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Maggie Christ
Sports editor
Roanoke College Women’s basketball fell to Ferrum College in a season-opener Wednesday night. The Men’s team gave Furman University their first win of the season in an exhibition match Friday night.
While the men do not start their season until November 19, they took a hard hit with a 75-49 defeat. [...]
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Cross Country Runners Tim Smith ’12 and Grace England ’15 qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championship and will compete on Saturday in Wisconsin.
Six men’s soccer players receive All-ODAC honors. They are:
First Team All-ODAC:
Brian White ’14 – ranked 4th in ODAC in scoring
Patrick Bain ’14 – [...]
Maggie Christ
Sports editor
Roanoke College’s Women’s Soccer team received an at-large bid for the NCAA Division III tournament this weekend. They will play on Saturday, November 12, taking on Centre College.
This is the third time in program-history that the Maroons were given a bid. The team ended their regular season with a record [...]
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Staff writer
Roanoke College is well known for its academic quality, but the school is also widely known for its consistently outstanding Men’s Lacrosse program. Headed by Coach Bill Pilat, the team enters the fall ranked #3 in the country according to a preseason coach’s poll in Lacrosse Magazine.
To maintain this [...]
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Sports editor
Last Saturday, Officer Randy Mitchell took 20 students to Reba Farm Inn in Bedford, Va. for a Western Pleasuring Ride sponsored by RC’s Outdoor Adventures.
The last 2 years or so, this group had been a part of the Equestrian Club, which was advised by Mitchell. This year, OA took back [...]
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Sports editor
RC’s Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams finished 5th in the ODAC Championships last Saturday in Bedford. Tim Smith ’12 took 1st place over-all and Grace England ’15 finished in 4th for the women’s race.
The men earned 115 points, which is their best score since 2007. Smith took home the [...]
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Maggie Christ
Sports editor
There is more to Roanoke College athletics than just the varsity teams. The Jocks in Bras along with about 40 other intramural flag football teams can vouch for that.
These 11 girls competed in an intercollegiate intramural regional competition last year. Unfortunately, they are not able to attend again this [...]
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Editor-in-chief
Roanoke College’s girls soccer team finished off their 2011 regular season Tuesday with a non-conference win over Mary Washington.
It took 49 minutes for the women to find the back of the net, as Carmen Graves ’13 headed her team leading 8th goal of the season past Mary Washington’s goalie. Graves’s goal [...]
Continue Reading →Morgan Minyard
Staff writer
On Oct. 16, the Washington Redskins travelled to the Edward Jones Dome in Missouri to play the St. Louis Rams. After falling 18-16 in Week 3 to the Dallas Cowboys on Sept. 26 the Redskins were looking to redeem themselves against the Rams.
The Redskins had four goals going into the [...]
Continue Reading →Kathleen Fountain
Staff writer
Last week the golf team finished 9th at the Ted Keller Memorial tournament. They have an upcoming tournament this weekend in Suffolk that they have been preparing steadily for.
“Our biggest problem is consistency. We have all the skills we need we just need to play consistently and play strong,” said [...]
Continue Reading →Kathleen Fountain
Staff writer
The field hockey team is starting the season strong with a 2-1 win in their recent ODAC game. They have won three games so far this season, which is tied with their 2008 season.
“Overall our team’s ability is getting higher and more competitive than in the past”, [...]
Continue Reading →Chalalin Giron
Staff writer
On Saturday, September 24th, the Roanoke Rugby Club played an intense match against Washington & Lee resulting in a victory for the opposing team.
This was my first Rugby match ever attending and to be honest, it got me truly excited. Of course, at first I had no idea what [...]
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Sports editor
RC Men and Women Cross Country dominated their own Maroon Invitational last Saturday at Mowles Spring Park.
Nine schools were represented at the meet. The men won by a landslide, earning just 25 points with their closest competition, Eastern Mennonite University, 63 points behind. The women took first with 33 points [...]
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Staff writer
The club hockey team is gearing up for their season, which they hope will be a winning one despite many challenges they already face.
Last season injuries plagued their lines and they have already suffered several injuries this early in the season. To combat this, they have increased the intensity of [...]
Continue Reading →Haley Shircliff
Staff Writer
The women’s volleyball team this year is off to a good start. Their overall record so far this season is 3-9 Conference: 1-1 Home: 1-0 Away: 0-4 Neutral: 2-5.
“You can’t see it in the record, but during practice you can tell we’re a strong team,” said Kelsey Largen ’12.
As [...]
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Sports editor
Women’s tennis sets the bar high for new season.
In their first tournament of the year, RC Women’s Tennis defeated all at the Ferrum Fall Tournament last Saturday. They beat Lynchburg, Ferrum and Randolph Colleges. RC led by far with a score of 36 of 38 possible points by the end [...]
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Staff Writer
The Roanoke College lacrosse team consists of many young players, all from very different walks of life. Several of our players came to Roanoke with a different view of the game of lacrosse.
Sophomore Richard Lachlan ’13, and freshman Troy Grogan ’14, are originally from Canada and were recruited to play for [...]
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Although the Roanoke golf team has no official conference standing, they are currently ranked number 67 in the nation.
Brandon Ketron ’12 notes that the team’s scoring average is 308.4, which puts the team 5th in the conference behind Guilford, Bridgewater, Randolph-Macon and Hampden-Sydney.
“We have some work to do before our conference [...]
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Roanoke College baseball obtained an impressive win on Saturday in uncertain weather. The Maroons beat out Hampton-Sydney 7-6. They improved their record to 12-19 overall and 3-12 in ODAC action.
The men started strong with five runs in the first inning. The first was scored by Benjamin Amos ‘12 off of a [...]
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Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams have optimistic views as they look ahead at the rest of the season and the ODAC’s.
The women’s team is currently 5-3 overall. They are 3-2 in the ODAC with 5 matches to go.
Co-captain of the women’s team, Kristin Nagy ’11, is not worried about [...]
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