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Wheaton’s Club Sports Battle in Their Final Tournaments

As the month of April rolls along, sports seasons all across the club spectrum are beginning to wrap up their competitive play. In the past two weeks, both the men’s rugby team the Wheaton’s mixed ultimate frisbee team have featured in their final tournaments of the season. Most recently, this past Friday, April 19, the […]

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Wheaton Baseball Playoffs

The academic year may be coming to a close, but Wheaton baseball shows no signs of slowing down as the season winds down. With a 15-2 record in conference play and 27 total wins, the team seems ready to pounce on their playoff opportunity. And with final scores featuring double-digit leads in runs for the […]

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Wheaton Track & Field

On Saturday, April 6, Wheaton College Women’s and Men’s Outdoor Track and Field teams competed in a tournament in which they placed first and fourth overall respectively among their divisions, hosted by Amherst College. The teams are looking to finish strong in these last few weeks. Individuals and the team as a whole are looking […]

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Women’s Tennis Battle in Conference Play

The women’s tennis team, now several weeks into Conference Play, is pushing the game courts from the enclosed space of Haas Athletic Center to the outdoor Clark Tennis Fields, located nearby Sidell Stadium, Wheaton’s baseball field. The Lyons are off to a 4-7 overall start and are 2-3 in Conference Play. “It’s been a solid […]

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Softball Opens the Season with Strong Start

Wheaton’s softball team is now over a third of the way through the season, and their story is monumentally different than that of one year ago. The Lyons stand at a strong 12-4 overall record as of March 26—compared to a record of 2-10 at the same time last year. Pitching has been an area […]

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Two-Game Baseball Win

A single home run in the ninth inning by the Coast Guard Academy was not enough for them to prevail in the second game of their series against Wheaton College’s baseball team. In this two-game series, Wheaton’s 10-3 baseball team was able to outplay and outlast the Coast Guard Academy as they outscored them 5-0 […]

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Lyons Shine at NEWMACs, Leaving a Trail of Broken Records

From Feb. 21-25, the 53 members of Wheaton’s swimming and diving teams took to the water in their single most important competition of the year: the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference Championship (NEWMAC). NEWMAC was held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, roughly an hour away from Wheaton College. The event consisted of four exhilarating […]

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This Year’s Celtics Column

There are few more compelling thought experiments in the current professional sports world than figuring out what’s going on with the Boston Celtics. Pre-season expectations were exorbitant. The team had their top dogs back in Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward, both of whom had their seasons cut short the previous year. Young studs on the […]

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Preseason Preview: Lacrosse

Jan. 27, marked the beginning of a crucial period of time in the men’s lacrosse program at Wheaton College. It was the start of preseason. Over the course of this three-week stretch, head coach Kyle Hart, in his fourth year of coaching the Lyons, must systematically integrate, develop, and prepare his squad for the physically […]

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Wheaton Men’s Tennis

The Wheaton College men’s tennis team is off to a blistering start this Spring season, picking up wins over both the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Stonehill College over the weekend. The team swept UMass 9-0 and edged out Stonehill 5-4. Over the course of the weekend, few competitors had bigger showings than first-year Ian […]