Third-ranked University of Florida used scoring runs of 7-1 and 7-2 to pull away from 17th-ranked Hopkins Saturday afternoon in American Lacrosse Conference action at Disney Stadium.
The Hopkins baseball team opened up Centennial Conference play this past Saturday against Haverford. This was a highly anticipated matchup between two nationally ranked teams. Last year, the Fords beat Hopkins three times, including a defeat in the Centennial Conference Tournament. The Blue Jays were looking for revenge against the Fords, while the Fords sought to continue their fourteen game win streak.
“We have a lot of young talent and we are hungry,” sophomore men’s tennis player Erik Lim said. This hunger was evident during the teams past eventful weekend of play, as the Jays competed on both Saturday and Sunday against Swarthmore and Carnegie Mellon, respectively. Hopkins finished triumphantly in both contests due to various team and individual performances.
Coming off an overtime loss to American University earlier in the week, the women’s lacrosse team found themselves in another tight match on Saturday.
Last weekend, as it finally started to feel like spring, the Hopkins men’s and women’s track and field teams started their outdoor season. After a very successful winter, expectations were high for both men and women at the Maryland Invitational.
The eighth-ranked Blue Jays suffered a shocking defeat after falling to the sixth-ranked UNC Tar Heels in overtime by a final score of 11-10.
By ZACH PALMER
The Hopkins women’s tennis team has certainly started the season off with a bang, winning the National Indoor Tennis Championship and holding the national #1 ranking. With their championship win behind them, the Lady Jays took on Centennial Conference foe Bryn Mawr College this past weekend, and another school with a great engineering reputation, Carnegie Mellon University.
With the game tied with five seconds left in the second half of overtime, junior Taylor D’Amore came up with a draw and fired the game winning goal for her third tally on the day. The win over Vanderbilt is the first for Hopkins since May 4, 2007.
While most Hopkins students were home enjoying a well-deserved, relaxing spring break, the Hopkins men’s tennis team began the first stretch of their season as they traveled to San Antonio, Texas during the week to take on two opponents. Many of the players on the team have been essential in securing a strong 6-2 record to start the season.
The Jays kicked off their school vacation by heading up north for their first out of state game. Unable to find success against their long time rival in the Carrier Dome, Hopkins fell to Syracuse, 13-8. However after a week of practice, the Jays would end their break on a high note, powering through Virginia, 15-8 this past Saturday.
Joining the waves of spring breakers, the baseball team traveled down to Fort Myers, Fla. to embark on a spring training trip, playing a total of 10 games. The team’s intention going into the week was to use the warm weather to work out a few kinks and to get ready for upcoming conference play. The Jays surpassed their initial intentions and found themselves ranked amongst the best teams in the country. According to d3baseball.com, the Jays are 17th in the nation with a 14-2 record. This was brought on by the 9-1 record the Jays boasted in Florida, defeating some of the best teams from around the country. The 14-2 record is the best season start for the Hopkins since 2004.
In his first three years at Hopkins, senior wrestler Paul Marcello had fallen short of his goal to win an NCAA tournament match. After winning the 141-pound regional title on March 2, Marcello qualified for his fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championship, as the fifth seed in the country.
It was an exciting weekend in Texas as both the Hopkins men’s and women’s swim teams competed in the NCAA Championships for Swimming and Diving. Both teams did extremely well, with the men’s team finishing in fourth place and the women coming in fifth overall.
This past weekend, The News-Letter had the opportunity to discuss baseball with a professional scout. We talked about college baseball, performance enhancing drugs and of course the upcoming season. With the baseball season just a week away, here is a preview of the 2013 MLB season.
Freshman Dene’ DiMartino’s go ahead goal with just two minutes and 41 seconds remaining broke the Blue Jays’ 9-9 tie with Towson, improving Hopkins’s record to 6-2 on the season.
The Hopkins women’s tennis team started their season with a bang, winning the ITA team indoor National Championship in Greencastle, Ind. This led to a #1 ranking in the women’s tennis realm and accompanying expectations. The Lady Jays travelled down to San Antonio, Texas, for their first outdoors match, where they faced off against Trinity (TX) University. They handled the #14 team in the nation with ease, winning the team matchup by a score of 9-0.
As you may have known, we suffered a little bit of a setback last week when we traveled to Syracuse for a match up in the Carrier Dome. Although it is always a tough place to play, we came out flat and were just never able to recover from the deficit. It marked our second loss on the season, putting us at a 5-2 record. The bus ride home was long and quiet, but we couldn’t dwell on the loss because we had Virginia the next weekend at M & T Bank Stadium, the home of the world champion Baltimore Ravens.
After a disappointing loss to a tough Princeton team, we had a short turn around before a game Tuesday night, then another one Friday. It’s usually one or two weeks a year that this happens, having 3 games in ten days. It was a great test for our team in seeing how we could respond to our first loss of the season. Despite everyone being tired and sore, not to mention the fact that it was midterm week for most of the team, we pulled together and worked hard throughout the whole week in game planning.
Last Friday evening, the Hopkins men’s lacrosse team took on in-state rival University of Maryland, Baltimore County at Homewood Field. The Jays came out hot, grabbing a 5-0 lead and then later initiating a 5-1 run to secure the victory. The Retrievers fell to the Jays, 13-7, as eight different players scored for Hopkins. The win pushed the Jays to 5-1 on the year, and improved their program record to 11-0 against the Retrievers. Meanwhile, the Retrievers slipped to 1-4 on the season.
