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Author: Jeb Burchenal

Anna McNally '11 earns Player of the Week honors

Anna McNally, a first-year on the Middlebury College women's hockey team, was named the NESCAC Player of the Week. She scored three goals and added three assists in the Panther's two victories last week. In the first game, she played a part in five of the seven goals against rival Williams. She tallied two goals and three assists in the game. On Saturday, she scored a goal as the Panthers rolled past Neumann. McNally, a St. Paul, Minn. native, is the top rookie scorer in the conference with 15 goals and 13 assists in 17 games this season.


Men's basketball makes history with 17th victory

Men's basketball looked to surpass its win total from last year as they played back-to-back games at Tufts and Bates last week. Classmates Ben Rudin '09 and Aaron Smith '09 led the charge for the Panthers as they controlled the Jumbos from the opening tip. The Jumbos got it to within five (70-65) with four minutes to go, but two three-pointers by Harris and good free-throw-shooting down the stretch sealed the win for the Panthers. The Panthers as a team were 8-for-13 from downtown.

Rudin led all scorers with 17 points, Smith recorded a double-double with 16 points and 14 boards, Andrew Harris '08 dropped 14 points and Tim Edwards '10 added 11 points.

The men left their mark on school history as the first Middlebury men's basketball team to win 17 games as they rolled over Bates 92-71 on the road. The Panthers shot an astounding 57.1 percent from the field and 64 percent from behind the arc. Middlebury attacked Bates with a Phoenix Suns-esque tempo that led to a 49-37 halftime lead.

Ashton Coghlan '11 again showed that being a rookie does not mean staying out of the spotlight by tying for the team lead with 23 points. With Coghlan and Harris coming off the bench for the Panthers, Middlebury had a 46-5 advantage in bench points for the game.