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Vol XXXV No. 130

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

  Pleasing the crowd
By JOE HETTLER
Assistant Sports Editor

With spring practice nearly complete, another football season looms on the horizon for the Notre Dame football team. As the season begins, the expectations of the Notre Dame football team will be where they always have been — very high. Fans ... [more]


Watson, Shay set new Notre Dame records
By NOAH AMSTADTER
Senior Sports Writer

It was a record-breaking California adventure this weekend for Irish seniors Luke Watson and Ryan Shay. The team's top two distance runners both set school records in their respective events at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif. Shay's 13 minute, ... [more]


Irish sweep Pirates, grab first place tie
By CHRIS FEDERICO
Sports Editor

The Irish baseball team enjoyed quite possibly its best performance of the season this weekend as it claimed a three-game sweep of conference rival Seton Hall. The two teams entered the critical series tied for second place in the league. With ... [more]


Relay competes with U.S. Olympic squad
By DAVE COOK
Sports Writer

This weekend at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., lack of preparation and a last minute line-up change proved to be a good thing for the Notre Dame women's 4x100 relay team. The distractions kept Tameisha King, Liz Grow, Kymia ... [more]


Gumpf to face alma mater
By AARON RONSHEIM
Sports Writer

When the Notre Dame softball team visits Lincoln, Neb., to face the No. 4 Cornhuskers, head coach Deanna Gumpf will be returning to her alma mater, where she was named to the All-Big Eight Conference second team in 1991 and was ... [more]


Hoyas send Irish back to bubble again
By CHRIS COLEMAN
Sports Writer

The Notre Dame women's lacrosse team finds itself on the bubble again. On Saturday, the team traveled to Georgetown to fight for the Big East Championship as well as solidify their presence as a national power. Unfortunately, the No. 2 Hoyas ... [more]


Irish fall just short at Big East Championships
By KEVIN BERCHOU
Sports Writer

The men's golf team didn't win the season ending Big Championships contested at the Warren Golf Course this past weekend, but their performance can nonetheless be considered victorious. Notre Dame, seeded third, was given little chance of competing with top-ranked Virginia ... [more]


Bacchus loses after Graves goes down
By TIM McKENZIE
Sports Writer

With only minutes left in the final half of the game, an ankle injury to former varsity basketball player David Graves caused 19th-ranked Bacchus to stop worrying about Bookstore Basketball and think about their teammate and friend. Bacchus went on to ... [more]