The baseball team played Alma College last Saturday, taking two 7-6 walk-off wins in some intense playing. The team’s season record moved to 22-1 overall, with an MIAA record of 13-1, keeping them tied for first place in the MIAA with Albion College. The first game against Alma was won with a bases-loaded walk drawn…
The annual Hopey awards take place today at 7 p.m., where athletes and coaches will be honored for their outstanding performances over the past year. The event welcomes the public to attend with no admission at DeVos Fieldhouse, with semiformal dress recommended. Seniors teammates sit with their coaches on the court floor, with friends and…
Last Saturday the men’s lacrosse team joined Calvin College’s team in an “It’s On Us” teal-out match. It’s On Us was launched in September 2014 as a national movement to end sexual assault. It asks everyone to realize the need to engage in the conversation to end sexual violence and to step up to change…
The men and women’s track and field teams competed last weekend at the Wheaton Invitational at Wheaton College. The women’s team took third place of the 13 teams with 106 points while the men’s team took fourth place with 82 points of their 15-team field. Junior Hailey Pickelheimer ran a season best 400-meter hurdle time,…
The women’s lacrosse team played Adrian College last Saturday for their sixth consecutive win of the season. The streak broke the team’s previous record of five consecutive wins from 2013 and 2016! The Flying Dutch won the game 11-7, moving their MIAA record to 3-0. They are now in a first place tie with Albion…
Tensions are running high this week as students take to the Pine Grove in protest of the annual March Madness basketball tournament. Over the past few weeks, students have held viewing parties on the weekends in the Bultman Student Center, but some think they have taken it too far. “It’s not fun anymore; it’s just…
The hockey team competed in the ACHC regional tournament last weekend, playing Saginaw Valley State University on Friday and Oakland University on Saturday. The team needed to win both games to advance to the ACHA national championships. The team won against Saginaw Valley 8-0, advancing to the final game, of which a win would bring…
On March 9, the men’s lacrosse team won against Oberlin by 11- 7. From the beginning, the men’s team worked hard against the opposing players to take every point towardsthe win. The team started with 3-0 in the first quarter. One of the goals came from Nathaniel Hentschel (’20) and two of them came from…
This past weekend at the NCAA Division III swim and dive meet in Crawfordsville, Indiana, three Flying Dutchmen were recognized in the top ten. This meet determines who continues onto the NCAA Championship held in late March. From the women’s team, senior Sara Plohetski finished in tenth place during the one-meter dive. In addition, she…
The men’s hockey team played last weekend in the Michigan Collegiate Hockey Conference Championships (UCHC), battling Grand Valley State University on Friday and University of Michigan on Saturday. The team went into the championship with a record full of strong wins at 16-1-1, with one conference loss against Grand Valley in January. The team didn’t…