The Scripps Voice

By Alle Hsu ’11
Guest Writer

SCIAC All-Sports: CMS won the Men’s (64.5 pts), Women’s (63.5) and Combined (128) All-Sports Trophies. CMS won a SCIAC record 11 titles this year and the point totals for the women and combined are the highest all-time.

Baseball: Beat Occidental at home 2-1 and won at Whittier 11-10 (10). Team finished 23-17 overall and 17-11 in SCIAC (4th).

Men’s Golf: Finished second at the SCIAC Championships with a score of 580. Tain Lee (CMC ‘12) earned First Team All-SCIAC honors and Jordan Stein (CMC ‘14) earned Second Team All-SCIAC honors. Lee also won the Jesse Clark Sportsmanship Award. Team finished third in SCIAC with 36.5 points.

Women’s Golf: Did not compete.

Women’s Lacrosse: Finished first at the SCIAC Tournament beating Occidental 16-6 and Pomona-Pitzer 16-7. Team is 15-2 overall and finished 10-0 in SCIAC (1st).  SCIAC Champions

Softball: Hosted the SCIAC Tournament and went 2-2. Team beat Whittier 7-2, lost to Redlands 3-2 (9), beat La Verne 4-3 and lost to Redlands 9-5. First Team All-SCIAC honors were earned by Rebecca Gularte (‘12) Pitcher, Katerina Yale (CMC ‘11) Catcher, Emily Lopez (CMC ‘12) Shortstop, Michelle Harvey (CMC ‘11) Outfield, Megan Morris (CMC ‘12) Outfield and Amanda Banducci (CMC ‘12) Designated Player. Second Team All-SCIAC honors were earned by Evan Friedenberg (‘12) Pitcher and Harmony Palmer (CMC ‘13) Third Base. Team finished 34-10 overall and 19-5 in SCIAC (1st).  SCIAC Co-Champions

Men’s Tennis: Competed at the Ojai Valley Tournament. Alex Lane (CMC ‘13) won the Division III Singles title. Lane earned SCIAC Player of the Year honors. Alex Johnson (CMC ‘13) earned First Team All-SCIAC and Robbie Erani (CMC ‘12), Russell Brockett (CMC SR) and Ronald Wu (CMC ‘11) earned Second Team All-SCIAC. Team finished 24-3 overall and 8-0 in SCIAC (1st).  SCIAC Champions

Women’s Tennis: Competed at the Ojai Valley Tournament. Kristin Lim (CMC ‘13) earned SCIAC Player of the Year honors. Crystal Lim (CMC ‘14) earned First Team All-SCIAC and Chloe Dobbert (CMC ‘14) and Jessie Huang (CMC ‘14) earned Second Team All-SCIAC. Team finished 18-2 overall and 9-1 in SCIAC (1st).  SCIAC Co-Champions

Track & Field: Competed at the SCIAC Championships. The women won with 153 points and the men finished second with 141. SCIAC Champions included Reny Colton (CMC ‘12) in the 100 hurdles, long and triple jumps, Madeleine Miller (‘11) in the 400 hurdles and Koko Huang (CMC ‘13) in the pole vault for the women and Kris Brown (CMC ‘11) in the 5000 for the men. The women finished tied for first in SCIAC with 13 points and the men finished second with 12. Women SCIAC Co-Champions

Women’s Water Polo: Finished third at the SCIAC Championships. Team beat Cal Lutheran 11-4, lost  to Redlands 10-9 and beat Pomona-Pitzer 9-8. Team finished 15-12 overall and 7-3 in SCIAC (3rd).

For more information, visit http://www.cmsathletics.org

By Alexandra Talleur ‘12
Staff Writer

PHOTO BY ALEXANDRA TALLEUR. Director of CMS Recreational Sports Adam Pruett

As a recent transfer student from the University of Oregon, I am still coming down off the sports induced high of my two years with the Ducks. Never the biggest sports fan in high school, I learned to love the freezing football games and much too steamy basketball games, all in the name of school spirit. If any of you are unfamiliar with Puddles, the U of O’s official mascot, I knew him uncomfortably well after being crushed by him several times as he crowd-surfed over me and a sea of wild students. It was there I learned the feeling of being drunk, not just on the usual substances, but the idea – no, feeling – that we were in a collective effort to prevail.

Of course, none of us in the stands could claim the blood, sweat and tears the players gave to their game, but the feeling of unity existed nonetheless. Sometimes in sports it becomes more about the fans than the team, creating disharmony between the closest of friends over rivalries that seem to some mere trivialities – the greatest evidence of this being the current fight for the Superbowl. While I am all for a healthy sense of team pride and competition, the same emotions can be evoked in all of us on the field in intramural sports.

There is no reason other than laziness, which we may all happily claim, why we must sit in the stands and lament our lack of natural ability or physical prowess, all while cheering on our star players. Intramural sports provide each of us our own opportunity to get involved. Such action with our own bodies as well as that with a team of peers will no doubt foster a sense of unity more concrete than the camaraderie of fellow fans cheering on athletes they will most likely never meet.

The fact that the Claremont Colleges are both individually and collectively small schools should not exclude us from creating our own definition of a sporty atmosphere. True, we have our CMS versus Pomona-Pitzer rivalry, but perhaps our time would equally well-spent forming small-scale teams to ignite our campuses with more inclusive rivalries. We are no doubt on top of our academic game, but across the board, heading for the fields instead of the classroom is a healthy way to relieve stress and meet people.

“Intramurals are for the students. It’s whatever they want to make of it, I’m always open to hearing what the students want to do,” says Adam Pruett, Director of Recreational Sports at CMS.

Here at the 5Cs we have the opportunity through intramurals to create our own teams, our own rivalries, and our own school pride – for something other than smarts. For more information see http://www.cmsathletics.org, or find the CMS Athletics page on Facebook to set up a personal athlete profile – it’s an easy way to find and sign up for any sports that may interest you!

Upcoming Season Intramural Teams

Badminton:
Mixed Doubles (one team)
Men’s Doubles (three teams)
Women’s Doubles (zero teams)

Basketball:
Co-Rec Competitive (two teams)
Co-Rec Recreational (seven teams)
Men’s Competitive (12 teams)

Floor Hockey:
Co-Rec Recreational (five teams)
Men’s Recreational (zero teams)

To register a team or individual player visit www.claremont.athleague.com

Men’s Basketball
2-3 in current season
81-79 win against Azusa Pacific University
76-63 win against Trinity University
60-62 loss against UC Santa Cruz
63-64 loss against Franklin & Marshall
57-66 loss against Washington University in St. Louis

Women’s Basketball
5-1 in current season
75-59 win against Bethany University
72-81 loss against Menlo College
73-48 win against UC Santa Cruz
61-60 win against Carleton College
70-45 win against Cal St. Maritime
78-61 win against Southwestern College

Men’s Swimming and Diving
84-215 loss against UC San Diego
184-37 win against CalTech
179-63 win against Pomona-Pitzer

Women’s Swimming and Diving
104-191 loss against UC San Diego
182-42 win against CalTech
179-58 win against Pomona-Pitzer