Sagehens Dart Out to 2-1 Start

By Nick Grudin

In a season set up as a potential let-down, which only brought back one senior after last year’s SCIAC championship, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s basketball team looks surprisingly impressive this pre-season. With Jeff Herzog ’00 as the only senior presence on the team, a number of juniors are looking to step up and show some leadership in what could be another dominating season for Coach Katsiaficas’s perennial SCIAC power. [con't]

Women Swimmers Sink Oxy in Season Opener

By Kwig Jordan

Last Saturday, the women’s swim team opened their season in Eagle Rock with an exciting victory over SCIAC foe Occidental with a score of 131-109. With a victory in the final relay, the 200 free (1:47.29), Alli Schwartzman ’01, Breen Murphy ’00, Elizabeth Widmar ’03, and Jackie Cole ’02 sealed the deal for Pomona-Pitzer. "The whole team really pulled together for this one," Captain Margo Middaugh ’01 said. If you had to pick out one awesome individual performance for the day, well, that would have to be Christen Parker ’02 who just plain cleaned house, winning the 100 free (55.73) and the 500 free (5:27.97), as well as kicking in a leg for the 200 medley (backstroke). [con't]

Meyered On Sports

The DL on the NCAA, the BCS, and Ricky W.

It has come to this ink-stained, er, QWERTY-enslaved, carpal-tunnel-syndrome-suffering-wretch’s attention recently that certain despicable, sulking segments of the TSL’s sports section readership are often disenchanted by the interminable length of the digressions encapsulated within this space. So be it. I am a hard blowhard, but I am a fair blowhard. I hereby submit to the irresistible Zeitgeist catalyzed by USA Today and various other McFactoid-spewing print journalism entities. As a holiday gift, I hereby submit three flirtacious, cute, breezy "vignettes" for easily-digestible readership consumption. [con't]

Women Drop Game to Azusa Pacific 64-41

By Neel Garlapati

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s basketball team, missing three major components of their team, opened their season with four tough losses, most recently to an Asuza Pacific team that played more like a squad of East Germans from the late 1980’s than a small college women’s basketball team.

The Azusa Pacific Cougars pulled away from the Hens very early in the game, en route to a 64-41 victory that may not have been as close as the score suggested. The Hens were able to keep the game close for the first five minutes, with scrappy play under the basket and some accurate mid-range jumpers, but before long, the superior physical presence of the Cougars put the game out of reach. [con't]

Boardman Shatters PR at NCAA Championships

By Keith Richey

Adam Boardman ’01 has always been able to run faster than most other people. He is accustomed to being comfortably within the top ten percent of the runners in any given race. He never finished lower than fifth in competition against Division-III runners this year, until he finished 35th in the NCAA National Championships in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on November 20. What happened to him that he went from fifth to 35th, you might ask. [con't]

Finnegan Races to a New Personal Best in Final Meet

By Laura Bishop

The 1999 Fall Season was full of both individual and team achievements for Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Cross-Country; the team placed third in the SCIAC championships and sixth in the Western Regionals. The Regional meet in Portland, Oregon three weeks ago proved successful for all of the participating Sagehen runners, many of which surpassed their previous personal records. Only Senior Captain, Anastasia Finnegan ’00, however, was able to advance to the National meet to compete individually with hundreds of the Nation’s best Division III cross-country runners. So two weeks ago, Finnegan, the only Pomona-Pitzer Men’s qualifier Adam Boardman ’01, Women’s Coach Kirk Reynolds, and Men’s Coach Pat Mulcahy set out for Osh Kosh, Wisconsin for the Nationals with high spirits. [con't]