HANOVER — The Dartmouth men’s soccer team wanted to send a message, plain and simple.

The Big Green did just that Saturday night against Yale, securing a 4-0 victory — the team’s second clean sheet of the season — over the reigning Ivy League champions.

On the heels of a 4-2 midweek defeat to Northeastern, coach Bo Oshoniyi’s squad returned to Hanover to host the Bulldogs at Burnham Field.

“This performance that we put in today, it’s a message to all the teams in the Ivy League,” said freshman defender Panagiotis Karagiorgis. “Because we really believe that the score we had in the (Northeastern loss) does not represent the level of our back line. This one was a good performance.”

It was a game that a host of Big Green players had circled on their calendars, including fifth-year midfielder Orrett Maine.

Maine’s 25th minute dismissal from last season’s clash between the two squads — the result of a straight red card — saw Dartmouth play a man down for the final 65 minutes, ultimately falling 2-0 in New Haven, Conn.

Sophomore forward Vasilis Moiras’ instinctive strike in the 12th minute, his fourth goal of the campaign, handed the Big Green a 1-0 advantage. Nine minutes later, Maine’s glancing header off an in-swinging ball from senior midfielder Phineas Callahan nestled into the far corner to give Dartmouth a two-goal lead.

Tallies from sophomore forwards Douglas Arveskär and Trenton Blake secured the Big Green’s first four-goal outing since a 4-1 victory on Sept. 5 over Fairleigh Dickinson.

“We really believe that we are a special group; we’re going to achieve a lot of things,” Moiras said. “That motivation kept us going. And obviously, last season we lost to Yale, and it hurt a lot. So it was also kind of like a revenge (game) this time.”

Saturday’s victory moved Dartmouth (5-5-3, 2-1-1 Ivy) to third in the Ivy League table with seven points, sitting behind Penn (10-2-1, 4-0) and Princeton (6-5, 3-1). The Big Green have three games remaining on their docket, including a tilt against the 12th-ranked Quakers on Saturday in Philadelphia.

The Big Green, who did not qualify for the Ivy League tournament last season, handed Penn its lone loss in conference play last season, beating the Quakers 2-0 at Burnham Field. Oshoniyi expects his squad to get Penn’s best shot as a result, but he’s hopeful his squad can carry its momentum from the triumph over Yale.

“We just try to be intense,” Oshoniyi said. “And we just feel like if we can play at that level, there are not many teams that can play with us. We just need to bring that (intensity) consistently.”

Here’s how Dartmouth’s other fall sports programs fared:

Three rowing teams compete at Head of Charles

The Head of the Charles Regatta, held annually on the Charles River in Boston, is the largest three-day rowing competition in the world, attracting around 400,000 spectators to Massachusetts during the penultimate weekend in October. Dartmouth’s lightweight, heavyweight and women’s rowing teams all competed at the regatta this past weekend, one that fielded nearly 12,000 competitors and 800 clubs this year, according to The Harvard Crimson.

Dartmouth’s heavyweight teams earned a pair of wins, emerging victorious in the club fours on Saturday with a time of 16 minutes, 19.547 seconds, a mark nearly 18 seconds faster than the second-place team. The team notched its second win in the club eights, finishing in 14:18.752, 18 seconds ahead of second place Riverside. Finishes of third and sixth place on Sunday in the championship eights and championship fours, respectively, rounded out the team’s stellar showing.

The women’s team saw its club eights and fours crews notch fifth- and ninth-place finishes, while the championship fours ended Sunday in sixth. The men’s lightweight team saw its eights ‘A’ crew finish in fifth place, separated from the second-place finisher by less than 1.5 seconds. The team’s ‘B’ entry in the eights competition finished in 11th.

Golf teams wrap up fall play

The Dartmouth women’s golf team concluded its play this autumn at The Southern, a tournament hosted by Georgia Southern in Statesboro, Ga., at the Savannah Golf Club. Led by freshman Olivia Cong, who carded a 4-over-par 76 in her final round and finished in a tie for sixth overall individually, the Big Green jumped one spot to finish in fifth place.

Following a 15th-place finish at the Elon Phoenix Invitational on Oct. 14-15, the Big Green men concluded their fall season in Bedford Hills, N.Y., in a one-day, 36-hole tournament Sunday at the Glen Harbor Invitation.

