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Pennington drops the ball, literally, in opener

This is the classic example of inconsistency between score and actual game flow. In 90 percent of such cases, the teams fought more evenly than the score suggests. Rare are the other 10 percent, the games where one team walloped the other, where one team’s execution was so obviously

Bub's Player of the Week: Taylor Downs '08

the sky was blue, the fans were out, the Jeffs were on the ball. One performance stood above the rest and that was Taylor Downs: two games, two goals, two wins plus two Player of the Week crowns. The sophomore led men’s soccer to two wins in as many

Game of the Week: Women's Soccer at Bates College

Men's Golf: Jeffs hope to filet archrival Ephs

Last season Amherst had its sights set on rival Williams College, a team that qualified for the NCAA National Championships for the ninth time in 10 years. With the rivalry set in hearts and minds, the Jeffs intended to wage battle at the annual season-ending Little Three Championship, held at

Football: Coach Mills' Lord Jeffs strive for perfection in 2005

Amherst came away from the 2004 campaign with a Little Three Championship, six players on the All-NESCAC team and ranked fourth in the final New England Div. III poll. But a 6-2 record isn’t satisfactory for a storied and proud football program that aims for perfection every fall. Those

Firedogs set to dig, spike, kill their NESCAC competition

Of course, players lost to graduation always affect the team, but the Firedogs are determined to adapt to the roster changes quickly. The toughest shoes to fill will be those of setter Annie Hoeksma ’05. Hoeksma ran the team’s offense for three years and had 3,507 career assists

Women's golf: Morgan looks to putt Jeffs back on the map

Unfortunately for the Jeffs, their recent plaudits came too late to swoon any potential recruits, leaving the team with no new blood to replace the loss of senior co-captains Meg Sullivan and Sarah Godwin and their classmate and key contributor Emily Foran. This leaves Amherst in the unenviable position of