The men's track and field team started its season on Saturday, hosting the Snowflake Classic. Three Jumbos earned victories at the non?scoring meet on the Dissault Track, while many others posted solid season opening times in rainy conditions.
In its first taste of a jam?packedNESCAC schedule, the men's tennis team secured a pair of 9?0 wins, beating Connecticut College and Wesleyan in matches that tested, but did not trip up, the Jumbos.
One week after an impressive start to the outdoor season at the non?scoring Bridgewater Invitational, the women's track and field team returned to the Hill for its home opener at Ellis Oval in the Snowflake Classic on Saturday, which also was not scored. Despite unfavorable weather conditions in the early going, the Jumbos managed to secure two event victories and several top?five finishes.
To maintain our existence within the sports world, we isolate dualities at every turn. The media, unbiased as front?page mottos may portray their mission to be, juxtapose good and evil as freely as Disney movies. Fans, intoxicated with the potential for fleeting happiness, are even more culpable.
Last week, I wrote about the New York Jets' acquisition of Tim Tebow, which stirred quite a hubbub among New Yorkers, who have since seen an enormous Jockey ad sporting Tebow's boyish grin erected outside the Lincoln Tunnel and the creation of a mammoth sandwich at the renowned Carnegie Deli named "The Jetbow." Yet the Jets' signing of Broadway Tim deflected attention from a graver NFL issue: the exposing and sanctioning of the New Orleans Saints' bounty program.
Of the players who started at least 20 games for the baseball team last season, then-junior Sam Sager was an all-conference selection after hitting .333, classmate Matt Collins hit .343 and was the NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year and then-sophomore Eric Weikert ranked fourth on the team in RBIs.
During the softball team's spring break trip to Clermont, Fla., the Jumbos managed to go 11-3 without a single long ball from sophomore catcher Jo Clair, who launched 16 home runs in her rookie season to set the school's single-season record. While Clair didn't exactly struggle at the plate on the trip - she had 10 extra-base hits and 13 RBIs - a return home to Spicer Field was all it took for her to get back to doing what she does best: going yard.
The No. 12 women's lacrosse team's game against No. 5 Trinity on Saturday was singled out by the Jumbos as their most important game of the year. They had been embarrassed by No. 7 Middlebury the weekend before, and were looking to avenge a pair of one-goal losses to the Bantams last season.
Three throwers were in action over spring break for the men's track and field team, which opened the outdoor season at the Bridgewater State Invitational on Saturday.
In its first 10 games, the baseball team has scored more first?inning runs than it did all last season. If this seems like a surprise to some of the Jumbos, you'll have to forgive them. They've been too busy opening 2012 on a blistering pace.
The men's crew team knows what it means to be dedicated in the preseason: bi?monthly fitness testing, three?a?days and the annual "Judgment Day," a full day of workouts beginning at 4 a.m. and ending at 6 p.m. This past week, the Jumbos finished their spring training by spending every moment together as a cohesive unit, both on the water and off.
