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.
This past Saturday, the Hopkins men’s soccer team faced off against the Gwynedd Mercy Griffins for the first time ever at Homewood Field, despite the torrential downpour that had ravaged the field just an hour before. The Jays came out strong and wowed their fans with a 2-0 victory, bringing their overall record on the young season to 3-0-2.
The Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams asserted their strength as they kicked off the season last Thursday at the Baltimore Metro Invitational, hosted by the Stevenson Mustangs. The Jays lived up to their hefty preseason predictions with both the men and women finishing with perfect team scores. After finishing fourth at nationals last season, the Jays enter the 2016 season ranked top in the region and third in the country. Meanwhile, the men, who finished second in the Mideast Regional last season, are predicted to finish third in the region by the Cross Country Coaches Association. They will return four of their top five runners from Regionals.
September has always been my favorite month of the year, especially as I have grown older and the meaning of “summer vacation” has begun to lose its luster. September brings with it all the delights of fall — the changing colors of the leaves, lessening humidity and cooling temperatures that make it ideal hoodie weather. My birthday also falls in September. Therefore, the arrival of the NFL season each year will forever be one of my favorite presents.
Expectations are high for the Hopkins Women’s Soccer team entering the 2016 season after coming off a Centennial Conference Championship. The Blue Jays enter the season projected second in the preseason coaches poll and should remain a strong contender. The team has made the past 11 NCAA Tournaments, a streak they are expected to continue in 2016.
The Hopkins’ Men’s Soccer team opens the year ranked fourth in the Centennial Conference following a heartbreaking end to the 2015 season, when they suffered a loss to Haverford College in the Conference semifinals.
Last Friday night, the Blue Jays won an exciting season opener against the Washington & Lee Generals. Junior defensive player Francesca Cali had a particularly notable performance to help the Jays solidify their win.
It is hard to believe that summer is coming to a close and with it baseball’s regular season. There has already been a lot to remember from this 2016 season: Giancarlo Stanton’s total annihilation of his opponents in the Home Run Derby, the Chicago Cubs’ complete destruction of every other team in the standings, David Ortiz’s extraordinary and MVP-caliber final season and Alex Rodriguez’s underwhelming and not so MVP-caliber final season.
The first day of class always brings with it certain levels of electricity, jitters and excitement for the start of a new semester. It was fitting that the Homewood Campus would play host to a tough matchup on the gridiron.
Both the Men’s and Women’s track teams competed at the Widener University Invitational in Chester, Pa. last weekend, which ultimately served as pivotal preparation for the Centennial Championships, which will be held in two weeks.
