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Defending Champ Golf Heads Back to Delaware

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The golf team will set out to defend its title at the Delaware Invitational this weekend. The Red is the reigning champ of the two-day, 36-hole competition, in a field full of teams from all over the East Coast. The players are anxious to get out and compete.
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“We’re really excited to play,” said junior Robert Cronheim, who placed third at the rain-shortened Cornell Invitational this past weekend. “It’s a challenging golf course that we’ve had good vibes from. It’s the perfect place to really get our season going.”

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Golf Kicks Off Annual Invite

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The golf team will not have to travel far this weekend as it hosts the annual Cornell Invitational, kicking off tomorrow at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course. Sixteen teams will compete in the two-day, 54-hole competition. Teams competing include defending champion St. Bonaventure, with Ivy League competitors Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn and Princeton.
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Golf Team Improves Over Two-Day Navy Invite

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The golf team traveled to Annapolis, Md. over the weekend to compete in their first competition of the season, the Navy Fall Invitational. The Red finished the two-day tournament with a team score of 296, good for 6th place in a field of 17 schools from across the country. George Washington University cruised to 1st place with a score of 572, nine strokes better than 2nd place finisher Delaware.

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Red Golf Starts Strong, Falters on Second Day

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The golf team traveled to Galloway Township, NJ this weekend to compete in the last tournament of their season, the Ivy League championships. The Red competed against the seven other Ivy League schools over a two-day, 54-hole competition. The Red put up a low second round score of 300 but could not continue its hot streak and finished the weekend with a total score of 933, which left it in a 5th place tie with Princeton. Columbia captured the championship with a final score of 900; 9 strokes better than 2nd place Yale.[img_assist|nid=30119|title=Sand between your toes|desc=Senior Austin Lord attempts to break free of the bunker during this year’s Cornell Invitational. The Red ended the season with a 5th place finish at the Ivy championships.|link=node|align=left|width=|height=0]

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Golf Finishes With Ivy Championships

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The climax of the golf team’s season finally arrives this weekend when it competes for the Ivy League championship in Galloway Township, N.J. The Red is confident in its abilities and is ready to prove over the course of 54 holes this weekend that it is the best in the Ivy League.
Sophomore Robert Cronheim, who leads the team in scoring this season and was the Red’s top finisher at the Ivy League championships last year, is particularly confident after continually improving his game each week throughout the season.
“I’ve felt great [practicing this week],” said Cronheim, who is coming off of a fourth place finish at the Princeton Invitational last weekend. “Probably the best I’ve felt all year.”

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Red Enters Final Stretch of the Year

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The gymnastics team closes out its season this weekend when it competes in the USAG National championships along with seven other schools in Shreveport, La.
After a three-week layoff from its last competition at the ECAC championships, the Red is ready to finish off its season strong.
“We’re all really excited,” said freshman Maddie Pearsall, who placed 12th while representing the Red as an individual at the NCAA Northeast Regionals last weekend. “We had a really good practice today, we’re getting pumped. We really feel ready to go.”
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Golf Places 11th in Last Match Before Ivies

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For its last tune-up before the Ivy League championships, the golf team traveled to Princeton, N.J. to compete in the Princeton Invitational this past weekend. The tournament consisted of 36 holes of play on Saturday, with a final round of 18 holes on Sunday. The Red placed 11th out of 14 teams; not one of their strongest performances this season. The bright spot of the weekend came from sophomore Rob Cronheim, who placed fourth overall in the tournament. Ironically, he did not feel he played to his potential.
“This past weekend was the worst I’ve hit all year,” said Cronheim, who finished with a weekend total of 213. “But I finally put the ball in the hole [putting].”

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Freshman Sole Representative for Gymnastics in NCAA Regionals

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Before the gymnastics team travels to Shreveport, La., to compete in the Nationals next weekend, freshman Maddie Pearsall will be representing the Red in the Regionals this weekend at Penn State. She will be the first Cornell gymnast to compete in Regionals since Sonya Negriff ’01 qualified in 1998.
While the team has been preparing for Nationals, Pearsall has her focus set on this weekend. Pearsall will compete in all four events, and will rotate with Brigham Young University. Also competing in the competition will
“I’m so excited,” Pearsall said, who leads the team in scoring this season. “It will be so great to represent Cornell.”

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Cornell Track Travels to Quaker Invitational, Hopes for Clear Skies

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The men’s and women’s track teams travel to Philadelphia, Penn. this weekend to compete in the Quaker Invitational, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. The competition will be strong, as Army, Delaware, Gettysburg, Haverford, La Salle, Rowan, Towson and Villanova, along with other schools, will all be competing in the invitational.
This will be the first event for the Red since its strong performance in Irvine, Calif. at the UC Irvine Collegiate Classic two weekends ago, where the men and women combined for 13 wins and 50 top-5 finishes. A sense of momentum is something the Red is looking forward to carrying into its competition this weekend.

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Golf Team Restarts With Loss

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The golf team traveled to Towson, Md. this past weekend for its first regular season match since October. The Red kicked of the spring portion of their season at the Towson Lacrosse Homes Collegiate Invitational, competing against 18 other schools from across the country. The Red placed eighth in the tournament, finishing with a final score of 622, not as high as it had hoped for. But just to be back into its regular season schedule was a great feeling for the team, said sophomore Robert Cronheim.
“It feels great to be competing again,” Cronheim said, who finished with a two-day total of 154 and who also leads the team in scoring this season.