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.
This past weekend, the men’s tennis team lit up the courts on the Homewood campus, easily besting the 40th-ranked N.C. Weslyan Battling Bishops by a 9-1 margin. The other portion of the Jays squad travelled to Allentown, Pa. to take on the Muhlenburg College Mules in a pivotal Centennial Conference bout.
Creating the schedule of a professional baseball league is an extraordinary challenge. In theory, there are more possible schedules than atoms in the universe.
We are just about three weeks into the 2016 Major League Baseball season, and teams are starting to establish early leads in their respective divisions. One of the surprises of this season so far has been the Baltimore Orioles’ hot start to open the Spring.
The Hopkins Blue Jays continued their winning ways this week, besting the Gettysburg College Bullets on Thursday and the Ursinus College Bears twice in a double-header over the weekend. The last time that the Jays lost a game was at the beginning of April, in the opening series of their Centennial Conference play against the Haverford Fords. The Jays have won 12 games with one tie since then, and they appear to be firing on all cylinders as they approach postseason competition.
The Hopkins Women’s Lacrosse team came away this past weekend with an impressive win against the 16th-ranked Boston College (BC) Eagles.
The Hopkins Men’s Lacrosse team travelled up to The Big House in Ann Arbor, Mich. to face off against their Conference rivals the University of Michigan Wolverines last Saturday.
After a long, grueling winter, spring has finally arrived and brought the baseball season with it. Veteran players will continue to leave an impact on the game while the youngsters try to make a name for themselves.
The No. 20 women’s lacrosse team fell this past Sunday to the No. 8 Stony Brook Seawolves on the road in Long Island. The loss drops them to 9-7 entering the season finale, while Stony Brook improves to 11-3.
