Last week, Jeremy Lin woke up on his brother’s couch preparing for his first NBA start. That couch had been his bed for the past month as Lin tried to get head coach Mike D’Antoni and the New York Knicks to guarantee him a contract. Later that day, Lin made the short trip to Madison Square Garden...

The Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Lacrosse team lost a hard-fought game to rival CMS Saturday afternoon, 19-8.  The Sagehens scored first and then evened the game at two goals apiece, but CMS’s deep attack and stingy defense soon took over. Martha Marich PO ’12 led all players with five goals, and...

Do you know who Giles Corey is?  During the Salem Witch Trials, he was put to death by being crushed by stones for consorting with the Devil.  His last words were reported to be the repetition of the phrase: “More Weight.”You may know this story, but the real question is: Could you catch the...

Pomona-Pitzer overcame a 16-point first half deficit against Occidental only to drop another last-second heartbreaker, losing 57-55 on Wednesday night at home. Oxy's Deshun McCoy scored the game-winning lay-up with 3.2 seconds to go on an assist from Jack Hanley. P-P was unable to muster a...

The Pomona-Pitzer softball team lost to Pacific Univeristy 6-1 Feb. 10 but rebounded Feb. 11 to defeat Chapman University 10-7 in the opener of a doubleheader. The Hens trailed 4-5 in the second game when it was postponed due to inclement weather. In the victory on Saturday, Fiona Riley PO ’15...

If any game could have given a coach a heart attack, it would have been the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo 15-13 victory over CMS at Las Flores Park in La Verne last Saturday. On this cold and rainy Saturday afternoon, umbrella-less fans huddled together under the shelter of the pool’s cover...

The Pomona-Pitzer baseball team started off SCIAC play this past weekend against Whittier on the right foot, winning two of three games and putting up 27 runs in the process. The Sagehens were able to beat the Whittier Poets in the first two games of the three-game set before their first lost of...

We often hear about two-sport athletes at high levels and how difficult it is to simultaneously achieve success in multiple sports. We saw Drew Henson (Tom Brady’s backup at Michigan) struggle to play college football and minor league baseball at the same time,...

Max Scholten PO '12 is arguably one of the most accomplished athletes Pomona-Pitzer has ever seen.  He currently holds six school records for the swim team—three individuals and three relays.  He has also broken his own school records multiple times.  One might call him the Michael Phelps of P-P....

Liking God is cool again, did you hear? Tim Tebow is bringing it back. He has quickly become the most popular NFL player, the most popular athlete and quite possibly, for a moment, the most popular person in America, all on the wings of Jesus. Bringing back values to professional sports, Tebow...

Behind a lock-down pitching performance by Travis Rooke-Ley PZ '12 and great plate discipline by the offense, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team put a whopping on the Whitworth Pirates, ending the game with a final score of 19-2. “They had a major disadvantage because their field is under a couple...

Aaron Van Klaveren’s free throw with 1.3 seconds remaining broke a 46-46 tie and propelled the Cal Lutheran Kingsmen to victory over Pomona-Pitzer in a scrappy contest at Voelkel Gymnasium on Wednesday. Cal Lu overcame a nine-point halftime deficit in a game in which neither team shot well. The...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s tennis team started their 2012 season with a loss in a nonconference match against fifth-ranked NAIA team Azusa Pacific. It was a tough test to start the season, according to Coach Ben Belletto. “They have scholarship players," explained the coach. "Three of their guys...

Both the men's and women's Pomona-Pitzer swim and dive teams defeated Occidental in hard-fought matches to solidify their status as two of the top teams in SCIAC.The hype over the Oxy v. Pomona-Pitzer swim meet began when the Oxy Tigers women’s swim team defeated the formidable University of...

Pomona-Pitzer softball lost both games of a doubleheader to Vanguard University last Saturday with scores of 3-1 and 11-5. The team now stands at 2-2.     The Sagehens faced some difficulty batting in the first game. Their one run in the first inning was an RBI double by Bri Marcantoni PZ ’12 to...

In the most exciting moment Pomona-Pitzer sports has witnessed this year, first-year Jack Klukas PO ’15 hit a three-point shot with six seconds on the clock to tie the game against CMS 55-55.  It was picturesque, perfect. Rains has never been louder, not even when the football team stripped down...

Sagehen Softball opened its 2012 season with two decisive wins in a doubleheader against La Sierra University on the 27th. Returning standout pitchers Carolyn Cross PO '13 and Caitlyn Hynes PO '14 pitched a pair of complete games to lead their team to victory. Despite La Sierra getting on the...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s tennis team will begin their season this Saturday with a match against NAIA opponent Azusa Pacific. The Sagehens, ranked eighth in the country, are coming off their best season in over a decade.Last year, the tennis team finished 17-6 and was rewarded with their first...

After waiting since last April to get back on the diamond, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team came as close as they possibly could to starting the season off with a win. In their first game of the season, the Sagehens tied NAIA opponent Westmont 7-7 last Friday in a closely contested game that...

As the Pomona-Pitzer men's basketball team begins its three-day journey at the Lee Fulmer Tournament this week, the players are focused, confident and determined to win. It’s still too early to make predictions, but after a wild double-overtime home opener against St. Thomas, and the Sagehens'...

Alexis Sones PO ’13 brings a positive attitude to the Sagehen women’s basketball team on and off the court. “Always shoot for the stars, you can’t dream for anything less," Sones said. The shooting guard, a junior transfer from Bowdoin, has played just six games for Pomona-Pitzer, but has already...

Claremont may have been brisk and clear the weekend before Thanksgiving, but it was much brisker in Winneconne, WI, home of the 2011 Division III NCAA Cross Country Championships. Hundreds of athletes—representing 32 of the finest teams in the nation or having earned their way to Nationals as...

Last week, Pomona-Pitzer athletes Jake Klewer PO ’14 and Annie Lydens PO ’13 swpt SCIAC honors as Athletes of the Week. This is the first honor of the basketball season for Klewer, and the third for standout runner Lydens. Lydens received the honor as her cross-country season came to its...

Coming off their first SCIAC Championship since 2008, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team concluded its season at the Western Water Polo Association (WWPA) Championships, held two weeks ago at UC San Diego. Facing off against familiar foes from around the West Region, the sixth-seeded...

“Going for the ‘Dub.' ” You hear it a lot when you hang around Rains. The Dub. The Win. Athletes spend hours, often hitting the pool or lacing up their shoes twice a day, preparing for the match, the game, the race—all in the pursuit of that big Dub. Maybe Annie Lydens PO ’13 is talking about it,...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s basketball team lost 68-51 to La Sierra Tuesday night. La Sierra gained a lead in the first half, yet with five minutes left before halftime, the Sagehens rallied to bring the score to 31-27. Sophomore transfer Erin Edmonds PZ '14 led the Sagehens early by scoring six of...

I love Rains, I really do. During the season it’s a second home to me, and in the offseason it’s like a vacation getaway. Once you walk through those doors and past the person supposed to be checking IDs, you are in a whole new world where classes go out the window, homework doesn’t exist,...

Very shortly after 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, Annie Lydens PO ‘13 crossed the finish line at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Regional Championships on Pomona-Pitzer’s home course. It was Lydens’s second consecutive Regional title and her fourth win in a streak that began with a seven-second...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s basketball team opened the season on Tuesday night with a challenging match against San Diego Christian at Voelkel Gymnasium. Despite strong play by a number of first-year athletes, the Hens fell to the Hawks 77-49.Transfer student Alexis Sones PO ’13 scored 13 points...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team fought through familiar foes, fourth-quarter ties, and their biggest rival at the La Verne Aquatics Center this past weekend—and they emerged triumphant, owners of the SCIAC title. The Sagehens defeated Whittier, Redlands, and first-seeded CMS to claim...

Last Sunday, Pomona-Pitzer swimmers competed in the Redlands Pentathlon and continued their preseason form with strong individual performances. Unlike most competitions, where swimmers focus on one or two individual strokes, the Pentathlon requires each participant to swim 100 meters of each...

Saturday dawned gray, gloomy, and foreboding as runners from across the western United States descended on Claremont for the NCAA West Regional Championships. Representing the hopes and dreams of many a team, the Regional meet is the one definitive way to automatically qualify for the NCAA...

During the summer, John Weiss PO ’14 was busy working at a publishing company—but learning new vocational skills didn't keep him from honing his basketball tricks. Playing in a local league in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, John kept himself in good shape running, rebounding, and shooting long...

Pitzer College kicked off National Homeless Awareness Week with a screening of Kicking It and a Street Soccer tournament to benefit the L.A. Homeless Soccer team. The event, organized by Pitzer political studies professor Nigel Boyle and his first-year seminar class—"Soccer and Social Change"—was...

Though the first 59 minutes of Saturday’s battle for the “Peace Pipe” were long on incompletions and short on drama, the final 60 seconds reminded the hundreds of huddled Pomona-Pitzer fans why people love college football. No, nobody truly thought that the Sagehens could overcome a ten-point...

Every week, I sit in the TSL office on Wednesday night and try to determine who should represent Pomona-Pitzer athletics as the Sagehen and Sagecock of the Week. Sometimes it’s the athlete who contributed most to a win, sometimes it’s the athlete who completed an amazing game-saving play,...

Beastmode (noun, adjective): Mode into which you switch when doing hardcore activities; exhibiting beast-like characteristics. No other player demonstrates the ability to go “beastmode” better than Rachel Eckerlin PZ '12. A super senior at Pitzer College, Rachel “Old Maid” Ecks is a force to be...

With their 8-2 win over Cal Lutheran last Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer men's water polo team finished their regular season tied with CMS for first place in SCIAC. Although both teams have 6-1 records in SCIAC play, the Stags’ head-to-head victory over the Sagehens earlier in the season gives them...

Last Saturday night, the Sagehens honored James Lambert PO '12, Tim Stapenhorst PZ '12, Kareem Smedley PO '12, Zach Tannous PZ '12, and Andre Shepley PO '12 prior to the start of their final home game. The ceremony highlighted a major issue for the then 0-7 Sagehens. Though its five leaders put...

If the idea of a “Claremont Colleges Ski Team” seems ridiculous to you, conjuring visions of a SoCal version of Cool Runnings, you are not alone. Imagining a crew of Claremont students in water-proof pants and anti-fog goggles, basking in 90-degree Novembers and pool-side study sessions in...

Both Pomona-Pitzer and CMS men’s water polo teams have had great seasons, finishing SCIAC play tied with 6-1 records. When the two teams met in the regular season, CMS pulled through with a 10-8 win in a hard-fought battle that lasted all 60 minutes. Now both teams are entering the SCIAC...

In 1940, Seabiscuit, a thoroughbred racehorse, became a national sensation after he overcame an injury and won California’s most prestigious race, the Santa Anita Handicap, otherwise known as “The Hundred Grander” for its $121,000 payout. With his ineffable grace, Seabiscuit was a symbol of hope,...

Pomona-Pitzer Athletics is set to hold its annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony tomorrow. Four former Sagehens, each a champion in their own right, are to be celebrated for their collegiate athletic achievements. Representing softball, men’s cross country and track, women’s basketball and...

After a summer of brainstorming, organizing, and petitioning for funding, Ryan Miller PO ’14 launched the first-ever Freshman Cup this fall, a year-long intramural sports competition in which the five first-year residence halls compete for the coveted trophy and glory of the championship.After...

Jason Cox PZ ’13 prepared for one-on-one confrontation and looked over his left shoulder to intercept a long rebound pass hurtling towards Redlands goalkeeper Tyler Abbott ’14. As Cox swam closer to the net, Abbott jumped out of the water in front of him, as if to block the impending shot. But...

As the team went through its classic warm-up routine, the play of the day was decided. Captain Paul Balmer PO '12 declared the day’s offense of choice to be “Sagecock Dub.” The goal? Return the SCIAC Cross Country Championship team award to the south side of Sixth Street. As the brisk morning air...

After Saturday’s loss to the Whittier Poets, Pomona-Pitzer football fans left the stadium with what has become the season’s unofficial mantra ringing in their heads:"The game sure was a lot closer than the score."If the now 0-7 Sagehens can take solace in anything, it’s that they managed to play...

Warren Leonard, the Senior HR Director and General Counsel of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is about to be involved in some serious legal proceedings after the team's owners announced their intentions to sell the team. For concerned Dodger fans and future lawyers, it's a relief to learn that Leonard...

Sixth Street has always divided the 5Cs into a fierce athletic rivalry, one particularly bitter between the P-P and CMS baseball teams. Amid the hostility, last season’s ace pitchers developed a unique connection: David Colvin PZ ’11 and Alex Sunderland CMC ’11 were both drafted by the Seattle...

In a game that was much closer than the scoreline reflected, the Pomona-Pitzer Women's Soccer team was eliminated from SCIAC play in a 3-0 loss to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The Sagehens had the run of play in the first half, creating several chances that Traci Lopez PZ '12 couldn't quite seem to...

Prado Park in Chino is notorious for a few things. First and foremost, the air sitting above the park smells like death. And now, a close second, the park is now known as the stomping grounds of Annie Lydens PO ‘13, country music enthusiast, SCIAC Champion, and two-time SCIAC Runner of the...

The Pomona-Pitzer men's soccer team's season came to an abrupt end as the Redlands Bulldogs, ranked 15th nationally, shut out the Sagehens 3-0 in the SCIAC Tournament semifinal. The victory extended the Bulldogs' win streak to 16 games.After losing both regular-season games to a team that went...

The Pomona-Pitzer vollyeball team knew going into their match with La Verne that their playoff hopes were on the line. Only the top four teams in SCIAC advance to the conference tournament, and the Sagehens needed to win their final two games to have a shot at the fourth spot. Unfortunately, the...

As a Division-III competitor, a member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletics Conference, and one of the most elite liberal arts schools in the country, Pomona seems to stake most of its pride in the student aspect of student-athlete. You’re accepted into Pomona because of what you...

The Sagehens finished their regular season with a 5-1 win over Whittier. This win marks the tenth win of the season (10-5-1) and earns Pomona-Pitzer a second-place tie with CMS in the final SCIAC standings. Traci Lopez PZ '12 scored at the 4:58 minute mark for her 11th goal of the season....

On Friday, the Sagehens were eliminated from SCIAC contention with a straight sets loss to La Verne. Ellen Yamasaki PZ '15 led the Sagehens with ten kills but La Verne’s strong attack proved to be too much to overcome. The Sagehens started strong, taking a 14-9 lead behind four kills from...

In a game that was much closer than the final score indicates, the Whittier Poets surged past Pomona-Pitzer 58-27. Running back Luke Sweeney PO '13 had a nice bounce-back performance with 246 yards, ensuring that he’ll be at the top of the NCAA rushing leaderboard for another week, while Whittier...

The Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Water Polo team continued its recent stretch of success this past Saturday, overpowering Caltech 19-12 in a morning match while giving national number two USC an early fight in an eventual 12-5 loss that afternoon. The team is now 8-17 overall, and 4-1 in SCIAC, placing...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team split a quartet of matches at Haldeman Pool this past Saturday and Wednesday, handily defeating SCIAC competitors Whittier and La Verne 13-4 and 17-8, respectively, while falling to national top-20 teams UCLA and Concordia (Cal.) 14-4 and 15-9,...

Between Pomona-Pitzer's win at home against Occidental on Saturday and Occidental's 4-1 loss to Whittier on Wednesday night, the P-P women's soccer team clinched a SCIAC playoff spot, guaranteeing a dramatic end to the best season they've had in years. "It's an amazing feeling," said goalkeeper...

The Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team has been busy, playing four matches in two days. The Sagehens struggled at times but finished strong, logging consecutive wins over Caltech and Redlands.On Tuesday night, the Sagehens capped their winning ways with a strong three-set victory over Redlands,...

President and Chief of Operations of the Golden State Warriors Rick Welts spoke on Tuesday at the Athenaeum to create a dialogue about “an uncomfortable topic” in sports, speaking about his journey as a gay man through men’s major league sports.“The thing that made it hard for me was the fact...

I was shocked as I walked to Rains on the first day of practice and approached an unexpectedly large hoard of young women lounging on the steps. Yes, I had heard rumors that we were getting quite a few first-years this year, but there were 30 girls in front of me. Since when had Pomona-Pitzer...

Gather round, one and all, to hear the tale of the Pomona-Pitzer men’s cross country team.Known as a jolly band of brothers, PPXC has been an oft-recognized entity across the campuses since before recent memory. Built upon an unshakeable foundation of success, their history is long and storied....

At 7 a.m. last Saturday morning, four lonely Pomona-Pitzer swimmers sat on the curb outside the University of Redlands pool, eagerly awaiting the FedEx truck bearing the team swimsuits and caps to be worn during that day’s competition. They watched as teams from Cal Baptist, Concordia, Grand...

Until now, my weekly repertoire of shows has been "Grey’s Anatomy," "The Mentalist," and "Modern Family." A medical drama, a crime show with a twist, and an Emmy-winning comedy. But this fall I’m adding another show to my “download and watch immediately” line-up: "The League."Last year, when a...

After wins against Occidental and Cal Lutheran, the Pomona-Pitzer men's soccer team clinched a SCIAC playoff spot and is set to play CMS or Redlands next Wednesday. Last Saturday, Pomona-Pitzer traveled to Occidental to take on the Tigers in a small, cage-like field stamped on the side of a...

At the bar inside Bergamot Station, a popular art gallery in Santa Monica, Jerry West stood engaged in a conversation with a fan. A few minutes later, the fan left the bar, shaking his head in awe. It turns out he had been impressed by much more than West's suave silver suit.You've all seen Jerry...

After setting numerous passing records for the Pomona-Pitzer football team in the 2010 season, former quarterback Jake Caron PZ ’11 is now taking his talents to the next level. This past week Caron signed a deal with the Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League, choosing Utah after receiving...

The Pomona-Pitzer football team went into their game on Saturday knowing that they are a much better team than their 0-5 record suggests. This is, after all, the same team that just sent last season’s quarterback—now Quarterback Coach Jacob Caron PZ ’11—to play in the arena football league next...

Although this weekend's football game appeared over by halftime, four full quarters were played as the Cal Lutheran Kingsmen cruised past Pomona-Pitzer 62-7. Running back Luke Sweeney PO '13, the NCAA rushing leader who has until now averaged 203.2 yards per game, was held to just 56 yards. Cal...

The Pomona-Pitzer Volleyball team had a busy weekend, playing four matches in two days. The Sagehens struggled at times but ended the weekend with a dominating straight sets win over Caltech in which libero Heidi Leonard PO '11 became the Sagehens’ career leader in digs.The Sagehens started a...

Last Saturday morning, women in blue and orange polyester uniforms huddled beneath a lonely oak tree at La Mirada Park. Fall Break trips to Joshua Tree were not on the agenda for these ladies. Instead, alarm clocks had jolted the women from their dreams at a chilly 5:45 a.m. They pulled sweats on...

In a tense overtime battle, women's soccer tied CMS 1-1 last Saturday. After this result, Pomona-Pitzer and CMS remain tied for second place in SCIAC with a record of 5-3-1 each. With only three more conference games left to play, both teams are fighting to be in the top four spots in order to...

The ball bounced off the outstretched hands of Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo keeper and captain Kyle Pokorny PO ’12, skittering across the water just like any other save. But in a split second, what was normally a routine play for the Sagehens took an abrupt turn. Having noticed the loose ball,...

On Wednesday night the Sagehens won 8-0 against perennial conference bottom-dweller Caltech. In a game where Pomona-Pitzer easily could have played their usual game, sitting back and possessing the ball back and forth across the field, the Sagehens showed a different side of themselves by going...

The low-hanging orange sun crested the horizon not long past 6 a.m. last Saturday as the men of the Pomona-Pitzer cross country team met for their standard early morning jog, breakfast, and discussion of tactics. Resplendent in Boathouse warmups, a nervous tension permeated the air as captain...

The Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team lost in three sets to rival CMS on Tuesday night. The Sagehens had stretches of strong play in what was generally an even match, but the Athenas' consistency gave them the victory.The Sagehens knew going in that this match would be critical for their conference...

It was only fitting that last Saturday’s exciting game between the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens and rival Occidental Tigers came down to the last play of the game. Unfortunately for the Hens, they came up just a little short in the Battle for the Drum, losing by a single touchdown for their third close...

The Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team lost a frustrating match against host Chapman Wednesday night. The Sagehens were undone by many of the same mistakes that have plagued them all season: they fell behind early, committed several errors, and never quite polished their attack.In what is becoming a...

Pomona-Pitzer quarterback Luke Ferguson PO '13 likely didn’t imagine that his career highs in completions, yards, and attempts would come in a game that his P-P Sagehens lost by 41 points. The same goes for wide receiver Ryan Randle PO '14, who had the second-most productive game of his young...

"The time has come, women. Run far, run fast." A cough, a splutter from the audience and then, "La Mirada." That was all Kathleen "KShea" Shea PO '12 had to say. She stood stoic as a prophet among a herd of women who, in daylight hours, have come to be known as PPXC. The hottest team of the 5Cs,...

The Pomona-Pitzer men's water polo team was one of three hosts for the Claremont Convergence tournament this past weekend. The tournament brought 32 water polo teams from around the country to strut their stuff, and the Sagehens got to do plenty of that themselves. Pomona-Pitzer entered the...

In his lifetime, Steve Jobs had some pretty amazing accomplishments. In death, he will be remembered as arguably the greatest innovator of the last century. His imagination changed the way we live and interact with our world, and, since his passing, unlikely connections have been made through the...

This Wednesday, Pomona-Pitzer men's soccer traveled to nearby Damien High School to take on a La Verne team lacking their own playing field. The small field—60 x 100 yards compared to P-P’s standard 75 x 115 field—prevented the Sagehens from playing their standard possession game and allowed La...

Pomona-Pitzer women's soccer came out ahead with two wins and a loss in a brutal barrage of three games in five days. The Sagehens are now 8-4 overall, 5-3 in SCIAC, and are tied for second place in SCIAC against rival CMS. The team's eight wins are already one more than the Sagehens had all of...

The NBA may have canceled the first two weeks of its season, but for the Pomona-Pitzer men’s cross country team, the season is in full swing; and the next two-plus weeks promise to be very exciting. Saturday morning looms, and, as the week has passed, the men of PPXC have grown anxious. The...

“What can I say? He’s got a lot of swag.” This is how fellow teammate Lawrence McDonald PZ ’15 introduced Arash Mahboubi PO '15, this week’s player profile.A first-year from La Canada, California, Mahboubi stormed onto the Pomona-Pitzer men’s soccer team by securing a starting central midfield...

Before John Wooden coached basketball superstars at UCLA, the Bruins competed against the Sagehens and four other schools as a member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). Their presence was short-lived, leaving the conference after just 8 years. During that...

There is a white stucco building off Foothill Blvd. with a sign you can only barely read from the road: “Unleashed Fitness.” It’s just next to the Jiu-Jitsu studio and across the street from that RV dealership, the one that shares a parking lot with Empire Tattoos. A billboard for an Inland...

Last Saturday, Pomona-Pitzer improved on their early loss to Redlands but still could not overcome a team that is becoming this season’s in-league rival. Pomona-Pitzer battled Redlands for nearly the entire first half before Bulldog forward Alex Laughton scored to give his team the lead. In the...

A week after becoming the NCAA’s leading rusher across all divisions, junior running back Luke Sweeney PO '13 was sidelined as the Redlands Bulldogs beat the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens 61-20. Without their injured star, the Sagehens managed only 35 yards on the ground—a far cry from Sweeney’s average...

The Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team lost to Occidental in three sets last Friday night. The Sagehens fell behind early in the first set and were unable to close the gap, losing 25-17. Their play improved as the match went on, but Occidental was able to take the next two sets 25-17 and 25-23. With...

The Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team swept Caltech in straight sets on Friday, but suffered a setback against conference-leading Cal Lutheran Saturday afternoon.The Sagehens jumped out to an early lead in the first set. They did not commit a single error and won handily 25-5. The second set was more...

The Cal Lutheran women’s soccer team defeated Pomona-Pitzer 3-1 on Saturday morning. The Sagehens fell to 6-3 overall and 3-2 in SCIAC.Nine minutes into the game, SCIAC’s leading scorer Taylor Will scored off an assist from Sinead Vaughn. Forward Traci Lopez PZ '12 tied up the game with a goal in...

Last Saturday, Pomona-Pitzer men's soccer travelled to Thousand Oaks and beat the Kingsmen of Cal Lutheran University, recording their fifth consecutive league win. In the first half, Cal Lutheran struggled to string together passes but battled hard to frustrate P-P's possession game. Although...

Just three days after cracking the National Top 20, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team endured a grueling, winless weekend at the SoCal Tournament in Long Beach, falling to No. 1 USC, No. 9 UC Davis, No. 13 Long Beach State, and No. 15 Santa Clara. They dropped to a 1-12 record for the...

Oct. 1 was just a normal Saturday in the Inland Empire. The mercury climbed to 85 degrees by 7:30 a.m., with enough humidity to ensure that even early-morning video gamers felt the tickle of sweat on their brows. Thick clouds of smog retreated with the day as the sun carved out a clear view of...

The Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team had a busy week with three important conference games. They swept Caltech in straight sets on Friday but suffered setbacks against Cal Lutheran and La Verne.In their matchup with Caltech, the Sagehens jumped out to an early lead and handily won the first set...

“On the 2-2 pitch, Longoria, line drive, left field, home run! The Rays win! The Rays have won the AL Wild Card!”Already dubbed "Wild Wednesday," Sept. 28 will go down as a legendary day in Major League Baseball. While most marginally attached sports fans would agree that it was a good day to...

Before the first pitch of every game, Gabriel Chandler, professor of statistics and assistant coach of the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team, tapes a sheet of the opponents’ stats on the dugout wall. Coach Chandler prefers to see someone play in person, but numbers undoubtedly help him strategize...

Last Saturday's Third Annual Pomona-Pitzer Invitational brought 181 runners from around Southern California to the line of the men’s 8k race around Claremont's carefully marked farm and soccer field areas. The competition included SCIAC rivals, Division I schools, and NAIA powerhouses, but the...

Both Sagehen men and women tennis players competed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Small College Regional Championships last weekend, held at Pomona-Pitzer’s Pauley Athletic Complex and CMS’s Bisantz Tennis Center. The championship, comprised of players in the West Region, is the only...

For the third time in their young season, the Sagehens were playing with a lead. Pomona-Pitzer had been up 7-0 and 13-7 against Lewis & Clark the previous week, but both scores were wiped away by touchdowns on the Pioneers’ ensuing drives—the Sagehens simply couldn’t hold on to a lead. This...

Imagine eating 18 eggs, a bowl of oatmeal, and a bowl of blueberries for breakfast. How about four or five chicken breasts, one lathered with peanut butter, a plate of cooked vegetables, a heaping salad and two pieces of fruit for lunch and dinner. Sound like Michael Phelps? Think again—it’s...

Pomona-Pitzer women's soccer defeated the Occidental Tigers 4-3 in an away game on Wednesday. The Sagehens were led by midfielder Allie Tao PO ’14, who scored three goals and assisted a fourth. She scored two minutes into the match with a right-footed shot from 22 yards out. Dribbling down the...

The Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team lost a tight contest against Occidental College last Friday night.Occidental, previously ranked 22nd in the nation, won the first set 25-18, taking advantage of a dynamic attack that accounted for 72 kills that night. The Sagehens tightened up their play to take...

Despite putting up a strong fight through all four quarters, the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Water Polo team was edged by the seventh-ranked UC Santa Barbara Gauchos this past Saturday, 9-8. With the loss, they fell to 1-8, but also moved into a tie for 20th in the national rankings. They remain in the...

You're standing in a jersey at the free-throw line. The crowd is crazy, and resounding from the stadium you hear your name and from one side, cheers. From the other, the cheers are not so nice. It's the championship game and it all comes down to this moment. Down to your toes on the line. This is...

In Pomona-Pitzer men's soccer's game against Occidental this Wednesday, Coach Bill Swartz placed his faith in the team's talented group of first-years, starting six—more than any game this season. From the very beginning, the young players proved their worth against the Occidental Tigers. Forward...

The Bay Area was foggy last Saturday morning, but the sun still decided to smile down on the Pomona-Pitzer men's cross country team as they made their way to the Stanford University Invitational in Palo Alto. For the first road trip taken to a race in a few years (excepting NCAA Regionals and...

Last weekend, a golf course in Palo Alto got a whole lot more than it bargained for. Yellow and orange flags, stakes, and powdered chalk covered the grass, along with hundreds of pairs of Nike and Adidas rubber-soled racing flats—but Pomona-Pitzer standout Annie Lydens PO '13 prefers her red and...

Each semester, an impassioned discussion arises behind the desks of The Student Life Sports Section."Who’s going to cover Humans vs. Zombies?" we wonder. Silence, deep breaths, maybe some snorts, and then the inevitable, highfalutin retorts: "Should we even cover HvZ? Is the gun-toting,...

Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Soccer beat non-conference opponent Chapman University 2-0 Saturday night. The Sagehens controlled the beginning of the game, out-shooting the Panthers 6-0. In the 18th minute, Midfielder Allie Tao PO '14 put the Sagehens into the lead. Cutting the ball back outside the box,...

Riverside got more than they bargained for at the annual UC Riverside Cross Country Invitational. Charging out of the team vans with music blasting, the Pomona-Pitzer women's cross country team was ready to prove to Southern California just how fast they are. Rolling hills and orange groves—maybe...

Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer had its four-game winning streak snapped at home Wednesday in a 3-1 loss to CMS. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps capitalized on a slow start from the Saghens, scoring two goals in the first 15 minutes of the game. Five minutes into the game, midfielder Annie Belanger SC ’13...

The Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team started conference play on a high note last weekend, charting a five set win at Whittier College. Ellen Yamasaki PZ ’15 led the way with 17 kills as the Sagehens improved to three wins and seven losses on the season. Whittier won the first set before the Sagehens...

As cheers resonated at the UC Riverside Cross Country Invitational last Saturday, men's PPXC asserted their dominance, placing 11th overall—one spot above rival CMS and better than any other team in Division III. On Wednesday, the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association...

After two tough losses, the Pomona-Pitzer men's soccer team came back charging this week. In both games, Coach Bill Swartz would again start five freshmen, but this time these young players stepped up to the more physical nature of the college game under the leadership of captains Robbie Hull PO...

Last Friday, the Pomona-Pitzer Volleyball team started conference play on a high note with a dramatic five-set win at Whittier College. Outside hitter Ellen Yamasaki PZ ’15 led the way with 17 kills, and libero Heidi Leonard PO ’12 commanded the defense as the Sagehens enjoyed a 26-dig advantage...

After yet another fourth-down conversion late in Saturday’s Pomona-Pitzer football game, Sagehen fans were left with one question weighing heavily on their collective minds: does either team even have a punter? This question wouldn’t be answered until there were eight minutes left in the third,...

