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Sports | Mar.18, 2010
30 Years Later, No More Miracles on Ice
As the memories of the 2012 Winter Olympics still resonate in our minds, we look back and wonder, “what if?” There is always controversy surrounding hockey as to whether professional players or college players should be used in the Olympic games.
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Sports | Mar.18, 2010
LAX Seeks First Win Against No. 9/10 G’town
For the 2010 Men’s Lacrosse Team, the upstart of this year’s spring season has been a highly anticipated one. This season, the 31st in the Friars’ storied history, marks the inaugural season for the Friars in the highly competitive, and rather hostile, Big East Conference. Adjusting to the style of play that accompanies the Big East (after previously playing in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference—MAAC), the Friars are looking forward to the challenge of a rigorous Big East schedule.
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Sports | Mar.18, 2010
Greany on Track for Solid Spring Season
Shelby Greany ‘13 has had an interesting year. She emerged as the leader on the Women’s Cross Country Team during the 2009 season. Greany has developed into one of the best collegiate runners in the country, evidenced by her firt place finish in the USA Junior Cross Country Championship in Spokane, Wash. Wither her first national title, Greany earned a trip to Bydgoszcz, Poland, to race with the best in the world.
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Sports | Mar.18, 2010
Tennis Falls to Georgetown, Navy on Road Trip
The Friars entered their spring season with high hopes under Coach LaBranche after posting a 3-1 record in their fall season. Despite a loss against Rhode Island, the Friars were able to blank Hartford by a score of 7-0, along with getting two impressive wins against Holy Cross, by a score of 6-1, and Bryant, 5-2. PC looked to open their spring season on February 6 across town at Brown against a Bear team that came in ranked 63rd. Jenn Cusack ’10 and Brittany Maddock ’13 were the lone doubles team representing the Friars and fell in an eight game pro set by a score of 8-0. In singles, Marisela Aviles-Duron ’13 was ousted by a score of 6-0, 6-0. Ayushi Sinha ’11, Melanie Albert ’12, and Ally Wegner ’11 were also defeated in singles matches.
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Sports | Mar.18, 2010
Providence Goes 1-2 in South Carolina
This past weekend the Providence College Women’s Softball Team traveled to Rock Hill, S.C., to compete in the Winthrop Adidas Classic, where they posted a 1-2 record, tallying a 5-1 victory over Gardner-Webb but suffering tough losses against both Towson and Longwood, 9-5 and 9-1 respectively. The Friars’ record dropped to 5-12 overall on the season.
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Sports | Mar.18, 2010
Women’s Hoops Earns NIT Bid
It was no way to end a season that saw the Women’s Basketball Team earn more overall wins and more conference wins than in recent history. It was the Friars’ first winning season in nearly 20 years, but two losses to close out the regular season, a bye in the first round of the Big East Tournament, and a loss against Syracuse in tournament play were written into the books as the final pages of an otherwise banner season.
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Sports | Mar.17, 2010
Same Old Story at Big East Tournament
Any fan who came into the year expecting the men’s basketball team to be a defensive juggernaut is crazy. With a roster that included seven new players and a lack of size down low, it was to be expected that PC would struggle on the defensive end. However, throughout the course of the season the hope was that the squad would gradually improve in running Head Coach Keno Davis’ zone press and matchup zone defense. After a 109-106 loss to Seton Hall in the first round of the Big East Tournament in which ESPN analyst Jay Bilas repeatedly bashed Davis and the Providence defense, Friar fans enter the off-season wondering when, if ever, PC will be able to keep its opponents from putting up outrageous numbers?
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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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