Water Polo sweeps CWPA Weekend 4-0

• Water Polo had a tremendous weekend, with four conference wins over three colleges for a 7-1 CWPA record, earning them the second seed for conference championships.
• The first match was an offensive showout Friday night against Penn State Behrend at Washington & Jefferson’s Henry Memorial Natatorium in Washington, Pa. that ended 20-7. Macalester’s six goals in the first quarter gave them a lead they wouldn’t lose. Jess Palmer Sammons ’26 led the team with four scores, and Mak Kratz ’28 and Reese Winegar ’29 each landed three.
• On Saturday, the Scots faced the Washington & Jefferson Presidents, and impeached them 11-10. The teams traded goals, but the Scots held strong to eke out the win. Eight different Scots scored, with Palmer Sammons again leading the team with three goals.
• That afternoon, they faced Connecticut College. The Camels made a push in the third with five goals, but wouldn’t get over the hump after Macalester scored six in the fourth for a 15-10 win. Winegar led the team with four, and Lorelai Bell ’26 found the net three times.
• They’d top off the weekend Sunday morning with a 14-1 blowout win against Wheaton College (Mass.). Wheaton wouldn’t be able to score until the fourth quarter, which was too little too late.
• The team will aim to keep this momentum at the conference championships on April 10.

Men’s Golf opens season in Iowa

• The Men’s Golf team opened spring play at the Wartburg Spring Invite this weekend in Waverly, Iowa at Prairie Links Golf Course.
• They placed 14th out of 17 teams.
• Ryan Chang ’29 led the team with a tie for 38th. Liam Sarmiento ’28 and Brady Thomas ’26 were the next best Scots, at 52nd and 66th respectively.

Women’s Golf Starts Spring in Missouri

• The Women’s Gold team opened the season at the Washington University Spring Invite on Sunday and Monday at Crowne Point Golf Course.
• It seems some Scots have been training together: Bailey Lengfelder ’26, Ava Austria ’28 and Yangyang Gu ’29 had identical scores of 157 (13 below par) to tie at 18th, and Emily Bruce ’26 and Esther Shen ’29 tied at 48th with a score of 169.
• The team finished eighth of 15 teams. 

Baseball sweeps Olaf, splits with Scholastica

• Baseball had an impressive showing on Saturday against St. Olaf in their MIAC Opener, winning the first game 17-10 and the second 8-7. In the first game a 14 run inning highlighted a massive Scot comeback — the Scots trailed by as much as seven.
• Then, they “hosted” College of St. Scholastica, whose home field in Duluth, Minn. wasn’t suitable for baseball yet.
• Game one was a 5-4 walkoff loss but the Scots bounced back for a 3-2 win in a game two pitchers dual.

Softball smashes MIAC Opener

• Softball swept a doubleheader against St. Scholastica on Monday afternoon at the Macalester Softball Complex.
• In the first game, after getting two runs in the first inning, the Saints wouldn’t make it home again. Macalester ran away with it to win 7-2. Standout performances included Safiya Butler ’28, who had two runs and three hits at four at-bats, and Alli Johnson ’27, who went two-for-two at the plate and batted in three runs.
• The second game went even better: the Saints’ two runs were dwarfed by the Scot’s 13. Four runs in the first set the game’s tone, and that lead would be built up to seven before the end of the third.
• There was no rest for Scholastica — already down five by the seventh, Tess Bojorquez ’27 brought Martha Miller ’27 home and Ally Wolf ’28 batted in Elizabeth Welch ’27 to drop the Saints down seven. A three-run homer by Callia Holland ’27 dropped the hammer, and the Scots won 13-2 on a mercy ruling.
• The team also played non-conference matches over the weekend, splitting a doubleheader against the University of Wisconsin River-Falls.
• The first game was an 8-0 loss, but the Scots snuck out a 2-1 comeback win in the second game with a homer from Johnson and an extra-inning sacrifice fly by Bojorquez to bring Miller home.

 Women’s Track and Field opens outdoor season in style

• The outdoor track and field season began on Monday at the Hamline Invitational, though no team scores were kept.
• Ariella Roghan-Press ’28 won the 400 meters with a time of 53.98 — the fastest time across Division III this season. She also won the 200 meters in 24.74, the 10th fastest time nationally, and was named MIAC Track Athlete of the Week.
• Additionally, Roghan-Press anchored Mac’s winning 4×100 meter relay team. She was joined by Claire Beckley ’28, Amanda Crewey ’26 and Emma Cunningham ’28.
• Kate Fox ’28 also had a dominant performance, winning the 1500 meter by nearly seven seconds.
• Top performances in the field included Brooke Boroughs’ ’26 fourth-place javelin throw and Tessa Myatt’s ’27 fourth-place shot-put. 

Men’s Track and Field competes at Hamline

• Men’s track and field also competed at Hamline on Monday, where no team scores were kept.
• The 1500 meter was a big event for the Scots: Quinn Hoisington ’27, Tyler Edwards ’26 and Daniel Wiltse ’27 took fifth, sixth and seventh respectively. Jay Lebakken ’26 took fourth in the 800 meter.
• In the field, Ataa Mensah ’28 and Garner Miyagawa ’29 took third and fourth in the triple jump. Sam Perkins ’29 finished second in the javelin throw.
• Next, both track and field teams will send their distance runners to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville on Friday, April 10, and the rest of the teams will head to Bethel the next day.