With strong defense and a crowd spilling out of the bleachers onto the edges of Haldeman Pool, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team notched its first win this past Saturday, defeating 15th-ranked Navy 10-7. The Sagehens improved to a 1-7 record.Coming off a 14-8 loss to 18th-ranked Cal Baptist...

As Pomona-Pitzer’s libero, or defensive specialist, Heidi Leonard PO '12 leads a defense that ranked fourth in the nation last year and promises to be the cornerstone of the Sagehens’ success this season. I recently got the chance to sit down with her and see what she had to say about this year’s...

This year's box office was beginning to feel like a terrible baseball game with a lineup that featured wizards, pirates, superheroes, Justin Bieber, talking robots, exotic Brazilian birds, and apes. The occasional surprises were short-lived, like the feeling you get when a batter finally hits a...

Steve Han, a junior at Cal State Long Beach, presents a paradox. Amidst the crowd of baseball fans who donned carnelian Angels jerseys or pinstriped Yankees gear last Saturday at Angel Stadium, he decided to go ahead with something different. In a sea of red, Han sported Dodger Blue.Han is one of...

As I squeezed my six foot four inch-frame into a seat that was clearly designed for children about to celebrate their first double-digit birthday, I wondered to myself if the 45-minute school bus ride was actually going to be worth it. But as the bus pulled up to Dodger Stadium, I realized why I...

In a game that didn’t feature a punt until there were eight minutes left in the third quarter, the Lewis and Clark Pioneers outlasted the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens 48-39. The Pioneers ventured into uncharted scoring territory behind the strong play of Keith Welch, their athletic sophomore...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer team defeated La Verne 4-0 on Saturday night. The Sagehens scored four goals in the first half to win their fourth straight game. Two minutes into the game, Samantha Thompson PO '15 put P-P on the scoreboard. Seven minutes later, defender Claire Mueller PO '13...

After 87 minutes of a 0-0 deadlock with La Verne, Nate Shekita PO '15 and Danny Nasry PO '13 each assisted the other for two goals in as many minutes. Shekita finished Nasry’s slotted pass in the 88th minute to give P-P their first goal of the SCIAC season. Two minutes later, Shekita split La...

With strong defense and a crowd spilling out of the bleachers onto the edges of Haldeman Pool, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team added their first win to their record this past Saturday, defeating 15th-ranked Navy 10-7. The Sagehens improved to 1-7.Coming off a 14-8 loss to 18th-ranked Cal...

Claire Brickson PO '14 ran a speedy 6k in 22:37 at last Saturday's UC Riverside Invitational meet, earning her a spot as sixth fastest 6k runner in Pomona-Pitzer history. Flying across the finish line, Claire snagged 84th place out of 167 women. Runners from all three NCAA divisions competed,...

Music plays and women are dancing. A male freshman, visibly perspiring and wide-eyed, is off in a corner, oblivious to his surroundings. The women ignore him and dance with one another, synchronized, like goddesses. It is Saturday night. This may appear unspectacular for a group of quite...

Last Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Water Polo team played their first home game of the season against the University of California San Diego Tritons.  Ranked 12th in NCAA Division II, the Sagehens were up against tough competition.  And although the Hens held the...

The Pomona-Pitzer Volleyball team is ready to take a spike at the SCIAC title. Coach Valerie Cowan’s squad is led by captains Heidi Leonard PO’11 and Jordan Hammond PO’11. Several talented new additions such as Ellen Yamasaki PZ’15, who leads the team with 96 kills,...

Captain Paul Balmer called the play on the go, and his Sagecocks executed without hesitation at CSU Fullerton's "Season Opener" at Carbon Canyon Park on Sept. 3.  Five Pomona-Pitzer cross-country runners finished within 23 seconds of each other in their first...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer team defeated Biola 2-0 at home in their third preseason game. Senior Forward Traci Lopez scored both goals for the Sagehens in an exciting first half.  Early into the game, sophomore Allie Tao beat a player and crossed the ball to unmarked Lopez’s...

Playing under an ominous, cloudy afternoon sky, the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Water Polo team fell 15-4 in their home opener against the UC San Diego Tritons at the Haldeman Pool this past Saturday.Bad luck and a talented #12 ranked UCSD team contributed to a tough afternoon against a team the Sagehens...

The Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team is ready to continue spiking their way toward world domination. Coach Valerie Cowan, beginning her tenth year with the P-P program, oversees a deep and talented squad led by senior...

The Pomona-Pitzer football team knew their running game would be the key to success going into their first game of the season. Running the ball 58 times for 196 yards, the Sagehen offense certainly played well enough to win the game. Unfortunately for P-P, the Whitworth...

If you were to simply glance at the score of last Saturday’s 34-7 loss to Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, it would be easy to say that the Pomona-Pitzer football team is in for another long season. But...

Anyone who watched a Pomona-Pitzer football game last season or who even remotely considers themself a Sagecock fan should already know who Luke Sweeney PO '13 is. If they don’t, they certainly will by the time this season is over. Listed as a...

            Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Soccer defeated Biola University 2-0 on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 10. PPWS scored early in the thirteenth minute with an attack up the left side from Allie Tao PO '14, who...

Last Friday, your Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens travelled to Chapman University to take on a team that had scored nine goals in their first three matches. Before the game, Pomona-Pitzer coach Bill Swartz urged his team to stamp their foot on the game and impose their style of play—and...

I’ve been playing a lot of golf recently. By “playing a lot,” I really mean, “I went to two PE classes and played nine actual, full-size holes for the first time ever.” To many people, golf is a normal part of life and a great excuse to go outside with a group...

By the time The Student Life hits newspaper stands today, SCIAC Track and Field Championships will be just hours away. Dozens of athletes from all eight teams (and 11 schools) of which the league consists will be on their way past the P-P baseball field and Sontag Greek Theatre toward Strehle...

With a 6-3 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps this past Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s tennis team secured the SCIAC tournament trophy and clinched an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The team started the weekend with a 7-0 win over La Verne. The Sagehens coasted through this...

With a shot at the playoffs still hanging in the balance, the Sagehens came up big this past weekend with two key wins over SCIAC foes Caltech and Redlands. Even though Redlands locked up the SCIAC title and an automatic spot in the playoffs with a win over CMS on Saturday, Pomona-Pitzer greatly...

Pomona-Pitzer men's tennis finished its regular season last week by defeating Cal Lutheran but falling to UC Santa Cruz and CMS. Going into the playoffs, the Sagehens hold a 15-4 record and are 5-1 in conference play, good for second place in SCIAC.With a score of 6-3, the win over the...

Since the unprovoked beating of an unfortunate San Francisco Giants fan by two Los Angeles Dodgers supporters on opening day three weeks ago, the future of the Dodgers has begun to look considerably bleaker. With the team already crippled by the ongoing ugly divorce of owners Frank and Jamie...

Revenge is so very, very sweet. Especially when it targets an opponent that was already looking right past you. In January, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team lost to the Redlands Bulldogs 6-14, marking the first time the team has lost to Redlands for as long as Coach Alex Rodriguez...

“The heat was just so heavy,” Pitzer junior Kayla Eland said. “It was pressing down on us, and with each lap it felt like my legs were wading through quicksand and my lungs were going to collapse. Not to mention, my mouth was as dry as a bone.” Laments of the stifling...

The members of Pomona-Pitzer’s men’s track team awoke last Saturday morning to blue skies and already-rising temperatures. Unfortunately, they had to spend the majority of the day at Claremont McKenna—among Claremont Mckennaites—and what’s more, they had to...

In hard fashion, the CMS Athenas handed the red-hot Pomona Pitzer Women’s tennis team their first and only conference loss of 2011. The team fell by a score of 7-2, though many of the individual matchups were very close. “I give credit to the CMS tennis team,” Coach Ann...

The Pomona-Pitzer baseball team kept its playoff hopes alive by coming back from a late 5-2 deficit to beat archrival CMS last Saturday.On Friday the Sagehens suffered a disappointing 5-1 loss to second-place La Verne. The lone run came thanks to a James Campbell PO ’12 home run to left in...

With four more matches under their belts, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s tennis team has once again put itself in the perfect position to win the SCIAC title. The Hens put down conference opponents Cal Lutheran, La Verne, and Caltech, all by scores of 9-0, and finished off the weekend with a...

Sadly, we’re but a month away from the departure of the Class of 2011. When you look at this year's senior class, it's easy to speculate about who will find success in their chosen fields. Naturally, we tend to remember the most traditional destinations for Claremont...

At 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, April 9, the starter’s gun sounded for the first time of the day, kicking off the 25th annual Pomona-Pitzer Track and Field Invitational.Just 14.44 seconds later the winner of the first and fastest heat of the men’s 110-meter hurdles crossed the line. Over...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s softball team came up with a huge win over Redlands, ranked #2 in SCIAC, last Saturday in the second game of a doubleheader. It was the Sagehens’ second time defeating Redlands in the entire history of the softball program.After being mercied 8-0 in the...

With only seven league games left in the season, the Sagehens suffered a major setback this past weekend in their quest to defend their title as SCIAC Champions. Against Redlands, the P-P baseball team started out the series strong with a W on Friday, but couldn’t keep up with the Bulldog...

I sat down to lunch at Pitzer last Friday and opened TSL to an article that upset my Chicago-ness. Jay Chung’s article, “Would A Rose By Any Other Name Win MVP?” was well-written and well-researched, but it was dead wrong in its assertion that Derrick Rose does not deserve...

Over 1,300 pairs of shoes stomped on Strehle track last Saturday, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational Track Meet. Known fondly by P-P tracksters as the “P-P Invite,” every year the Sagehens and Sagecocks look forward to the sudden influx of the...

The Pomona-Pitzer women's softball team stunned CMS in the first game of their double-header last Saturday, winning 6-5. After falling to the first-place Athenas twice earlier in the season, the Sagehens capitalized on a clutch grand slam from senior captain Ali Corley PO ‘11 in the...

The men's track and field team is a unique cadre of young studs. With personal goals ranging from the acquisition of DFMO-worthy washboard abs, to the setting of NCAA National Championship qualifying marks, each man attends daily practices and Saturday competitions with a distinct air of...

This weekend the Sagehen women’s track and field team took a trip to Pasadena to compete in the annual four-way meet at Caltech. Although the Hens were not scoring against the Caltech Beavers, tension was running high between the two teams.“It was like there was some kind of...

At the conclusion of the NBA regular season next week, individual awards will be handed out, teams will start competing for the championship, and I will wonder if I've been following the same basketball season as the sportswriters are covering. The media has already labeled this season as...

On Friday, March 11, the stage at Occidental’s Bill Henry Track was once again set for blistering sunburns and a vicious annual rivalry: the Oxy/P-P Dual Meet, followed by the Occidental Distance Carnival. The P-P women’s track and field squad showed up in full force, ready for a showdown. In...

After four long days of matches, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s tennis team has maintained its undefeated record and #6 national ITA ranking without incurring so much as a blemish. The competition steepened last week with matches against Vassar, UC Santa Cruz, Trinity (Texas), and Skidmore—all...

With the promise of a relaxing week off from classes, organized practices, racing, and one another, the men of the Pomona-Pitzer track and field team traveled via white van and Sagecoach to picturesque Eagle Rock, Los Angeles two weeks ago for their last track meet before spring break. In the...

It is officially spring, which means one very important thing in the world of sports: the annual batch of articles debating the relative merits of March Madness and the NBA playoffs. This writer is only human, and so constrained by—among other things—a lack of imagination and a thesis due in a...

Since losing two out of three in a disappointing series against rival CMS, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team has rebounded quickly to rack up three straight wins in Arizona this past weekend. After winning the first two games of the RussMatt Greater Phoenix Invitational 5-0 against Macalester...

Now halfway through its season, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s tennis team has broken into the top ten teams in the nation. After a solid set of matches over spring break, including a victory over #11 Trinity (Tex.), the Sagehens have achieved a ranking of #9 nationally. On Tuesday the Hens pulled off a...

As Spring Training begins again, MLB’s offseason activity fades and executives let their work show on the field. Many teams accomplished their goals over the winter, while others came up short. Some struggling clubs righted the ship, while others continued to take on water. Who won, who lost, and...

The Pomona-Pitzer softball team defeated Menlo College in both games of a double header on Saturday, by final scores of 1-0 and 6-5. The Sagehens then fell to University of Redlands on Sunday in a double header that was postponed from two weeks ago due to rain. They lost 7-1 and 8-0. With the...

Nick Gentili salvages game one with walk-off moonshot to center field The weekend certainly started out well for the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team as they defeated SCIAC foe University of La Verne on Friday, thanks to a Nick Gentili PO ’13 walk-off home run. The weekend went downhill...

Team wins every set with key performances from freshmen and newcomers The Pomona-Pitzer women’s tennis team has backed up their number six national ranking in a preseason NCAA Division-III poll After starting off strong with a shutout win over 18th-ranked Mary Washington, the team...

Sagehens approach championship form even as scoring system prevents win The Pomona-Pitzer men’s track and field team was in action again last Saturday, March 5—this time, in their first SCIAC multi-dual meet of the season at Occidental College in Eagle Rock. As the sun’s rays...

Meyer, Singh, Allinson, Weichert, Groth, DeBruin, and Sable All Victorious The Pomona-Pitzer men’s tennis team dominated Haverford College 9-0 Tuesday evening. The Sagehens are off to an impressive start this season, having won all of their matches thus far. The Sagehens have relied upon...

At last week’s track and field meet, the Sagehens traveled to Occidental’s Henry Track via party bus. Although the sound system was sub-par and the team only learned about the neon strobe lights after disembarking, the ladies were prepared for the meet. Well, as prepared as they ever...

Locker Room Crying Debacle Highlights Shortcomings of Heat’s All-Star Triumvirate The Miami Heat lost their fifth straight game, amplifying the drama surrounding comments made by their coach Eric Spoelstra following their loss on Sunday to the Chicago Bulls. Spoelstra said,...

Fledgling Sagehen Squad Takes Down Two Division I Teams At the beginning of the first match last Saturday against Cal State Bakersfield, Head Coach Alex Rodriguez explained what he expected out of the team during the tournament. “I want these games to be conditioning for us,” he...

The Barcelona-Arsenal clash at the Nou Camp in Catalunya lived up to its hype—and it’s hype was as large as any UEFA Champions League match of such titanic proportions. With Arsenal winning the first leg 2-1 in London, Barcelona needed to secure a win of 1-0 or better to move...

Ultimate Frisbee club team proves itself among Southwestern elite Going into the Trouble In Vegas tournament as the #2 seed, the Claremont Braineaters Ultimate Frisbee squad were eager to face off against the #1 Arizona Sunburn in the championship game. After easily making it through the brackets...

Men finish in third while women come in fourthThe Pomona-Pitzer swim and dive teams took to the pool with furious, fervent ferocity last week’s Sunday through Tuesday at the SCIAC conference championships in Long Beach. With the swiftness of someone being chased by both a Hungarian...

During their Sunday afternoon game, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team came back to beat the Whitman Missionaries 10-6 after falling behind two runs early and trailing for most of the game. The comeback victory allowed the Sagehens to take two of three games over the weekend, improving their...

Stefan Castellanos breaks down the top sports bars around ClaremontOn the eve of March Madness, even the most casual of fans are preparing to fill out their bracket. For many, the upcoming few weeks are some of the most exciting sporting weeks of the year. Throw in the home stretch of the...

Despite being perhaps the smallest team in the nation, water polo has big goalsThis past May, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team sealed a double overtime victory over Occidental College to take the SCIAC Championship, and with it the first-place rank in Division III and a trip to the...

