Author Archives: Sarah Rector

The Yale women’s golf team made the trek to North Carolina this Monday and Tuesday to compete in the Pine Needles Women’s Collegiate Invitational. The Bulldogs finished seventh out of 14 squads, with an overall score of 637, 69 strokes over par. Despite having won both the Yale Invitational in late September and the Princeton »

The second time around, the volleyball team can do no wrong. After going winless during the first half of the Ivy schedule, the Bulldogs have reeled off three straight league wins, including two over teams they had lost to earlier in the season. Yale (9-10, 3-7 Ivy) followed its first Ivy League win against Cornell »

Although the Yale voleyball team will be absent from this year’s post-season tournament, the team proved that the season still has meaning for it. The Bulldogs (7-10, 1-7 Ivy) — winless in the Ancient Eight through seven games — shut out first place Cornell Saturday, 3-0, for their first Ivy League victory of the season. »

Another bout of tough defeats awaited Yale volleyball against Pennsylvania and Princeton this past weekend. The Bulldogs (6-9, 0-6 Ivy) fell to the Quakers (10-4, 4-1 Ivy) 3-1 in Friday’s match, and then followed up that defeat with another disappointing 3-1 loss to the Tigers (8-7, 2-3 Ivy) Saturday. Friday’s match at The Palestra began »

Payne Whitney Gymnasium was full of excitement this past weekend as Yale volleyball (6-7, 0-4 Ivy) hosted archrival Harvard (8-4, 2-1 Ivy) Friday and the Dartmouth Big Green (7-6, 2-1 Ivy) Saturday. With Eli parents visiting for the weekend,the home crowd was packed. But the Bulldogs could not capitalize on their home court advantage — »

The Yale men’s soccer team played on the road Wednesday night against its intrastate rival, Fairfield. And despite the Bulldogs’ high hopes, the Fairfield Stags (8-1-1) edged out the Elis (5-2-2, 1-1-1) 2-1. Yale had gone seven straight games without a loss, an undefeated streak that began Sept. 17 with a 2-1 win against the »

A throng of Elis decked in blue and white marched out to the Yale Bowl Sunday to confront the Dartmouth football team. The game marked the Bulldog’s first Sunday game in 129 years of Yale football. Thousands of students and alumni showed up for this rarity, but the crowd was not nearly as large as »

A colossal fair constructed of metal, plywood and Yale banners lies this moment in dormant anticipation. This fair will burst to life Friday as the last part of Yale’s tercentennial celebration. The Yale Bowl plays host to the “Yale 300 Festival” at 4:30 p.m. and the “Tercentennial Show” at 7 p.m. After a day of »