Competing against Harvard, Seton Hall and Yale, the Big Green finished in fourth, trailing the second-place Pirates by two strokes. Sophomore Tyler Brand led the way for Dartmouth, carding a 1-over in his first round before shooting 1-under in his second round to finish even par.

Tennis competes at ITA regional; women at Brown

Starting on Oct. 10, Dartmouth’s women’s and men’s tennis teams competed at the ITA New England Regional in Cambridge, Mass., in back-to-back weeks.

Sophomores Michela Moore and Peyton Capuano advanced to the finals of the event’s doubles tournament, ultimately falling in three sets to Harvard’s Stephanie Yakoff and Kavya Karra, 4-6, 6-2, 6-10. Moore was the Big Green’s furthest-advancing singles player, too — her run ended in the semifinals in a straight-set defeat.

The Dartmouth men’s team saw its run at the competition come to a conclusion on Sunday. The Big Green’s two remaining doubles representatives — the pairing of juniors Miles Groom and Waleed Qadir and the duo of freshman Leo Pade and senior Alex Knox-Jones — dropped their matches to Cornell and Brown, respectively.

As the men’s team was in the thick of its ITA regional competition, the women’s team enjoyed a brief respite before traveling to Providence, R.I., for the Brown Invite. Freshman Sam Grosjean and Elise Wong each notched a 2-0 record against Rutgers on Friday, winning their doubles match before tacking on victories in singles play — both of which were straight set triumphs. Facing Rhode Island on Saturday, the Big Green won seven matches, including five of the six singles matches.

Women’s soccer draws with Penn

Coach Taylor Schram’s squad outshot the Quakers 13-1 in the opening 45 minutes, including six shots on goal, but Penn goalkeeper Annabel Austen kept a clean sheet. Her seventh save, an 87th-minute stop off a shot from Dartmouth senior midfielder Aleena Seales, ensured a scoreless draw.

Following the tie, Dartmouth (6-5-3, 0-3-2 Ivy) remains at the bottom of the Ancient Eight table with just two points. The Big Green have two games remaining on their schedule: an Oct. 26 tilt at Princeton (9-4, 4-1), which has qualified for the Ivy League tournament, and the regular-season finale Nov. 2 at Burnham Field against Brown (5-3-5, 2-1-2).

Women’s ice hockey opens at Penn State

Dartmouth hit the road to State College, Pa., over the weekend to commence its first season under coach Maura Crowell, who was hired in May after nine seasons at Minnesota-Duluth.

After playing a scoreless opening two periods, Penn State bagged a pair of goals in the third period to win 2-0.

The Nittany Lions followed up Friday’s win with a 4-1 victory on Saturday as sophomore forward Mia Buonarosa registered the Big Green’s lone goal.

Women’s volleyball drops pair of weekend contests

Hosting Brown and Yale over the weekend, Dartmouth lost both matches 3-1, stretching the team’s losing skid to three games. The Big Green won both of their opening sets against the Bears and Bulldogs, before dropping the next three sets in each game.

Dartmouth (9-8, 2-5 Ivy) hosts Harvard on Friday in its lone game this week before traveling to play Cornell and Columbia at the start of November.

Field hockey falls to Yale, UMass Lowell

Coming off a 7-0 rout of Colgate, Dartmouth’s bid to win back-to-back games for the first time this season went unrealized this weekend.

Hosting Yale at Chase Field on Friday, the Big Green were outshot 21-1 and didn’t manage to put a shot on frame, ultimately falling 4-0. At UMass Lowell on Sunday, Dartmouth was nearly shut out in a second consecutive game, but a goal from sophomore Riley Dumigan put the Big Green on the board with less than 90 seconds left in a 5-1 loss.

Sailing records trio of second-place finishes

Competing at three regattas over the weekend — the Open Atlantic Coast Championship Finals, the Oberg Trophy and Yale Women’s — Dartmouth secured runner-up finishes in each one.

The Big Green have just one remaining weekend of regular season competition before the women’s and open singlehanded national championships take place in Florida.

Cross country competes at Princeton

The Dartmouth men’s and women’s cross country teams competed at the Princeton Invite on Saturday. The Big Green women finished in 10th, while the men finished in 18th. Senior Caroline Livingston was the top finisher for the women’s squad, crossing the line in 58th place, while senior Mac Hadden paced the Dartmouth men, finishing in 70th.

The meet provided an early preview of the course, which will host the Ivy League Championships in less than two weeks on Nov. 2.

Alex Cervantes can be reached at acervantes@vnews.com or 603-727-7302.