It has become something of a cliché to say that the NBA is a “superstar league.” More than for any other professional league, success in the NBA depends almost entirely upon the quality of your top two or three players. Notable exceptions to this rule exist, like the 2004...

Sagehens set sights on SCIAC Championship after semi-final loss last yearThis year’s Pomona-Pitzer women’s lacrosse team looks to pick up where they left off last postseason. After ousting Occidental in the SCIAC tournament, the #4 seeded Sagehens lost a heartbreaker to rival CMS in...

Pomona-Pitzer softball is well into their season, having played four double-headers thus far. Most recently, the Sagehens were defeated by CMS and Whittier, and their game against Redlands was postponed due to rain. While the Sagehens’ record sits at 2-6, they have lost three one-run games...

With a water polo player and a quarterback among their ranks, the Lawry Eskimo Brothers really should have done better in their Intramural Dodgeball match-up. Widely acknowledged as the most physically dominant team in the bracket, the LEBs fell in the first round of intramural playoffs by a...

As Spring Training begins again, MLB’s offseason activity fades and executives let their work show on the field. Many teams accomplished their goals over the winter, while others came up short. Some struggling clubs righted the ship, while others continued to take on water. Who won, who...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s tennis team defeated Mary Washington 9-0 in their first match of the season. After three match rainouts in February, the Sagehens were pumped to finally compete on Wednesday night. The contest began with singles, with #1 Jamie Solomon PZ ’13 winning easily,...

After suffering through myriad injuries, Sagehens hope to bounce backAfter posting a fifth-place finish in SCIAC and a 5-7 record this fall, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer team is looking to put together a better showing next year. “We had a lot of potential, a lot of good...

P-P Ends a Season of Rebuilding and Reevalution as the Sagehens Look to 2012 I’m not even disappointed that we lost to CMS. Really, I’m not. This may sound like the bitter post-game rationalizations of a diehard fan, but I just wasn’t into the basketball rivalry this year....

Seniors Van Gulik and Wise Play Last GameThe Pomona-Pitzer women’s basketball team lost its final match of the season in the Voelkel Gymnasium before a crowd of 470 spectators to their cross-campus colleagues from CMS by a final tally of 70 to 47, thanks to some swell shooting on the...

From the All-Star Game to the Slam Dunk Contest, Chung Had Front-Row Seat to Last Weekend’s Festivities While most students were studying or sleeping this past weekend, Pomona first-year Jay Chung was at the Los Angeles Convention Center volunteering at the 2011 NBA All-Star Weekend. The...

P-P wins series, comfortably taking the first two games of a three-game set Following two lopsided victories against Whittier College, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team suffered its first loss of the season by a score of 3-2 in their final game against the Poets. The Sagehens are now 10-1...

Crashing my dad’s bike the evening before heading home to Claremont, I may or may not—in the brief, but somehow suspended, slowed, moment before hitting the pavement just outside The Starry Plough on Shattuck Avenue in South Berkeley—have thought fleetingly of the upcoming track...

A chilly 45 degrees with a lovely shower reminiscent of a cold sneeze made the conditions for last Saturday’s Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers track meet anything but ideal. “It definitely could’ve been a nicer day,” Kayla “Kandi” Eland PZ ’12 said, “but I...

On Tuesday, Caltech ended a 310-game conference losing streak by defeating Occidental College 48-47. It was the longest active streak in all NCAA sports, dating back to 1985. To give you an idea of just how long that is, TSL has compiled a list of events that have happened since Caltech last won...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s tennis team started its season this week by defeating Whittier College and Brandeis University, with both matches resulting in scores of 8-1. The Sagehens travelled to Whittier last Saturday and, despite two rain delays, managed to win soundly. The team got off to a...

Life Lessons from Claremont, Chicago, and Nick Hornby’s Fever PitchWhether you’re from the other side of LA County or the other side of the country, traveling to and from college forces you to make some adjustments. For instance, after a summer of my mama’s cooking, I’ve...

Pomona students are known for their aspirations after graduation. Many go on to graduate school to become doctors or lawyers. It’s not rare to hear about an alumnus becoming a CEO or politician. What is rare, however, is for a Pomona graduate to become a professional athlete. In the...

P-P Earns Fourth Win in SCIAC as Battles with Redlands and CMS AwaitWith only three games left to play this season, Pomona-Pitzer men’s basketball earned a much-needed road win against a talented La Verne team on Wednesday. Nothing has come easy for the young Sagehen squad this season,...

Given the intensity of Europe’s top soccer leagues, it is little wonder that international friendlies are often met with apathy and opposition from players and coaches. The physical and mental endurance required to succeed in top-flight domestic leagues every weekend is truly world class...

After beating Chapman 10-2 on Monday, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team remains unbeaten on the season, improving its record to 8-0. Coming into the season, Chapman had been ranked 11th nationally in Division III, but now the 18th-ranked Sagehens have beaten the Panthers twice in less than a...

With their 2011 season starting this weekend, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s tennis team is looking to build on their success from last year and compete as one of the best teams in the nation. After securing a spot among the top 20 teams in the country in a preseason coaches’ poll, the...

Spring has sprung, albeit prematurely, and with the advent of swimsuit season and carnations blossoming every which way, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s track team kicked off its season with a familiar sight: Coach Kirk Reynolds standing like a monument to all good things in the center of the...

Women fail to build on victory over Caltech as Oxy controls the glass in 88-42 loss The Sagehens (4-18, 2-9 SCIAC) came up short in their attempt to win back-to-back games after their victory over Caltech on Thursday night, losing to the Occidental Tigers (14-8, 9-2 SCIAC) by a score of...

TSL breaks down the Gunners 2-1 victory in the first leg ofthe round of sixteen matchupIn the first leg of the UEFA Champions League round of sixteen clash between Arsenal and Barcelona, it was the North London side who claimed a comeback victory, despite being heavy underdogs in the match. The...

Welcome to the 2011 incarnation of TSL Sports. This semester, we’re trying a few new things to bring you the absolute best in sports coverage and commentary. First and foremost, we are excited to announce our partnership with Claremont Sports Connection (CSC) and the Pomona-Pitzer...

The Pomona-Pitzer baseball team improved their record to 3-0 for the season with two wins over the visiting Pacific University Boxers on Saturday, following their 10-3 victory in the opener on Friday. In Game 1 of the doubleheader, Pacific catcher Conor Clark knocked in two runs in the second...

Two Saturdays ago I received a phone call from my older brother, who I hadn’t spoken with in several weeks. He told me he was having a drink at a new restaurant in some trendy part of LA, to which I replied, “I’m at a roller hockey tournament drinking a Slush Puppy”. ...

Since you last indulged in the sweet, sweet pages of TSL, the Pomona-Pitzer swimmers and divers have not only managed to become tanner and tone their bodacious bods even more (if that is humanly possible), but they have also managed to win four out of their last six meets. We know you all have...

The Pomona-Pitzer softball team opened its season last weekend with a double header against Patten University. Despite losing the first game 6-5, the Sagehens bounced back and won the second game 8-6. Pitcher Carolyn Cross PO ’13 hit two home runs in the double header, and Ali Corley PO...

The Pomona-Pitzer Women’s tennis team has high expectations for its 2011 season, which begins in one week. The Sagehens will play their first match Saturday, Feb. 19 against Whittier College at home at 10 a.m. The Sagehens positioned themselves last season as one of the top teams in the...

The Red Sox were in the building, but they were outshined by a Giant. Although there was much anticipation surrounding their return to campus, the highlight of the first annual Pomona-Pitzer Alumni Baseball Game was not the presence of two P-P alumni currently playing professional baseball with...

This past weekend, the Claremont Braineaters club Ultimate Frisbee team won the Presidents Day Qualifier in San Diego, beating Arizona in the championship game on Sunday. The Brains went undefeated in the tournament held on UCSD’s campus, winning three games on both Saturday and Sunday. The...

Just a day after Valentine’s Day, football fans can celebrate their love for the game as the world’s most creative, talented, and sexy teams match up at the Emirates Stadium in London. The UEFA Champions League first leg quarterfinal clash between Barcelona and Arsenal will showcase...

In Super Bowl XLV, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 in a game that closely resembled a battle between a golden steel rod and an engorged meat patty from the hind parts of a steer reared by Vince Lombardi Himself. That is to say, it was a good but not great game. It...

With first semester rapidly coming to a close and life after college only several short months away for us seniors, you begin to hear certain things more and more frequently. For instance, “It’ll be strange not starting the weekend on Wednesday” or “Where will I get free...

P-P Men Win Two StraightThe P-P men’s basketball team rattled off two wins in a row after dropping its first three games of pre-conference play. The Sagehens bounced Trinity University 67-54 on Saturday and defeated the American Sports University 78-58 on Wednesday, both victories coming at...

With the temperature in the 30s and the sun shining flatly over the small town of Waverley, Iowa, the 2010 Pomona-Pitzer cross country season—along with the 2010 Division III cross country season at large—finally came to an end after two and a half months of training and racing....

Over the years, Bill Belichick has displayed a wide range of talents. He’s a football mastermind, an amateur voyeur, a riveting conversationalist, and has a fashion sense that brilliantly combines the styles of Gianni Versace and a homeless guy. This year, we found out that Bill Belichick...

The Bills lost this past Sunday. Not exactly a newsworthy event, and neither was the headline on EPSN.com that read “Steelers claim overtime victory as Bills blow several chances.” We Buffalonians are accustomed to not simply losing, but losing in heartwrenching ways. We are used to...

Temperatures in Chicago are approaching levels that would have most Pomona students layering their hoodies and doubling up their Uggs for the trip from Clark I to snack, but for the Windy City’s professional sports teams and their fans, things are heating up. The sting of yet another...

There is no question that the Pittsburgh Steelers have had one of the best seasons in the NFL so far. Their 8–3 record is second only to three teams—the New York Jets, New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons—and puts them on track to be a postseason contender. However, not...

Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and perpetual sun, has finally rallied around the Eagles. If any city could embrace an ex-convict as its franchise quarterback, it’s Philly—the town whose fans are so obsessed with winning that they once threw snowballs at Santa Claus when...

NOTE: To the knowledge of The Student Life editorial staff, all of the anecdotes expressed in this story are true. I didn’t used to like NASCAR, but ever since the past few years when I started going to races I realized what a truly awesome sport it really is. When I moved to North...

Arm in arm, each pair of swimmers leaned forward off the blocks, jumped gracefully into the air, and… hit the water belly first with a cringe-inducing smack and impressive splash. The men’s P-P swimming & diving team’s well-choreographed belly-flop cascade left onlookers...

At around 12:22 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Nov. 13, Annie Lydens PO ’13 finished the Division III West Region Championship, hosted by Willamette University, in first place, making her the second individual women’s champion in the history of Pomona-Pitzer cross country. Alicia...

Welcome to a new feature of TSL Sports, wherein I impersonate famous ESPN writers in a shameless attempt to both satirize and steal their styles. This week, it’s the world-famous Bill Simmons, a.k.a. The Sports Guy. There’s actually not too much impersonation required for this...

Like any real sports fan, I love to trash talk. Since arriving at college, however, I’ve had to get accustomed to some smack talking of a much more national, “macro” variety. Surrounded by people from all over the country, during baseball season I’ve got to be ready to...

It was the perfect weekend for a water polo tournament: sunny and warm for the three days and two nights of the SCIAC Championships, hosted by the Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team at Haldeman pool. The tournament was filled with unexpected upsets, with #2 Cal Lutheran playing #8 Cal...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s basketball team opened its season on Monday, taking on the UC Riverside Highlanders at their home court. The Sagecocks started strong against the Division 1 Highlanders, but were ultimately outmatched, losing 81-48.“They are really good. A very athletic...

The Sagecocks’ football season could not have ended any more dramatically than it did Saturday, when they took on rival CMS. The homecoming battle for the Peace Pipe (awarded annually to the winner of the P-P/CMS rivalry game) pitted the Sagecocks against a heavily favored Stag squad. After...

If one word could describe the 2010 Pomona-Pitzer men’s soccer season, that word would be “up-and-down.” Leaving aside for a second the issue of creative punctuation and whether or not “up-and-down” actually counts as one word, let’s focus on the facts. The...

Just in time for Homecoming, the Pomona-Pitzer football team earned its first victory of the season, defeating the University of La Verne 28-26 in triple overtime. Tight end Bobby McNitt PI ’11 led the Sagecocks with a season-high nine receptions for 123 yards, and quarterback Jake Caron PI...

The majority of the twenty-something runners that make up the Pomona-Pitzer men’s cross country program have competed in their last race of the year, but the top seven men have at least one race left to run, and for every runner, coach, alum, fan, and TSL reader the season continues on in...

Annie Lydens is one of those people who has got her act together. So it’s not such a big surprise that, come Friday, Annie will be on her way to Oregon to race in the NCAA West Regional Championship meet. And although the rest of the team will not be yelling “mean cheers” from...

Pomona-Pitzer volleyball challenged top-seeded Cal Lutheran in the semi-finals of the SCIAC tournament last Friday. The Sagehens started strong against Cal Lu, but were unable to maintain their lead against the hosting team. In the first set, P-P hit a solid .378 with 17 Kills overall and only...

Just in time for Homecoming, the Pomona-Pitzer football team earned its first victory of the season, defeating the University of La Verne 28-26 in triple overtime. Tight end Bobby McNitt PI ’11 led the Sagecocks with a season-high nine receptions for 123 yards, and quarterback Jake Caron PI...

Powered by theatrical goals and a game-changing display of thuggery by the La Verne keeper, the Sagehens recorded a 3-1 victory on Saturday and sent La Verne packing in disgrace. The win capped off P-P’s impressive season turnaround—they have gone 6-1 in the second round of...

The Pomona-Pitzer Sagecocks jumped out to a 14-10 halftime lead against the Whittier Poets last Saturday, but were unable to hold on through the second half. The Poets scored 27 second-half points for their second win of the season. Whittier scored on its first possession of the game after P-P...

SCIAC cross country—the 2k10 edition—has come and gone once again. One hundred and thirteen young men donned their respective schools’ singlets, toed the starting line at Prado Park at 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 30, and raced against one another for eight kilometers, giving everything...

Lydens Finishes Second, Wins Runner of the Year; Brieger Recovers from InjuryThere’s something great about spontaneity. The freedom to just get up and go. Take off. Let loose and blaze your own trail. It’s fun to just sort of fly by the seat of your pants, like some character out of...

A sea of blue and orange filled the stands in Voelkel Gymnasium Friday night as the Pomona-Pitzer volleyball team battled Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Chants from the raucous crowd echoed through Rains Center as the Sagehens defeated their rival in three quick sets. “The stench of sweat and...

Like the Red Sox and the Yankees, Pomona-Pitzer and CMS always bring their A-games when they face off. And last Wednesday, in front of 150 screaming fans, neither of the schools’ women’s soccer teams disappointed. Clutch goals from Tracie Lopez PZ ’12 and Allie Tao PO ’14...

Step aside, Lakers. There’s a new dynasty in Los Angeles. Zach and All His Friends stormed into their third straight intramural inner-tube finals and captured their second consecutive championship with a 24-4 win over Keck Graduate Insitute (KGI) Wednesday night. Zach and...

Miami Heat Max GrodnickThe most hyped summer of the NBA free agency has passed. “The Decision” has been criticized from every possible angle, and now Lebron James has begun to display his talents in South Beach. The bookmakers have the Heat as the odds-on favorite to win the...

As Bruce Buffer, the veteran voice of the Octagon, rang in the main event Saturday evening, change was in the air. That unmistakable cry echoed past the restless chants and cheers of nearly 15,000 fans, punching the walls of the Honda Center in Anaheim. The 121st Ultimate Fighting Championship...

