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W. water polo leaves California with six wins, six losses
By Katie DeAngelis | April 6Correction appended.
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M. lacrosse wards off late run by Bulldogs
By Zack Bahr | April 6"If you would have said that (Thomas) Muldoon ('10) would have been held to one goal and (Andrew) Feinberg ('11) would have none, I would have been sure that we were going to win this," said Bryant Head Coach Mike Pressler. But the Bears disproved Pressler's logic Tuesday night and battled to a 9-7 ...
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Morey '99 signs contract with Seahawks
By Dan Alexander | April 4Sean Morey '99 signed a multi-year deal with the Seattle Seahawks on March 29, according to a Seahawks press release.
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Playing against top-10 teams, Bears keep falling just short
By Andrew Braca | April 4The No. 16 men's lacrosse team dropped a pair of close games to top-10 opponents last week, falling at No. 7 Duke (9-3), 11-10, on Tuesday before suffering a 9-7 loss to No. 5 Princeton (7-1, 3-0) at the New England Lacrosse Classic at Gillette Stadium Saturday. The Bears' record fell to 3-4 overall ...
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Softball drops the ball in three of four league games
By Ashley McDonnell | April 4Over spring break, the softball team (12-9, 1-3 Ivy) started off strong, defeating Bryant (3-23). However, the team went on to lose its first two Ivy League games to Penn (9-12, 4-0) and only managed to win one of two games against Columbia (6-17, 1-3). Brown 5, Bryant 4 Though the Bears won, Bryant ...
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Big Red play Cinderella
By Andrew Braca | March 24The Cornell men's basketball team made it to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament Sunday with a win over No. 4 seed Wisconsin. The Big Red will face Kentucky, the top overall seed remaining in the tournament, on Thursday night at 9:57 in Syracuse, N.Y. in the Carrier Dome. The winner will face No. 2 ...
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M. lax falls to UMass in rainy-day disappointment
By Andrew Braca | March 23No. 18 Massachusetts won a battle of momentum shifts with the No. 15 men's lacrosse team, 11–10, on a rain-soaked Tuesday afternoon. After twice being on the wrong end of one-goal games against the Bears in the past two years, the Minutemen walked off Meister-Kavan Field victorious in the old ...
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W. water polo goes 3-1 over weekend
By Katie DeAngelis | March 23After a disappointing loss on Saturday, the women's water polo team fought hard on Sunday to end their four-game series at the Red Fox Invitational at Marist on a high note, finishing the weekend 3–1. On Saturday, Brown beat Siena, 13–8, but lost to Marist, 12–10, later in the day. ...
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Brown falls to URI, beats Holy Cross
By Jesse Frank | March 23After a tough trip to South Carolina last weekend, Brown's baseball team (2-7) returned to the Northeast to try to right the ship against the University of Rhode Island (6-10) and Holy Cross (4-7). The team found mixed results as it fell 15-4 to URI but bounced back with a 13-7 win over Holy Cross.URI ...
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Chin's '11 no-hitter highlights 3-3 stretch
By Ashley McDonnell | March 23The softball team (10–6) began the Rebel Spring Games in Kissimmee, Fla., with a 6–4 win and then were shut out 6–0 in two consecutive games. But the Bears rallied back to win two of their last three contests. Brown 6, Manhattan 4 The Bears found themselves trailing 4–1 at the ...
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Bouncing back, Choate '13 competes in Nationals
By Han Cui | March 23Cortlandt Choate's '13 season was all but over. He was coming off an injury that kept him sidelined for five weeks, he had dropped his first match in the NCAA-qualifying Eastern Championships and he was unseeded in the qualifier. The odds against him were huge, but the 133-pounder fought back and won ...
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Upset City: Providence hosts bracket busters
By Fred Milgrim | March 22March Madness in Providence. It doesn't get any better than the first and second rounds of college basketball's unique playoff system. And the Dunkin' Donuts Center was home to some of the most thrilling games and notable upsets so far this tournament.
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Volpatti '10 signed by Vancouver Canucks
By Dan Alexander | March 22The NHL's Vancouver Canucks signed tri-captain Aaron Volpatti '10 to a two-year, $400,000 contract with a $200,000 signing bonus Monday, fulfilling Volpatti's lifelong dream of playing for the team he rooted for as a child.
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Parker Brown '12: Athlete's notebook
By Parker Brown | March 22Last Saturday at Harvard Stadium, the men's lacrosse team made a big step forward in its season with a 13–11 victory over Brown's Ivy League rivals.
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M. hockey takes 3rd in ECAC championships
By Dan Alexander | March 21The men's hockey team was the first No. 11 seed in ECAC Hockey Tournament history to make it to the tournament Final Four, but the Bears' unlikely run to the championship ended Friday night in a 3-0 loss to No. 7 Cornell, who went on to win the tournament."We were a program that was utterly down when ...
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Volpatti '10 breaks penalty minutes record - on purpose
By Dan Alexander | March 21Tri-captain Aaron Volpatti '10 went down in the record books Saturday for the most penalty minutes of any player in Brown history — and he did it on purpose.Volpatti — who was five penalty minutes shy of the single-season record before the game — told referee Chip McDonald before faceoff ...
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No. 16 m. lax scores upset victory over No. 11 Crimson
By Zack Bahr | March 21Many things rode on Saturday's men's lacrosse game between 11th-ranked Harvard and 16th-ranked Brown. There was a chance to start the Ivy season with a win. A chance to move up in the national rankings. And of course, a chance to taste sweet victory over an archrival. In what has become one of the top ...
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After career twists, goalie shines in last game
By Dan Alexander | March 21Goalie Dan Rosen '10 was once the bright future of Brown hockey.Plagued by injuries, Rosen's career slowly slid downhill until he was made the backup in his senior season. But in his last game wearing a Brown uniform, Rosen got one more chance to start in goal Saturday. And he made the most of it. In ...
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Jeff Lipton '13: Brett Favre - the Voldemort of football?
By Jeff Lipton | March 18Some things in life are inevitable. Birth. Death. Taxes. Cold winters in Providence. And Brett Favre's inability to decide his future.
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Seconds from overtime, w. lax falls, 8-7
By Tory Elmore | March 17With the clock ticking down in the last minute, the women's lacrosse team was tied at seven. Brown got the ball, approached the goal and a foul was called, giving the Bears a penalty shot. But Yale's goalie saved it and sent it up to her teammates, who had one final shot on goal with nine seconds remaining. ...
