Baseball Beats Up Beavers, Looks to LaVerne

Nick Grudin

The baseball team played their annual series against Cal Tech this weekend and demonstrated their much improved form. As the spring comes to a close the Hens are playing their best baseball of the season.

Star outfielder Kevin Hickey ’99 said, "Things are really coming together for us out there. People are doing what we always knew they could do. It was a matter of time before we started playing to our potential and now we really are."

This coming of age was demonstrated in their first game against Cal Tech, played in Pasadena on Friday. The Hens took the contest by the incredible margin of 25-0. [con't]

Duffers Hope to Finish Season on a High Note

James Hodgson

The Pomona-Pitzer Golf Team walked the fairways and greens for their last individual match of the season on the Monday before last, knocking off Cal Poly Pomona, 334-360.

But the team struggled in the following tournaments, scoring similar to that of their match against the "other Pomona," but suffering large losses to tougher competition.

In the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational at Red Hill Country Club last Monday, Pomona shot a 333 as compared to Cal Baptist and CMS’s scores of 309 and UC-San Diego’s 310. [con't]

Meyered On Sports

Couch Being Stereotyped?

Doug Meyer

"The bumpkinization of Tim Couch was inevitable"–Sally Jenkins in ESPN magazine

A sea-change has been occurring within the football and basketball establishments, both professional and Division I, over the past thirty years in regards to both the portrayal and purveying of our assiduously-crafted "sports heroes." The way the power brokers within the sports media temple, with or without the tacit collusion of the "upper management" complex (the above-referenced owners, GMs, and coaches) have finessed the "essence" of a star’s persona, be it manifested in the athlete’s skin pigmentation, socio-political orientation, familial class station in society, etc., has undergone one of those much-alluded to, but rarely witnessed, paradigmatic shifts. [con't]

Men’s Tennis Looks Out for Number One

James Hodgson

Matching up against UC-Santa Cruz in tennis is like asking the current Chicago Bulls to play the champions of last year–an overall win is nearly impossible, as it is difficult to win a single set, let alone an entire match.

However, against the Banana Slugs the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Tennis Team was able to do just that. Despite a 6-1 loss overall, Dylan Nachand ’01 won his number five singles battle. The following day, a worn out Sagehen squad dropped a 5-2 contest to Washington and Lee, but still the team could relish in Nachand’s individual success.

The Banana Slugs from UCSC are the best Division III team in the country. Two of their singles players rank among the top ten nationwide. In fact, Santa Cruz is so good that it is difficult to remember the last time they lost any part of any match–singles, doubles, or overall. [con't]

Joe Knows Sports

Jim Barker’s Canadian Quest

Joe Curley

His final recruiting class barely lingers at Pomona and Pitzer Colleges.

Second-semester seniors, his would-be co-captains, Kevin Hickey ’99 and Mike Witzansky ’99, are two of the final four student-athletes still linking Jim Barker to the program he used to love. Others, like Jake Parker ’99 and Greg Yin ’99, have become separated from the baseball program since his departure, but represent another reason why the former coach was enamoured with Claremont. They have secured futures post-graduation in the form of "great jobs."

But in less than a month, the final remnants of the program he built will be gone. [con't]

Women’s Water Polo Worn Out by Athenas

Nick Grudin

The Women’s Water Polo team traveled across campus to Axelrood Pool on Wednesday to battle Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the first of two season meetings for the rivals.

Coming off of a strong performance in the Western Water Polo Association tournament last weekend in Bakersfield, in which they won three out of four games, the Hens, who have played in five games over the past seven days, fell to the Stags 9-5.

The Sagehens started the game strong answering all of CMS’s goals with strikes of their own. Young sensation Joy Haviland ’02 scored less than a minute after the Stags went up 1-0, and later, with one minute remaining, veteran leader Kelly Grogan ’99 found the net only 30 seconds after CMS took a one goal lead. As the quarter came to a close CMS scored one final goal, ending the period with a 3-2 lead. [con't]