Lions on the Road: September 13-17

NEW YORK — Fall sports activities are in full swing this week with eight Columbia athletics applications competing on the street. Each week, GoColumbiaLions.com can be utilizing “Lions on the Street” to preview that week’s upcoming video games and occasions occurring off campus. 
 

MEN’S SOCCER
The boys’s soccer staff (1-1-1) continues a three-game street swing this week with contests at Rutgers (1-3-1) and LIU (3-2-0). Wednesday will mark the primary contest in opposition to Rutgers since 2018. The Lions are on a three-game collection profitable streak in opposition to the Scarlet Knights and lead the all-time collection 14-10-3. The staff is coming off a hard-fought, 1-0, loss at Sacred Coronary heart on Saturday, outshooting the Pioneers, 12-7, within the match however unable to seek out the again of the web. Senior Will DeNight is Columbia’s main objective scorer with three in three matches, which can also be tied for essentially the most within the Ivy League. Senior goalkeeper Michael Collodi is tied for first within the league in targets in opposition to common (0.67) and boasts the league’s highest save share (.846).
 

MEN’S TENNIS
Males’s Tennis will get the autumn schedule began with two occasions this weekend. Alex Kotzen, Ishaan Ravichander, Roko Horvat, Henry Ruger, Sachin Palta and Hugo Hashimoto will head to North Carolina to compete within the Wake Forest Fall Invitational, whereas Michael Zheng, Max Westphal, Theo Winegar and Jayden Templeman will head to South Carolina for the Gamecock Ranked +1 Invitational.
 

CROSS COUNTRY
The cross nation staff is again in motion this weekend after stable a begin to the season on the Stony Brook Invite to start the month. On Friday on the Iona Meet of Champs, the Lions can be seeking to construct upon that stable begin to the season which included a second place end for the lads and a 3rd place end for the ladies in upstate New York. Jordan Mathis was Columbia’s highest finisher, inserting third total within the 4k with a time of 14:11.00. Mary Caroline Heinen completed 4 seconds behind her at 14:15.10 to safe fourth place. Walker Beverly paced the lads with a fifth-place end within the 6k, clocking in at 19:07.10. The meet is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. within the Bronx. 
 

Day	Occasion	Location	Begin Time	Dwell Stats
Friday	Iona Meet of Champs	Bronx, N.Y.	10:30 a.m.	HERE

 
 

VOLLEYBALL

 

Day	Opponent	Location	Begin Time	Dwell Stats
Friday	Bryant	Queens, N.Y.	4:30 p.m.	HERE
Saturday	Buffalo	Queens, N.Y.	11:00 a.m.	HERE

 
 

MEN’S GOLF
The boys’s golf staff could not have drawn up a greater begin to the 2023-24 season than it had final weekend, posting the highest three particular person finishers en path to a 13-shot staff victory at The Doc Gimmler, hosted by St. John’s at Bethpage Purple. The Lions set program information for 36-hole (532) and 54-hole (811) scoring, finishing the three-round competitors at 29 below par. Individually, senior Nathan Han picked up proper he left off from an All-American junior marketing campaign. The Somers, New York native posted rounds of 64-64-68 to interrupt his personal 54-hole program document and win the occasion at 14-under-par 196. Senior DJ Francey positioned a formidable second at 9-under 201, which included a career-low spherical of 62 on Saturday. Junior Wyatt McGovern completed in a tie for third at 6-under 204, matching a career-low with a 64 in Saturday’s first spherical.
 

Day	Occasion	Location	Course	Dwell Monitoring
Saturday-Sunday	Ryan T. Lee Memorial Collegiate	Berlin, Conn.	Shuttle Meadow Golf Membership	TBD

 
 

WOMEN’S GOLF
The ladies’s golf staff competes in its first event of the autumn season this weekend on the Princeton Invitational. The 2-day, 54-hole occasion will happen at Springdale Golf Membership. Columbia’s prime returner this 12 months is senior Allison Paik, who led the Lions with a 76.00 stroke common via the 2022-23 marketing campaign. She posted 4 top-25 and two top-10 finishes via eight occasions. Sophomores Yoko Tai and Emma Shen are additionally coming off spectacular first-year campaigns that noticed them common 77.50 and 78.44 strokes per spherical, respectively. Tai posted a formidable spherical of 69 on her strategy to a tie for third eventually spring’s St. John’s Invitational.
 

Day	Occasion	Location	Course	Dwell Monitoring
Saturday-Sunday	Princeton Invitational	Princeton, N.J.	Springdale Golf Membership	TBD

 
 

FOOTBALL

The Lions open up the 2023 marketing campaign on the street when it takes on Lafayette this Saturday afternoon in Easton, Pennsylvania. It will likely be the primary assembly between the faculties since 2010 and the debut for interim head coach Mark Fabish. Final season, Columbia closed the 12 months with three consecutive wins to safe a 6-4 total mark, its fourth profitable season previously 5 years. The Lions return six All-Ivy League honorees final 12 months’s squad.

 

Day	Opponent	Location	Begin Time	Watch	Dwell Stats
Sept. 16	Lafayette	Easton, Pa.	12:30 p.m.	ESPN+	Click on Right here

WOMEN’S SOCCER

The ladies’s soccer staff will head to Windfall for one final nonconference check earlier than Ivy League play begins at house in opposition to Penn on September 23. The Lions will make the street journey to Windfall after internet hosting NJIT on Wednesday evening. Columbia is coming off a dominant 2-0 week with wins in opposition to Fordham and Fairleigh Dickinson. Kat Jordan scored each targets within the 2-0 win at Fordham. Six Lions mixed to publish a formidable 8-0 win in opposition to FDU. Kickoff at Windfall is about for six p.m.

 

Day	Opponent	Location	Begin Time	Watch	Dwell Stats
Saturday	Windfall	Windfall, R.I.	6 p.m.	FloSports	Dwell Stats

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