Sports & Outdoors

The Puget Sound women’s lacrosse team ended the 2011 season on a high note this past weekend, wrapping up the year with a 19-8 victory over the Linfield Wildcats on Saturday. The Loggers dropped a match to Pacific University on Friday by a score of 18-12, but salvaged the split with the victory over Linfield. The split this past weekend gave the Loggers a 6-6 final record for the 2011 season. On Friday, senior Ana Calciano (Farmington, Conn.) posted 17 saves for the Loggers, but it wasn’t quite enough to...

The Puget Sound Logger baseball team travelled to McMinnville, Ore. to take on the nation’s seventh ranked team, the Linfield Wildcats.  The Loggers got a huge victory in the opening game but eventually fell to the Wildcats as Linfield took two of three games in the series. In the first game of the series two of the Northwest Conference’s premier pitchers squared off when Logger sophomore Matt Robinson (Lafayette, Calif.) clashed with Ryan Larson of the Wildcats. When it was all said and done Robinson came out ahead after allowing...

The Loggers faced Pacific University in their second doubleheader series of the year. In the previous series, the Loggers split with the Boxers.  This time around however, luck was not on the Logger’s side on Saturday. In the first game, the Loggers and Boxers got off to an even start, each scoring one run. The Boxers, however, were not to be held off for long. In the second inning, they jumped ahead 4-1 with a three run homerun.  The Boxers continued to tack on runs until they ended the game...

The Logger men’s and women’s Golf teams competed in the NWC Spring Classic last weekend at the Links at Hawks Prairie in Lacey, Washington. The men finished in second place, keeping them settled in at first place in the Northwest Conference, while the women took a sixth place finish, landing them in fifth place overall. At the end of day one, the men had a two-stroke lead, but fell nine strokes short of a strong Linfield team. Freshman Matt Kitto (Lake Oswego, Ore.) was the strongest performer for the Loggers,...

This upcoming weekend will mark the last weekend of regular play for the men’s and women’s tennis teams. Although for the women the season was marked by great improvement and they now find themselves behind only Willamette in the rankings with an eye on a playoff berth, for the men this weekend marks the end of the season. Their loss to regionally-ranked Willamette on Apr. 2 was the crucial point of no return.  The men’s team will sadly not be making an appearance at conference playoffs.  After making it to...