Baseball off to an underwhelming start

The Blue Jays Baseball team opened up its 2016 campaign in two hard-fought contests, first losing to the Keystone College Giants and then failing to capitalize on an eight-run lead in a tie with SUNY New Paltz.

The frustrating true effects of rain delays

A week ago, the Hopkins women’s lacrosse team experienced what many sports teams have experienced before: a delay. Unfortunately for the Lady Jays, it was a weather delay that forced them to wait for almost three hours to finish the game.

Coach at Gilman helps change lives

Athlete of the Week: Dene’ Dimartino — Women’s Lacrosse

Last week, senior captain and midfielder Dene’ DiMartino was one of three Hopkins Lacrosse players named to the Tewaaraton Watch List.

Tennis looks to build off solid past weekend

The Hopkins men’s tennis team opened up their spring season with a commanding 9-0 win versus the University of Delaware Blue Hens in Baltimore this past Friday. The win snapped a nine-game losing streak against Delaware and dropped the Blue Hens to 0-6 to start the season.

E-Sports making headway against tradition

Expectations flying high for baseball

Coming off a Conference Championship win last season, the Hopkins baseball team has big goals for 2016. In a five-game series last May, the Jays defeated the Franklin & Marshall College Diplomats for the conference title.

Billups sets blocks record in final game

This past weekend, the Hopkins men’s basketball team closed out their season with a bang as they cruised past Centennial Conference foe, the Washington College Shoremen, by a score of 82-65. With the victory, Hopkins finished their season with an overall mark of 13-12 (10-8 CC), while the Shoremen dropped to 3-22 (1-17 CC) in what has been a very tough campaign. The Jays ended up placing tied for fifth in the final Conference standings, finishing a game behind the fourth-place Gettysburg Bullets in the race for the final playoff spot. The season was certainly not a failure by any means since the Jays were consistently competitive and remained in contention for the playoffs until the final contest of the year. However, the Jays returned with a plethora of seniors from a team that won 25 games last season and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the D-III playoffs. With much of that talent returning, there was a hope that the Jays could once again be a dominating unit. While that did not happen, there is no question that this team faced significant adversity and still managed to be a formidable, albeit rarely dominant Conference challenger capable of beating any team in any given contest.

Women’s Lax off to a scintillating start

The 16th-ranked Hopkins women’s lacrosse team picked up a pair of dominating wins last week, both at home against the American University Eagles on Wednesday and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Sunday.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Haley Schweizer — Women’s Lacrosse

This week’s athlete of the week is Haley Schweizer, a junior on the women’s lacrosse team, who started the season with a record of 3-0. The most recent victory for Hopkins came against Rutgers College, with a win of 14-2. The scoring was led by Schweizer, who had six goals to her name.

Toronto delivers big for All-Star Weekend

Despite starting in late October, the NBA season is said to unofficially begin on Christmas Day. Likewise, with the Super Bowl in the rearview mirror and baseball still around the corner, mid-February is the time when the basketball season really takes off. Before the beginning of the stretch run though, the league’s best headed north of the border for an All-Star Weekend in Toronto that exhibited the best that basketball has to offer — and they did not disappoint.

Loyola knocks off M. Lax in top-10 matchup

On Saturday, Feb. 20, the Blue Jays lacrosse team took on the Loyola University Greyhounds.

Track prepares for postseason vs. D-I teams

The Hopkins Men’s and Women’s Track and Field teams participated in Boston University’s David Hemery Valentine Invitational this past weekend. The competitive field was filled with numerous D-I teams such as the Georgetown University Hoyas, Yale University Bulldogs, Boston College Eagles and many more. Both teams took advantage of the strong competition and ran some of the fastest times posted in the Centennial Conference this season.

Men’s B-Ball seniors show true resilience

On Saturday afternoon, the Hopkins Men’s Basketball team hosted their 15th annual Wall-O’Mahoney Game when they took on the Franklin & Marshall College Diplomats at Goldfarb Gymnasium.

W. Lax seizes historic opening win vs. Marquette

The No. 17 Hopkins Women’s Lacrosse team opened the season with a milestone 11-8 victory against the Marquette University Golden Eagles at home this past Friday. The win was the 400th in program history, and the 250th in Head Coach Janine Tucker’s career. The result puts Hopkins at 1-0 to start the season, while causing Marquette to fall to 0-2.

Wrestling finishes fourth at C.C. final

On Saturday, Feb. 13, the Hopkins wrestling team had a memorable showing at the Centennial Championships at McDaniel College.

Black History month reverberates in sporting world

Megatron, Beast Mode to hang up their cleats

The end of the NFL season has been headlined by the remarkable run by the Denver Broncos and the uncertain future of their legendary, surefire first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterback, Peyton Manning, who has made 40 look like the new 30.

Five things to watch during the Premier League

It isn’t even over yet, but this season of Premier League football has been the wildest since the inception of the league in 1992. On Feb. 11, 2015, the Leicester City Foxes was in last place before finishing the season on a “hot streak” to avoid relegation and earn a 14th-place finish. At the time of writing, the Foxes occupy the top spot on the table by five points (over perennial contender the Arsenal Gunners and the always borderline Tottenham Hotspur “Spurs” — more on them later). Towards the bottom of the table, there’s Chelsea in 13th. The defending champions have been unable to right the ship after a rocky start and now face a year without any European competitions. In what has been a crazy season, The News-Letter names its top five things to look out for in the rest of the year.