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(11/20/14 8:43pm)
As the men’s basketball season gets underway, senior Jimmy Hammer will be leading the way. The Blue Jays kicked off their season with the York College Coaches vs. Cancer Classic this past weekend, facing off with Lebanon Valley College and Keuka College. Hammer, a 6’2” guard from Collegeville, Pa., led the offense, scoring 17 points in the team’s 75-70 victory over Lebanon, before turning it on to pour in 22 the next day against Keuka, drilling six three-pointers and four free throws along with dishing out four assists to pave the way for the Blue Jays. Hopkins would win 71-55 to take the Classic title.
(11/06/14 8:07pm)
The Hopkins football team gained the number eight seed in both the AFCA and d3football.com polls with a 42-14 drubbing of Ursinus this past Saturday. The win was their 19th straight regular season victory and 17th straight in the Centennial Conference. The Jays are now on the precipice of a sixth consecutive conference championship. The win also gave head coach Jim Margaff his 175th career victory, making him the winningest college football coach in Maryland state history, surpassing Morgan State University legend Eddie Hurt, who won 174 games with the Bears from 1929-59. Hurt sent more than 30 players to the NFL in that span. Ursinus came into the game with a strong resumé, sporting a 6-1 record on the season, five conference victories and averaging nearly 350 yards and 32 points a game. However, it soon became clear that these Bears would be outclassed. The Blue Jays turned a pair of Ursinus mistakes on special teams into touchdowns and added a 55-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Braden Anderson to sophomore wide receiver Quinn Donaldson for good measure, jumping out to a 21-0 lead before the game was 12 minutes old. The two other scores were tallied by sophomore running back Stuart Walters, with eight and 14-yard scampers, the first coming on a muffed snap by Ursinus punter Eric Boyer and the second when Jays sophomore punter Matt Auran’s kick hit a Bears defensive player in the leg, allowing sophomore Jesse Poore to recover the loose ball. Ursinus broke through on its next possession when they took over at the Hopkins 31 yard line with running back Corey Kelly scoring from five yards out to cut the deficit to 14. The score would remain 21-7 until midway through the third quarter, when Anderson orchestrated a seven-play, 86-yard drive to put the Jays back up by three touchdowns. Anderson started the drive with a 30-yard toss to sophomore Bradley Munday, adding 25-yard throws to Donaldson and Munday again to set up sophomore Dionisio Roman’s one-yard touchdown run. Anderson would close out the scoring for Hopkins with fourth-quarter touchdown passes to Munday and Donaldson. On fourth and 10 on the 23 yard line with just over 13 minutes remaining, Munday made a miraculous diving catch at the pylon to reel in Anderson’s pass for the score. A few minutes later, Ursinus managed to score on a five-yard pass, making the score 35-14. Anderson answered again, this time slinging a 63-yard pass downfield to Donaldson. Defensively, Hopkins was able to control the line of scrimmage and thus the game. The Jays defense limited Ursinus to just 51 rushing yards on 40 carries, a meager 1.28 yards per carry, while sacking quarterback Kevin Monahan four times. Junior Keith Corliss had a team-high nine tackles, but the tone was set by senior Michael Rocca who had a career-high eight tackles, one sack, one fumble recovery and one pass breakup. Rocca was named the Centennial Conference Defensive Player of the Week for his performance, the first such honor of his career. Rocca credited his performance to his coaches and teammates. “Week in and week out, our coaches put us in the best situations to make plays and our goals is to do our jobs within the scheme to the best of our ability each play. When 11 guys are doing that, we can be special.” Anderson finished 13 of 21 for 265 yards and three touchdowns passes, giving him 16 over his last five games against just one interception. He also led the team with 68 rushing yards on eight carries. Donaldson hauled in five catches for 142 yards and two scores, while Munday snared four passes for 77 yards and a touchdown of his own. Walters rushed for 52 yards on 13 carries, while scoring the Jay’s other two touchdowns. The Blue Jays have won five consecutive conference titles and can clinch at least a share of their sixth with a victory in either of their last two games of the season. The Jays will travel to Franklin & Marshall (5-3, 4-3 Centennial) on Saturday, Nov. 8 before taking on McDaniel (1-7, 0-7 Centennial) on Homewood Field in the regular season finale on Nov. 15. A win against F & M coupled with a Muhlenberg loss against Ursinus would give Hopkins the outright conference championship. With this in mind, Rocca stressed that the Blue Jays take everything one step at a time. “It may be a bit cliché, but our goal is to focus on one game at a time,” he said. “We aim to get better as a team each and every day we are out there to always be improving. Our goal is to win the conference championship, and we have to bring the effort every day to accomplish that goal.”
