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Smith wins BC service award

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Ray Smith, left, receives “Carry the Torch Award”

San Diego’s own Ray Smith ’19, defensive tackle in football, won the “Carry the Torch” award at the fourth annual Golden Eagles celebration and awards program held May 5 in Robsham Theater.

Athletics honors teams and individuals with a range of awards, for athletic performance and for service to the community.

Smith, a graduate of Cathedral Catholic High School, signed with the NFL’s Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent. He talks in the video below about how he sees his award as also an award to BC Football.

Lax enters NCAAs

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BC Lacrosse is the #2 national seed entering the NCAA Tournament. The Eagles are hosting an initial round of the tournament on the Newton Campus and will meet the winner of Dartmouth/Colorado on Sunday, May 12.

The Eagles (19-1) suffered their first loss of the season on April 28 when North Carolina defeated BC, 15-13, in the ACC Championship game.

#1 seed for the tournament is Maryland, which also suffered its first defeat of the season when it lost to Northwestern in the Big 10 Tournament championship game.

The San Diego Chapter will hold a gamewatch if the Eagles advance to the national championship game for the third year in a row. The game is scheduled for May 26.

New football schedule

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New fireworks feature at Alumni Stadium

Yes, it’s only January, so this is just notice to “save the dates.”

The 2019 schedule for BC football has some interesting features, e.g.

  • four of the first five games are in Alumni Stadium
  • the team has two bye weeks — October 12 and November 16
  • all the games are on Saturdays UPDATE: Kansas game moved to Friday, September 13
  • only one home game in October and one in November: four of the last five games are away
  • first-ever football game with Kansas
  • Notre Dame back on the schedule, in South Bend

Here’s the entire schedule. Starting times to be announced.

  • August 31 — Virginia Tech
  • September 7 — Richmond
  • September 13 (Friday) — Kansas
  • September 21 — @ Rutgers
  • September 28 — Wake Forest
  • October 5 — @ Louisville
  • October 19 — NC State
  • October 26 — @ Clemson
  • November 2 — @ Syracuse
  • November 9 — Florida State
  • November 23 — @ Notre Dame
  • November 30 — @ Pitt