The race for SCIAC cross country glory—the team plaque and individual cup that signify the pinnacles of distance running accomplishment in our league—is underway, and although the championship race has yet to be run, the potential champions have been narrowed from many to few after...

Call them zombies: just in time for Halloween, the Sagehens are back from the dead.On Wednesday, the Sagehens entered their final game against CMS with their backs to the wall. After 90 minutes of some of the most physical soccer in SCIAC history, the Sagehens emerged clutching a 2-1 victory...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team picked up three wins last week against CMS, Occidental, and Concordia, and is now ranked #17 Nationally and #1 in Division III. The Hens will play four more conference games against Caltech, Cal Lutheran, Redlands, and La Verne before the SCIAC...

I beheld a strange sight as I walked into Frary the other night. Some of the long tables were filled not with college students, but with young girls dressed all in yellow. I rarely see non-students in the dining halls, and even more rarely do I see young kids, so I knew something was going on. ...

FOX is pretty upset about this World Series—ratings are likely to be down with no Yankees, Cubs, Red Sox, or Phillies. But hey, this is Pomona College—who cares about FOX anyway? This World Series should be watched. These are two towns that have never won a World Series, two teams who...

For fans that want a reason to tune into this year’s World Series, it’s always fun to root for the underdog, especially the quirky underdog, the band of misfits, castoffs and fresh-faced rookies that are as unconventional and diverse as the city they represent. The year’s San...

A few short hours after the conclusion of the SCIAC Multi-Duals meet held at La Mirada Park Saturday, Oct. 16, the Pomona-Pitzer harriers had dispersed.For most students, Fall Break began on Friday—or even Thursday afternoon for the many among us more strongly inclined toward the...

Any athlete will tell you that much of sports hinges on chaos. A funny bounce here or a lucky call there can determine who wins a game or hoists a championship trophy. Think about the amount of sports history that occurred because one insignificant moment sparked an incredible chain of...

While watching sports analysis on espn.com (my go-to procrastination move these days), I stumbled upon an interesting tidbit. Several NBA analysts were discussing which one player they would most like to build their team around. The usual suspects were mentioned: Dwight Howard, Kevin Durant, and...

The mildly overweight official, decked out in a primary red sports coat and straw hat reminiscent of an afternoon at Wimbledon, raised his arms and fired a single shot. At once, a mass of women darted across the imaginary line that marked the “start” of the first—and...

Since finishing their most recent race—the Pomona-Pitzer Cross Country Invitational— on Pomona’s rain-washed blue track early on Oct. 2, the excessively fit male harriers have run five hard workouts, two Sunday morning long runs, and as many as 160 miles. They are in preparation...

Sports. We love them. Whether football, baseball, soccer, or any other sport, we just can’t get enough. As an athlete myself, I can particularly relate when watching the battles of strength, skill, and intelligence that make up most competitive sports. Some part of human instinct for...

Sometime between Courtney Cox and David Arquette’s divorce and Brett Favre setting the NFL record for career fumbles Mon- day night, San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson recorded the final out to clinch the series and the right to challenge the Phila- delphia Phillies for the National...

I have to assume that most of you reading this are sports fans, as this is the sports section. As sports fans, I assume that you’ve attended several live sporting events and watched more on TV.You’ve probably realized that one commonality among almost all professional events (or at...

The Pomona Student Union hosted a social debate entitled “Should Americans Watch More Soccer?” last Thursday. The lighthearted panel discussion focused on some of the major issues facing American soccer fans—a weak domestic league, poor TV viewership, and the overall perception...

The yellow sign warned drivers that they were coming to a “steep zone.” Not that this fact would have gone unnoticed otherwise. If you’re summiting Mount Baldy, you’ve probably prepared yourself for some sort of incline. It is, in fact, a mountain. But I guess that yellow...

Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo, ranked 16th nationally and first in D-III, hosted the annual Claremont Convergence Tournament this weekend. The Sagehens went 3-1 in the tournament, their only loss coming against 12th-ranked Santa Clara. The highlight of the tournament was the...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer team has started the season off with an extremely large number of injuries. In fact, they may actually be beating out cross country, typically the most injury-prone sport. The team now has nine injured players, with two still recovering from injuries...

As a Chicago native who’s experienced several Chicago championships in my lifetime, I can say beyond any reasonable doubt that there’s nothing quite like being home when it happens. You’re around friends and family, there’s a palpable excitement throughout the city, you...

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1935—The Daily Student Life, Volume 48 Issue 7 Seventy-five years ago, the Sagehens kicked off their football season with a win against Santa Ana Junior College. Razzle-Dazzling Sagehens Trim Santa Ana 18-6 “Aerial Dynamite” Blasts Way to Local...

It didn’t take long for Danny Nasry PO ’13 to make his mark. After being out for four weeks with a foot injury, Nasry took just 67 seconds to score his first goal of the 2010 season against Cal Lutheran last Wednesday. That goal was all the Pomona-Pitzer men’s soccer team...

Ladies’ P-P XC is anxiously anticipating this weekend’s Pomona-Pitzer Invitational, where they will run their first 6K of the season. The loop is a treacherous one. Riddled with potholes and sightings of the topless water polo team, the girls are going to have to keep their wits...

TSL sat down with Pomona-Pitzer women’s volleyball captain Eleanor Hughes PO ‘11 to discuss the season so far and what’s to come. TSL: What are your general expectations for the season? What’s your outlook? Hughes: From what we’ve been seeing of the other teams,...

The crisp resonance of the word “croquet” recalls sunny images of dapper gentlemen in linen suits and panama hats, perhaps wearing argyle socks, chatting amicably with bonneted ladies on pristine lawns with fountains splashing merrily in the background. While the prevalence of...

Tomorrow morning, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s and women’s cross country teams will wake up while the sun is still down, the grass still wet, and the air still cool (we hope). Dressed in blue, orange, and white, the teams will head calmly over to the Wash for their first and only home...

I travelled to Utah this past weekend, and while there I was reminded of my wonderful yet ridiculous obsession with the Olympics, which I explored last year when I covered the 2010 Winter Olympics for TSL. My Olympic obsession began around eigth grade with the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics. I...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer team has opened the new season in promising style with three defensively dominating shutout victories in its first six matches, while one of their three losses was a hard-fought overtime battle.The Sagehens’ new squad has been bolstered by 12 freshmen,...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team represented Division III in the acclaimed NorCal Tournament, hosted by UC Berkeley the weekend of Sept. 18. The Sagehens went 1-3 in the tournament, defeating Air Force 10-8 in their final game. They go into their first home games this weekend with a...

Pomona-Pitzer swimming will kick off the season next week under the leadership of a new head coach. Michael “Iron Fist” Wong has succeeded the retired Coach Bruce Brown as Interim Head Coach for Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving. The team will undoubtedly miss Brucey...

The media often portray partying and sports as going hand in hand, a la Varsity Bues, but when athletes get Tropical Lei crazy they are looked down upon and rebuked. This article is not meant to encourage partying behavior from athletes (I’m an RA), but instead to point out and question the...

The members of the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Cross Country team—known throughout its ever-growing legend simply as “PPXC”—have been training for months in preparation for the 2010 cross country season, putting in long hours, early mornings, and scorching-hot afternoons of...

Who is PPXC?A classic question, with no given answer. And yet, day in and day out, it is not uncommon to see specimens of the female species running, sprinting, or aqua jogging across the 5Cs. With the help of protein bars, a few glasses of chocolate milk, lots of endurance training, and the...

Euphoria and the scent of Veuve Clicquot were in the air, and I wasn’t really sure in what proportions. Out the roof of the car, the wind was heavy with the night’s anticipation and the effects of Mr. Cuervo. It formed snapshots of crass, wonderful decadence: The Mirage, a blinding...

The Pomona-Pitzer football team has stumbled out of the gate to start the 2010 season. After falling 35-7 against Whitworth, the Sagecocks dropped a 63-38 shootout against Lewis & Clark.Despite these losses, the offense showed signs of life in the second game as the squad racked up five...

I spent most of this summer watching World Cup games with crazy fans in Europe. It was awesome, but getting paid to sit under the shining California sun every Wednesday and Saturday watching Pomona-Pitzer is probably the next best thing. To help give you the urge to come out and watch, too,...

I came across an interesting article on ESPN.com a while ago about Dallas Mavericks superstar Dirk Nowitzki, who had just placed himself on the injured list. The emotionally injured list. His fiancé, Cristal Taylor, broke off their engagement two months before the nuptials. What a bummer...

Sagehen running legend Alicia Freese PO ’10 recently added another honor to her already impressive collection, as she was named one of 30 nominees for the 2010 NCAA Woman of the Year.Ten women from each of the NCAA’s three divisions were selected out of more than 450 nominees for...

Dear Tuggy, Every week I read your glorious articles about the valiant conquests of Sagehens in the pool. You mesmerize me with your captivating tales of their crusades, yet each week I am left wanting more. I want to know about you, not just you the attractive, witty and cunning writer, not just...

Last weekend, the Sagehen baseball team won the SCIAC title for the third time in four years. The title was clinched on Sunday, as Redlands lost to CMS in a must-win game after losing the previous day to P-P by a score of 14-5. The Sagehens could have done it on their own by winning out this...

Hidden away on the southeast corner of Pomona’s campus lies the majestic blue Strehle Track. On several Saturdays throughout the spring, exciting meets take place in this tucked away corner of campus, unbeknownst to the average Pomona student. If you’ve missed earlier opportunities,...

Baseball’s triple play is one of the more rare occurrences in the game. It has only occurred 681 times since 1876. Twice has a season gone by without a single triple play, and only one occurred in nine other years. Some teams will go decades without turning one.More rare, however, is...

The repetition of certain recent news stories has been bugging me, and I haven’t been able to explain why until now. These stories stem from the actions of Ben Roethlisberger and Tiger Woods. I’m not about to write another article condemning these men for their actions, because that...

This is my last column after four years of working for TSL. I entered as a sports designer when I was a freshman and, eight semesters later, I leave as a sports editor. Of course, there were all sorts of positions in between, but I don’t mind admitting that the sports section has been my...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team handily defeated cross-street rivals Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 13-5 before a full crowd at Haldeman pool Saturday night. Amid screaming fans from all five colleges, the Sagehens honored their graduating seniors during what would have been the final...

As the track-and-field season draws to a close, the list of Sagehens who qualify for Nationals continues to grow. After last week’s competition, a total of seven Pomona-Pitzer Tracksters have hit Nationals qualifier marks. The marks make the athletes eligible to compete at NCAA Division III...

Look’s like someone is finally taking notice of this “Frisbee” thing. This past weekend, the Claremont Colleges hosted the Southern California Sectional tournament for Women’s Ultimate. The Claremont Greenshirts finished the sectional tournament in 5th, losing to UC-San...

Pomona-Pitzer women’s tennis began their SCIAC season dominating at Whittier, and they ended it in similar fashion. After a season of dogged consistency, even in the face of an array of injuries, say hello to your 2010 SCIAC champions. The Sagehens finish the season with an overall mark of...

Track meets are variable. There are good days and bad days. There are fast times and slow times. There are phenomenal performances and not-so-stellar ones. On Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s and women’s track and field team realized just how variable a competition could be.Just as...

On Saturday, April 17th, the P-P team beat Chapman University for the first ever time with a dominating 10-2 victory in the first match, and a 2-1 victory in the second. It was their second double-header win for the season. It was an impressive two wins against Chapman, and the breakout came on...

After a high-scoring weekend, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team nearly lost their chance to play for a SCIAC championship. Usually, winning two of three games is a positive; however, in the last round of SCIAC matchups, anything below perfection can knock you out of the playoff hunt.After the...

Just before the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team handed Occidental College its first SCIAC loss Saturday afternoon, Head Coach Alex Rodriguez gave the team his most inspirational pre-game speech yet.“When it comes down to it, this is a game of water polo,” he said....

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s lacrosse team had an impressive showing this week, beating Redlands and narrowly losing to Whittier, two teams they had lost to by wide margins earlier in the season.On Friday, Apr. 16, the Hens took on the Whittier Poets on their home turf. P-P had lost to...

Early Saturday afternoon, beneath a resplendent azure sky at Pomona’s sumptuous Strehle track, Tommy Faust of Concordia launched his 800-gram javelin south-southwest through the air, toward the stars.The javelin, in glorious flight over the infield, sailed above the 24th Annual...

Saturday morning was a battle between the top two Division-III teams for women’s water polo. The nationally ranked number-two Cal Lutheran Regals ventured to Haldeman Pool to take on the number-one ranked Sagehens. Both teams entered the game with an undefeated record in SCIAC play. The...

Saturday, April 10th, 2010: I wake up at 11, ready to take in as many Sagehen sporting events as I can. The baseball game starts in a few minutes, but first I have an important engagement at Frary with some huevos rancheros. I tell the lovely lady working the card-swiper that I’m going to...

Pomona senior James Brunswick offered only a reticent smirk and grunt in response to my entreaties urging him to share the secret behind his rippling forearms. Regardless of sexual appeal, opposing teams are forced to scout the righty’s arm in more ways than one. A true catcher with one of...

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and height of that home run you hit off Brad Lidge in the 2005 NLCS. You know, the one that is either still orbiting the Earth or lodged in a deep hole in the Earth’s crust along with Lidge’s self esteem.I love thee to...

To the average Pomona student enjoying some sun on Marston Quad, setting a volleyball on Walker Beach, or playing a heated game of baseball on the softball field, last Saturday seemed like any other. The only hint of the competition occurring on Pomona’s very own Stehle Track was a...

In a frustrating but eye-opening outing last Saturday morning at Haldeman Pool, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team narrowly fell to the Cal Lutheran Regals in overtime, 11-10. This game marked the second time this season in which the Sagehens have come from behind to take a game into...

Members of the cross-country and track teams like to say that “PPXC isn’t a sport – it’s a way of life.” What many may not realize is that this is truer than it sounds.During the season, all athletes will tell you their training schedules, eating habits, sleep...

Well into the season, the Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) softball team is still struggling to put together a string of wins. In a doubleheader against the La Verne Leopards on Saturday, Apr. 3, the Sagehens lost both matches with disappointing scores of 10-0 and 11-2.The P-P softball team has yet to...

One often unmentioned and under-appreciated part of a lacrosse team, or any team for that matter, is the defense. This year, the defense of Pomona-Pitzer’s women’s lacrosse team, anchored by returning players Maddy Noble PI ’12 and Alison Kent PI ‘12, and newcomers Gianou...

After a string of successes against highly ranked opponents, including their first ever win against Gustavus Adolphus, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s tennis team approached their match against the nationally ranked CMS Stags with confidence. It was, after all, just another SCIAC game. But in the...

The Cal Lutheran Regals are looking to protect their 2009 SCIAC Champions title. The Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens aim to enact some serious revenge for last year and demonstrate exactly why they’re ranked first in Division III. The Sagehens women’s water polo team recalls the SCIAC...

Major League Baseball is considering a “floating” realignment system that would allow teams to shift leagues and divisions from year to year. The change is designed to encourage competitive balance and help share revenue. Teams not planning on contending could move to tougher,...

When I went to study abroad last spring, I was worried. So many sporting events would be taking place while I was in South Africa, and I would not be able to watch any of them. March Madness, the NBA playoffs, Opening Day, and the terminally underappreciated NHL playoffs. How would a sports...

