GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Swarthmore tennis team breezed to a 9-0 win over Greensboro College on Monday afternoon. The Garnet swept through the six singles matches without dropping a set, winning their second match of the young spring season. Sonya Reynolds ’07 won her match against Pride top player Carrie Pacifico, ranked 24th in the [...]
SANTA CRUZ , Calif — Swarthmore faced a Division III opponent for the first time in 2006 on Monday afternoon, yet the defending national champion and current top-ranked UC-Santa Cruz provided little relief for the Garnet. The Banana Slugs (5-2, 3-1 Div. III) rolled past Swarthmore (0-5, 0-1 Div. III) by a score of 6-1. [...]
3/6: Garnet Flourish In Florida WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — 10 different Garnet women scored goals on Monday morning as Swarthmore opened the 2006 season with a convincing 16-7 win over Wittenberg (OH). It is the 14th consecutive time the Garnet began the season with a victory. Attack Athena Samaras ’07 and midfielder Heidi Fieselmann [...]
FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The 116th edition of Swarthmore baseball opened the 2006 season in eastern Florida on Monday, splitting a doubleheader with Manhattanville (NY) College. The Valiants (2-2), the 2005 Skyline West Division champions, won the morning game 13-6 while the Garnet (1-1), behind solid pitching from right-hander Justin Chen, rolled to victory in [...]
Following the graduation of three seniors, the Garnet will boast a very young and talented group. The Swarthmore roster will consist of one senior, captain Scott Young (Huntsville, AL / Huntsville), five juniors, and a large group of freshmen and sophomores. Young led Swarthmore in batting average (.286) and hits (28) in 2004, and finished [...]
MOREAGA, Calif — Swarthmore began its grueling 2006 California swing with a 7-0 defeat at the hands of Division I opponent Saint Mary’s on Saturday afternoon. The lone Garnet (0-4) victory came at No. 3 doubles. Sam Sidhu ’07 and Kevin Shaughnessy took down Thomas Dawson-Roberts and Dan Anderson in dramatic fashion, 9-8 (7-5). [...]
BALTIMORE, Md. – Junior captain Jay Charles scored the game-winning goal in the third overtime period, sending visiting Swarthmore to an 8-7 season-opening victory at Goucher College on a chilly Saturday afternoon. It was only the second triple-overtime game for the Garnet in the last ten years. Ironically, that game was also at Goucher; a [...]
The Swarthmore softball team will have to wait a few more days to open the 2006 season as today’s scheduled 2:30 p.m. doubleheader with Arcadia has been postponed. The twinbill has been re-scheduled for Sunday, March 26 at 1:00 p.m. The Garnet head south to Georgia to participate in the third edition of the 2006 [...]
Swarthmore faced its third consecutive Division I opponent in as many matches on Wednesday afternoon, falling 5-2 to the visiting Leopards from Lafayette College in the Michael Mullan Tennis Center. Senior Brian Park claimed victory in both his singles and doubles matches by outlasting the Leopard opponents. Park and doubles’ partner Zac Rodd ’06, ranked [...]
After two straight seasons of double-digit wins, the 2006 version of Swarthmore softball faces an uphill battle. Four seniors have graduated, including the entire starting outfield, leaving third-year head coach Renee Clarke to lean on a veteran battery to propel the Garnet towards the Centennial Conference playoffs. Senior catcher Christina Procacci (Moorestown, NJ / Moorestown) [...]