Dartmouth Women Debut Varsity Play With Win

The Dartmouth women’s rugby team played its first game as a varsity squad on Saturday, defeating the University of Pennsylvania 77-5.

Scoring kicked off with #5 Ashley Zepeda crossing the line four minutes in. Big Green jumped out to a 29-0 lead midway through the first half and led 48-5 at the half. 

Freshman Kat Ramage, a Morris Rugby alum, finished with 13 points in her first match with the team. Yejadai Dunn dotted down three times for a game-high 15 points.

Penn’s Emma Edoga scored the team’s lone try 23 minutes into the first half.

“We’re empowering every player on the pitch to be a decision-maker, a playmaker, a striker and a running threat,” coach Katie Dowty told Dartmouth Sports. “That lends itself to a really dynamic style of play, and our forwards love it.”

Dartmouth next plays Quinnipiac on Sept. 19.

Dartmouth Tries

Yejadai Dunn (3)
Audrey Perez (2)
Carolina Martinez
Ashley Zepeda
Melissa Briggs
Lily Jing Ting Zhang
Kat Ramage
Kerry Conlin
Morgan McGonagle
Aiko Laski 

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Dartmouth hosts Penn to kick off the Ivy women's fall fifteens season. This game, originally scheduled for Sept. 26 in Philadelphia, was rescheduled due to the visit of Pope Francis. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. at Brophy Field.  

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Pope Francis will be visiting Philadelphia on the Sept. 26/27 weekend. All the fields at the University of Pennsylvania will be closed this weekend. The originally scheduled match with Dartmouth at the University of Pennsylvania will not be possible.