P-P baseball continues to dominate SCIAC after taking its second straight weekend sweep against an in-league opponent. Last Friday (Apr. 2) and Saturday (Apr. 3), P-P took all three games against Cal Lutheran. After a blowout victory on Friday at Sparky Anderson Field, the Saturday doubleheader...

Underdog Story of the Tournament The Cornell Big Red Trip to the Sweet 16 The first Ivy League team to make it that far in the tournament since 1979, Cornell didn’t just beat their first two opponents: they dominated them. After beating Temple and Wisconsin, it seemed that Cornell’s...

Maybe it’s weird that I gave up three days of skiing in Colorado to watch baseball games in Arizona that “don’t count.” Maybe it’s even weirder that I drove to do so, spending nearly 30 hours of my spring break in the car—alone. Yet, after spending three days...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s lacrosse team’s losing record (2-6, 0-3 in SCIAC) does not accurately convey what they have accomplished so far this season. At this point in their season, Coach Katie Shannon has a positive view of what has happened so far and of what is to come. “Our...

After sweeping Occidental this past weekend, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team has now won nine games in a row since dropping the first game of their series against CMS on Mar. 12. The team went on to take the last two games of the series against their rival, sweep their spring break matches, and...

Despite an injury that sidelined former national champion, Siobhan Finicane PO ’10 and her doubles partner, Olivia Muesse PO ‘11, the Sagehens have remained in the top 10 of the ITA Division-III national rankings for the entire season. The team’s victory despite Finicane and...

Southern California finally gave the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team a beautiful, warm weekend at Haldeman Pool. The timing was convenient, as they hosted the Claremont Convergence Tournament. The Sagehens slung on their dark, checkered, home-team caps for the first time in this...

On the 5Cs, club teams face an uphill battle to prominence. Without direct sanctioning from the athletics department, club sports must struggle for support—both to find adequate finances and participation. In the case of rugby, add in unconventional sports terminology like ruck, maul,...

After Alicia Freese PO ’10 placed second in the 10,000-meter race at the Cal-Nevada Championships last Saturday, she cooled down with the first- and third-place finishers. All three complained of stomach cramps. Coach Kirk Reynolds assured Freese that this is common after the 10k, which is...

Although the words “spring break” might convey images of sun-drenched beaches or leisurely road trips, in fact, not everybody leaves campus. Whether due to work, finances, or sheer laziness, if you find yourself on campus over spring break and want to try something new, check out some...

While many other sports are winding down, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s softball season is just picking up speed. Last Saturday, Mar. 6, the P-P softball team faced off against Occidental and clinched their first SCIAC victory of the season. The team’s record for the SCIAC conference so...

On paper, the story seemed exciting; in reality, it was rather run-of-the-mill. After a failed attempt to escape a year earlier, a man simply took the elevator down to the lobby of the Domina Hotel in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and walked out the front door. A car pulled up and drove him away....

Think of track and field, and images of people running, jumping, and throwing come to mind. Sprinters running circles at mind-blowing speed; athletes clearing impossible heights with the grace of an animal on the hunt; inhumanly strong competitors heaving heavy objects large distances. The sport...

The shaky start of the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo season has dwindled the teams’ numbers down to a measly eleven members. The team doesn’t have enough players to run a normal 6-on-6 scrimmage during practice without recruiting Assistant Coach Jim Armstrong from retirement...

When the Pomona-Pitzer men’s basketball team walked off of the court after the SCIAC championship against CMS on Feb. 27, the game wasn’t the only thing they had lost. As Coach Charles Katsiaficas pointed out, the end of that game signified the “end of an era” for Sagehen...

When the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens met the La Verne Leopards on Mar. 5 and 6, the three-game series took on an intensity above the usual for SCIAC matchups. Both teams have occupied two of the top three positions in the league for the past three years. Although the rivalry has always been...

As wisely noted by Brian Gillis PO ’10, the SCIAC Track and Field Dual Meet held at Caltech this past Saturday was “a day of ups and downs” for the Pomona-Pitzer men’s and women’s Teams. Both teams beat Caltech but fell to Redlands in their first dual meet of the...

Night time was the right time to set school records for the Sagehen relays. The men’s swim team smashed two of them: one to commence and one to close last week’s SCIAC Swimming and Diving Championships.The 4 x 100 Yard Medley Relay team of backstroker Max Scholten PO ’12,...

You may have seen her running sprints on the football field in the pouring rain. You may have seen her breaking Rains’ rules to play wallball in the racquetball courts. If you were at the lacrosse game this Saturday, you might have seen her make a CMS player cry. And, if you have somehow...

The Claremont Braineaters entered this past weekend’s Stanford Open tournament missing almost a third of their players, many of whom play significant minutes. Ultimately, the team’s lack of depth showed, as the Braineaters dropped six of its seven games. But because of an...

This past weekend pitted Pomona-Pitzer against Chapman in a three-game series for Western Region bragging rights. Over the past three seasons, these two teams have built up their programs to the national stage, culminating in top-25 rankings and regional dominance. Chapman proved why they have...

As we turn the page on Obama’s first year in office, we must also leave behind the year that was in America’s past-time. Yet while Obama might not yet have given us “change we can believe in,” at least those of us with no love for the previously dominant Angels have had...

After two weeks of intense competition, the 2010 winter Olympics have come to a close. The US ended the Olympics with 37 medals overall (9 gold, 15 silver, 13 bronze), and Germany and Canada came in second and third place respectively in the overall medal count. The Canadians, however, broke the...

Spring approaches and the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens meet the CMS Stags in the SCIAC Championship game. For graduating seniors, this match-up is nearly as regular as the change of seasons. On Saturday, Feb. 27, the Sagehens walked across Sixth Street to face the Stags after already having swept the...

Tomorrow, the Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Track and Field team will compete in its first SCIAC race of the season at Caltech in Pasadena. Rather than competing in a SCIAC Invitational, SCIAC Multi-Duals and SCIAC Championships, this season each team will compete in two four-way meets and then the...

The Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens lost to rivals CMS in the SCIAC championships Saturday night in heartbreaking fashion 57-53. At one point the Sagehens were down 55-45, but they came storming back behind stifling defense to make it 55-53 with 15 seconds left. The opportunity slipped through the...

Pomona-Pitzer defeated Cal Lutheran in double overtime on Friday, February 26 to send the Sagehens to their third straight SCIAC championship game against rival CMS. Cal Lutheran led for much of the game, but the Sagehens refused to be put away. After trailing by as much as 12, P-P fought back...

It’s not uncommon to hear someone described as “running like the wind.” But what is it like to run like a horse? Try competing in the steeplechase some time, and you will see. What is steeplechase? Take a walk by the track. Undoubtedly, you will find some very large and...

It’s three days of nonstop swimming competition and voice-box-wrecking cheering. It’s the pre-meet shaving party and slick new racing suits. It’s eating In-N-Out across the street instead of low-budget bagels, Subway, and spaghetti. It’s the mental relaxation, albeit...

The Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens men’s basketball team completed a regular season sweep of arch-rivals CMS last Saturday, winning 70-56. The atmosphere was electric in Ducey Gymnasium as both schools packed their student sections to capacity. As the game wound down, PP students kept the energy up...

For the Pomona-Pitzer women’s swim team, the SCIAC championships were not only the culmination of a season of hard work but an opportunity for a little bit of revenge. Since the disappointing 128-99 loss to Cal Lutheran on Jan. 9, the team has been waiting for their chance to beat the...

After winning the conference two of the last three seasons, the P-P baseball team is looking to maintain dominance in SCIAC. So far, the team is off to a quick start, albeit against rather poor opponents. In six league games against Caltech and Whittier, the Sagehens have scored a combined 99...

The Olympics have built in excitement this past week, with many of the most anticipated sports approaching the medal round. The U.S. leads in the medal count with 28, with Germany following with 24 as of Feb. 24. Both the U.S. and Germany are tied for the lead with eight gold medals. Notable...

Last weekend was a big one for rivalries. The most publicized one, the Pomona-Pitzer vs. CMS men’s basketball game, was the highest attended 5C sporting event during the weekend. Hours before Saturday’s basketball game, however, another set of rivals squared off: the softball teams...

The Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens faced off against their rivals Saturday taking on the CMS Athenas in a double header at home. The Athenas won both games against their rival, as the Sagehens dropped the first game 3-2 and the second 7-3.In the first game, an extremely close, back-and-forth game,...

The Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens beat arch rivals CMS 70-56 Saturday night behind a huge second half. Scoring 47 points in the second frame, the Sagehens were able to overcome letting a sizable first half advantage slip away. Guard play was the difference in the game, as David Liss PO '10 and Adam...

The opening competitions of a track season often fill runners with jitters and uncertainty. It takes practice to get back into the routine of racing, jumping, throwing, or vaulting. That’s why every track season, Pomona-Pitzer track coaches Tony Boston and Kirk Reynolds hold a team...

To ask why a runner runs is an age-old question, with no stock answer. The Student Life’s own Brian Gillis explored the issue in an Oct. 15, 2009 article entitled simply “Why do You Run?” But why is it that those who don’t run should lace up a pair of shoes and hit the...

With the loss of nine seniors, both of last year’s coaches, and two goalies that opted not to play this season, this season didn’t start out strong for the Pomona-Pitzer women’s varsity lacrosse team, who were also plagued by a string of injuries.It has even been a challenge to...

For sports fans, February is a brutal month. After the all-important first Sunday, most fans placate their appetite for sports by watching mediocre mid-season NBA games and perhaps a couple frames of the NHL (yes, it is still around). Rabid baseball fans count down the days until pitchers and...

It’s been a shaky start to the season for P-P women’s softball.The Sagehens lost their first SCIAC match to La Verne with scores of 3-5 and 5-7 on Feb. 13, bringing their SCIAC record to 0-2. Their overall record is currently 1-3 after playing Patten on Feb. 8.Despite a disappointing...

After the inevitable pre-Olympic drama storm, we can finally sit back to watch world-class athletes do what they do best—compete. Amidst photo-shoot scandals, weather scandals, protest scandals, and every other story line you could dream up, it is easy to forget that the Olympics and pure...

Donald Okpalugo PO ’13 is easily recognizable on the Pomona campus. Standing 6’7” tall and listed at 240 pounds, he has one of the greatest combinations of size and strength that this school has seen in years. Then he speaks. Out comes a pure English accent that almost feels out...

It’s been four and a half months since the P-P Sagehens jumped into the pool for their first official practice of the year; three months and three weeks since their first meet at the University of Redlands; a month and a half since they returned to campus (two weeks earlier than the...

Most students on the 5Cs avoided the wet weather this past Saturday as much as possible. The Pomona-Pitzer’s women’s swim team, unfortunately, did not have that luxury, as they had to swim under the rain at Occidental College in their final dual meet of the season. The Sagehens...

As the New Orleans Saints showed this past weekend, teams can quickly turn their fortunes around with talent, teamwork and experience. The Pomona-Pitzer women’s basketball team (5-14, 1-9 in SCIAC) is starting to develop in those three areas and taking positive lessons away from what has...

Even with the various struggles surrounding the Division-III 1st-ranked women’s water polo team, the Sagehens are doing significantly better than Head Coach Alex Rodriguez and assistant coaches Jim Armstrong and Chris Lee expected to kick off the season.Due to graduating seniors, the small...

When Pomona-Pitzer (P-P) plays rival Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS), anything can happen. On Jan. 27, P-P fans filled the Rains Center to watch the Sagehens (then 4-1 in league play) take on the SCIAC-undefeated Stags (5-0 in league play). This year, the “anything can happen”...

Point: A Proponent of Conservative “We” Usage Defends his PositionBy Rylan StewartI watched the Super Bowl with my buddy, Nathan Barnett PO ’11, who you can find on this page across the way. Both of us wanted New Orleans to win the game, although this was based more on our...

Many non-runners often can’t conceive of the difference between track and cross-country is. You just run in both, right? That’s true, but as Quenton Cassidy, the hero of the classic novel about competitive running Once a Runner points out, there is a palpable difference between...

It was pouring rain in the early morning of Feb. 6 when the Pomona-Pitzer swimming and diving team departed for Occidental College. The rain seemed to damper everyone’s mood, or maybe it simply reflected the sentiments felt by the team’s Seniors, who would be bidding farewell to the...

The Olympic Games represent not just a time for countries to unite, but also a time to recognize the accomplishments of athletes in less popular, non-mainstream sports ranging from speed skating to bobsled, biathlon to luge, and snowboarding to skeleton. The athletes who participate in these less...

This time of year is a stressful one, and amidst the senior mess of theses, special projects, job or graduate school applications, and finals, it is important to give thanks for a few good things in order to appreciate the positives in life. To accomplish this, I am currently living for three...

I hope this letter finds you well as I prepare for what I hope will be the best Christmas yet (except maybe that first one and when I got the PlayStation). How is Mrs. Claus? Did you guys have a nice summer? I hear the North Pole is beautiful that time of year, full of caribou, birds, wolves and...

In these holiday times of seasonal drinks (ah, pumpkin latte and peppermint mocha, my good friends) and overbearing consumerism, the thing I’m most thankful for in sports is a Web site called footytube.com.While my non-existent avid readers would likely have expected me to laud UNC’s...

Sitting in physical pain on my aunt’s couch after a second Thanksgiving meal in two hours, I performed my annual obligation: giving thanks. After recognizing my family and the food I had just crushed, my twisted and misguided soul led me to kneel at the altar of college football. Sitting...

Making lists is hard. I started to make a list of 47 things I was thankful for about Pomona’s sports culture. I love sports, but I got to 18 and I was stumped. So for now, I’m calling this Parts 1-18 of the 47-part series, “Things That Sagehen Sports Fans Love.”1. The...

Rebound, outlet, 2-on-1 fast break, 3 ball, cash.As far as NCAA men’s basketball goes, the Pac-10 has been one of the most exciting conferences to watch over the years. Nowadays, however, the trend in college basketball has moved away from the fast-paced, offensive-minded Pac-10. The...

This week, I will attempt to defend one of the most successful and respected coaches in all of sports. Bold, huh? Well, after the New England Patriots went down to the Indianapolis Colts Sunday night, 35-34, blowing a 17-point fourth quarter lead, defending Bill Belichick might not be such an...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team finished Sunday in a place none of the seniors had ever been: watching the SCIAC tournament final from the bleachers. An unceremonious end to a decorated career, the senior class failed to capture a third straight SCIAC championship and a spot in this...

When Alicia Freese PO ’10 began the women’s cross country season hobbled with an injury, she knew that she needed to keep in shape as best as possible to prepare for the end of the year and a possible berth to the National Championship.Apparently, her rehab worked—and then...

Tim Donaghy, the former NBA referee who just finished a 15-month sentence for his involvement in fixing games, spent his time in prison quite productively. Donaghy used his months in the joint to pen a book revealing the nefarious underbelly of the NBA.Forget for a minute that this is analogous...

On a perfect day, nobody would need to notice Eben Perkins PO ’11 on the soccer field. It’s only when the Sagehens’ goal is under attack—when they are hunkered down facing corner kick after corner kick—that you can truly appreciate what Perkins, a center-back, does...

Last Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s cross country team finished in a disappointing fifth place at the West Regionals Meet on Pomona’s campus. The results mean that the team will not advance to the NCAA National Meet next weekend in Cleveland, Ohio.Part of the excitement of a cross...

The Sagehen-Stag football game lived up to its hype and then some. After a hard-fought, back-and-forth game, it came down to one final drive. With 1:30 left in the fourth quarter, the fans got the exciting finish they were waiting for.Down one touchdown, the Sagehens were able to advance the ball...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s cross country team is currently ranked fourth in the region after an impressive performance at the SCIAC Championships. The Sagehens follow league rival Occidental and two teams from the Northwest Conference, Whitworth and Whitman. This Saturday, Nov. 14, the...

