Amid a New England schedule that has been defined by upstart hitting, the softball team received a harsh reality check in a doubleheader at Amherst College Saturday, as the Judges fell by scores of 9-0 and 6-1.
Although the softball team entered the season-opening University Athletic Association Championship tournament with a new head coach, they still ended up with the same result as last season.
After finishing second place in the University Athletic Association cross-country championships last fall and third place at last year's UAA indoor track championships, men's runners were presented with a golden opportunity to continue their rise to national prominence as hosts of this weekend's UAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
The present might not look very bright for the swimming teams after last-place finishes at last week's University Athletic Association Championships in Cleveland.
Competing in his first-ever 1,000-meter run at the Tufts University Indoor Invitational Saturday, John Guilinger's '08 eyes lit up as the sole runner in front of him, from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, pulled out after the 600-meter mark, allowing Guilinger to take the lead and win the race."At that point my coach had me go for it," said Guilinger, who finished the race in 2 minutes, 32.42 seconds.In a meet where several Judges experimented with new events, Guilinger's win allowed the men to salvage an 11th-place finish out of 14 teams.
Instead of focusing on outrunning sometimes superior opposing schools at Saturday's Terrier Classic at Boston University, the members of men's and women's indoor track teams essentially competed with themselves.
In their last two meets of the season, the men's and women's swimming teams swept their opponents, defeating Clark University at home Wednesday and Worcester Polytechnic Institute on the road Saturday.
Despite several solid individual performances in Saturday's home meet against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the swimming teams still fell short against the deeper Engineers.
In a two-day sweep of the Wesleyan University Invitational this weekend, the Judges proved that swimming can be as much a team sport as an individual one.
The men's and women's swimming teams claimed many individual victories Saturday against the University of Rochester, but were unable to pull out the closest races of the day on the way to being swept at home.
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