The equestrian team won the Ivy championship at Dartmouth on April 27, but finished third at the national championships the next weekend in Cazenovia, New York . Men's lacrosse lost, 12Ð10, to Princeton in the Ivy championship game at Brown on May 4 . Brown catcher Greg Metzger '02 signed a free-agent contract with the Oakland Athletics. Following two weeks of extended spring training in Arizona, Metzger, a first-team All-Ivy selection this spring, was to be assigned to the Vancouver Canadians of the Class A Northwest League.... The Brown men placed twelfth at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships.... At the Ivy Women's Golf Championship, Brown placed third overall, while Elizabeth Carpenter '04 and Jennifer Bley '05 earned first-team All-Ivy honors.