Sports

  • Team competes in conference championship this weekend

    This weekend, the Elizabethtown College men’s and women’s swim teams are geared up for the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships in Wilkes-Barre. Although neither team has had the best of seasons there is still much to look forward to from the teams’ top swimmers. On the men’s side, the team came out with a win over

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  • Jays receive sixth at meet, highest rank in school history

    Jays receive sixth at meet, highest rank in school history

    Six Blue Jay wrestlers competed in the Pete Willson-Wheaton Invitational to place sixth overall, the highest rank Elizabethtown College has ever received at this Invitational in Wheaton, Illinois. In the two-day tournament culminating on Feb. 2, sophomore Phil Landis placed third in the 197 weight class, sophomore heavyweight Jeremy Reith placed fourth, first-year Chad Lammer

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  • Blue Jays go 0-2 in joust with Knights of Arcadia, Crusaders of Alvernia

    Blue Jays go 0-2 in joust with Knights of Arcadia, Crusaders of Alvernia

    The Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team faced two teams in the Commonwealth Conference this week: Arcadia and Alvernia Universities. The Blue Jays played both games hard but were unable to come out of either game with a victory, losing 55-50 against Arcadia and 78-57 against Alvernia. The Knights and the Crusaders enjoyed a “home court

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  • Team competes in two meets, breaks number of records

    Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s track and field team had a fantastic showing in not one meet this past weekend, but two. The Jays headed to the Widener Field Meet on Thursday, Jan. 31. The lone participant from Etown on the first day, sophomore Joe Bayona, entered into the first day of the heptathlon at

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  • Team faces off against Division I, II competition

    Team faces off against Division I, II competition

    The Elizabethtown College men and women’s track and field teams kicked off 2013 at the Collegeville Classic at Ursinus College. Although the teams finished fifth and sixth out of 16 teams respectively, the Blue Jays had some standout performances a month and a half after their previous meet. Sophomore Matt Rever finished first in the

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  • Close point margins define past three games for Blue Jays

    Close point margins define past three games for Blue Jays

    It was a rough night for the Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team at an away game against Messiah College on Wednesday, which left the Blue Jays with a second straight defeat of 62-52. Etown started off with a good first half, keeping the score close and tied with Messiah. With two and a half minutes

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  • USA Field Hockey moves home to East Hempfield Township

    USA Field Hockey moves home to East Hempfield Township

    USA Field Hockey announced last Tuesday that they have partnered with Spooky Nook Sports to make the complex the new home of the U.S. Women’s National Team. The partnership makes the sports complex, located in East Hempfield Township, the home of USA Field Hockey through 2022. The complex, on which construction is not yet finished,

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  • Jays drop close match to Dutchmen

    Jays drop close match to Dutchmen

    According to senior Katy Fogel, “Coach said to us in the locker room that we have everything to gain from this game, and they have everything to lose. I think that was the mentality of the game. We just wanted to go onto their home court and play hard and that’s exactly what we did.”

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  • Seniors honored at King’s meet; men come away with win

    Seniors honored at King’s meet; men come away with win

    As the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays swim teams neared the end of their regular season, they traveled to Chestertown, Md. to go head-to-head with the Washington College Shoremen Wednesday Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. In the Blue Jays’ penultimate meet of the season, the men battled to a 130-64 loss, and the women were also

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