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Sports | Feb.25, 2010
Mixed Results at Big East Championships
Don’t let the numbers fool you. Despite mixed results at last weekend’s Big East Championship meet in New York City, the Friars are not a team to write off. Even though the team has battled injury and illness since the fall Cross Country season, Head Coach Ray Treacy is not worried about his teams’ potential for the final meets of the indoor season and the beginning of the outdoor track season.
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Sports | Feb.25, 2010
U.S. Olympians Shine in Vancouver Games
People love stories; and there’s no better place to write them on a world stage than at the Olympics. With only three days left in the 2010 Vancouver games, most of the stories have already been scrawled into the history books, some in triumph and some in sour defeat. With the United States sitting atop the medals table with 28, here are some of the stories that have come to define their Olympics in Gastown.
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Sports | Feb.25, 2010
Marandola’s PC Legacy Is One for the Ages
You might not know it if you were to pass her on campus. You might not know it if you were to see her teaching at Lincoln Middle School during the day. But you would certainly know, if you were to see her in action at Mullaney Gymnasium, that Chelsea Marandola ’10 is one of the most talented women’s basketball players ever to play for Providence College.
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Sports | Feb.25, 2010
Swimmers Cap Off Season
The largest contingent of Big East qualifiers in team history returned from Pittsburgh, Penn. on Saturday, Feb. 20 proud of what they had accomplished.
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Sports | Feb.25, 2010
Providence Captures Hockey East Crown
If anyone had a reason to feel snubbed when, in the summer of 2008, the Women’s Hockey East Association enacted a new policy that would award home ice for the playoffs to the regular season champion, it was Providence College.
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Sports | Feb.25, 2010
PC Tops USF; Tied for 8th
Perhaps the best yardstick for judging a college women’s basketball team is not how they win, but how they respond to a loss. That was the yardstick at play when the Friars took on South Florida in Tampa on Tuesday, Feb. 23, after losing to Connecticut just two days earlier. The Friars could not have responded better by registering a 72-62 win over the Bulls.
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Sports | Feb.25, 2010
Rautins and Jackson Too Much for Friars
Exactly one year after the Men’s Basketball Team knocked off then-No. 1 Pittsburgh, the Friars once again seemed ripe for the upset against a top-five opponent. However, futile defense and stagnant second half offense allowed the Syracuse Orange to race past Providence 99-85, crushing any hopes of a court-storming repeat.
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Sports | Feb.25, 2010
MacKinnon’s Hat Trick Lifts Friars over BU
The Men’s Hockey Team snapped an eight-game winless streak this weekend, splitting a series with the No. 19 Boston University Terriers. The Friars rallied around the first career hat-trick of Kyle MacKinnon ’11 to take the first game of the weekend series, 5-4, but were unable to repeat the feat the next night, losing 2-1 to BU. PC improved its record to 10-18-2 overall and 5-16-2 in Hockey East play.
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Sports | Feb.18, 2010
Tragedy In Vancouver
Olympic Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili a 21-year-old from the tiny country of Georgia who had dreamed of representing his country in the Winter Olympics, was tragically killed when he lost control of his sled on the final turn of his final practice run before the opening ceremonies in Vancouver.
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