The SCIAC schedule-makers wasted no time throwing the Occidental women's lacrosse team (0-2 overall, 0-2 SCIAC) into the fire. The new-look Tigers, coming off an NCAA tournament bid, opened their season against their two biggest rivals, Redlands and Pomona-Pitzer. Unfortunately for the Tigers, they dropped both games, 13-7 and 10-7, respectively. But both players and coaches took away positives from...

This season, seven-time National League MVP and 14-time all-star Barry Bonds makes his return to baseball as a hitting coach for the Miami Marlins. Bonds, like many of the so-called "steroid era," has largely avoided the media's spotlight since his retirement as a player in 2007. Many of the best sluggers of the 1990s and early 2000s — players such...

Club sports at Occidental serve as an outlet for competition without the rigorous time commitment of a NCAA sport, but the lighter schedules do not come without their fair share of challenges. In order to compete against other schools in the Southern California area, club sports require their own source of funding to cover transportation costs, equipment and coaching —...

Over the past two and a half years, the Occidental men's golf team has been steadily climbing out of the cellar, moving from last to fourth place. During this ascent, team captain Colton Bares (junior) acted as the cornerstone of the team, playing in the top spot for the Tigers in each of the past two seasons. With the addition...

Brady Fuller First basemen Brady Fuller (senior) helped lead the Tigers to a three-game sweep against Caltech over the weekend, going 5 for 8 with two RBIs throughout the series. The Tigers dominated all weekend, plating 37 unanswered runs before the Beavers finally broke through offensively in the third game."Our goal has always been to win a conference championship, but...

The Occidental baseball team (6-4 overall, 4-2 SCIAC) dusted off their broomsticks for the first time this season after a decisive series sweep of conference foe Caltech this past weekend. Throughout the three game series, the Tigers appeared to be in mid-season form, with their bats coming alive early and often on offense and their defense and pitching stifling the...

The Occidental women’s basketball team (10-15 overall; 6-10 SCIAC) conquered the Whittier Poets in a 69-55 win in their final game of the season Saturday. The Tigers controlled the game from start to finish. Saturday's game not only marked the final game of the season, but would also have marked the team's senior night, an evening dedicated to honoring and...

The Occidental swim team traveled to Splash! at La Mirada for a four-day SCIAC competition, hosted by Chapman University. The event featured groundbreaking school records and personal bests amid fierce rivalries in the conference, including sophomore standout Austin Lashley's qualification for the "B" cut in the NCAAs with a record time of 49.10 seconds in the 50."We have been training...

The Occidental men's basketball team (12-12 overall, 6-9 SCIAC) played their final home game of the season this past Saturday — and they did not disappoint. Taking on conference foe Whittier, the Tigers battled the Poets for the lead the entire game, with neither team ever leading by more than seven points. The game came down to the last few...

The Athletics department's burglary saga continues after thieves struck Spencer Fieldhouse during the Tiger baseball games against Willamette University Feb. 13. This theft, which came after the women's basketball team was burgled Jan. 12, marks the latest in a developing trend of break-ins of campus locker rooms. According to the Campus Safety daily crime log, the theft occurred around 11...