BY NATALIE HEAVREN SPORTS EDITOR With the 2019-2020 season just around the corner, the women’s basketball team has an intriguing nonconference schedule ahead of them. Last season the Patriots went 8-6 in nonconference play, a mark they hope to improve…
BY DOMENIC ALLEGRA ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR After a disappointing loss in the Atlantic 10 tournament quarterfinals, men’s basketball is looking to rebound in the 2019-2020 season. Last year the team finished with a record of 18-15, and 11-7 in A-10…
BY NATALIE HEAVREN, SPORTS EDITOR Women’s basketball is looking to continue the success of the last two seasons again this year. Last year the team went 16-14, including 8-8 in conference play and finished seventh in the Atlantic 10. “With…
Green Machine performed for three hours before Nationals faced Astros BY LAURA SCUDDER, COPY EDITOR Mason’s pep band, Green Machine, played at Game 5 of the World Series in D.C. on Sunday, Oct. 27. The Nationals hosted the Houston Astros…
BY ROSS SHINBERG, STAFF WRITER “Go 1–0 today” has been the mindset of the Washington Nationals and their manager, Davey Martinez, since the start of the summer. It’s a simple message — but a necessary one, given how poorly the…
BY DOMENIC ALLEGRA, ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR It’s about an eight-hour plane ride and almost 4,000 miles to men’s soccer senior Gilian Buijk’s home in Wassenaar, Netherlands. At the age of 4, Buijk figured out that he wanted to play soccer….
BY: DOMENIC ALLEGRA ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Mason women’s basketball’s Nicole Cardaño-Hillary has another accolade under her belt prior to her junior year: being named to the 2020 Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List. The acclaimed watch list looks at the top 20…
BY ROSS SHINBERG, STAFF WRITER Over the past four years at Mason, redshirt senior Marina Vitalich has set the standard for pitching in the green and gold uniform. However, those are not the only two colors in which she pitches….
BY NATALIE HEAVREN, SPORTS EDITOR Junior softball pitcher Haellie Gordon has succeeded on and off the field in her time at Mason. She recently won the 2019 Emerging Business Leader Award for Mason’s School of Business while being one of…
BY: EVAN PASCAL STAFF WRITER What we learned: Devante Adams can live up to his hype. You probably drafted Devante Adams in the first or second round. Up to this point you may have been terrified that he was this…