Five athletes from the track & field teams are traveling to Bloomington, Ind., today to compete in the East Preliminary Region NCAA Championships meet, the largest number of athletes Northeastern has ever sent.
Sophomore Jillena DeCarteret will compete in the pole vault and senior Althea Charles is throwing the hammer. From the men’s team, freshman Eric Jenkins is running in both the 1,500-meter run and the 5,000-meter run, senior Jonathon Hall is competing in the 400-meter hurdles and senior Patrick Jablonski is throwing both the shot put and the discus. Junior Jessica Barton also qualified to compete in the 5,000-meter run but has to sit out due to an injury.
If I hear one more person talk about how awesome it is that Dallas Maverick J.J. Barea was once a Northeastern student, I am going to commit seppuku out of rage and annoyance.
Now, many of you probably do not know what seppuku is. Also known as hara-kiri, it was a form of ritual suicide that samurai performed once they were either defeated or shamed. The ritual itself involves the victim stabbing himself in the stomach with a short sword and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion, followed by an assistant removing the victims head with a sword.
Going into the last meet of the season, senior Heather Crocker approached the end of her throwing career for the womens’ track & field team. And what better way to go out than with a school record.
Crocker threw the javelin 142 feet, 8 inches at the 2011 New England Championship meet to break the school record and win the event – the first Husky to ever win this event at the New England Championship meet. Her performance earned her Huntington News Player of the Week honors.
By Jimmy Brooks, News Staff
During the baseball team’s contest with Central Connecticut State University Wednesday, freshman outfielder Aaron Barbosa came one stolen base away from the all-time Northeastern record for steals in a season, and drove home the winning run in...
Senior Jonathon Hall and freshman Eric Jenkins had the only individual victories for the men’s track team team, contributing to its highest finish in school history at the Colonial Athletic Association championship.
The Huskies finished third with 125.5 points, as George Mason University won the meet with 239 total points, and the University of North Carolina-Wilmington finished second with 143.5 points.
The Huskies were back on the race course and podium last week, taking a sweeping victory in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship and a second-place finish at the Beanpot Championship.
The first varsity-eight, second varsity-eight and varsity-four boats all finished in first place at the CAA championship April 23 and 24 at Sandy Run Regional Park Va., ahead of competition from Old Dominion, Buffalo, Drexel, George Mason and Delaware.
Graduated senior Jonathon Hall won the 400-meter hurdles event at the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) championship track and field meet last weekend for the second time in his career. He ran the event in a time of 51.65 seconds, beating his personal record and getting the second-best time in school history. He also contributed to the 4x400 relay team’s victory at the meet.
His performance earned him Huntington News Player of the Week honors.
When fans fill an Arena, their cheers, chants, gasps and roars motivate our sports teams to go beyond their natural abilities to achieve greatness.
Northeastern has deeply loyal fans. Despite the fact we are not really a “sports school,” we can pack Matthews arena to the brim when the need arises and the DogHouse is undoubtedly one of the greatest student sections in college hockey.
In a season that has seen far more losses than wins, it seems like almost every team the Huskies have faced have stifled their late inning comeback attempts. Against UMass Amherst Wednesday, it was the rain that did the stifling.
The Minutemen carried a 3-2 lead after a third inning rally and when the Huskies tried to make another nail-biting comeback, the game was called by umpires at around 4:15 PM.
Northeastern freshman standout Brodie Reid has left the university and signed a professional contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. And according to Huskies head coach Greg Cronin, that was a big mistake.
“I told him right to his face he can’t play in the NHL and he can’t play in the top two lines of the American [Hockey] League,” Cronin said.
Freshman forward Brodie Reid reportedly received a “maximum contract” for a player of his age from the San Jose Sharks, a team that also has the rights to three other Huskies: sophomore forwards Justin and Drew Daniels and freshman Cody Ferriero.
Despite being engaged in a 1-1 tie with Boston College for five innings in the first round of the Beanpot, the baseball team lost to the Eagles 6-1 at Friedman Diamond.
