green coach Ron Rainey said. “Both teams worked hard, and I am proud of our effort.”

Dartmouth returns home to take on Harvard on Saturday.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Dartmouth 3, Harvard 0

HANOVER — The Big Green (13-5, 5-3 Ivy League) won their third in a row with a sweep of the Crimson on Friday night, taking a marathon 30-28 first set before cruising through the second and third sets with 25-14 scores.

Junior Ellie Blain had a career-high .571 hitting percentage and led all players with 12 kills. Senior Mackenzie Arent led the way with 21 assists.

“I’m really proud of the team for battling through the first set,” Dartmouth coach Gilad Doron said. “We executed our game plan as well as we can in the second and third sets. Collectively, we had one of our better matches of the year.”

A two-game road trip awaits the Big Green this week. Dartmouth is at Penn on Friday evening and at Princeton on Saturday.

WOMEN’S RUGBY Dartmouth 95, Princeton 10

HANOVER — The defending national champion Big Green stayed perfect Saturday with an emphatic victory over the Tigers in which they led, 69-0, at halftime.

Fifth-year Ariana Ramsey scored three tries in the first 20 minutes, and junior Aleemah Williams recorded the first two tries of her career. Also scoring for the first time in their careers were freshman Vanessa Ortiz-Pallen, sophomores Reign Jefferson, Cassie Depner, Kayla Widodo and Allie Amerson and senior Hannah Humphreys.

Dartmouth (6-0) closes the regular season at home against Brown on Saturday.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY Harvard 3, Dartmouth 0

BOSTON — The Big Green opened their season Friday night with a loss to the Crimson. Harvard scored 11 seconds into the game and then added two more in the final minute of the second period.

Dartmouth (0-1-0) opens the home portion of its schedule with two more ECAC games this weekend, against Brown on Friday and Yale on Saturday.

FIELD HOCKEY Big Green drop two on the road

Dartmouth fell, 2-1, at Columbia on Friday night after the Lions scored twice in the last minute of the game to snatch the victory from the Big Green. On Sunday at Vermont, the Catamounts put up three goals in the first quarter to hand the Big Green a 4-0 loss.

Junior midfielder Bronwyn Bird gave Dartmouth the lead early in the fourth against Columbia off a penalty corner, with assists from freshman Florentina Terra and senior Holley Cromwell. It looked like that would be enough for the Big Green’s first Ivy League win, but the Lions’ Elizabeth Brisette and Lily Baker scored 41 seconds apart, with Baker’s winner coming with just four seconds on the clock.

Dartmouth was competitive with Vermont everywhere but the scoreboard — the Catamounts put 10 shots on goal to the Big Green’s eight, and Dartmouth had a 7-5 edge in penalty corners.

The Big Green (3-12, 0-5 Ivy League) host Yale on Saturday.

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