After an entire offseason, the draft, training camp, pre-season, 17 regular season games, three playoff games, 57 minutes of Super Bowl intensity and a 34 minute power outage, the Baltimore Ravens’ season came down to five yards.
The Hopkins men’s basketball team had a whirlwind week, going undefeated against conference foes Gettysburg and Swarthmore in dramatic fashion. Topping their opponents 64-59 and 67-61, respectively, the Jays are now 10-4 in conference play and are riding a five game winning streak.
As the month of January came to a close, the Lady Jays managed to continue their success and carry their momentum into February. With two wins in pivotal games against Centennial Conference opponents last week, the team managed to improve their record to 13-9 overall. To compliment the wins, head coach Nancy Funk reached a career milestone.
Over the course of this past weekend, the Hopkins men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled to Penn State and University of Delaware to compete in the Penn State National Invitational and the Delaware Thomson Invitational. Throughout the course of these two tournaments, several individual records were broken.
Since the middle of December, the Hopkins women’s basketball team has played in 11 additional games. During that time, the Lady Jays went 8-3, bringing their record to 9-6 in the Centennial Conference and 10-9 overall. Dating back to Jan. 8, the team has won eight of their last nine games, all in conference.
Leading up to this past weekend’s matchup in Lexington, Va., the Blue Jays had several tough matchups to start off the New Year. Early in January, Hopkins competed in the Waynesburg Invitational. Leading the way at 125 lbs was sophomore Paul Bewak who clinched an individual title for the team. His efforts, along with seven other wrestlers who placed in the top six, earned the Blue Jays a third place finish. The team finished only behind Olivet, currently ranked seventh in the nation in Division III, and West Liberty, the 12th ranked school in Division II wrestling.
The month of January has been kind to the Hopkins men’s basketball program. After starting off the season 5-5, the Blue Jays have turned the corner in 2013. Not only has Hopkins gone 7-2 since the first of the month but, more importantly, the Jays have won three straight games against conference foes since their heart-wrenching double overtime loss against Franklin & Marshall on January 16.
On Sat., Jan. 26, the Hopkins women’s fencing team participated in the Philadelphia Invitational at Temple University. The team came out with one victory and five losses.
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Currently on a three-game winning streak, men's basketball has been putting up one strong performance after another. Losing only two games out of a possible ten in the new year, it appears they've unlocked some secret to success. That secret? 6'2'' junior guard Jimmy Hammer.
After running the table to start the year going 6-0, the Hopkins men’s fencing team defeated MIT (16-11) and Boston College (15-12), and lost to Yale (15-12), Brown (17-10), and host Brandeis (17-10) on Sunday at the Brandeis Invitational. The squad’s overall record now stands at 8-3. Two standouts emerged for the squad as freshmen John Petrie and Josiah Yiu paced the Jays with 10 wins each in Foil and Sabre, respectively.
The Hopkins men’s and women’s swimming teams traveled to Gettysburg to compete in the final Fall Fast Festival this past weekend. The Jays came out strong and did not look back, tallying 1129.5 points to take the top spot.
In nearby Annapolis, MD the men’s track team kicked off their ‘12–’13 season at the Navy Invitational with a strong performance against several Division I teams.
The women’s basketball team’s 6’-1’’ senior star, Alex Vassila, has emerged this young season as a force in the middle of the court for the Jays. Vassila leads the team in points per game with a 12.1 average, while scoring at an impressive .440 field goal percentage and leading the team with 10.2 rebounds per game. Even more remarkable, this Saturday, Vassila became the all-time blocks leader with 150 blocks for her career, surpassing Katie Kimball in the program’s record books.
On Saturday the Hopkins wrestling team traveled to York, Pa. to compete in the New Standard Corporation Invitational at York College.
The Lady Jays finished a three game stretch against Gettysburg, Ursinus, and Dickinson with a record of 2-1 (1-2). Against Gettysburg, the Lady Jays fell behind early in the second half after a 10-0 rally by the Bullets, and lost 54-48.
Hopkins escaped last Thursday night with a 66-59 win over home team Gettysburg, as the Blue Jays hit six straight free throws in the final 23 seconds to secure the victory.
The Hopkins women’s soccer team ended their storied run at the NCAA Division III National Championship this past weekend with a loss to the top-ranked, defending national champion, Messiah.
