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The women’s basketball team captured the Brandeis Tip-Off Tournament, presented by the Park Lodge Hotel Group, to help head coach Carol Simon earn her 400th career victory. To win the title, the Judges defeated Eastern Nazarene College 70-54 on Saturday afternoon and was victorious by a score 81-38 over Mount Holyoke College. The title was the team’s third in four years.
The men and women’s cross country team turned in strong performances at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III New England Regional Championships on Saturday as University Athletic Association champion Emily Bryson ’19 led the way with a 13th-place finish. The women took home eighth-place overall, scoring 242 points, while the men earned a 14th-place finish with 433 points.
The men’s soccer team ended their season with a 3-0 shutout victory over conference rival New York University on Saturday, furthering already-mounting momentum as they head into the NCAA Division III tournament this coming week.
The No. 11 women’s soccer team closed out its regular season with its 12th shutout of the year, topping New York University 1-0 on Gordon Field last Saturday.
This weekend’s meet at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute proved to be a tough battle for the men and women’s swimming and diving team.
The Judges got off to a successful start this season at the New England Fall Collegiate Championship, or “the Big One,” at Smith College on Saturday. The fencers took home three medals between the men and women in their first competition of the season. On the women’s side, Caroline Mattos ’16 utterly dominated her competition. In pool play, she only surrendered two touches in six bouts, propelling her to the top seed in the direct elimination round. In that round, she defeated her three opponents by a total combined score of 45-9.
The volleyball team’s trying 2015 campaign came to a close after a University Athletic Association tournament performance that was as dismal as the season it followed. In the quarterfinals, the Judges were swept 3-0 by top-ranked Emory University.
The wins keep piling up for the No. 12 men’s soccer team. The squad claimed victory in all three of its matches this past week, defeating cross-town rival Lasell College on Tuesday, blanking conference foe Emory University on Friday and beating the University of Rochester on Sunday to claim outright the University Athletic Association championship for the first time in school history. By clinching the conference title, the Judges have earned the first bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament of the 2015 season, a feat that should certainly not be overlooked.
On Sunday, the No. 8 women’s soccer team drew 1-1 with the the Yellowjackets of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, while on Friday they also tied against Emory University.
Emily Bryson ’19 became the first member of the men and women’s cross country team to take the University Athletic Association Championship since the 2002 to 2003 season as the Judges hosted the UAA Championships over the weekend. Brandeis finished in fourth place on the women’s side and seventh on the men’s side.
The volleyball squad went 1-2 this past week, losing to Babson College 0-3 and Vassar College 1-3 on Saturday at Brandeis, after defeating Lasell College 3-1 at Lasell on Wednesday. After sustaining a 10-match losing streak that lasted nearly a month, the Judges have now won two of their last six contests.
The National Basketball Association season tipped off last week as a new era of players was ushered into the league. Players who have previously dominated the court, such as Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett and Dwayne Wade, are now handing over the reigns to younger, healthier and more versatile players. The new face of the NBA is quickly transitioning to the forefront of league performance and play.
The women’s soccer team picked up an easy victory last Wednesday, dispatching Wesfield State University 3-1 on Gordon Field.
The volleyball team went 1-2 last weekend at the Hall of Fame Invite, losing to Trinity College 1-3 and Amherst College 0-3 on Sunday after defeating Wesleyan University 3-2 on Saturday. The team is now 4-22 overall.
The men and women’s swimming and diving team competed in the Rochester Invitational on Saturday and Sunday but were unable to pull out a victory amid some strong individual performances.
Zach Diamond ’18 was named the CollegeSwimming.com National Division III Swimmer of the Week on Oct. 19. Diamond became the first Judge ever to receive the prestigious award.
In October of 1986, the New York Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox in Game 7 of the World Series, bringing the club its second championship in history. To Mets fans, the 29 years that have followed likely feel like centuries. The team has not won a Major League Baseball championship since then, stuck in a decades-long drought that has featured mid-season collapses, disappointing play on the field and heartbreak in 2000 when the Mets fell to the rival New York Yankees in the “Subway Series.” Though some Mets fans may have grown accustomed to heartbreak and mediocrity, it appears they once again have a reason for hope.
This past Saturday, former pitcher Nelson Figueroa ’98 was inducted as part of the 2015 class of the Joseph M. Linsey Brandeis Athletics Hall of Fame, which also elected contributor Israel “Ace” Weinstein, women’s tennis player Brenda Schafer ’77 and the 1957 to 1958 men’s basketball team. Figueroa is the first and only Brandeis alum to reach the ultimate pedestal in professional baseball: Major League Baseball. Before the ceremony on Saturday, the Justice was able to sit down with Figueroa to talk about a career which took him from a park in Waltham to the bright lights of Citi Field.
It took 95 minutes, but Alec Spivack ’16 scored a howler off of a free kick to propel the Brandeis Judges (12-2-1, 2-2 UAA) to a 1-0 win in extra time on Sunday against the No. 7 Washington University in St. Louis Bears (12-2, 3-1 UAA). Spivack’s goal came at a crucial time, as the Judges had dropped a game to the unranked University of Chicago earlier in the weekend, but this win was important in keeping pace both in the UAA and in the national rankings.
The women’s tennis team completed its fall season at the New England Women’s Intercollegiate Doubles Tennis Tournament last weekend, where two pairs of doubles rattled off perfect weekends.