Zack Burke ’10 had a mouth full of curly fries and a quesadilla, but it didn’t stop him from discussing life after Pomona-Pitzer soccer.“Now that the season’s over, only God can judge me,” Burke said earnestly. The Sagehens’ season ended earlier than expected...

Elbows colliding with faces and screaming coaches and fans. Bodies entangled, ripping, shoving and battling. Ejections, tactical substitutions, a down-to-the-wire finish. I am of course describing the unmitigated melee that was the 2009 Intramural Inner-tube Water Polo Championship.Haldeman Pool...

I Live for This!There’s only one postseason. There’s only one Fall Classic. There’s only one SCIAC men’s water polo tournament.This year’s SCIAC men’s water polo tournament should be a dandy, as four teams have a legitimate shot at the championship and a spot...

On Saturday, the Sagehens will take on the best teams from the West Region in an all-out death match for a chance to compete in the National Meet the following Saturday. In order to secure an automatic berth for the NCAA Division III Championships in Cleveland, Ohio, P-P must record a top-two...

I grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From the time my family moved to Chapel Hill when I was three until we moved again when I was 14, I attended almost every University of North Carolina home basketball game. UNC basketball is my “religious views” on Facebook.You could say...

If you had access to ESPN a week ago, you would have witnessed the violence stemming from New Mexico women’s soccer player Elizabeth Lambert (and if you didn’t have access, you can always check YouTube). Lambert punched, tripped, tackled (in football, not ftbol, fashion), and even...

Do you want a chance to redeem yourself? For once act like you actually know something about football? Aren’t you sick of pounding and pounding some athlete’s poor performance and acting like a goon? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard a Claremont “sports...

Success is not determined by how you start, but how you finish. The Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team will need to embrace this point in order to pursue their third straight SCIAC title. After two tough SCIAC losses, the team is attempting to re-group and get in form for the...

After the SCIAC championships at Prado Park in Chino last Saturday, Oct. 31, eight members of the men’s Pomona-Pitzer cross-country team received All-SCIAC awards. For those unfamiliar with the All-SCIAC system, this means that eight Sagehen runners finished in the top 20 of the...

Until last Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s cross-country team had not defeated CMS in a conference meet since 1991. Now, the drought has finally ended. On Saturday, Oct. 31, the Sagehens earned 2nd place (59 points) in the SCIAC Championships behind Occidental (44 points), but ahead of...

Last Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer men’s soccer team clinched its first unshared SCIAC title in 29 years with a 3-1 victory over visiting Cal Lutheran. The win set up an epic playoff showdown between the No. 1 Sagehens and the No. 4 CMS Stags Wednesday afternoon. Unfortunately, the Sagehens...

What can you call him? A coach? A reggae hippy? A movie star? A Renaissance man? Whether you’re in the stands watching the good-looking Sagehen coach, or passing by one of the reggae festivals on the Pitzer mounds, holler out for Assistant Coach CJ Robertson, and the multi-faceted man will...

The Bowl Championship Series (BCS), which decides (among other things) the two teams that will play in college football’s national title game, is starting to show its cards.Another normal Fall 2009 Saturday morning passed last weekend, as America woke up to find a top-five college football...

Near the end of the Spring 2009 semester, Alex Scharr PO ’10 heard rumblings that the women’s soccer team didn’t have a goalie lined up for the following season. The team no longer had one in the system, and specific recruiting efforts had fallen short. Like any enterprising...

The Sagehens knew this one was going be a close battle. They didn’t know that they would only need two touchdowns to ensure victory. Besides allowing an 80-yard, first-quarter touchdown pass, the Sagehens were practically perfect on the defensive side of the ball. They limited the College...

On any athletic team, the captains often implicitly set the tone for the rest of the players. From the beginning of the 2009 Cross-Country season, John Mering PO ’10 and Brian Gillis PO ’10 have set an example of coming to practice each day ready to work hard in order to reach their...

While it may seem that running is a relatively painless activity, especially when compared to traditional contact sports such as football and rugby, the reality is that running hurts.On a college campus like Pomona, where the student body is motivated in its pursuits both in and out of the...

If Carrot Top and Marlon Wayans were to replace Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption, it would not be as bad as the call made Wednesday night. If Daniel Snyder were to own the Washington Redskins forever, it would not be as bad as the call made Wednesday night. If soccer...

It was a strange sight to behold on the Pomona-Pitzer field Monday afternoon as the visiting Whittier Poets practiced alongside the Sagehens. As P-P ran passing drills on one half of the field, the Poet scrubs lazily took shots on their backup goalkeeper.To the estimated 25 fans in attendance,...

In the past ten years, so the saying goes, the NFL has seen a vast increase in parity. Popular belief holds that every team has a chance to win any given week, in part thanks to free agency, the salary cap, and the league’s ability to draw from a vast pool of talent and athleticism....

While the 2009 MLB postseason has been layered with great stories, ranging from A-Rod’s impeccable slugging to the Phillies’ prowess, the most consistent playoffs headlines have been tales of bad umpiring. If you have been paying attention, you know the laundry list of mistakes keeps...

Baseball seems obsessed with curses. The Curse of the Bambino. The Curse of Billy the Goat. The Curse of the Black Sox. The Curse of Rocky Colavito. The Curse of Captain Eddie. Our affinity for baseball curses has even crossed the Pacific, where my personal favorite curse struck Japan’s...

Can you say talent? The Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees will square off in one of the most anticipated World Series this decade. The series will feature three Cy Young Award winners—C.C Sabathia, Pedro Martinez, and Cliff Lee—three World Series MVPs—Mariana...

In the past ten years, so the saying goes, the National Football League has seen a vast increase in parity. Popular belief holds that every team has a chance to win any given week, in part thanks to free agency, the salary cap, and the league's ability to draw from a vast pool of talent and...

After a loss to Chapman, the men’s water polo team were determined to curb their losing streak before it started. That’s exactly what Pomona-Pitzer did Wednesday night by defeating Sixth Street rival CMS, 9-5.After a 10-5 loss at Chapman on Saturday, Coach Alex Rodriguez acknowledged,...

Elli Seo PO ‘10 fights for the ball against an Occidental opponent in the Sagehens’ 2-0 loss to the Tigers on Wednesday. The team has only one win and one tie in its past eight games, all SCIAC competitions, to fall to a tie for 5th place with La Verne in the conference. The...

Over break, the Sagehens took a break from SCIAC opponents to play against Haverford and UC Santa Cruz in the Fall Classic Tournament at Cal Lutheran. The team went into break riding a winning streak and a strong 6-2 record in SCIAC, and hoping to build momentum for crucial matches down the...

The P-P men’s soccer team dealt CMS an authoritative 2-0 defeat over fall break to hang onto the Golden Boot, which is given annually to the winner of the Sagehen-Stag season series. The win, coupled with a 1-0 victory over Occidental on Oct. 21, brings P-P to a 9-1 record in SCIAC (11-3...

Before embarking on trips to the Sierras, San Diego, or San Francisco for fall break, the men of P-P cross country battled against their SCIAC rivals on the grassy hills of La Mirada Park last Saturday morning.The race culminated in a second-place finish for the Sagehens, and despite a relatively...

The Sagehens wasted no time in turning a close game into a blowout in their 38-14 win over La Verne last Saturday. Twenty-two seconds into the second quarter, QB Jacob Caron PO ’11 connected to star wide out RJ Maki PO ’11 for a 25-yard TD pass. Pomona-Pitzer would go on to end the...

Gearing up for the multi-dual race, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s cross country team looked a little different last Saturday morning as they stretched, did strides, and nervously bounced on the starting line. The team, as well as seeing the return of some injured runners, donned new pairs of...

After a loss to Chapman, the men’s water polo team were determined to curb their losing streak before it started. That’s exactly what Pomona-Pitzer did Wednesday night by defeating Sixth Street rival CMS, 9-5.After a 10-5 loss at Chapman on Saturday, Coach Alex Rodriguez acknowledged,...

The Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Cross-Country team gets the chance to race against all of its SCIAC competitors for the first time this season Saturday morning as the squad will travel to the SCIAC Multi-Duals at La Mirada Park.For the Sagehens, Multi-Duals is the first of two SCIAC races over the...

By beating CMS for the second time this year, the red hot Sagehen volleyball team pushed its winning streak to five games and continued its march up the conference standings. P-P now sits at 10-8 overall, with a 6-2 conference record—good for second place behind Redlands, a team that beat...

For many of the student body, fall break is a time to take a visit back home, catch up on sleep, or gallivant around some national forest on OTL’s budget. For our ever-working athletes, however, fall break is one of the most crucial points of the season, and they will be spending their time...

Like US Hockey Coach Herb Brooks with his 1980 Olympic Gold Medal team, coach Alex Rodriguez knows his team won’t always be the most talented, but they can be the best conditioned. Last weekend’s 12-8 victory over 20th-ranked Cal Baptist gave the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Water Polo...

“Do you actually like to run?” “Why do you do it?” “What do you think about when you are running?” “Isn’t it boring?” “Don’t you just want to stop?”These are a few questions that members of the Pomona-Pitzer Cross-Country...

Most sporting events are determined by mere inches. A tiny amount of space determines whether a ball is fair or foul, whether a three-pointer is blocked or swished, whether a wide receiver is in or out of the endzone, and whether a team wins or loses.Evan Munoz PI ’12 gave the Pomona-Pitzer...

For the first time in a while, the Sagehen offense doesn’t have to pace the sideline waiting to get back on the field.“Our defense is older and has more experience as a whole than in years past,” said safety Bobby Montalvo PO ’10. “Most of us have played together for...

Runners train so that when they get to the starting line, they are ready to compete as soon as the gun goes off. What makes a cross country meet so exciting is seeing the race unfold and letting the challenges of the course determine who is able to prevail. With such rigorous preparation, anybody...

In the Sagehens’ final drive against Lewis and Clark, QB Jacob Caron PO ’11 had enough time to calculate the cut of the grass before he decided to scramble, scramble some more, and then chuck a running left-handed bomb down the field.When I asked right guard and team captain Augie...

Like many of you, I was horrified this past Saturday when Chapman, despite their snapper’s best efforts, managed to snatch a sucky victory from Pomona-Pitzer in the last three seconds of the football game.“What can be done about it?” you ask, turning your flushed cheeks and...

The women’s volleyball team swept all three of its matches last week against some of the top ranked schools in SCIAC.On Tuesday, Sept. 29, the Sagehens beat California Lutheran (ranked 24th in D-III nationally) for the first time on Cal Lu’s court. Though the Sagehens lost in the...

Conventional sports wisdom suggests that a veteran team has the best chance to succeed. From Tim Tebow’s return to the top-ranked Florida Gators in D-I football, or the San Antonio Spurs’ insistence on starting a lineup of 30-somethings, it is clear that experience is considered very...

On a typical Saturday morning, the area surrounding the blue track, the soccer field, and the Pomona farm may be spotted with the occasional Claremont dog-walker or casual jogger making their way along the gravel trails and dewy grass. However, at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3, these areas were...

The Sagehens keep playing thrilling, down-to-the-wire games, but unfortunately, Friday’s contest against Chapman did not end on such a positive note. After QB Jake Caron PI ’11 led the offense on a clutch 94-yard touchdown drive to give Pomona-Pitzer a late three-point lead, the...

Though they are new to Pomona and Pitzer, the freshmen on the women’s volleyball team have contributed significantly to the team’s success so far this season. While the women might be new to the team, they feel comfortable and are all happy to be playing volleyball at the collegiate...

The Pomona-Pitzer men’s soccer team scored a huge upset against SCIAC arch-rivals Redlands Saturday afternoon. Zack Mirman PO ’11 put away a penalty kick in the 89th minute to give the Sagehens a 2-1 victory and a sole possession of first place in the SCIAC standings.“I actually...

The men’s cross country team finished second this weekend at the West Region Preview meet with an average team time of 26:25.The team was led by senior Brian Gillis PO ’10, who finished second in the race with a time of 25:37. Gillis was the first SCIAC finisher, and last year’s...

As the great Homer Simpson once said, “It’s like David and Goliath, but this time, David won!” While the original context may have been a fight with the city over trash pick up, Homer could have just as easily been referring to men’s water polo’s 10-9 win over...

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Twin pillars Sarah Amos PI ’10 (Outside Hitter) and Dana Kittrelle PO ’10 (Middle Hitter) captain this year’s volleyball team. Both have been playing since the ninth grade, and have developed a strong love for the game. This season, they lead a dynamic group of women that has...

Continuing its long march of pre-season games before SCIAC competition begins, the Men’s Water Polo team hosted Fresno Pacific and Iona this past Saturday, Sep. 26.All day Saturday, Haldeman pool was Ryan Balikian PO ’11’s world, and we were simply living it. Balikian scored 11...

One year after a stunning playoff run, Pomona-Pitzer men’s soccer has high hopes for the ’09 season.“We all have our eyes set on winning the league this year, and we all have our hearts set on winning the Golden Boot,” Zack Mirman PO ’11 said. Mirman has started...

With the Sagehens benefitting from an off-week, Brian Gillis took the opportunity to explore the nuances of cross country’s secret rehab: aqua jogging (the j pronounced as a y).Even most casual joggers have likely experienced some of the pains that go along with pounding the pavement in...

If you thought it was nice having two cross country teams running around campus, just wait until November. On the weekend of Nov. 14, more than 200 runners from 32 teams (16 men’s and 16 women’s) will descend on Claremont to compete. Every November, the best cross country teams from...

Nearly five minutes after throwing a devastating interception in the Lewis & Clark endzone, QB Jake Caron PI ’11 brought his team downfield again. This time, though, he found TE Robert McNitt PI ’09 for a nine-yard touchdown completion. The pass catapulted the Sagehens ahead of...

After two straight seasons of narrowly missing the SCIAC tournament, Pomona-Pitzer women’s soccer hopes to break through to the top ranks this year with new talent and a new outlook.To the Sagehens, every minute of play matters. In the words of Coach Jen Scanlon, “Every SCIAC game is...

Nearly five minutes after throwing a devastating interception in the Lewis & Clark endzone, QB Jake Caron PI ’11 brought his team downfield again. This time, though, he found TE Robert McNitt PI ’09 for a nine-yard touchdown completion. The pass catapulted the Sagehens ahead of Lewis...

In order to set themselves up to compete against talent from across the country, the Sagehens needed to schedule a challenging pre-season to test their mettle before the start of conference play. And play top talent they did.Women’s volleyball began its 2009 season with tests against teams...

At 8:15 Saturday morning, the Pomona-Pitzer Men’s Cross Country team was already battling at its second race of the season at UC Riverside. The 8K course weaves through flat orange groves, and the trail is mostly dirt, producing fast early-season times. By the end of the race, six of...

Welcome to the Fall 2009 sports section. We are doing a few things differently this year, and I thought that I would take the time to share this with you, the reader.First, you may notice the absence of the Red and White colors. This is because we will not be covering CMS sports at this time for...

One year after a stunning playoff run, Pomona-Pitzer men’s soccer has high hopes for the ’09 season.“We all have our eyes set on winning the league this year, and we all have our hearts set on winning the Golden Boot,” Zack Mirman PO ’11 said. Mirman has started for...

Despite injuries that have plagued many of the top returning harriers, the Women’s Cross Country squad is off to a solid start this season. The Sagehens have already competed in two invitationals as well as an inter-squad time trial, earning a fifth-place finish at the UC Irvine...

