After cancelled flights and over a foot of snow, the Hopkins Blue Jays were undeterred by the Boston weather as they put together perhaps one of their best team performances on the track.
The Hopkins men’s basketball team faced off at home on Wednesday, Feb 1 against the Gettysburg College Bullets. Hopkins came into the home game riding a six-game winning streak and tied for first among Centennial Conference teams.
The grapplers of the Hopkins wrestling team were unable to claim victory in their dual meet this past weekend which pitted the Blue Jays against Centennial Conference foes Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) and Washington and Lee University (W&L) in Lexington, Va.
Let me just start out by saying this: The collection of championships played over the last 12 months is the greatest I have ever seen. The bar was set from the start with the NCAA College Basketball Championships and the Villanova Wildcats’ buzzer-beater victory over the North Carolina Tar Heels in April. In the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ epic comeback against the Golden State Warriors followed in June.
Last week, the Hopkins women’s basketball team overcame a 10-point deficit at the end of the first half to seal the victory against the Gettysburg College Bullets in overtime. The final score of the game was 84-83.
The Hopkins men’s track and field team saw yet another weekend of Conference-leading performances and personal bests. The Blue Jays arrived in Collegeville, Pa. this past Sunday to compete in the Frank Colden Invitational hosted by Ursinus College.
This past weekend, the Hopkins men’s and women’s track and field teams smashed records and posted nation-leading performances at the George Mason Patriot Games. The team traveled to Fairfax, Va. for the two days of competition that began on Friday, Jan. 27.
Despite a relentless second half comeback, the Hopkins women’s basketball team fell 11 points short to the Ursinus College Bears, losing 51-40.
Following a freshman year with very little action on the court, sophomore guard Michael Gardner is shining in his second season at Homewood.
Over the weekend, the Hopkins men’s basketball team hosted the Ursinus Bears at the 16th Annual Wall-O’Mahony Memorial game. The event is one of the most important of the season for the Jays, as it is honors the memory of Glenn Wall and Matt O’Mahony.
This is it, the second most important holiday in February for those in a relationship and the most important holiday for the rest, the second biggest day for food in the U.S. and one of the most watched sporting events in the world, the Super Bowl.
Blue Jays experienced a moment of euphoria, capturing their fourth NCAA championship in just five years. Nothing can quite top the excitement of a national title for the women coupled with a program-best eighth place finish for the men.
The Blue Jays struggled to act with urgency in the first quarter of Saturday’s game, leading to a 86-72 Centennial Conference loss against the Muhlenberg College Mules.
