Sports

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

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,

“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

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

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