Lions on the Street: November 4-7

NEW YORK — It is a busy time of yr within the Columbia Athletics Division, as greater than 10 applications are competing this Friday by Monday away from house. These competitions embody season openers for 5 applications, rounding out with males’s and ladies’s basketball on Monday.
 
Moreover, people from the lads’s and ladies’s tennis groups are in the course of competing on the ITA Fall Nationwide Championships in San Diego. Click on right here for the lads’s tennis preview. Click on right here to entry the ladies’s tennis preview.
 
Each week, GoColumbiaLions.com will probably be utilizing “Lions on the Street” to preview all of that week’s upcoming video games and occasions occurring off campus. Make sure to entry every workforce’s web site on gameday to maintain up with all the motion because it occurs.
 

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING
On Friday night time, the Lions open up their season towards Ivy League rivals, Penn. Columbia returns an skilled group of 15 swimmers that certified for the Ivy League Championships final season. Final yr towards the Quakers, Columbia earned a 158-142 win at Uris Pool in a twin that was determined by the ultimate occasion. After incomes 5 of six top-three spots on the platform, the Lions picked up 5 first-place finishes and gained a pair of relays. The meet got here right down to the 200-freestyle relay, the place Columbia’s A workforce gained in a photograph end to assist cement the victory.
 

VOLLEYBALL
The Lions shut out the street portion of the common season this weekend, touring to Harvard on Friday night time for a 7:00 p.m. begin earlier than heading to Dartmouth on Saturday night time for five:00 p.m. begin. Final weekend, Saj McBurrows moved into the top-10 within the convention in attacking share, hitting .323 on the yr. Harper Justema additionally cracked the top-10 in whole blocks within the convention after recording 9 final weekend towards Brown and Yale. The Lions go up towards Dartmouth for the 56th time in program historical past.  The Large Inexperienced lead the sequence 30-25. In opposition to the Crimson, the Lions are 21-41. Each video games will probably be out there on ESPN +. 
 

FENCING
After incomes eight medals on the Temple Open, Columbia will start workforce competitors with 10 twin matches on the docket on the Western Invitational this weekend. On the ladies’s aspect, Zander Rhodes (foil), Tierna Oxenreider (epee) and Chloe Gouhin (sabre) gained their respective occasions to focus on the Lions’ efficiency. The Columbia males additionally secured 5 medals Sunday in in all three weapons. Colby Harley (sabre) and Zachary Binder (foil) earned silver medals, whereas Justin Haddad (epee), Jackson McBride (sabre) and Andrew Zheng (foil) claimed bronze, respectively.
 

 WRESTLING
The Lions, who had their finest end on the EIWA Championships since 2014 and scored probably the most factors in program historical past (84.5), open the 2022-23 marketing campaign as they did in 2021-22, with a go to to the Southeast Open, hosted by Virginia Tech. Columbia returns a pair of NCAA Qualifiers in Matt Kazimir (141) and Joshua Ogunsanya (165). Final yr on the occasion, Ogunsanya additionally reached the highest of the rostrum and had 12 top-three finishers.
 

MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING
After opening the season Friday at house, the Lions make the journey down the Turnpike to tackle Penn. Columbia topped Penn final season in the course of the common season on the heels of Jonathan Suckow setting a pair of Sheer Pool data within the one and three-meter dive. 4 swimmers (Stanford Li – 500, 1,000 free, Kyle Gained – 100, 200 again, Seungjoon Ahn (200 fly) and Thomas Shepanzyk (100 free) who completed first on the meet final season return for the Lions heading into this yr’s matchup.
 

 FOOTBALL
Columbia will look to snap a three-game slide when it heads to Harvard Saturday. The faculties will meet for the eightieth time within the sequence’ historical past, and the Lions will search for their first win in Cambridge since 1995. Columbia brings within the nation’s high dashing protection, permitting simply 60.3 yards on the bottom per sport.
 

WOMEN’S SOCCER
Columbia heads to Harvard to conclude the common season this Saturday at 4 p.m. The Lions (7-4-3, 3-2-1 Ivy) hope to defeat the Crimson for the primary time since 2007. Nonetheless, Columbia has walked away with some extent towards Harvard in two of the final 4 conferences. Shira Cohen and Ania Prussak lead the assault with 10 factors apiece this season. Cohen has scored 4 objectives and tallied two assists, whereas Prussak owns three objectives and a team-leading 4 assists. The Lions have already solidified a top-four end within the league desk and are hoping at hand the Crimson (4-0-2 Ivy) their first Ivy lack of the yr.
 

MEN’S SOCCER
The lads’s soccer workforce will conclude the season with back-to-back matches towards nationally ranked opponents, beginning with Penn (10-2-2, 4-1-0 Ivy) this Saturday in Philadelphia. Columbia has taken factors in every of its final 10 matchups towards the Quakers, boasting a report of 7-0-3 since 2012. The final two sequence matchups have every led to a 1-1 draw. Saturday will mark Columbia’s first go to to Philly since 2018, when the Lions walked away, 2-0, winners. All 5 of Columbia’s Ivy League matches this season have both led to a draw or been determined by a single objective.
 

MEN’S BASKETBALL
The Lions open the 2022-23 season in Piscataway, N.J. towards the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. A matchup relationship again to 1914, Columbia leads the all-time sequence 26-21. The final time the groups met was in the course of the 2002-03 season when Rutgers got here out on high 60-30. Columbia returns two of its top-three scorers from final season in Geronimo Rubio De La Rosa and Liam Murphy. Tip-off from Jersey Mike’s enviornment is slated for 7:00 p.m. and the sport will probably be televised on the Large 10+ community. 
 

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
The ladies’s basketball workforce begins its 2022-23 marketing campaign on Monday night time with its first matchup in program historical past towards Memphis. Columbia’s non-conference schedule takes it on the street for 9 of its 13 video games, which features a slew of contests towards groups that certified for both the NCAA Event or WNIT final season. The Lions are coming off a historic 2021-22 marketing campaign that noticed it go 25-7, 12-2 Ivy, shattering program data in each wins and Ivy wins. They superior to the Ivy League Event Championship and gained three video games within the WNIT, together with an exhilarating 17-point comeback towards Boston School that marked this system’s largest come-from-behind victory.
 

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