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(05/27/07 5:00am)
Hopkins took the field at M and T Bank Stadium this Saturday surrounded by a record number of cheering fans. The usually purple crowd of the Baltimore Ravens' home stadium was a screaming, waving sea of blue as the Blue Jays took on the University of Delaware Blue Hens. It was a Cinderella story for the Hens, an unranked team upsetting second-seeded Virginia in the first round of the playoffs, and struggling their way to the final four. However, Hopkins would show no mercy. The Nest is only big enough for one blue bird. In the lowest-scoring game of Final Four history, Hopkins maintained the lead for the entire game. Following a final three-goal rally in the fourth quarter, the Blue Jays closed out the game, winning 8-3 and earning a chance to avenge an earlier loss against the Duke Blue Devils in the finals. "It's funny, a lot of people kept saying it's going to be Hopkins and Duke in the finals," Coach Pietramala said. "But there are four good teams here, and all four teams are good enough to get to that championship game. We were fortunate enough to do that."
(05/04/07 5:00am)
Fans were at the edge of their seats last Saturday as the fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse team faced fifteenth-ranked Towson. At the tail end of the season, where each game elicits playoff potential, the Jays seem to have hit their stride. The Jays topped the Tigers 9-7, scoring with four different players and tallying their third straight win.
(04/25/07 5:00am)
Two Fridays ago, the club sailing team made their usual trip down to the Inner Harbor for what they thought would be an ordinary day of sailing. What they found, however, were 40-mph gusts of wind, rolling waves and the most intense sailing experience of the year. "It was nuts, the most crazy day!" freshman sailing instructor Greg Shultz said. That Friday, the experienced sailors to had a blast and the novice sailors learned basically every possible situation they would need to know regarding sailing.
(04/19/07 5:00am)
Thousands of eyes were glued to television sets when Lance Armstrong won his seventh straight Tour de France. It represented the pinnacle of athletic achievement, sheer dominance in one of the most physically demanding sports.
(04/11/07 5:00am)
The Salisbury University club lacrosse squad stepped off the bus onto Homewood field in full uniform to find nine Hopkins players waiting for them, wearing different colored helmets and mismatched practice jerseys, unified only by different shades of blue. To play a game, a lacrosse team needs a minimum of 10 players. A call was made and within a few minutes, freshman Kyle Keane, the 10th man, came sprinting from the AMR dormitories, his lacrosse bag swinging from his shoulders. He grabbed a jersey and got suited up, and the ten men took the field, ready to play a full game with no chance of substitutions. The only referee was another Hopkins student, the brother of junior team captain Eric Fishel, and not a single fan sat in the bleachers that surround the legendary Homewood Field. It was a typical scene for the Hopkins club lacrosse team.
(04/06/07 5:00am)
Everyone loves an underdog story. We love to see Rocky knock out Ivan Drago, the Hoosiers win the state title, Average Joe's topple Globo-Gym. Something about the David and Goliath story hits a soft spot in our hearts, and this week, the David for whom the crowd cheered was the freshman tennis player David Maldow. His Goliath was John James from Mary Washington, who was ranked No. 7 in the country until his match with Maldow.
(03/28/07 5:00am)
David Ferguson had a tough road ahead of him as he made the trip up to Drew University in Madison, N.J., for the nationally televised NCAA National Fencing Championships this past weekend. Ferguson was Hopkins' only qualifier for the tournament and was pitted against some of the most elite fencers in the country.
(03/21/07 5:00am)
The men and women's fencing teams have traveled a long, difficult road, crossing blades with some of the toughest Division I teams in the entire nation. Both the men and women's teams are relatively young underdog squads, but throughout the season, they fought on, defying the odds and toppling their opponents in upset after upset.
(03/18/07 5:00am)
Coach Jim Murray of the women's fencing team walked off the bus at 6 o'clock Sunday morning with blue hair and a smile on his face. Before the team left for the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA) Championships at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., Murray promised his team that if they won some trophies, they could dye his hair blue. Whether it was for personal glory or simply the thought of seeing their coach resemble a Smurf, the team rose to the challenge in full force, finishing 17-1 for the tournament, and placing second overall in the team competition, once again winning the coveted Army Trophy. So too did the men's team enjoy success, albeit with less hair discoloration. They fought to a third-place finish at the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association (MACFA) Championships in Madison, N.J. this past Saturday.
(03/02/07 5:00am)
Physically exhausted and barely able to stand, the women's fencing team landed in Baltimore in the wee hours of Monday morning. A snowy night in Chicago had kept the team stuck at O'Hare Airport until the weather had cleared around 1 a.m. Despite their late night and sore muscles, the Lady Jays had smiles on their faces, their stellar performance still vivid in their minds.
(02/21/07 5:00am)
You won't find packed bleachers or people scrambling for tickets when the Hopkins men's fencing team suits up for a match. You won't see their latest victory scroll across the bottom of ESPN. What you will see when you walk through the doors of the fencing room is some of Hopkins most talented, hardest-working athletes crossing blades late into the night, fighting toward the goals they have set before them.
(02/15/07 5:00am)
Deep in the lower levels of the Hopkins Athletic Center, the clashing of steel rings in the air. In the fencing room, athletes draw their blades and for a few short hours, become warriors. Imagine the intensity of the final battle between The Bride and Oren-Ishii in the finale of Kill Bill. Then imagine living that fight each day, clashing blades in a frenzy for two grueling hours.
(02/08/07 5:00am)
Any team that steps foot in Goldfarb Gymnasium knows that they'll need to sink their shots, because just about any ball that bounces off the rim is likely to land in the hands of sophomore forward Kristin Phillips.