Author: Alex Lovett-Woodsum Middlebury women's tennis kicked off their season this weekend with three home matches against Brandeis College, Bates College and Connecticut College. Though the team experimented with lineup and doubles combinations, the 13th-ranked Panthers romped through all three matches, ...
Author: Martin Breu The men's tennis team sent a clear message to their competitors this weekend: 'we're back!' The Panthers showed up in top form with dominating wins over NYU, Brandeis, Connecticut College and Bates. Saturday was a triple-header for the Panthers, as they faced NYU, Brandeis and Connecticut ...
Author: Dickie Redmond SALDANHA '11 EARNS STATUS AS ALL-AMERICAN RUNNERYoung track stars are galloping away from the pack at Middlebury College. Kaitlynn Saldanha '11 ran the 800 in an impressive 2:20.58, landing her eighth place at the NCAA Indoor Track Championships at the Rose-Hulman Institute in ...
Author: Jeb Burchenal As of Sunday, the buzzword in the sports world has been "bracket." March Madness has returned and everyone is trying to isolate that key 3-14 upset. Division I basketball and Division III lacrosse are clearly quite different, but Wesleyan showed that any upset is possible as the ...
Author: Ted Silberman If it weren't for a poorly timed injury, Max Levine '09 may never have had the chance to represent the United States at the Maccabiah Games this summer. Levine came to Middlebury hoping to make the basketball team, but a broken leg two weeks before tryouts spoiled those plans and ...
Author: Martin Breu At the NCAA championships this past week, the western ski schools showed that they are the real forces in national collegiate skiing. Strong finishes from the western universities relegated the first eastern school (UVM) to fifth place. The University of Denver stormed to a prominent ...
Author: Jeff Klein Arizona is in. St. Mary's is out. Are you kidding me?Great, Arizona extends its longest active streak of NCAA tournament appearances to 25 straight, which undoubtedly pleases all the traditionalists. But is it really too much to ask the selection committee to base its decisions on ...
Author: James Schwerdtman The winter indoor season continued for three of the Panthers' best track athletes this past weekend. Adam Dede '11 was the only athlete for the men, competing in the pole vault. "There was a really big field," he said., with "about 30 vaulters in the competition," he said. ...
Author: Julia Ireland 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 ...
Author: Peter Baumann The Middlebury men's hockey team saw its season come to an end this weekend, as they beat Williams 4-1 on Friday, March 6 but fell to Amherst in the NESCAC championship game the following day by a score of 5-2. Amherst received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA championships, ...
Author: Dickie Redmond MEN'S BASKETBALL EARNS TOP HONORS ACROSS THE BOARDAfter 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 ...
Author: Alex Lovett-Woodsum 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 ...
Author: Jeb Burchenal Coming into Saturday's home opener, the men's lacrosse team had an all-time record of 21-0 against Bates. Couple that with preseason rankings of #3 and #4 from InsideLacrosse and LaxPower, respectively, and it seemed a given that the Panthers would crush the Bobcats. But thinking ...
Author: Jeff Klein As quickly as success and glory can come, it can also be taken away in the blink of an eye. The Panthers are all too aware of that reality right now.Stace Garrick hit a long three-pointer with 10 seconds remaining that sent Middlebury to a heartbreaking 78-76 defeat at the hands of ...
Author: [no author name found] BASEBALLAfter 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 ...
Author: [no author name found] RUDIN CAPTURES NESCAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK -- AGAINIt is hard to play favorites when considering all the valuable assets to this year's NESCAC championship-winning men's basketball team, but Ben Rudin '09 is certainly one of the team's undisuputed leaders.Rudin was named ...
Author: Jeff Klein As the last 15 seconds ticked off the clock and Amherst backed off, no longer looking to foul, the Panthers started to hug each other and jump up and down, caught up in a moment of pure joy. They looked toward the crowd - the crazed student section that had exhausted every vocal chord ...