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Jeffs' season kicks into full swing

After a rewarding indoor winter season and concentrated spring and summer training, Amherst spent 12 days in August on an international soccer tour in France and Spain. Having played six games against high-level and professional competitors including Brazilian superstar and World Player of the Year Ronaldinho, the Jeffs return to

Field hockey shuts out Bantams, massacres Pioneers

With a 1-0 win on Saturday at Hitchcock Field, the site of a season-ending 2-1 overtime loss to Williams College, Amherst did away with the specter of that 5-8, non-postseason campaign. With a resounding, 5-1 win at Pioneer Valley foe Smith College last night, the Jeffs truly erased any nostalgia

Hixon and Everden pull double-duty as new interim co-athletic directors

“Peter Gooding has done an unbelievable job in 28 years, and he will be missed,” said the head coach of the football team E.J. Mills. “But there are many capable people who have taken his leadership model and run with it. We are in good shape.” When Gooding vacated

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