Junior Sophia Meehan has paced the Hopkins cross country runners all season. Recently, she’s been pacing the competition too. Meehan was named the Centennial Conference Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week Monday for her performance in the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh AAE Invitational this past weekend.
This past Saturday, the Hopkins men’s soccer team headed to Pennsylvania to face Franklin & Marshall. The Diplomats entered the game on a 14-game win streak with a record of 13-0-1, and Hopkins looked determined to pull that streak out from under their feet.
The cross country team traveled to the Cornhusker State this weekend as they competed in the Oshkosh Invitational. The races were stacked with competition; the men’s side hosted 10 of the top 35 teams in the nation, while the women’s side hosted nine. Knowing the course is a flat golf course that boasts easy turns and wide straightaways, the team was looking to set some personal bests this weekend.
As the anticipation continued to rise after each practice during the week, the Hopkins football team traveled up to Carlisle, Pa. this past Friday to face off against conference rival Dickinson. This was their first Friday game of the year, so they had a short week to prepare.
The Hopkins volleyball team continued its sucesses against Ursinus, picking up its third straight win in a dominating sweep of the Bears. After a rough start to the season, the Lady Jays have now won eight of their last 10, putting them at 12-10 for the season and 4-2 in Centennial Conference play.
The Hopkins men’s soccer team battled two Pennsylvania opponents, — one of which was a Centennial Conference rival — this past week in the heart of a 10-day, four-game game stretch of tough games away from Homewood Field. Seeing a total of only one goal in 200 minutes of play over the two games against Neumann University and in-conference rival Ursinus, the Jays battled for a hard fought win and draw, respectively.
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Coming on the heels of a dominant winning streak, the Hopkins women’s soccer team traveled to Collegeville, Pa. to face off against Ursinus this past Saturday in a Centennial Conference showdown.
In continuation of what has been an up and down season, the Hopkins women’s field hockey team suffered a 2-0 loss to Ursinus this past Saturday at Homewood Field. The loss lowers the team’s record to 5-7 overall and 2-3 in conference. The Lady Jays have been inconsistent as they have yet to string together a streak of more than two wins in a row.
The official spring tennis season has not yet begun and already, a Blue Jay athlete has made history. Sophomore Ashnaa Rao of the Hopkins women's tennis team won three straight matches in a span of three days to secure the National Small College Singles Championship and even earned a spot in the dubbed ‘Super Bowl’ Championship on the following day.
On a beautiful, crisp fall Saturday morning, the Hopkins men’s tennis team welcomed Amherst to nearby Morgan State University for a matchup that featured the defending Division III national champions in Amherst and the seventh-seeded Jays. The match proved to be the most highly contested of the Jays brief fall season, as Hopkins pushed the Lord Jeffs to the brink before falling 5-4. The match was one of the longest that the Jays have played this season, as the doubles and singles brackets combined to take over four hours long.
The Hopkins men’s water polo team won in sensational fashion this past weekend as they beat the George Washington Colonials 15-13 in CWPA Southern Division competitive play.
On Saturday, the Hopkins men's and women's cross country teams raced in the Paul Short Invitational, a prestigious tournament with a competitive field of many of the nation's most elite runners. The meet was split into three races: Gold, Brown and White, with Gold being the most competitive. Both the men's and women's teams competed in the Gold race, finishing 30th and 10th, respectively.
The Blue Jay football team kept its regular season success rolling on Saturday, as they steamrolled Juniata 56-14, scoring touchdowns on six of its first seven possessions. Saturday’s game marked the 39th time Hopkins has emerged victorious in its last 40 regular season games.
On a cool Friday night, the Lady Jays field hockey team took the field with the goal of attaining a winning record in the Centennial Conference. Although the weekend came with many distractions, the Lady Jays maintained unfaltering focus on the goal at hand. Swarthmore came into the game with a 0-3 Centennial Conference record and looked to upset Hopkins on its home turf. The Lady Jays, coming off of two losses themselves, prepared to attack the weakened foe.
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Over the weekend, the Hopkins men’s soccer team fell to Dickinson in a hard-fought 90 minutes. There were many ups and downs in action throughout the game coming from two teams that have a combined 13 wins this season.
Over the weekend, the Hopkins water polo team traveled to California to compete in the Gary Troyer Memorial Tournament, in which the Jays played four of the nation’s top 10 teams in all of D-III. Although Hopkins dropped three of four, they beat the fourth-ranked team in the country, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 15-10 before falling to Whittier in the final game of the weekend.
This past weekend, the Hopkins water polo team flew all the way across the nation to battle fierce competition in the pool.
This past weekend, the Hopkins women’s volleyball team headed to Swarthmore College for a pair of matches against stiff competition. In the early afternoon session against the host squad, the Lady Jays had a 2-1 advantage heading into the fourth set before dropping the final two sets against a tough Swarthmore team. In the late afternoon portion of the competition, the Lady Jays were able to respond and dominate against Neumann en route to a decisive 3-0 victory. With the split, Hopkins evened their record to a 10-10 on the season, while the loss to Swarthmore dropped them to 1-2 in Centennial Conference play. However, the Lady Jays established a lead and offered a fierce challenge to one of the top teams in the conference. Swarthmore now sits at 11-4 on the season, including an unblemished 4-0 record within the Centennial.
