While most Wesleyan students were home relaxing over winter break, the men’s basketball team was hard at work here on campus. Clearly, the team’s effort has paid off. The 15-5 record is the program’s best since the 2001-02 season.
The Wesleyan men’s basketball team won two more road games this past weekend to improve to 6-1 on the year, the program’s best start to a season since the 2001-02 squad won eight out of its first nine games.
The Wesleyan men’s cross country team placed fifth out of 49 teams at the 2010 New England Division III meet, where the top four teams qualified for the Division III Championship.
Despite not qualifying for the chance to defend their NESCAC tournament title of last year, the Wesleyan softball team ended their 2011 campaign on a high note.
In the Wesleyan men’s lacrosse team’s final regular season game on Friday against visiting Connecticut College, it looked like the Cardinals would fold on two occasions.
On Saturday, April 23, the men’s lacrosse team traveled to Amherst to face the 10th-ranked Lord Jeffs. Because both teams had already beaten Williams, the game would decide the Little Three title, not to mention heavily influence the NESCAC standings with the postseason tournament rapidly approaching.
Saturday afternoon ended much better for Wesleyan men’s lacrosse than it had started. The Cardinals were hosting Little Three and NESCAC rival Williams, who came into the game at just 1-8 on the season. Wes, meanwhile, was 8-3, with all three losses coming in NESCAC play, and the Cards hoped to take advantage of the Ephs’ struggles.
Wesleyan men’s lacrosse took a break from its grueling NESCAC schedule on Tuesday, facing off against in-state foe Eastern Connecticut State.
The Chicago Bulls, one of only two teams to win 60 games this year, will face the Indiana Pacers in Round 1.
On Friday afternoon, the Goldsmith Family Cinema featured a screening of “The Two Escobars,” an award-winning documentary by Michael Zimbalist ’02 and his brother Jeffrey, as part of the Center for the Americas’ 2011 Americas Forum entitled “Sports Documentary Filmmakers in the Americas: The Politics of Access.”
The Old Methodist men’s rugby team hosted Connecticut College on Saturday, avenging a 40-10 loss this past fall by completely dominating the Camels, 40-0.
After opening the season with eight straight road games, in which they went 6-2, the 18th-ranked Cardinal men’s lacrosse team finally began its home schedule on Wednesday, taking on Trinity, one of the two best teams in the NESCAC. The other is Tufts, the defending national champion that beat Wesleyan convincingly at home on Saturday.
Wesleyan’s men’s club rugby team, better known as Old Methodist Rugby, traveled to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., to participate in the Bard Sevens Tournament on Saturday.
The Wesleyan men’s lacrosse team opened the season with great expectations and only exceeded those in their first six games. They beat every opponent in that span, including an overtime victory against fifth-ranked Middlebury, winning by an average margin of more than five goals.
After a scorching 6-0 start, the Wesleyan men’s lacrosse team finally lost this past Saturday, falling 12-7 on the road against the Bates Bobcats. In their outstanding run to start the season, they beat every challenger, from lowly Merchant Marine Academy (a 21-8 victory) to mighty Middlebury, ranked fifth nationally (9-8 in overtime).
While most students were away enjoying their break, the Wesleyan men’s lacrosse team was getting their highly anticipated 2011 campaign underway. The Cardinals showed that their focus did not disappear with their vacationing fellow students.
The Wesleyan wrestling team performed admirably at the New England Wrestling Association Championships this past weekend in Hartford, Conn. Of the 14 teams that participated, the Cardinals finished behind only Springfield and rival Williams to place third in the annual competition.
On Friday, the Wesleyan wrestling team won its 16th match of the season as it wreaked havoc on American International College (AIC).
Wesleyan women’s basketball ended its season this past weekend, attempting to play the spoiler against powerhouses Colby and Bowdoin.
If this past Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV in Dallas showed us anything, besides that the Black Eyed Peas are absolutely atrocious live, it proved that not even NFL superstars are exempt from the effects of karma.
The Wesleyan wrestling team continued its impressive recent run of victories this past weekend. The Cardinals, second in the New England Wrestling Association (NEWA) rankings, defeated #3 Plymouth State and #4 Williams, as well as Oneonta State, to sweep a four-team competition hosted by Williams on Saturday.