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Baseball swings to good start for spring season
Once again, the baseball team began its season with a spring training trip to Florida to play 12 games, seven in conference play. After several dismal years in Florida, the team erupted. It returned north with eight wins and four losses, a promising beginning for the northern schedule. This young and talented team proved it […]
Lacrosse aims high
The womens? lacrosse team hit the road to sunny Florida for spring break with goals to achieve and a game to perfect. Coach Andrea Golden was optimistic about spring training and traveled with some team objectives.Golden said she wanted to use the week to work on seeing which women were capable two-way players, in addition […]
Crew rowing strong
Spring season is hitting campus, and for the men and women?s crew teams that means getting back to the Genessee waters.Like many of the spring sports, the crew teams headed down south to begin training. They spent their break in Gainesville, Ga.. The team used the time to get reacquainted with the water after rigorous […]
Women's hops win ECACs
While many UR students basked under the Caribbean sun, the women?s basketball team soaked up its own rays of glory. The Yellowjackets won the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Championship Sunday, March 4 at Nazareth College. The women gained their first East Coast Athletic Conference bid in years after their upset win over Case Western Reserve University […]
10th place finish for men's track
As the season came to a close, the 4x200-meter relay and 4x400-meter relay teams each set a new school record during the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships at Boston University March 3. The men?s indoor track team stormed to a tenth place finish overall, out of the 57 teams competing at the meet.The team managed […]
Tae Kwon Do highlights fun and learning
UR graduate students Sean Bentley and John Heebner placed in the top three in a Tae Kwon Do tournament at Terry Taylor School in Spencerport last weekend. Heebner earned second place in form, second in weapons and third in sparring.Meanwhile, Bentley placed third in forms, fourth in weapons and fourth in sparring. The two brown-belt […]
Women's track gains momentum
For the women?s track team, the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Championship three weeks ago was only the beginning of a grueling post-season championship series. The team continued its post-season at Boston University Armory Track and took on a higher level of competition at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championships March 3. This meet […]
Men's tennis plays well under the sun
The men?s tennis team spent its spring break playing some of the best Div. III teams in the nation. But the Yellowjackets didn?t sacrifice fun the sun either, as they enjoyed the sun of Calif. during the matches. The ten-day trip began with a match against the University of Redlands, a tennis powerhouse that is […]
From the Pressbox
Don?t you love it when a plan falls apart? I?ve heard many stories about spring break trips that were bound to happen, but then somebody gets sick, the car breaks down or my personal favorite ? the girlfriend back home cracks the whip. So what you end up doing is sitting at home, sleeping for […]
Mozart can make us smarter-well, sort of
We?ve all heard the hype recently.We?ve been hit with books about it. We?ve even seen pregnant women with two sets of headphones ? one set for their own ears and another pressed to their stomachs.The message has been broadcast across America.Listening to classical music, specifically Mozart, makes us smarter.Not only are there nine books on […]