Last Saturday, Pomona-Pitzer Athletics and Pomona Partners sponsored the Second Annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day event at Pomona College. The 30 participants, mostly grades 7-9, were part of Pomona Partners, a Pomona College community outreach program, servicing two schools in the Pomona Unified School District. National Girls and Women in Sports Day is nationally recognized and began in 1987 as a day to remember Olympic Volleyball player, Flo Hyman, to promote the positive influence of sports participation, and to support the continuing struggle for equality and access for females in sports.

Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Lacrosse traveled to UC Davis last weekend for the Western States Tournament. There, the Hens played a lacrosse tournament against teams from many of the western states of this great nation. P-P won its first two matches easily, defeating the University of Puget Sound in a blow out and than defeating Whitman 11-6. In their third game, they played a much stronger and more aggressive team from Chico State, but they managed to win that one 7-6 in a squeaker. The Hens were very impressed with their performance after the first day of competition.

No one cried for them when they walked off the field. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Not against a La Verne team that is currently ranked fourth in SCIAC. And not 16-2.

The first of three contests started out all wrong as the La Verne Leopards trounced the Sagehens for five runs in the second, five runs in the fifth, and six in the ninth. The Sagehen stat line read like binary, as they managed to squeeze in a run in the third and fourth innings off of two solo home runs, shut out for the rest of the game.

"S’cuse me buddy, do you know where the Lucha Libre is?"

The security guard looks at me a little suspiciously. It’s the same sort of look I always get browsing through the racks at Victoria’s Secret. I’ve got a pretty good idea why this is the case. It’s because I’m six foot six. And white, unlike everybody browsing through the vendors’ stalls in the Anaheim Indoor Market on this given Sunday.

Blustery, drab, and frosty. Buffalo is best known for its immense piles of snow on the roads, its heavy snowstorms, and tiny spicy chicken wings. A week in upstate NY is anything but an ideal vacation destination during March, but five Pomona-Pitzer swimmers rejoiced at the prospect of seven days at the mercy of wintry storms. For the week of March 8-10, Buffalo’s Erie Community College natatorium hosted the NCAA Division III swimming and diving championships, a.k.a. Nationals. How did they score this all-expense paid trip to snow city?

Pomona-Pitzer men’s tennis had a two-match home stay last weekend, facing Linfield College on Friday and Pacific Lutheran on Saturday. The Hens entered the weekend with a 10-3 record, 4-1 in the SCIAC. The Hens came off of a resounding defeat at the hands of second ranked Gustavas Adolphus, where they only won one match. Never a team to be discouraged, however, the Hens bounced back and played very confidently throughout the weekend.

I will not lie to you when it comes to the last two Sagehen softball games. I’ll make it quick and hopefully painless: in the last two games, the Hens had one hit– total. In a season that has not been all-too-kind to them, the Sagehens began promisingly behind Sharon Silveira’s ’01 leadoff single. However, that was all the play the defense would see for the next 33 at-bats.