Author: Jeff Patterson Rick Cleaver wears number 11. His name contains 11 letters. Now, he has 11 career game-winning goals.Skating down the left wing late in the first period, the Norwich University senior cradled a cross-ice pass from one of his penalty-killing teammates, D.J. Fimiani, and then knocked ...
Author: Emma Gardner In a showdown between the nation's top two teams, Plattsburgh - led by junior Danielle Blanchard - upset the top-ranked Panthers on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at Stafford Arena in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Blanchard has had a hand in 14 of the Cardinals' 17 goals against Middlebury in the last two ...
Author: Jake Cohen After a tough loss to Williams on Feb. 2, the Middlebury men's and women's swim teams rallied the troops and put on some top-notch performances at their invitational the following weekend. The meet was not a team event but a series of individual races. As such, it provided the Panthers ...
Author: Dan Stevens Déjà vu was the zeitgeist on Jan. 19 in Pepin Gymnasium, where the women's basketball team found itself battling to the buzzer, just as they had the previous night when it defeated Colby 64-62. The adrenaline rush brought on by the victory returned on Saturday and the Panthers ...
Author: Jeff Klein Wow. I'm still catching my breath from this exhilarating day of football.After winning their respective games Sunday, the New England Patriots and New York Giants will meet in Super Bowl XLII in what should be an epic game filled with all sorts of drama and storylines.In the afternoon ...
Author: Peter Baumann Middlebury's varsity squash players have plenty of complaints about playing in the Bubble, most having to do with the frigid conditions and slow game-play that the courts create. But for at least one day, the Panthers were glad to be home. On Monday, Jan. 14, in their only home ...
Author: [no author name found] Men's basketball team tears apart Polar BearsThe men's basketball team was busy this past weekend as they traveled to Maine to play fellow NESCAC competitors Colby and Bowdoin. The Panthers took down the Mules 65-60 on Jan. 18, thanks in part to the great play of Ashton ...
Author: Jake Cohen The Middlebury swim and dive team successfully added yet another victory to its resume on Jan. 19, with both the men's and women's teams convincingly defeating Hamilton College to give each squad their fifth win of the season. This meet was particularly important because of its timing ...
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Author: Anna Furney The Middlebury College Panthers have sunk their teeth into the 2007-2008 ski season with two solid second-place finishes at the Bates and St. Lawrence Carnivals. Both the Alpine and Nordic teams seem to have found some pure talent in their first-year classes, while the veterans have ...
Author: Jeff Patterson 2007 was an odd year. Back-to-back losses to Colby and Bowdoin kept the Middlebury men's hockey team from keeping the NESCAC tournament site at home, where it had been six of the past seven years. In that year's regular season, the Panthers had been giving up too many odd-man ...
Author: James Kerrigan With 7:46 remaining in the third period, the Middlebury fans broke out - perhaps presumptuously - into song, with the "Tiny Bubbles" cheer. But give the game-goers some credit. Even though the Panthers held only a one-goal advantage, they were playing inspired hockey and firing ...
Author: Peter Baumann Middlebury swimmer Peter Swanson '09 is no stranger to speed. The sprinter routinely covers 100 yards in a little over 50 seconds, and has been known to blow through a 50-yard race in only 23 seconds. However, because Swanson is one of two Middlebury winter athletes to hail from ...
Author: Jeff Klein After listening to Roger Clemens' "60 Minutes" interview on Jan. 6, I think I speak for a vast number of people in asserting that I simply don't know what to believe concerning Clemens and his alleged involvement in the ongoing steroids saga. Listening to Clemens vehemently deny accusations ...
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Author: Jeb Burchenal Emily Johnson '09 named Player of the WeekEmily Johnson '09 of the women's basketball team was named NESCAC player of the week after outstanding performances against Eastern Connecticut State and Skidmore. In the first game, Middlebury was unable to overcome an early 19-3 lead ...
Author: Emma Gardner As students slipped clumsily on the icy campus paths this weekend, the Middlebury women's hockey team gracefully mastered the ice at Kenyon Arena with two successive victories - a 3-0 shutout of fifth-ranked R.I.T. on Saturday, Jan. 5 and a 4-2 win against Utica College 24 hours ...
Author: James Kerrigan The women's basketball team dropped two of three games to start 2008, but the squad is anything but worried. After suffering a loss to Eastern Connecticut State on Jan. 3, the Panthers bounced back with an impressive 81-78 OT victory over Skidmore. Middlebury ran its lead up to ...