Viks take bite out of the Big Apple

Portland State’s indoor track and field teams wrapped up an impressive performance in the New Balance Collegiate Invitational held at the nationally renowned Armory Track and Field Center in New York City, N.Y., over the weekend.

Viks look to hack Jacks

The Portland State women’s basketball team takes on the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks tomorrow night in the second consecutive road game of Big Sky Conference action. After last nights loss to Northern Colorado, the Vikings are second in the conference standings with a 3–1 league record.

Call it a comeback

“It’s the best feeling you can imagine,” said senior guard Claire Faucher after her team came back from a 20-point deficit on Friday to beat Montana State, 69–62.

Aiming for the big leagues

Senior forward Dolly Enneking and goalkeeper Cris Lewis tried out for the Women’s Professional Soccer franchise Atlanta Beat on Nov. 21–22 at the Kennesaw State campus in Georgia.

Table tennis showdown

The Portland State Table Tennis Club could not repeat last year’s first-place finish, and instead came in fifth for the 2009 National Collegiate Table Tennis Association Open, held in the Stott Center.

Pizza showdown

It is said that King of Naples disguised himself as a commoner and, in clandestine fashion, visited a poor neighborhood in his kingdom. One story has it that he wanted to sink his teeth into a food that the queen had banned from the royal court—pizza.

Table tennis tourney

Table tennis is coming to Portland State this weekend. Starting tomorrow, teams from the Northwest Division of the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association will compete to be national champions.

Last-shot loss

After 110 minutes of play that ended in a 1-1 tie, the Portland State women’s soccer season came to an end on Friday night with an agonizing 4-3 loss in the first conference shootout since 2006.