P-P Pounds Whittier
By
DAVID DILWORTH
Staff Writer
As the leaves changed colors and Southern California turned from summer to a mild variation of fall, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s soccer season closed on a high note.
Volleyball Loses at Cal
By
DAN DRISCOLL
Sports Editor
The Pomona-Pitzer women’s volleyball team played its last match Thursday, November 1 at Cal Lutheran, falling 17-30, 20-30, 20-30. The loss capped an eight-game losing streak for P-P, while it gave the Regals a chance to redeem themselves following consecutive losses at La Verne and Occidental.
Men’s Basketball Takes on Continent, Loses
By
CHRIS DEMPSEY
Sports Associate
It would seem unfair to expect the combined forces of Pomona-Pitzer to go up against an opponent with a population of 18.6 million, its own army, and the 13th largest economy in the world, but this was exactly what happened on November 3 when the Pomona-Pitzer men’s basketball team went up against the Australia Institute of Sport.
P-P Water Polo Falls at CMS
STAFF REPORT
The Sagehens closed out their regular season with the traditional grudge match against the CMS Stags Saturday, November 3. Despite five goals by defender Ben Speicher ’03 and 6 saves from goalkeeper Jamie Love ‘03, P-P fell to the Stags 16-5. The loss drops the Sagehens to a 2-5 record in SCIAC, 3-19 overall.
D’Backs Win One of Best World Series Ever
By
TERESA VALDEZ KLEIN
Contributing Writer
It was every game of backyard baseball ever played. Every kid who has ever pulled their father out to the yard after dinner on a late summer evening to toss an old ball back and forth knows about the bottom of the ninth. For a moment, watching Luis Gonzalez getting ready to take his swings, I remembered playing this very game with my father in my backyard.
Keller Leads Swimmers in P-P Season Opener
By
CONOR O’ROURKE
Sports Associate
Some people say swimmers have the perfect bodies. I say, these people are right. It’s a beautiful thing really, the human form gliding effortlessly through a magically blue water. I felt guilty watching these specimens of near physical perfection perform at a high level of competition, striving for their goals, craving victory, while all I was craving on that beautiful Saturday afternoon was a big, fat, juicy In’n’Out burger.
