The Pomona-Pitzer softball team split a pair of 5-4 decisions against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Saturday to move to 3-7 overall and 1-5 in SCIAC. The Sagehens got off to a good start in the first inning of the opening game when Lauren Boden PO ’14, Leah Bleichner PO ’15, and Ashley Morello
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Sagehen Softball Looks to Build on Past Success
Pomona-Pitzer softball is a program on the rise. After having increased their win total in every season since 2009, the Sagehens finished 2012 with a program record 22 wins, good for third place in SCIAC. While the 2012 season was record-breaking, the Sagehens have every reason to expect even more
Softball Splits Doubleheader Behind Riley Complete Game
Pomona-Pitzer softball began their season last Saturday with mixed results against Vanguard University. The Sagehens bounced back from a difficult first game to split the doubleheader and make it out of the day with an encouraging 1-1 overall record. The first game proved difficult for the Sagehens when a
McAndrews Emerging as Star for Men’s Basketball
The date? Feb. 21, 2012. The time left on the clock? 0.4 seconds. The score? Pomona-Pitzer down 48-50. The stakes? Victory over arch-rivals Claremont-Mudd-Scripps basketball. The man at the free throw line? First-year guard, Kyle McAndrews PO ‘15. Many returning students may remember this scenario like it was yesterday. Last
Women’s Golf Looks Forward to Bright Future
Nicole Bauthier PO ’14 never played golf before she teed up for the P-P women’s team. She was friends with Lauren, Allison and Stephanie Boden, PO ’14, triplets from Atlanta, GA. They convinced her to join the team. With Ester Ha PZ ’14 also competing, PPWG was able to field
Millertime: Seven Sagehen SCIAC Successes
It has been an up-and-down year for Pomona-Pitzer athletics. Teams have gone on incredible runs, defied odds and had unbelievable wins. In spite of that, no team has had a run comparable to the 2009 baseball team, and very few teams have even won SCIAC. But consistently, all year long,
Softball Falls in Heartbreaking Doubleheader to Whittier
Heartbreak. That is what the Pomona-Pitzer women’s softball team felt twice this weekend. The Hens lost their first match-up against Whittier 9-8 in nine innings. Then, in the second game of the doubleheader, they succumbed 5-4 to the Poets in ten. Suffice it to say that a sense of heaviness,
Softball Falls in Doubleheader to CMS
The Pomona-Pitzer softball team dropped both games of their doubleheader at CMS March 30, losing the first game of the series by a score of 6-5 and the second 6-1. The games were a make-up of the rained-out series originally scheduled for March 17. The Sagehens were on top in
Millertime: Wig Beach Wonders
It is that time of the year when college sports teams go on incredible runs—upsetting higher-ranked teams, pulling off dramatic comeback wins and stringing them all together to take a shot at a championship. But this March, in Claremont, California, it is not Butler or Davidson, Norfolk State or Lehigh.
Softball Falls in Doubleheader Against Redlands
Sagehen softball fell to Redlands last Saturday in both games of a double-header. Redlands is the defending SCIAC champion and now holds a 4-0 record in SCIAC play this season. “It was tough to play Redlands during the first round of SCIAC play,” said head coach Joanne Ferguson. “Redlands has