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The Sacramento State women's golf team wins its first Big Sky Championship on Wednesday, after leading the first two days of the three-day tournament. (0) comments
The Sacramento State men's tennis team crushed Pacific 7-0 Monday afternoon at Rio Del Oro Racquet Club to improve to 16-4 on the season while Pacific dropped to 2-16. The doubles were led by No. 2 Hague Van Dillen and Xavier Barajas-Smith who won their ninth match in a row together, winning 8-3. (0) comments
Laugh at her for it if you must. After all, her teammates do. They find it quite hilarious that senior rower and captain of the varsity eight Constance Deslauriers, listens to techno before a race to pump herself up. The results, however, are no laughing matter. (0) comments
When Sacramento State baseball coach John Smith was drafted into the Army in the fall of 1967, he likely couldn't see 800 career victories in his future. Just out of junior college, the 21-year-old Redding native received word that the U.S. Government was requesting his service in the war against the Socialist Viet Cong forces in Vietnam. (1) comment
Sacramento State was founded in 1947 and their tennis courts are not that much younger. The courts have become inadequate and the men and women's teams practice and play for the most part at Rio Del Oro Racquet Club. Many of the courts are not leveled and even have cracks with grass and weeds growing up from beneath the asphalt. (0) comments
The 73rd ranked Sacramento State men's tennis team limped by the University of San Francisco Dons 4-3 Saturday afternoon to remain undefeated in home matches. The Big Sky Champs improved to 15-4 on the season. The doubles point was up for grabs first where San Francisco's No. (0) comments
Senior Warwick Foy clinched the Causeway Cup for Sacramento State who brushed by the UC Davis Aggies 4-3 on Friday. By defeating its archrival. Sac State men's tennis improved to 17-4 on the season. The doubles point looked bleak for the Hornets. Warwick Foy and Ramon Perez fell 8-5 in No. (0) comments
After posting a season-high at the Western Athletic Conference Championships, the Sacramento State women's gymnastics team fell to sixth place in its second consecutive NCAA West Regional. (1) comment
Louisiana Tech took both halves of a doubleheader Sunday to complete a three game sweep over host, Sacramento State . (0) comments
It was a clean sweep for the men and women on Friday at the Causeway Classic, held on the Sacramento State campus. The men obliterated UC Davis by more than 20 points, while the women's side came down to the wire before they pulled out the victory. "This meet is all about rivalry," Nancy Searcy said. (0) comments
The Sacramento State gymnastics team sat circled together on the floor of the Southern Utah gym in Cedar City awaiting the announcement of the results. The athletes thought they had secured second place in the Western Athletic Conference Championships, but instantly when the announcer named Southern Utah, the Hornets knew they had won consecutive WAC Championships. (0) comments
Twenty hours per week is the limit for practice, according to the NCAA for Division I women's golf. But many of the women on Sacramento State's women's golf team said they practice on their own far more than that. Sac State's senior Margaux Sheehan said she practices four to five days during the week for about five to six hours and is expected to, on weekends as well. (0) comments
It has been a long season for the women's softball team. After last season, the team went 35-20 and narrowly missed the playoffs and the division title. It was expected this season that the Hornets would be the front-runners to win the division and get into the playoffs. (0) comments
Senior Sara Williams said when she was 7 years old, she wanted more than anything to compete on a four-year college gymnastics team. She wasn't yet use to competing in two rotations or hearing her name called at the end of a Sacramento State meet. After three years, the 5-foot-3-inch gymnast emerged to finish her gymnastics career on a high note. (0) comments
The Sacramento State gymnastics team fell short of what it had hoped for this season. After entering the Haas Pavilion for its second consecutive NCAA West Regional last Saturday in Berkeley, the team failed to meet its expectations, falling to sixth place. (0) comments
Tyrone Bowman State Hornet The Sacramento State men's tennis team was ranked 73rd in the nation on April 3 and is now 17-5 on the season. Despite not losing last week the team lost its ranking due to playing 2-15 Pacific and only winning a close match against San Francisco. (0) comments
Junior pitcher Alvaro Orozco had never seen Stanford University until he pitched the game of his life there on March 24. The Jalisco, Mexico native grew up just 25 miles north of Stanford in San Bruno. However, his journey that culminated in a dominant 6-0 shutout of the two-time national champion Cardinal has been a complicated one. (0) comments
The Hornet staff gives its prediction of which MLB team to look for in the 2007 season. (0) comments
When senior hurdler and sprinter Nancy Searcy decided to transfer from Central Michigan to Sacramento State, she knew that nothing was guaranteed. Not only would she have to sit out a full season, she would have to adjust to a completely different team, culture and climate. (0) comments
Sophomore pitcher Kayla Meeks' journey to the Hornet softball team has been a long and difficult one. She once went to Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. In 2005, Meeks was a freshmen sensation, as she went 13-4 with a league best ERA of 0.99, good for 15th in the nation. (0) comments
The State Hornet sports staff expresses its thoughts on who is currently the worst NBA coach. (7) comments
On March 29, the Sacramento State baseball team was 4-2 in WAC play and sitting atop the conference standings. After opening the season with seven consecutive losses, the team appeared to be turning the corner to becoming a competitive ballclub. Since then, the team lost eight of their last nine league games and have plummeted to the WAC's basement. (0) comments
Jennifer Parkes, a senior on the Sacramento State women's golf team, did not start playing golf competitively until her sophomore year in high school at the age of 15. She grew up in Newhall and attended high school at Hart High, but her school did not even have a women's golf team. (0) comments
A Sacramento State golfer can walk through the University Union unnoticed. One of Sac State's golfers, Cody Miller, said he feels the golf team is appreciated by the Athletics Department, but hardly at all by students. "The only students that come to our tournaments are our brothers and girlfriends," golfer Kyle Candlish said. (0) comments
Coming out of high school, Jody Johnson didn't even think he was going to come to college. Instead, Johnson is now the Big Sky Indoor Champion in the 55 meters and the 200. As of last weekend, he had one of the top three time in the country outdoor in the 200. (1) comment