Middlebury Great Eight

Sports Briefs - 03/11/10

Men’s basketball earns top honors across the board After winning the NESCAC Championship — decisively — over the weekend, the men’s basketball team could only expect to earn top NESCAC honors. Ben Rudin ’09 was named Player of the Year, Tim Edwards ’10 was named Defensive Player of the ...

Spring Sports Preview

BASEBALL After what Coach Bob Smith called a “disappointing” season last year, the Middlebury Panthers baseball team is looking to rebound this season and achieve the same kind of success that brought them their first NESCAC championship in 2006. The Panthers finished 14-16 last year. “Last ...

Panthers breeze past Bobcats in lax opener

The Panthers did not waste any time in securing a 14-6 win over Bates College in their season opener on Saturday. The Panthers made their statement early, scoring six goals in the first 11 minutes of the game, all from sophomore attackers Chase Delano ’11 and Sally Ryan ’11. Delano had six goals ...

Women’s hockey takes back the NESCAC crown

The women’s hockey team closed out a great weekend in the NESCAC tournament at Amherst, beating Colby in the semifinals 4-2 before upsetting top-seeded Amherst team with a 4-3 win in overtime to take the NESCAC championship. The win avenges a pair of losses to Amherst, who beat the Panthers 3-0 early ...

Panthers fall to Ephs in finals

This past weekend, the Middlebury men’s basketball team arrived at the NESCAC tournament venue — Williams — intent on securing its second straight league championship. After striking down Colby and breaking records along the way, the Panthers finally succumbed to Williams, arguably the best D-III ...

Swimmers set school records at NESCACS

The men’s swimming and diving team swam into fourth place with a total of 1,029 points in the 2010 NESCAC Championship this past weekend at Williams College.  Williams came in first with 1,937 points, Tufts followed with 1,452 points and Amherst finished in third with 1,352 points. “In swimming, ...

Editors' Picks

Youngsters come up big at women’s squash Nationals

This past weekend the Middlebury women’s squash team traveled to Yale to compete in nationals. Ranked 13th in the country, the women were slotted into the B-flight, where they would compete for the Howe Cup.  Like the men’s format, this meant that the 13th-ranked women would be competing against ...

Skiers come in third at Winter Carnival

As the sky opened up last week and unloaded every ounce of snow it had up and down the East Coast, it was apparent that the ski gods were looking favorably on the Middlebury ski teams.  With the home Carnival weekend coming up and a relatively warm and dry winter up to that point, the Snow Bowl was ...

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Sports Briefs 03/04

Billings ’10 honored by  Conference for her role in quarterfinal victory For the part she played in the women’s ice hockey team’s rout of the Hamilton Continentals over Winter Carnival weekend, tri-captain Marjie Billings ’10 was named NESCAC Player of the Week on Monday.  The senior defender ...

Panther Scoreboard 03/04

Asked and Answered: Simi Hamilton ’09

Simi Hamilton ’09, named the final member of the 2010 US Olympic Cross Country Ski Team late in January, is fresh off the heels of a memorable Olympic experience at Vancouver. Hamilton finished 64th out of 96 qualifiers in the 15K freestyle race, and was the only American to qualify for the quarterfinal ...

Panther Scorebord 2/25/10

Men’s slalom leads Middlebury to fifth place finish at Williams

After seeing improvement last week at Dartmouth, the ski team took a slight step back this weekend down at Williams. The team took fifth overall, finishing behind Dartmouth, UVM, UNH and the hosting Ephs. Despite some impressive individual performances and a good day for the men’s alpine team on ...

By the Numbers - 2/25/10

O’Gallagher’s Opinions

I am a New Yorker. Throughout my tenure at Middlebury I have always identified myself as such. Most evenings in the fall I gathered around the TV in the Hepburn Lounge with all the other New Yorkers (and, those poor souls, the New Jerseyites as well) to root for our teams, either the Giants or the Yankees ...

Men’s squash takes the C-flight at Nationals in New Haven

While the Panthers had hoped to climb into the B-flight this season, a second C-flight championship in as many years is quite an accomplishment. After a season in which the 17th-ranked Panthers played teams ranging from fourth-ranked Princeton to 50th-ranked Bard, the men traveled to Yale and successfully ...