Women's LacrosseJeffs win two, eye Williams showdown

The third-ranked Jeffs ran out the clock and withstood a Polar Bear comeback on Saturday, winning a 9-8 nailbiter. The loss left the Bowdoin record at a meager 7-4. After running up a 6-2 score against Bowdoin early in the game, the hosts flurried for four of the final five goals of the half, leaving the score at 7-6 at the break. “Saturday was a tough game for us,” said co-captain Carrie Foster ’02. “We had a difficult time possessing the ball-we had a lot of turnovers. Also, we weren’t playin

Lord Jeffs lose two to Purple Cows

At the Goombay Shootout in Nassau, Bahamas, the squad snapped a two-game skid at the hands of the United States Coast Guard Academy and Clark University with a pair of wins over Colby-Sawyer College. For Amherst, sophomore Shannon Russell turned heads and earned tournament MVP honors, leading the Jeffs with 14 points in a 38-32 victory on Jan. 3, and following up with another 15 points in a second faceoff against the Chargers on Jan. 6. Sarah Bergman ’04 dominated on the boards, snagging a team-

Website of the Week: http://spanky.cc/index.shtml

My favorite Fun Fact: “If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.” You can also post a message to other viewers by writing on Spanky’s wall. Take one look at the other messages posted and your faith in your own intelligence, even if depleted by finals, will be confirmed.

Website of the Week- electrotank.com

The site is constantly updated and, as it grows in popularity, more games are being added. The site promises action games and casino games soon, but already offers chat rooms, discussion boards and interactive play for the more serious gamer. But on its most basic level, electrotank.com offers what so many other websites cannot-a free selection of high-quality online games that will help you ignore your papers and midterms for another precious hour.

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Finally, a website that’s all business. Sorry, but this week’s feature won’t give you a free t-shirt or let you rate people’s attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10. But there are other concerns in life. This website will give you one thing: a leg up on the competition. The competition, in this case, being the cops. The bacon. The po-po. Speedtrap.com is a searchable database of reported speed traps by location. In a convenient disclaimer, speedtrap.com claims that its purpose is to help “alert dr

Website of the Week

Picture this: you wake up on a Sunday morning. You’re not in your own bed, but that’s just the beginning of your problems. You have a pounding headache, and just the thought of Sunday brunch in Val makes you feel a little queasy. You lie in bed and ponder two of life’s little questions: First, what exactly is in Donkey Punch anyway, and second, how can you give that Sunday morning Donkey Punch Syndrome a kick in the ass? No pun intended. Although I can’t tell you what’s in Donkey Punch, after c

Crew hits the water running

“Overall, this year’s winter training went really well. Everybody was really dedicated this year,” said Mark Haupt ’01. “We worked out six days a week with rowing machines and 3 days a week in the weight room.” The squad began their season early, participating in the Connecticut River Valley Erg Sprints at the University of Massachusetts on Feb. 17. Coming off of a dominating fall season, Captain Anna Cabot ’03 flew past most of her competition in the 2K sprint, pulling her final stroke at 7:23

Volleyball Falls To Bobcats To Finish 2000 Season In NCAA Tournament

“I think that all that can really be said about NCAAs is that we played well,” said Erica Hewes ’02. “It was a tough game that just didn’t end up going our way.” The loss concluded the Firedog’s 2000 campaign with a final record of 27-5. The last time the Firedogs faced the Bobcats, in last week’s NESCAC Conference Championship Tournament on Nov. 4, the Amherst squad came away with a decisive 3-1 win over Bates in the tournament’s championship game. The Firedogs had also rallied to beat the Bo