Sports

  • Men’s golf competes at Gettysburg Fall Invitational, place 10th overall

    First-year Garrett Leib entered the Gettysburg Fall Invitational as an individual and shot a team best 82 on Saturday afternoon at the Hanover Country Club in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania. Leib was not one of the five scores to factor into the overall team score, but his round was six strokes better than his collegiate debut at

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  • Field hockey opens Landmark play with shutout road victory

    Field hockey opens Landmark play with shutout road victory

    The Elizabethtown College women’s field hockey team entered Saturday’s Landmark Conference opener against Drew University, winners of two straight games and three out of four overall. After playing a tough non-conference schedule to begin the season, the Blue Jays have used the momentum from those tight games to their advantage. On Saturday afternoon, the Blue

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  • Women’s soccer restarts season with Landmark opening win

    Women’s soccer restarts season with Landmark opening win

    Saturday’s Landmark Conference game against Drew University at Ira R. Herr Field felt like a chance to start over for the Elizabethtown College women’s soccer team. Coming off their fourth straight loss and sixth overall in seven games this season, the Blue Jays were looking forward to conference play. It had been over 360 minutes

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  • Women’s tennis opens fall season with successful weekend

    Women’s tennis opens fall season with successful weekend

    The women’s tennis team headed to Fredericksburg, Virginia this past weekend, Sept. 24 and 25, to compete in the ITA Regional Championships. Through the weekend, the team competed in a total of 15 singles games and six doubles competitions. For the first time since 2011, a Blue Jay women’s tennis player proceeded to the flight

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  • Women’s volleyball falls twice in Landmark opener, steals one set in loss to Neumann

    Women’s volleyball falls twice in Landmark opener, steals one set in loss to Neumann

    Elizabethtown College’s women’s volleyball team traveled to Moravian College this Saturday to take on opponents Goucher College and Catholic University, both in the Landmark Conference. Etown’s first match of the day was against Goucher at 1:30 p.m. Sophomore Mackenzie Garner led the Blue Jays with 14 kills and .583 hitting percentage. Despite Garner’s strong stats,

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  • Women’s volleyball defeats Rowan in Days Inn Classic

    Women’s volleyball defeats Rowan in Days Inn Classic

    The Blue Jays were on home turf this weekend as the women’s volleyball team hosted the Days Inn Blue Jays Classic at Elizabethtown College’s Thompson Gymnasium. The team’s first match of the tournament was Friday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. against Rochester University. Rochester took the first two sets, winning by six and nine points,

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  • Women’s soccer shut out again, lose for sixth time in seven games

    Women’s soccer shut out again, lose for sixth time in seven games

    Putting the ball into the back of the net has been the Elizabethtown College women’s soccer team’s biggest challenge during the early part of the 2016 season. Despite a six-goal victory over Rosemont College on Sept. 8, the Blue Jays have scored just one goal in their other five games. With Saturday’s 1-0 loss to

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  • Field hockey takes down Gwynedd Mercy in double overtime

    Field hockey takes down Gwynedd Mercy in double overtime

    It was a nail-biter at Gwynedd Mercy University on Saturday, Sept. 17, but the Blue Jays prevailed to clinch a 2-1 victory over the Griffins. Key players of the game included junior Emma Christman and sophomores Margo Donlin and Hannah Mack. It was anyone’s game in the beginning, but the Griffins were stopped by the

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  • Conference makes ‘Landmark’ decision to add men’s, women’s golf in 2017

    Conference makes ‘Landmark’ decision to add men’s, women’s golf in 2017

    The Elizabethtown College men’s golf team has not been a part of a conference championship tournament since the 2013-14 season. That year’s Commonwealth Conference Championships was the last tournament the Blue Jays participated in as members of the Middle Atlantic Conference, or any conference for that matter. However, starting in 2017-18, that will all change.

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