In the final minute of regulation during Saturday's game at Clark University, the men's soccer team was in position to deliver a dramatic victory with two shots on goal in a span of five seconds.
With the score tied at one goal apiece in the 58th minute of the men's soccer team's season-opener against Endicott College Saturday, midfielder Evan Duval '08 streaked down the left sideline and received a pass from midfielder Alex Mithoefer '08.
The men's soccer team surged down the stretch last year to win their first East Coast Athletic Conference championship since 1994 but to achieve similar success this season, the Judges will have to overcome the loss of several key players.The list of departures includes forward Mike Snyder '07, the most valuable player of the ECAC tournament, and midfielder Yuval Ezer '07, whom coach Mike Coven called one of the best players to ever play soccer at Brandeis.
In the 800-meter run at the Brown Springtime Invitational Saturday in Providence, R.I., Meaghan Casey '09 found herself in the same spot she was in her previous meet; seconds away from qualifying provisionally for NCAA championships.But after falling milliseconds short of the goal at the University Athletic Association championships April 21, Casey came through in this race, turning in a third-place finish in two minutes, 14.60 seconds to qualify provisionally for Nationals, barely satisfying the 2:14.70 benchmark."There was a lot less pressure going into this race [than there was before last week's race]," Casey said.
In an early-season tournament with late-season significance, the outdoor track teams posted several strong individual results but unspectacular team performances.
In an early-season tune-up for the University Athletic Association championships, the outdoor track teams looked to be in mid-season form, overcoming adverse conditions to post a bevy of impressive individual finishes at the George Davis Invitational Saturday at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
While they held their own against comparable competition at the NCAA Championships this week, the Brandeis fencing teams were simply overmatched by the nation's elite Division I teams.
Most varsity teams at Brandeis, a Division III school, aren't in the same stratosphere as their Division I opponents.
While the men's fencing team will send several returning top performers to NCAA championships, newcomer Caitlin Kozel '09 will represent the women at the tournament.
A weekend of success for the fencing team culminated in a historic moment: For the first time in University history, the men's
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