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November 24, 2024

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Steph Curry and the Warriors are winning at a record pace in 2016.

Steph Curry captures America’s imagination

I remember Steph Curry from his early days at Davidson College in North Carolina. He was a skilled and athletic scorer who propelled his small school to the national spotlight when the Wildcats reached the 2008 Elite Eight, where they fell just two points shy of the eventual national champion Kansas Jayhawks in a March Madness classic.


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Sophomore Shack Stanwick helped the Blue Jays to a 17-7 victory on Saturday with two goals and three assists. See Page B12.

Men’s Lax blows out Princeton at home

This past Saturday, the Hopkins men’s lacrosse team came through with a 17-7 win against Princeton University. The home game was well-attended by students and alumni, and the win brought the team to a 2-2 record for the season.


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McDonald races to a 58.25-second finish for a meet record in the 400 meter.

Track & Field brings home first place honors

This past weekend, both the men’s and women’s track and field teams brought home Centennial Conference titles from competitions hosted by Ursinus College in Collegetown, Pa. While the Jays came out on top, the Haverford College Fords did offer some competition. Along with the team titles, the Jays saw many record-breaking individual performances during the two-day event.


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Junior Katharine Couch won two bouts in the Epee category.

Full slate for Men’s and Women’s Fencing Sunday

This past weekend, both the Hopkins men’s and women’s fencing teams were in action, participating in several matches. The men’s team played five matches on Sunday at the Philadelphia Invitational, winning four of the matches. One of Sunday’s victories came against ninth-ranked Duke University. The women’s team also traveled to Pennsylvania for the Philadelphia Invitational and faced stiff competition. They were able to pick up one victory out of four and faced three teams which are currently receiving votes for the CollegeFencing360.com Coaches’ Poll.


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Sophomore Nick Burns rears back and fires vs. New Paltz on Sunday.

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.


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Junior midfielder Haley Schweizer played quite an impressive match against Loyola, a tough challenger.

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.




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Senior Nicholas Garica was a major factor in the win vs. Salisbury.

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.



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Senior catcher Mitch Weaver will lead the Jays from behind the dish.

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.


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Senior center Matt Billups had eight blocks to break the school record.

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.


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Senior Josie George has anchored the “D,” scooping up seven ground balls.

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.


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Haley Schweizer scored six goals.

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.


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Gordon won the title with this dunk.

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.



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.



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Head coach Janine Tucker got her 250th career win on Friday.

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.


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