Sagehens Look to Chase Leos Back to La Verne

By Nick Grudin

The Pomona-Pitzer football team will undertake the greatest challenge of their season so far this Saturday when they face-off against the SCIAC powerhouse La Verne Leos in what promises to be an exciting and competitive game. La Verne is undefeated this season, beating its opponents by a total of 111 points to 31.

Their record speaks for itself, but the Leos even more daunting when one looks at the size and athleticism of some of the players on their team. Pomon-Pitzer coach Roger Caron said, "They are bigger, stronger and faster than us…We’ll give it a go." [con't]

CMS Gives Men’s Soccer Rude Awakening

By Neel Garlapati

The Sagehen booters had their opportunities to score, but they were all squandered, and the CMS stags pushed the Hens off of the cloud they had been riding on with a 3-0 shutout Wednesday evening.

The loss was the fourth shutout in five games that the Sagehens had been involved in, but it was the only Hen loss in those five games. Before being shutout by CMS, the Hens had scored 18 goals in the previous four games, winning the last two games by a margin of 12-0. The loss was the Hens’ first loss in SCIAC play, and it dropped their overall record to 5-3-1 (3-1-1 SCIAC). [con't]

Sagehens Succeed in Brief Northern Exposure

By Keith Richey

This past Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s and Women’s Cross-Country teams travelled all the way to Palo Alto for the Stanford Invitational. The Sagehen runners had to wake up early, catch a plane from Ontario to San Francisco, drive south to the Stanford campus, complete a race, grab a quick bite to eat, and return to Pomona in one day. That is quite a lot of trouble to go through just to run an eight kilometer race, as the men did, or a five-k, which the women ran. But it was well worth the trip, as the Hens ran particularly well up north. [con't]

Volleyball Hopeful Despite Loss to La Verne

By Erin McCarville

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s volleyball team had its first Southern California Interscholastic Athletic Conference (SCIAC) match against Whittier on September 28, boosting their overall record to 5-4. They followed this victory with another exciting win over Redlands last Friday. The close game provided much excitement as the Sagehen’s offense dominated in the first game rallying from a seven point deficit to win 15-13. After losing the second game 13-15, the Sagehens came back to win the final two sets 15-9, 17-15, to the joy of the belligerent crowd. [con't]

Student Athletes: Stupid or Victimized?

By Nick Grudin

Prejudice means pre-judgment. Without prejudice, we would not be capable of making decisions based on prior experience. If you see a man dressed in black, with a panty-hose over his head, running towards a mini-van with tinted windows and Marlyn Manson stickers plastered onto his rear bumper, based on your prejudices (and some intuitive reasoning), you probably wouldn’t try to set him up on a blind date with your younger sister. At the same time, however, intelligent, self-critical people try to overcome and disregard certain prejudices that prove to be unwarranted and downright unfair to a given group of people. It would be unreasonable and very socially limiting to say, for example, that anybody simply dressed in black, or, anybody that happens to listen to Marilyn Manson is necessarily unworthy of your sister. [con't]

Disappointing Losses Frustrate Women’s Soccer

By Jey Cho

Two more tough losses have put a damper on the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens’ season, and it looks as if it will be a struggle for the team to finish at .500 this season.

Coming into Saturday’s game against La Verne with a chance to move ahead in the SCIAC standings, the Sagehens came out of the game a little short of a satisfying result. Despite eight brilliant saves by goalie Zelinda Welch’00, two first-half goals by La Verne were enough to beat the Sagehens. A late second-half goal off a corner kick by Jo Kirsch’01 cut the score to 2-1, but the team ran out of time before another scoring chance could be generated. [con't]