Men’s basketball continued to struggle this past weekend as the team fell twice to the Fairfield University Stags and St. Peter’s University Peacocks respectively. With the losses the blue and white now find themselves in the midst of a five game losing streak, and are currently ninth overall in the MAAC with a 4-10 conference record. MU posts a 10-15 overall record on the season.
The Women’s Basketball team led Quinnipiac on Friday night for most of first 32 minutes of the game. However, the Bobcats fired past the blue white by outscoring them 25-5 in the last eight minutes of the game to beat the Hawks by final score of 83-67.
For many high school graduates, college means going a little further away from home. For Victor Pugliese, college meant going 5,681 miles away from home.
Despite the challenging weather over the past two weeks, MU’s Indoor Track & Field squads have not floundered and have continued to produce impressive results. On Friday, Jan. 31 and Sunday, Feb. 1, the Hawks competed in a pair of meets: The Bison Open Invitational at Bucknell University and the Columbia Lion’s Invitational. Both meets were not scored on a team basis, however, both the men and the women performed exceptionally well and broke some school records in the process.
In a contest that pitted the NFL’s best defense against the best offense in NFL history, defense prevailed as the Seattle Seahawks defeated the Denver Broncos in a rout, 43-8.
The University recently announced they will be constructuing a new home for Monmouth’s football team, men’s and women’s lacrosse team, and men’s and women’s track and field teams.
The women’s bowling team placed ninth out of twelve teams this past weekend at the Wildcat Invitational. They were led by junior Valerie Bermudez who finished eighth overall individually.
When the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos battle at MetLife Stadium during Super Bowl XLVIII, it will be a “Clash of the Titans.” The game will take place this Sunday, Feb. 2, with kickoff set for 6:37 pm.
The men’s basketball team found themselves on the right and wrong side of two nail-biting contests this past week as the defeated the Fairfield University Stags Thursday, Jan. 23, but then fell to intrastate rival Rider University on Sunday, Jan. 26.
The University’s track and field squads competed in the 2014 BU John Thomas Terrier Invitational held in Boston, Mass as well as the NYU Team Challenge at the New York Armory this past weekend. The Invitationals split up most of the events with the majority of the women’s events on Friday and then men’s primarily on Saturday.