After three weeks of NFL action, you can usually get a pretty good sense of who is going to be contending for the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the end of the season. While some teams who start hot inevitably fizzle out due to injuries, decreased performance or a more difficult schedule, most of these early undefeated teams end up maintaining their success.
In the first three games of the 2016 season, the Hopkins football team went 3-0, outscoring opposing teams by a combined 115-57 margin and only trailing once, for a period of about eight minutes in the first half against Moravian. In the team’s fourth game, however, it would take a 60-minute, four-quarter effort to knock off Conference rival Muhlenberg 30-24 and remain undefeated in the young season.
In a disappointing overtime defeat, Hopkins men’s soccer lost to Swarthmore 1-0 last Saturday at Homewood Field, leaving the Jays 0-2 in the Conference.
The Blue Jays dominated the Muhlenberg Mules 2-0 in their first Centennial Conference shutout of the season. Saturday’s victory is the Blue Jays’ fourth straight win, as they defeated St. Mary’s, Washington College and Rutgers University-Camden prior to the Mules.
After what was arguably one of their worst starts to open the season, the Hopkins water polo team started to see a change in momentum as Conference play began this weekend. The loss of their first seven games, while disheartening, is an ill-portrayal of the Blue Jays’ capabilities and not indicative of the future of their 2016 season.
Following her standout performance at the Iona Meet of Champions this past weekend, The News-Letter has chosen Felicia Koerner as the Athlete of the Week.
The Hopkins Field Hockey team beat local opponent Goucher College on Sunday Sept. 18, in an exciting overtime victory. Hopkins was immediately put under pressure as Goucher went on the offensive. Nine minutes into the game, Goucher already had the first point on the board.
With the US Open in the rear view, the men on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour will finally have some time to rest after a long and grueling summer. The major season has come to a close and the Shanghai Masters and ATP Finals are the only significant tournaments left during the calendar year.
The Hopkins women’s soccer team turned in a dominating performance against the Washington College Shorewomen, defeats the Shorewomen 5-1 in the Centennial Conference opener away from Homewood Stadium. The win brings them 3-1-2 on the young season as conference play gets into full swing.
Battling for the victory in their Centennial Conference openers, the Blue Jays and the Haverford Fords went head to head on Sept. 17. The Blue Jays were a little over three minutes away from taking the game to overtime until the Fords scored a late goal earning them the 3-2 win. The game marks the end of the Jays’ six-game winning streak.
Last weekend, the Hopkins football team faced their toughest test yet this season against the Moravian College Greyhounds at Homewood Field. Both teams came into the contest undefeated in what would prove to be an entertaining matchup.
Van Cortlandt Park is regarded nationwide as one of the most challenging cross country courses that a collegiate athlete will face. Located in the middle of the Bronx, the course manages to have it all — the flats, the rolling backhills and of course the dreaded Cemetery Hill. Despite facing their toughest competition yet this season, along with the gut wrenching tales of Van Cortlandt Park, the Blue Jays rose to the occasion during the highly anticipated Iona College Meet of Champions on Sept. 16.
While the first couple weeks of the NFL season have been filled with excitement and great games, some of the biggest storylines have been taking place during the playing of the national anthem before each game.
The Hopkins men’s soccer team maintained their undefeated record this season with a 2-0 win against the Gwynedd Mercy Griffins last Saturday. This is the second time in three years that the Blue Jays have held a perfect record in their first five games.
While most students dread coming back to school for a new year, there is a silver lining — college football. If the first two weeks of the new season are any sign of things to come, then this season is going to be full of upsets, comebacks and Hail Marys.
“Any given Sunday.” The phrase has entered the general lexicon of the sports world to describe the unpredictable nature of the NFL each and every week. This chaos is always amplified the opening week of the season, when teams are still adjusting to the plethora of changes that occurred in the offseason. No team returns the same roster from the season before, as attrition and aging have ushered out a generation of veterans. Into the vacancy steps a talented, but inexperienced rookie class looking to acclimate to the professional level.
The Hopkins women’s volleyball team went 1-1 this past weekend against Eastern University, which is ranked at #16. The team also swept Neumann University away in St. Davids, Pa. on Saturday afternoon.
Faced with tough conditions, the Hopkins women’s soccer team battled to a 2-2 tie against The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) last Saturday.
The Hopkins football team continued their regular season winning streak with a dominant 41-7 win over the Susquehanna University River Hawks in this season’s Centennial Conference opener. Saturday’s game marked the Jays’ 33rd straight regular season victory, bringing them to 55-1 in their last 56 regular season games.
In 1908, the first Ford Model T was built, William Howard Taft succeeded Teddy Roosevelt as President, Orville Wright flew the first hour-long flight and the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, defeating the Detroit Tigers in five games for the second consecutive season. A lot has happened since then. There are Ferraris and Teslas, there have been 17 presidents, over one million people now fly across the globe in planes every day and the Tigers have won four World Series titles. However, of the innumerable events of the past 108 years, there has not been another Cubs World Series championship.
