Tomorrow afternoon, there will be a few things on the line for the women's swim team. As they drop into Hamilton Pool shortly after noon against Wheaton, the Jumbos will look to even out their subpar record (currently 3-4), improve their position in the NESCAC standings and perhaps break personal bests.
As the temperature plummets and winter comes into full force, the ice hockey team is heading down the home stretch of its season and trying to qualify for the NESCAC Tournament. The team, however, is mired in an eight−game losing streak, which has coincided with the loss of one of its key players: junior goalie and quad−captain Scott Barchard.
After losing all four of its weekend matches, the No. 23 men's squash team found itself at 4−10 overall and on the verge of dropping out of the Collegiate Squash Association's (CSA) top 24 for the first time in more than 10 years. Despite their setbacks, however, the Jumbos' main objective remains unchanged from the beginning of the season.
The ski team, which entered this season with high hopes on both the men's and women's sides, looks poised to attain their preseason goals and prove to the rest of New England that it can race with any team in the region.
The men's track and field team showed its incredible depth and youth at the Springfield College Invitational on Saturday, taking second in the meet despite having no first−place finishes and only scoring in the top three in six events.
After two more slip−ups this weekend in home games against Colby and Bowdoin, the men's hockey team's losing streak is now at eight.
College is unique in the world of sports thanks to the existence of recruiting classes. Only in the collegiate game can a team do a complete 180, recovering from the loss of key players simply by the appearance of new faces on campus. Similarly, because there is no parity in recruiting on the college scene, one team could end up with all of the nation's best players.
After winning the first Tufts Invitational on Jan. 15, the women's track team kept up its blistering pace with a second−place showing at the Springfield Invitational on Saturday. The Jumbos finished the day with 139.5 points, behind first−place MIT, who had 206.5.
Boston College may have squeaked out the victory over Tufts, 206-170, at yesterday's dual meet at Hamilton pool, but the Jumbos came away with a sense of pride about their performance against the Div. I Eagles and their ability to create and maintain an absolutely electric atmosphere.
The women's squash team went into winter break on the heels of a commanding 7-2 win over No. 31 Boston College on Dec. 5, armed with an even 4-4 record.
Basketball players frustrated by the lack of a winter intramural season will be able to get their pick-up game fix tonight when "open gym time," the Athletics Department's replacement for winter intramurals, kicks off at 9 p.m. in Cousens Gym.
In a roller-coaster weekend, the women's basketball team knocked off No. 13 Bowdoin on the road, suffered a crippling injury and fell to Colby, dropping down to .500 in the conference.
After a desperately needed week off to regroup from a tough opening weekend of NESCAC play, the men's basketball team triumphed in two crucial games this weekend at Bowdoin and Colby.
The women's swimming team spent much of its winter break in Pompano Beach, Fla., but wading in the ocean and sunbathing on the shore were not on the agenda. Instead, the Jumbos were busy with conditioning exercises to improve their times for the spring-semester portion of their season.
After dropping its first two NESCAC games last weekend to heavyweights Middlebury and Williams, extending its losing streak to four, the men's basketball team will hit the road still searching for that elusive first conference victory in a pair of weekend matchups against Colby and Bowdoin.
The women's basketball team found itself seconds away from a dream start to its conference slate on Saturday. Already with a NESCAC win under their belt from the previous night, the Jumbos were tied with then-national No. 13 Williams in overtime with just 30 seconds left to play.
While most students were recovering from New Year's Eve festivities, the men's basketball team was busy winning the title at Roanoke College's Morris Cregger Classic in Virginia, matching last season's win total and earning junior guard Amauris Quezada a share of the NESCAC Player of the Week honors for his tournament-MVP performance.
At the start of winter break, the hockey team had every right to feel good about its chances to climb the NESCAC standings. They boasted a 4-3-1 record that included a landmark win at Middlebury in the season opener, and were optimistic that star goalie Scott Barchard would soon make his return between the pipes.