The old sports mantra, “It’s not how you start, but how you finish,” has encapsulated the Pomona-Pitzer men’s water polo team over the past two years. Facing the most difficult non-conference schedule of any team on campus, the Sagehens start off every season with a...

In a matter of days, Pomona senior Drew Hedman graduated from the comfortable 5-C campus of just under 5,000 familiar peers and immediately exchanged his cap and gown for a uniform, a grassy diamond, and an average of 5,000 unknown fans that attended the first week of Lowell, Massachusetts summer...

Larry Wang Men's Tennis Year: Senior Hometown: Orange, CA This Season’s Stats: Wang has been the fearless leader of the third-ranked stag tennis squad. Playing No. 1 singles and doubles, Wang continued his dominance, winning SCIAC player of the year for the third year in a row, and making...

Julia Cruz Women's Softball Year: Junior Hometown: Tustin, CA This Season’s Stats: Cruz, with a 13-5 record, and a SCIAC-leading 1.18 ERA in 22 appearances is the Athena of the Season. As the ace of the staff, she has been crucial to CMS’s run back to the SCIAC final four tournament...

Jeff Clark Men's Track Year: Senior Hometown: Los Altos, CA This Week’s Stats: Clark was the only competitor at this weekend’s SCIAC championships to take home the gold in three different events. With strong performances in the high jump, triple jump, and long jump, the senior will...

Katie Harris Women's Track Year: Senior Hometown: Bremerton, WA This Weeks Stats: Harris dropped nine seconds on her 1500 time, winning the SCIAC championship. then with little time to recover as the defending champion of the 800, she came back to take second, helping the Athenas cement their...

The Stag and Athena track teams swept the SCIAC Championships this past weekend at Occidental. The Stags won the championship for the 18th straight time and the women won for the 11th time in 15 years. The men had 234.4 points, winning by a margin of 124.3 and the women had 175 points, winning...

When classes end on Wednesday, students will prepare for senior week in San Diego or studying for finals. Meanwhile, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team will be focused on finishing a process that quietly began four years ago: making the national championships.The seven players from the class of 2009...

CMS Baseball The CMS seniors will play their last home game of their college careers against the University of Redlands. The Stags are three games behind the Bulldogs for third place in the conference, and a three game sweep this weekend would give them a likely third-place finish. The Stags...

Last Sunday, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team missed earning back-to-back SCIAC Championship titles with a heartbreaking one-point loss to Cal Lutheran. The top-seeded Regals, who lost in the SCIAC finals to the Sagehens last year, this time fought their way to an 8-7 win to...

The SCIAC Track and Field Championships, hosted by Occidental College Apr. 25-27, have come and gone for another year. What remains are the great improvement from the men and women of Pomona-Pitzer, with both teams nearly doubling their point totals from the 2008 meet despite losing their top...

The CMS men’s tennis entered the Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament with high expectations. Great individual and team performances have given the Stags top rankings within the west region, bolstering their confidence for the upcoming NCAA tournament.A squad of eight players came to the...

The Pomona-Pitzer baseball team clinched at least a SCIAC co-championship and an automatic NCAA tournament appearance Saturday with an 8-5 win over Cal Lutheran. James Brunswick PO ’10 used his strong fastball as he pitched the Sagehens to victory, going 6-2/3 innings and allowing just...

Womens’ LacrosseAfter games against Redlands and UC Santa Barbara, the CMS Athenas hope to receive an at-large birth to the NCAA tournament. The Athenas started strong this year with a 11-1 record as of press time, their only setback being a 15-7 loss to Connecticut College of the New...

After a season marked by a few hard-fought wins but mostly nail-biting, one-goal losses such as the year-ending 24-16 loss on Apr. 22 to the CMS Athenas, many casual fans of Pomona-Pitzer women’s lacrosse (4-13) might be skeptical of the team’s improvement. However, the score...

Drew Hedman Baseball Year: Senior Hometown: Redding, CA This Season’s Stats: Another unsurprising selection for the athlete of the season, Hedman is finishing one of the best careers of any D-III player in history, with only a national championship and Player of the Year honors needed to...

Dana Kingman Women’s Water Polo Year: Sophomore Hometown: Wilton, CT This Weeks Stats: Kingman’s upheld her reputation for consistency between the pipes for the Sagehen water polo team at last weekend’s SCIAC Championships. In the semi-finals against Oxy, the sophomore recorded...

Colin Flynn Men’s Track Year: Freshman Hometown: Bellingham, WA This Weeks Stats: Super-frosh Flynn finished his rookie season with the Pomona-Pitzer track and field team with a phenomenal performance at the 2009 SCIAC Championships. He finished first in the 1500m race with a time of...

Siobhan Finicane Women's Tennis Year: Junior Hometown: Brimfield, MA This Season’s Stats: Finicane was the undisputed top player on this year’s Sagehen squad. Having won last year’s singles national championship, she defended her title by blowing out nearly every opponent she...

Thanks to a strong effort both on the mound and in the batter’s box, the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens baseball team, ranked first nationally, capped off one of their greatest seasons ever by winning the SCIAC title against No. 16 California Lutheran University with an 8-5 victory.Despite...

In Friday’s game against Cal Lutheran, the Sagehen baseball team came back from a two-run deficit to win, 8-7, when Brandon Huerta PI ’09 cranked a two-run homer over the left field fence.“I was really surprised it went out, I was just trying to hit a fly ball and get a sac fly...

When I walked onto the track at Mt. San Antonio College for the Mt. SAC Relays, a three-day meet in Walnut, Calif., to watch Anders Crabo PO ’12 race the steeplechase before warming up for my own race, the 10k, I entered the stadium to a swell of nostalgia.Though this was my first time...

Often lost amid the glamour of the tennis individual—the face of a Roger Federer, a Serena Williams, or a Rafael Nadal, is the art of the doubles team. Tennis is often billed as a highly individualistic sport, but college tennis players across the country know a different reality. Success...

After starting with a 5-0 win against Whittier in the opening round of the SCIAC tournament last Friday, the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens ultimately finished in fourth place Saturday following an 8-1 loss to CMS, the eventual champion, in the semifinals and a 6-3 loss to the Cal Lutheran Kingsmen in...

CMS Softball The CMS seniors will play their last home games of their college careers in a double-header against Occidental at 2 and 4 p.m. on Friday. The Athenas will be defending their second place SCIAC ranking, as they are tied with La Verne record-wise and only lead by runs scored. Last...

Arianna RoachSoftballYear: FreshmanHometown: Pinole, CAThis Weeks Stats: With not many games left in the season, Roach helped the Sagehens take an important two wins off Occidental and one off Whittier last weekend. In the first game against Oxy, Roach hit a double and scored off an RBI. ...

David Colvin Baseball Year: Sophomore Hometown: Mill Valley, CA This Weeks Stats: Colvin contributed nine solid innings from the mound in last Friday’s game against Chapman. The sophomore recorded four strike outs, and only allowed six hits the entire game. He faced stiff competition from...

Elisa La Cava Women's Tennis Year: Senior Hometown: Woodinville, WA This Weeks Stats: La Cava capped off her final conference season by going undefeated in last weekend’s SCIAC tennis tournaments. In addition to wins over La Verne and Caltech players, the senior avenged her earlier season...

Larry Wang Men's Tennis Year: Senior Hometown: Orange, CA This Weeks Stats: Wang made history last weekend when he became the first player in SCIAC to ever become a three-time winner of the SCIAC player of the year award. He earned this right after a 6-0 performance in last weekend’s SCIAC...

Last weekend at the University of Redlands, the Stag tennis program competed in the annual SCIAC conference tournament. As regular season winners of the SCIAC title, CMS needed the title to solidify their place above their familiar Southern California foes.The championships, hosted by the...

The Pomona-Pitzer softball team (11-25, 8-14 SCIAC) split their series against the Whittier Poets (22-14, 9-11 SCIAC) Saturday. In the first game, despite recording 12 hits as a team, the Sagehens lost 8-1. Later that afternoon the Sagehens redeemed themselves, however, shutting out Whittier...

Behold the power of youth. The Pomona-Pitzer baseball team normally relies on its upperclassmen to come through in the clutch. Players like Zach Mandelblatt PO ’09, Mike Silva PI ’08, Brandon Huerta PI ’09, and of course, D-III triple-crown candidate Drew Hedman PO ’09...

The NFL Draft is always an exciting and unpredictable time, especially during the first top ten selections. Here are my predictions for the first round of the NFL draft with analysis for the first ten picks.1. Detroit Lions: Matthew Stafford QB GeorgiaThe Detroit Lions (0-16) are in need of...

Last Friday and Saturday, the CMS Athenas competed in the SCIAC championships with hopes to end higher than their fifth-seed placement. After two close 5-4 losses to third and fourth seeds, Cal Lutheran and Occidental respectively, the Athenas’ dream came to an end. Even though...

Nicole Holsted Women's Tennis Year: Freshman Hometown: Edmond, OK This Weeks Stats: Playing in the most SCIAC important matches of her young Sagehen career, Holsted earned two demanding wins against the University of Redlands. Alongside Lindsay Clough PO ‘09, Holsted completed the doubles...

Zach Mandleblatt Baseball Year: Senior Hometown: Lake Oswego, OR This Weeks Stats: Mandelblatt’s batting helped the Sagecocks to a three game sweep of the Whittier Poets in last weekend’s series. He had a total of 6 hits for 13 at bats, an impressive 0.463 from the plate. Mandelblatt...

Jeff Clark Men's Track Year: Senior Hometown: Los Altos, CA This Weeks Stats: Senior Jeff Clark completed his undefeated SCIAC Multi-Duals career with wins in the high, long, and triple jump competitions last weekend. For his win in the high jump, Clark cleared 1.90 meters. He recorded 6.93...

Evelyn Ross Women's Track Year: Senior Hometown: Iowa City, IA This Weeks Stats: In last weekend’s SCIAC Multi-Duals, Ross took first in the women’s 5K with an outstanding time of 18:14.50. Additionally, the senior placed seventh in the 1500 meter race with a time of 4:55.30. Her...

On Saturday, Apr. 11, the Pomona-Pitzer baseball team completed a three-game sweep of the Whittier Poets, winning their first game 16-5 and their second game 10-5. In Friday’s game, the Sagehens were also victorious with a final score of 10-2.Team captains Zack Mandelblatt PO ’09 and...

You simply couldn’t ask for a better regular-season meeting. With the regular-season title on the line, Pomona-Pitzer traveled to Redlands on Sunday, Apr. 12 to close out SCIAC play. Both teams were a flawless 6-0 in league, and both teams had destroyed their opposition, winning each of...

The CMS Stags and Athenas swept the SCIAC multi-dual track meet held on Saturday, Apr. 11 at Whittier College. This is the fifth straight year for the men and fourth straight year for the women that CMS has finished 7-0 in dual meets.The men dominated the conference—the closest dual meet...

This past weekend, the CMS men’s tennis team played one of the most anticipated matches of the season against the Pomona-Pitzer “Hell Hens.” The duel took place at the Bizantz Family Tennis Center, for CMS’s first regular season night match of the season, and its inaugural...

The annual golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. came to an exciting close Sunday. All the familiar faces were there including the all-star pair of Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.However, neither Woods nor Mickelson was able to execute their plans over the course of the tournament. Woods seemed poised...

Although the most well-known springtime NCAA championship occurs on the hardwood, the most exciting of this season occurred on the ice. Although a true Cinderella failed to emerge in basketball, a team did slip on the proverbial glass slipper to advance to Hockey’s “Frozen...

With hard-fought wins over Occidental (13-9, 4-1 SCIAC) and CSU East Bay (14-12) on Apr. 11, the Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team (17-7, SCIAC 4-1) extended their winning streak to five games. The Sagehens, ranked third nationally, started their day with an upset of the top-ranked...

P-P, CMS Women’s Tennis This Saturday, the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens will host cross-street rivals CMS Athenas in the SCIAC Championships. Last weekend, the Sagehens dealt the Athenas a crushing 9-0 defeat, which CMS will be looking to avenge. CMS, having lost their last four matches, faces...

Tain Lee Men's Golf Year: Freshman Hometown: San Juan Capistrano, CA This Weeks Stats: Lee placed fourth in the West Region Invitational, held in Austin, Texas. He scored a 222 over the course of the tournament. He shot 73 the first two days, just one over par for the course. He was 76 for his...

James Campbell Baseball Year: Freshman Hometown: Lookout Mountain, TN This Weeks Stats: Campbell helped the Sagecocks add three more wins to their undefeated conference record (12-0) after last weekend’s games against rivals CMS. In Friday’s game he was .500 from the plate. In...

Mackenzie Smith Softball Year: Senior Hometown: San Marino, CA This Weeks Stats: Smith contributed seven strong innings from the mound in Saturday’s second game against CMS. After losing to their rivals 0-8, the Sagehens redeemed themselves in their next match with a 1-0 win. Smith struck...

Last Saturday, the Athenas and Sagehens met on the CMS field for a doubleheader. CMS, tied for the division lead and coming off four straight wins, looked like the favorite going in, especially with the Sagehens losing four in a row up to this point. After a routine 8-0 victory for CMS, P...

The tenth-ranked Pomona-Pitzer baseball team survived their toughest conference test of the season so far this past weekend, eventually prevailing over the CMS Stags in the three-game series by scores of 5-4 on Apr. 3 at P-P, and 13-6 and 12-8 on Apr. 4 at the CMS field. The Stags battled hard...

The view from the upper deck of Dodger Stadium was awe-inspiring and powerful at the same time. I was sitting in the same arena where thousands witnessed Kirk Gibson’s famous crippled trot around the bases after launching his famous walk-off home run in the 1988 World Series; where Sandy...

It was no surprise that the University of North Carolina Tar Heels crushed the Michigan State Spartans in the conclusion of the men’s college basketball tournament by the final score of 89-72. The Tar Heels were on a mission for a championship as soon as Danny Green, Ty Lawson, Wayne...

American League Regular SeasonAL East: Red Sox With an aging rotation, but still essentially with all the pieces from last year intact, the Red Sox will run away with the division, watching division rivals Tampa Bay and New York battle it out for second place and the Wild Card.AL Central: Royals...

Over the past weekend, the CMS men’s tennis team extended their dominance, toppling University of Redlands, La Sierra University, and UC Davis. The Stags have found their stride in time for a match with Pomona-Pitzer and then the SCIAC championships loom in the next two weeks. Recently...

The Pomona-Pitzer women’s water polo team (14-7, 2-1 SCIAC) added two more wins to their record when they defeated Whittier (6-14, 0-3 SCIAC) and UC Santa Cruz (11-10) at an April 4 doubleheader. The Sagehens dispatched the Whittier Poets with ease 13-6 in the first game. The second leg...

A gorgeous Southern California sky heralded the 23rd annual Pomona-Pitzer Invitational on Saturday, Apr. 4. Many professional athletes were in attendance, including several Olympians. Najina Kaltouma of Calgary International Track Club, a citizen of Chad, has qualified for four Olympics and was...

P-P, CMS Women’s Tennis The CMS women’s tennis team will close their regular season by playing 6th Street rivals Pomona-Pitzer. The Athenas (3-3 SCIAC) will travel to Pomona to face the Sagehens (5-0). The Sagehens, ranked seventh in the country, are the heavy favorites on their home...

Melissa Munoz Women’s Softball Year: Sophomore Hometown: Union City, CA This Weeks Stats: Munoz’s hitting helped lift the Athenas to an 8-0 shut out over cross-street rivals Pomona-Pitzer last Saturday. The sophomore had two hits in three at bats, which figures out to an impressive...