(10/23/14 7:39pm)
Junior Sophia Meehan has paced the Hopkins cross country runners all season. Recently, she’s been pacing the competition too. Meehan was named the Centennial Conference Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week Monday for her performance in the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh AAE Invitational this past weekend.
(10/02/14 8:08pm)
In this week’s edition, we are lucky enough to have two featured athletes deserving of the Athlete of the Week honors. Sophomores Michael Buxbaum and Emerson Walsh recently cruised to an impressive victory at the 2014 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Southwest Regional Tournament this past weekend. Buxbaum, a tennis star from North Wales, Pa. played 11 matches over the course of a grueling three days, including four matches on the last day of the tournament to additionally earn the Singles title. Meanwhile, he and Walsh combined for the doubles victory to cap off what could only be described as an excellent and successful weekend for the Hopkins men’s tennis program. Both players earned the distinction of All-American due to their impressive play and additionally have earned the honor of Athlete of the Week.
(10/02/14 8:08pm)
In this week’s edition, we are lucky enough to have two featured athletes deserving of the Athlete of the Week honors. Sophomores Michael Buxbaum and Emerson Walsh recently cruised to an impressive victory at the 2014 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Southwest Regional Tournament this past weekend. Buxbaum, a tennis star from North Wales, Pa. played 11 matches over the course of a grueling three days, including four matches on the last day of the tournament to additionally earn the Singles title. Meanwhile, he and Walsh combined for the doubles victory to cap off what could only be described as an excellent and successful weekend for the Hopkins men’s tennis program. Both players earned the distinction of All-American due to their impressive play and additionally have earned the honor of Athlete of the Week.
(09/18/14 10:02pm)
The Hopkins water polo team took two of three on the weekend to return to .500 on the season, beating Mercyhurst 13-6 on Saturday afternoon and shutting out Penn State Behrend 16-0 on Sunday morning, but losing to Bucknell 9-7 on Saturday evening.
(09/04/14 2:31pm)
Fresh off an undefeated regular season — but a gut-wrenching first round playoff knockout to Wesley — the football team is poised to return to the gridiron as a force to be reckoned with in the Centennial Conference. Jays faithful will remember Wesley quarterback Joe Callahan drilling wideout Steve Koudossou in the bread basket on a post pattern at the goal line for the game-sealing touchdown with just 12.8 seconds to go in the fourth quarter — the death knell for the Jays playoff hopes.
(04/17/14 7:36pm)
The Blue Jays rode two dynamic pitching performances from sophomore Carter Burns and junior Jacob Enterlin and the thumping bat of sophomore Raul Shah to two victories (8-4, 5-3) against Swarthmore the afternoon of Saturday April 12. Shah was 5-6 on the day with two home runs and three RBI, while Burns and Enterlin combined to hurl 18 strikeouts over 17.0 innings pitched.
(04/10/14 7:23pm)
In their double-header against Franklin & Marshall, careless play in the field was the Blue Jays’ downfall, as 10 Hopkins errors (five in each game) made way for eight Diplomat runs over the afternoon.
(04/03/14 7:40pm)
The Hopkins men’s Track team had a rough day as the rain poured down torrentially in College Park on the 29th of March. The Blue Jays were only able to grab three top five finishes on the day as the team struggled to battle the inclement weather. “It was certainly tough to perform well at the Maryland Invitational,” sophomore Devin Conley said. “It wasn’t the ideal way to start off the outdoor portion of the season but we managed to do as well as we could given the circumstances.”
(03/27/14 7:03pm)
The Blue Jays continued their winning ways down in Fort Myers, Fla., going 8-2 on their annual spring trip. The boys wrapped up the trip by laying the hurt on Bethel University and SUNY Plattsburgh, winning 12-2 and 14-5 to mark the team’s sixth and seventh consecutive victories respectively. The Jays are now 12-2 on the season.
(03/13/14 3:57pm)
After a delayed start to the season because of cold and snow, the Blue Jays opened up their season with a sweeping pair of daytime doubleheaders.