After two losses last week to Quinnipiac University that broke their home winning streak, Northeastern University men’s ice hockey got back on top of their game with a weekend sweep over the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The team’s four-point Hockey East opening weekend...
Northeastern cross-country raced in Richmond, Virginia for the CAA Championship last Saturday, with the men and women capturing second and fifth place, respectively.
The men’s team’s performance matched their second place finish from last year’s championship meet, while...
Splitting a pair of weekend matches, Northeastern volleyball secured a spot in the CAA tournament, sweeping the University of Delaware but then falling to Towson University on Senior Day.
“You have to take a moment and appreciate your accomplishments as you go,” head coach...
“Our defense, it’s got to be something we focus on every day,” head coach Cheryl Murtagh said. “JMU switched a lot and made things difficult for us, but we settled down a bit at the end of the first half. I think we know we have to play tough defense for our offense to be successful.”
“Our championship eight and four rowed the times we expected for the conditions but fell just shy of where we hoped to finish,” Wilhelm said. “This is a competitive field with the best collegiate crews in the country, and national teams from the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands and, of course, the Great Eight.”
“We definitely got stuck in rotations,” Nichols added. “Now, we had lost a few sets in a row, we tried to move some people around […] and it went over well in a couple of occasions, but for the most part we struggled a little bit with trying to coordinate new personnel.”
In the final two games of the regular season, Northeastern University women’s soccer shut down opposing offenses en route to clinching the third seed in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tournament.
Both Gbandi and Bennett understand the importance of finishing the season strong, regardless of results from earlier in the year. The Huskies fielded a young team Tuesday night, with many players returning for next year’s campaign.
The women’s team finished sixth overall, averaging a time of 10:54 in the 3K. Monmouth (190 points), Central Connecticut State (191 points) and Northeastern (196 points) averaged a time of 10:54, but because Monmouth and Central Connecticut State scored fewer points, they beat out the Huskies. Northeastern edged out Boston College by two points to snag sixth place.
Fourth-year forward Denisa Krizova fired a slapshot past Maddi Welch in net on the power play to add to the lead and to her career totals. Krizova now has 92 assists in her collegiate career, moving her closer to passing 1998 graduate Hilary Witt for fourth place on the all-time NU list with 95 assists.
Heckling etiquette cannot be infallibly enforced, and no player can be expected to absorb every foul thing said to them during an 82-game season without retaliation. Both will continue and, done the right way, both can enhance the sport and can be encouraged.
The Northeastern swimming and diving team lost 137-162 to James Madison University, JMU, who finished second in the conference championships last season.
