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Player of the Week: Jimmy Saris

Seven innings pitched, eleven strikeouts, no earned runs and a mere five hits allowed was the line on this week’s player of the week, Jimmy Saris. Those impeccable stats catapulted Georgetown baseball to a much-needed 7-0 victory over Navy. It was Saris’s seventh start of the season, and by far his best. He had retired eighteen batters all season before his stunning performance that sent twenty-one Midshipmen back to the bench.

By April 17, 2008

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Sports Sermon

This Friday the Multi-Sport Field will be transformed into what might appear to be a campground. Blue-topped tents and tarps will line the field, a stage will be constructed on the south end and banners will hang from every inch of the field’s walls. From 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday morning almost 2,000 students will spend their night on the field participating in a gigantic relay.

By April 17, 2008

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Debunking Ewing

Only a few basketball players have been bigger first-ballot shoe-ins for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame than Patrick Ewing, Sr.

By April 10, 2008

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Going pro around the world

Kenny Izzo’s dream of playing professional basketball lead him to places the ordinary persuer would not be willing to visit.

By April 10, 2008

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The Sports Sermon

When I mention the words “workout” and “girls” what comes to mind? Perhaps the rows of occupied elliptical machines at Yates steadily spinning away while the girls on them read the lastest issue of Cosmo? An exercise ball might even be involved, but what remains consistent in any image is the intent to break the least amount of sweat while still managing to get the body in shape.

By April 10, 2008

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Second half victory for women’s lax

With thirty seconds left on the clock, junior midfielder Meghan Bloomer sprinted by her defender and fired the ball on goal. The ball hit the top of Virginia goaltender Kendall McBrearty’s stick and landed in the bottom right corner of the net, and the Hoyas escaped with an 8-7 victory over the University of Virginia Cavaliers.

By April 10, 2008

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Andrew Baird

After a difficult win against unheralded Fairfield last Saturday, senior attackman Andrew Baird dismissed the suggestion that the Hoyas should have won easily.

By April 10, 2008

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Softball hit hard by Maryland

Poor hitting plagued the Georgetown Hoyas (18-28) in a doubleheader in College Park against Maryland on Tuesday. The Terrapins won both games, 1-0 and 8-0.

By April 10, 2008

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GU track heads outdoors

Winter was a kind season for the Hoya Track and Field Program. The men finished third in the Big East and won their first Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) title since 2002, and the women finished second in the Big East. In addition, sophomore Andrew Bumbalough and senior Matt Debole earned All American honors and lead the men to a 17th-place finish in the NCAA Indoor Championships.

By April 3, 2008

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Fast Break

Georgetown baseball (11-14, 3-6 BE) traded leads with cross-town rival George Washington (15-11, 4-2 A-10) for much of the afternoon on Wednesday, but a bullpen collapse in the latter innings cost the Hoyas the game and snapped their three-game win streak.

By April 3, 2008

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Streetball at Volta

March’s madness has dissipated into an apathetic April. The college tournament has left you with no one to cheer for. Your trip to sunny San Antonio bit the dust. Your only interest in basketball right now is to root against North Carolina’s Tyler “Psycho T” Hansborough because on Easter weekend his name received more air time than Christ’s. And all this negativity has got you in a funk of wasteful daytime drinking and hitless performances on the co-ed intramural softball field, where you wholeheartedly believe that it’s okay to blame your dribbling groundouts on the fact that the pitches are coming in too slow.

By April 3, 2008

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Men’s lax coming on strong

Having made ten straight NCAA tournaments, Georgetown’s men’s lacrosse team is accustomed to regular season success. This season has been no different; after a 1-2 start, the Hoyas won five straight, including Saturday’s 11-10 overtime win over no. 10 Navy. They’re now ranked fifth in the country heading into their game this Saturday at Fairfield.

By April 3, 2008

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Samantha Peters

The Georgetown women’s softball team completed an unprecedented five-game win streak last week, due largely to sophomore Samantha Peters. The starting shortstop for the Hoyas has been a force the entire year, posting nice numbers and leading the team in just about every offensive category. Through forty-two games this season, Peters has hit .391 with ten homers and thirty-three runs batted in. As if those stats were not impressive enough, she also leads the team with 15 stolen bases and has posted an on-base percentage of .443. She is currently on pace to record the greatest season in the three year history of the Georgetown University softball program.

By April 3, 2008

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The Sports Sermon

This year’s March Madness might be one of the worst. Here on the Hilltop, Georgetown fans were seriously disappointed when our Hoyas fell out of the brackets in the second round, a tough end to a season that began with so many hopes.

By April 3, 2008

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Hoyas shot down in Raleigh

There’s no best way to approach what happened to the Georgetown Hoyas in Raleigh on Sunday.

By March 27, 2008

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MVP candidates

As March Madness minus Georgetown rolls on and the NBA makes a mad dash to the finish line, one columnist has basketball on his mind. But because I can’t bring myself to revisit the tragedy of Black Easter, it seems like a good moment to take a look at an exciting end to the pro-circuit’s season and its ultra-tight MVP race.

By March 27, 2008

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What Rocks

After a 4-goal game against Rutgers last weekend, sophomore midfielder Ashby Kaestner has become a star on the women’s lacrosse team. Behind her stellar play, the seventh-ranked Hoyas defeated the Scarlet Knights 11-5, bringing their record to 7-1.

By March 27, 2008

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The Sports Sermon

The Georgetown women’s basketball team has been on the rise in recent years due to Head Coach Terri Williams-Flournoy—who joined the Hoyas for the 2004-2005 season—and her attempt to turn the program around. This year alone, the Hoyas managed to improve their overall record to 15-14 (5-11 Big East). The team finished the season ranked 13th in their conference, which placed them only one spot away from making a showing at the Big East Tournament.

By March 27, 2008

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Hoyas on a winning streak

Four wins in two days is a feat for any team, in any sport. But for Georgetown softball, a team playing just its third season on the Hilltop, it is beyond impressive. With doubleheader sweeps against LaSalle and cross-town rivals George Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Hoyas (15-23) have already surpassed their win total from a season ago.

By March 27, 2008

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Hoyas win big at home against the Blue Hens

Georgetown’s 12th-ranked Men’s Lacrosse team beat the Blue Hens of Delaware University 18-10 in its fourth game of the season yesterday. The Hoyas, who suffered a tough double overtime loss to Syracuse this past Sunday, got back on the winning track against the 7th ranked Blue Hens (5-0). The win was the Hoyas’ first against a ranked opponent in three tries. Delaware, which made a surprise run to the Final Four last season on the heels of junior face-off specialist Alex Smith, dropped to 3-1 against ranked opponents after knocking off UMBC, Rutgers and Albany.

By March 13, 2008